Curating The Love List: A Discussion with Creators Lindsay Grossman and Madison Jones

If you want something done right–or a lot of the time just done, period–you have to do it yourself. That’s the mindset Lindsay Grossman and Madison Jones adopted when they set out to create The Love List, an annual collection of the best unproduced romance-centered screenplays and television pilots. Their goal was simple: to revive the quality and quantity of on-screen romance by proving just how many romantic comedies were being written and to highlight the scripts that best captured that toe-curling, foot-popping, behind-the-door dancing giddy-ness we all crave. The inaugural selection, which was announced in and covered by Deadline, contained 14 stories of various lengths and settings, each containing a healthy dose of swoon-worthy moments guaranteed to sweep readers and audiences alike off their feet.