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A booming hockey romance market seemed like a far-fetched dream for novelist Elle Kennedy when she published her first book about the sport, Body Check, back in 2009.
“Around that time, there weren’t a lot of hockey romances. There was maybe one other series I knew of,” Kennedy tells The Hollywood Reporter from her house in Canada. The author has written at least 18 hockey-centric books, including her co-written titles.
If anyone knows hockey romance, it’s Kennedy.
She noticed the biggest hockey boom when TikTok, and eventually BookTok, blew up. “BookTalk created so many new readers, and I love it. Everyone should be reading. I don’t care what you’re reading, just read something,” Kennedy says.
