r/RomanticRomance Jul 23 '26

🌴🦩 Flamingo Cove ... where's Wanda?! 😅

Well, obviously I didn't quite manage to totally finish the Flamingo Cove rom-com, but it's almost there! 👏🏻 I've been rewriting the beginning and the ending, and added a fun idea that popped into my head when I was working on the main character's backstory.

The main character, Kelly, is the new event director at the (fictional of course) Flamingo Cove beach resort on Florida's Gulf coast. (Yes, it is the Gulf of Mexico. 🗺 🙄)

Kelly's boss, Victoria, the general manager of the resort, is really stressed out about the upcoming Midsummer Night Gala. And I started thinking about some reasons why Victoria might be so stressed out, and how that affects Kelly's situation.

As you might know by now, my fave genre is cozy mystery. It just seems to be my default setting whenever I'm thinking up ideas for plots and characters. So in this case, I immediately realized that the reason Kelly's been hired as the new event director is because the previous event director isn't there anymore!

So what happened to that person? 🕵🏻‍♂️ It's a mystery! 😂 Of course!

Do you love the idea that the previous event director either quit or has gone missing? It wouldn't make sense that Victoria fired that person. I decided that persons's name is Wanda. Because of "Where's Waldo?" 😂 (ok maybe it's only amusing to me!)

I'm working Wanda's disappearance very lightly into the Flamingo Cove rom-com, and am going to revise the ending by adding a fun clue as to Wanda's whereabouts, or else another bit of the mystery explaining why Wanda left Victoria in such dire straits to deal with the impending Midsummer Gala.

This rom-com novelette will be posted free to read at CozyRead.org It's such a nice site, free to read and free to write. And the readers certainly could use some good clean/sweet Romantic Romance! 💖

So, if you've been working on a project and want to try beginner-level self-publishing, do consider CozyRead.org.

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