I want my HEA

Shailene Woodley is going to be big in 2014, with two highly-awaited films releasing this spring: Divergent (March) and The Fault In Our Stars (June). I probably won’t see either.

I want happily-ever-afters. I prefer for books to end on a joyful, uplifting, satisfying note. If I know in advance that a story will end sadly, I’m not likely to pick up the book.

There was an agent who once wrote this wonderful blog post about her personal preferences in fiction. She said that she only represented a...