On this episode of Complicated Conversations, we welcome Neely Tubati Alexander to discuss her novel, In A Not So Perfect World, a Caribbean-set romcom romp about an ambitious designer of apocalyptic video games with a strategy for (almost) everything who discovers what happens when her best-laid plans go off course.
We chat with Neely about why she wanted to write the kind of female protagonist that isn’t always represented in the romance space (hellooo pessimists out there!); her “cinnamon roll” male lead, Charlie, who is sexy but is most attracted to her ambition; writing what a healthy relationship looks like and how love makes someone more profoundly who they are; the pressure women face to balance and do it all, and how she leaned into her favorite romance tropes in writing this novel!
In A Not So Perfect World is out now and it is a delight!