About the Author

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Hi, my name is Corinne.

I believe each and every one of us is born with a romantic adventure written on our hearts, and that all we need to speak it into reality is the courage to fall.

By day, I write whip-smart, complex romantic comedies that take place in contemporary life and transport us into ridiculously fantastic circumstances. But is it really fantasy, or could it come true? That's for you to find out.

I seek to delight, thrill, and invite you to believe in magic in the modern world. With my BFA in studio art (and multimedia design minor) from Pepperdine University, on top of a lifelong obsession with storytelling, I work to deliver world-class story experiences in physical books crafted as fine art objects.

I want you to have it all: Your next favorite book, inside and out, that you can reread again and again and happily recommend to even the most stoic of dudes. No, really - my husband (former pro editor) is involved in developmental revisions for this express intention.

A woman with long red hair sits in a dark leather chair in a home interior, holding a green mug and pointing with her other hand. She is wearing a light blue long-sleeve shirt, a black vest, and blue jeans.

A few fun tidbits about me:

Fun Tidbit #1: I'm a new female hunter. I use the term "female hunter" because it's a searchable phrase on social media, but really I just see myself as a hunter. Or huntress, if you're feeling eloquent. No one really uses that term in the hunting community though, it's just "hunters" and "non-hunters." They're not stuffy about it.

P.S. See the photos in the slideshow at the top of this page to see me in camo out in the backcountry, and with my first Roosevelt Elk I harvested in 2025.

Why do I hunt? My family and I have been shifting to a slower lifestyle living off the land, and to that end, I'm learning to hunt for our food. I no longer want the disengaged, industrial beef grocery store experience, I want to be intimately involved and understand exactly what it means to eat meat.

Since 2024, I've engaged in 5 ethical fair chase (real term! Google it!) hunts that have fed my family and friends ever since. And besides all that, hunting is ancient and spiritual, and teaches me to attune to my surroundings and the natural world in ways I never knew were possible. I love animals more now than I ever have, and believe me, I was that weird little kid reading the animal encyclopedia in the school library. Yes, I skipped class. My teachers thought I was deliberately goofing off. But really, I just had my head stuck in a book.

Fun Tidbit #2: My husband and I live in the Pacific Northwest on a slice of farm land with our two dogs, Dusty and Zuko.

I garden, I mow with the ride-along mower, I'm learning to use our tractor, and we have a barn. We also have rabbits, and too many squirrels, and a stream that winds through the land and floods in the spring. We have a view of the valley, and we watch the sunset every night on the front porch.

I am dubious of this gridded suburban lifestyle we call 'normal' in the United States.

I've noticed a few things since moving to the countryside: I get more sun, de facto, because there's no houses blocking it. Our uninterrupted long-distance views have actually helped down-regulate my nervous system to a new baseline. This would imply that the apartment complex and new development neighborhood we used to live in were a source of ambient anxiety.

The sound of the wind through the full green trees is my new favorite sound - when I notice it, I can feel the anxiety ebb away like a receding tide.

I no longer feel "hemmed in" on all sides by neighbors - I don't feel an itchy, barely-there-but-still-there creeping claustrophobia that has to be vented with regular vacations.

My dogs are happier. They settle down more easily. They roamed non-stop at first, but now enjoy just sitting on the porch and watching the cows next door. Given, they're bigger breeds, so really, we may have been a bit cruel in keeping them in small, confined spaces. We had no choice, but I see now that if you can help it, smaller breeds like smaller spaces, and big breeds like bigger spaces. Seems like a "duh," but I was blind to it until now.

At least those are my observations so far.

My Creative Values

  • Originality

    I gravitate toward books that ring into the deep, and I believe these stories come from mysterious places we can't find in an AI search engine or from voices outside our own.

    I am devoted to crafting that wild, elusive beast of a story, that is at once timeless and immediate, escapist and thought-provoking, hysterical and hard-hitting, personal and universal. It's the most difficult kind of story to write, but it's exactly that kind of challenge that inspires me.

  • Innovation

    I don't like commercialized tropes. I don't like rapid release publishing models, either. And I will DNF a book faster than you can call your Aunt Fanny if it has a formulaic plot, flat characters, or crappy writing. There. Am I cancelled yet?

    All jokes aside, I love romance. I used to read J.R. Ward books under my desk in school, and I attended the midnight release party for Breaking Dawn at my local library (your taste is allowed to change and grow, people!). I'm interested in riding that razor thin line between honoring genre conventions and pushing the genre forward into brave new territory. I want to innovate on romance, because I believe love is the most powerful force in the universe, and that the romance genre is absolutely capable of reflecting this.

    To accomplish this risky business of innovating the romance genre, I've set out 2 constraints for myself in every romantic comedy novel I write:

    1. Explore 1 bestselling subgenre (rockstar romance, celebrity romance, royalty romance, mafia romance, etc.)
    2. Offer meta-analysis on 1 recognizable commercialized trope (fake dating, fake marriage, enemies-to-lovers, childhood-friends-to-lovers, second chance romance, marriage of convenience, etc.).

    The unnecessary necessary guidelines: Any meta-analyses need to compliment the organic story lying at the core, not compete with it. Readers can take or leave whatever they wish, so if they want the fun escape, they don't have to fight the complexity, and if they crave the complexity and depth, the fun escape is an added bonus.

  • Craftsmanship

    I've been warming up to the term 'wordsmith' lately, and I don't know how to feel about it. Because I have to explain to people that I mean it like a blacksmith who works at honing swords and shields and armor from raw ore, who throws the material into the fire until its soft, works it over and over with water and fire and finesse, and prides himself on being a craftsman in service of the community. He produces necessary fine goods that don't fail when you need it most, that protect and defend and inflict and represent - both honor and glory and war and sacrifice. A great blacksmith becomes renowned for his craft because of a signature style, an eye for detail, or a reputation for quality.

    I write to converse with my audience, to craft a novel that breathes. I also want to hold a book in my hands that is beautiful to look at and touch, and when you open the cover, you find more delights inside. The typeface is clean, the chapter headings are illustrated, the reading experience is seamless. And then you can perch the book on your shelf and enjoy it as a keepsake.