Words & Kisses was recently named as the Romantic Bookseller of the Year by the Romantic Novelists’ Association – almost exactly a year after Amy Richards quit her job in digital marketing to focus on the enterprise full time.was set up as a subscription service in 2019 but when interest in escapist and romantic fiction piqued during the pandemic, Amy began selling books as well.
Amy, 32, explained how she fell in love with romantic fiction after setting herself the target of reading 100 books in 2015. She said her passion for literature had waned after relentlessly reading books for her university studies.Amy began consuming “anything I could get my hands on”, but it was the romantic novelShe said: “I started reading as much romance as I could. I forgot that reading could be so fun.Amy Richard with some of her romantic fiction books in The Smut Hut.