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🎙️ Welcome back to The Mythic Mic Podcast, where tragic lovers get another chance, corrupt families turn romance into war, and happily ever after is always worth fighting for.

This week, Mythic Mic Team Member Amara sits down with bestselling romance author Emily McIntire to discuss Burning Daylight, Forsaking Midnight, and her interconnected Defying the Stars series. 

Emily shares the unusual psychic reading that finally convinced her to write her first novel, her journey from indie publishing to becoming a hybrid author with Bloom Books, and why every author must treat their career like a business. She also opens up about protecting creative control, finding an agent who will truly advocate for you, and using music to uncover the emotional heart of every story.

We also dive into Burning Daylight, a modern Romeo and Juliet retelling where secret heir Roman Montgomery falls for Juliet Callaway before either realizes they belong to Rosebrook Falls’ most bitterly opposed families. Emily discusses forbidden romance, slow-burn tension, small-town corruption, and rewriting tragic love stories so they finally receive their happily ever afters. She also teases Forsaking Midnight, her darker Lancelot and Guinevere retelling filled with cage fighting, forced proximity, moral grayness, betrayal, and devastating yearning.

⭐ Can Roman and Juliet choose each other without losing everything their families control?
🥀 What happens when the person you hate becomes the only one capable of protecting you?
🖤 And how much pain must a tragic love story survive before it earns a different ending?

This is a must-listen for forbidden-romance readers, retelling lovers, slow-burn and angst enthusiasts, and anyone who believes even literature’s most doomed couples deserve a happily ever after.

🔥 IN THIS EPISODE, WE TALK ABOUT:
✨ Emily’s life as a reader, musician, bird watcher, and self-described hermit.
✨ How songwriting shaped the emotional core of her novels.
✨ The psychic readings that pushed her to finally write her first book.
✨ Learning indie publishing through research, experimentation, and persistence.
✨ Treating an author career like a business and continually studying the industry.
✨ Moving into traditional publishing while preserving creative and financial control.
✨ Emily’s hybrid partnership with Bloom Books.
✨ Why authors need trustworthy agents, contract guidance, and strong boundaries.
✨ Writing across genres while always placing an epic love story at the center.
✨ The creation of Rosebrook Falls and the Defying the Stars series.
✨ Reimagining tragic romances and giving them happily ever afters.
✨ Roman Montgomery, Juliet Callaway, and two feuding founding families.
✨ The Rosebrook Rag, corrupt small-town politics, and scandalous reader-submitted gossip.
✨ Flawed characters learning to love themselves before fully accepting love.
✨ Why small gestures and emotional intimacy make romance feel earned.
✨ Slow-burn tension, forbidden desire, and spice rooted in character growth.
✨ Forsaking Midnight as a modern Lancelot and Guinevere retelling.
✨ Pride and Prejudice, Shakespeare, iconic ’90s adaptations, and rapid-fire chaos.

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