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Pepper Basham

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Pepper D Basham has been telling tales ever since she was a little girl. When her grandmother called her a “writer” at the age of ten, Pepper took it as gospel and has enjoyed various types of writing styles ever since. A native of the Blue Ridge Mountains, mom of five, speech-language pathologist, and lover of chocolate, Pepper enjoys sprinkling her native Appalachian culture into her fiction wherever she can. She currently resides in the lovely mountains of the New River Valley in Virginia.

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Why Humor Can Belong in Romance Stories (Part 1: Connection)

I have always loved to laugh.

When I say that, I can’t help but get a picture of the scene in Mary Poppins where they have tea on the ceiling.

And I enjoy lots of different kinds of humor (sarcasm may be my favorite, but…not my only).

So getting the chance to write humor within romance stories has been such a delight! Whether it’s in a more romcom style like Some Like It Scot or in more subtle ways l

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The Cinderella Plot by Pepper Basham
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"I am so excited that Pepper Basham is foraying into YA! I loved everything about The Cinderella Plot: the bookish main character, the bookshop setting, the best friends trope... It was clean and it was quirky. It was exactly the kind of YA I'm excite" Read more of this review »
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"4.5 ⭐️ rounded up. My first, and definitely not my last by Pepper Basham. Honestly, this made me want to binge all of her books. This book truly had such a cozy feeling, but also took on some heavy topics and themes! Not only that, it’s so hard to fi" Read more of this review »
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“It took being forced into unwanted matchmaking for me to discover who I was, what I wanted, and my own perfect match. Isn’t that what we all want down deep? To be seen for who we are, even with all our flaws, and be loved anyway. Completely.”
Pepper D. Basham, Authentically, Izzy: A fun, low-spice, bookish rom-com told through emails, texts, and letters

“I'm going to be a princess that fights dragons. Ain't no good to sit up in your tower and watch the prince have all the fun.”
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“Love’s worth being brave, ain’t it? Brave again and again and again.”
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“I'm going to be a princess that fights dragons. Ain't no good to sit up in your tower and watch the prince have all the fun.”
Pepper D. Basham, A Twist of Faith

“God holds us. We are protected by His grip in such a precious way that the good and the bad must pass through His fingers to us. No harm, fear, or pain can reach us without His allowance, and yet, it is a loving grip. A loving allowance we cannot understand until time has frayed our pride and tempered our heartbreak. And even then, our only answer may be to trust His love more than our understanding.”
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