Rachel Winters Books in Order

Rachel Winters has lived and worked in London since completing a degree in Creative Writing and a Master's in Publishing. Her route to writing fiction began from inside the publishing world, where she learned how books are shaped, acquired, and brought to readers.

In her twenties, Winters freelanced for local newspapers and online magazines. Her early assignments included editing a craft magazine and writing a weekly pet column, despite not owning a pet herself.

It was an unusual way into publishing.

Those jobs led to work as a commissioning editor at a major publisher. That experience gave her a close view of the business side of books, but it also left room for a more personal project: writing a romantic comedy of her own.

Her debut novel, Would Like to Meet, follows Evie Summers, a hard-working assistant at a film agency whose job is suddenly on the line. To persuade the agency's difficult screenwriter client, Ezra Chester, to finish the romantic-comedy screenplay he owes, Evie must prove that movie-style meet-cutes can really happen. The assignment sends her into a series of public, often embarrassing attempts to recreate familiar moments from classic rom-coms.

The premise gives Winters plenty of room for workplace pressure, friendship, awkward dates, and a heroine who has become so busy keeping everything else afloat that she has little faith in romance for herself. London is an important part of the book's mood, providing busy streets, bookshops, cafés, and the everyday settings where Evie's carefully planned encounters can go unexpectedly wrong.

At heart, it is a story about someone being pushed out of her routine.

Winters writes for readers who enjoy romantic comedies that know the genre's favorite setups but still care about the messiness behind them. Would Like to Meet uses the familiar language of big-screen romance, then asks what those moments might look like when the person trying to create them is tired, skeptical, and under pressure at work.

Outside fiction, Winters has said she enjoys long walks in the countryside, the energy of big cities, and time with friends over a large glass of wine. Those details fit the warm, contemporary world of her novel: busy, funny, and interested in the small mishaps that can make a day memorable.

For readers starting with Rachel Winters, Would Like to Meet is the clear place to begin. It introduces her interest in London-set romantic comedy, office politics, and the gap between the perfect scene imagined on screen and the much less tidy version of life.