Breaking Up With America For A Footballer?! Anna McCallie On Writing Abby Offsides

Anna McCallie, author of breakout sports romance debut Abby Offsides, joins us to talk soccer (football), found family, and falling for the wrong guy at the right time. Abby Offsides has taken over romance readers' shelves this year, pulling comparisons to Ted Lasso meets Off Campus, and this episode gets into all of it: the real footballers who inspired swoony Scottish football captain Lachlan Ramsey, why sports romance is having its moment right alongside the World Cup, and the messy, morally complicated stakes that make this slow burn hit different. We also get the real story behind the "Offside" versus "Offsides" title debate, what it was like writing a heroine who reinvents her whole life overnight, and a first look at what Anna's writing next, including a surprise reveal about an unreleased Pride and Prejudice retelling. Whether you're already deep in the sports romance pipeline or you've never watched a match in your life, this one has the banter, the emotional damage, and the BBC-coded chaos you came for.

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