Reader Poll: Future Publications

A quick poll for what is to come next....

Hello all!

First off, thank you all again for subscribing to my substack! This has grown so much over the last month, and every notification makes my dark little heart sing. 🖤

I have several stories I’ve been working on in addition to the ones we currently have in progress, and I’d like to start sharing one more (as I am currently closing in on writing the end of two of these stories we currently have going, but I won’t say which!!). Below are the working titles (I generally just use a character’s name as a working title) and a brief description of the story. Which ever gets the most votes by the end of the week will be the next one I start publishing, but not to worry: all of these will be added at some point along the line.

Once you’ve read through the quick descriptions, vote in the poll at the bottom (and comment if you have any ideas, suggestions, or even if you have a close second choice). You guys are my audience, and I owe every word to you all, so your choice is what I will follow.

Almost all of these are of a slow-burn variety, fair warning.

Stories:

1. Cole & Ryan: They met by accident one afternoon and it was literal love in the rain, but fate is cruel, and six years have passed, each of their lives being pulled in other directions. But when fate throws them back together, they aren’t the same people they were before. Can you really fall in love in a single afternoon, and still love them after six years? And how do you love someone whose life is so completely different from the one you’re trying to build? (note: I started this before the current political climate, during relatively peaceful times).

   1. Tropes and TW include: active military (Navy aviator), lost love, love at first sight, engaged to someone else, possessive MMC, found family, foster care/childhood neglect, college romance, cinnamon roll mmc, physical violence, boys on motorcycles with tattoos, rough sex/light bdsm).

2. Blackwell & Libby: Elliot Blackwell is a professor of Shakespearean Studies and Romantic Literature at a private university in Chicago, known for his cold, impersonal, downright rude personality, but no one knows who he is… or who he used to be. So when he gets a Ph.D. transfer candidate from an Ivy League college, he’s immediately intrigued, and once he’s met her, he becomes obsessed. Erin “Libby” Hayes was running from a past she wanted to forget. Meeting her new Irish doctoral advisor, however, was not the kind of distraction she’d been looking for. Of course, having a masked man pulling her into dark corners on campus wasn’t on her list either.

   1. Tropes and TW include: past traumas/PTSD, organized crime, he falls first, soft only for her, possessive MMC, college romance, professor/student love story, secret identity, Irish accents (because, yes please), stalking, physical violence, rough sex/light bdsm. two masked men, children/pregnancy, past sexual trauma/violence, and a partridge in a fucking pear tree

3. Almost Always (actual title): Reed Callaghan had two loves in life: hockey and Evie. She’d been his best friend since they were kids, and to Reed, Evie was everything, defending her with words and his fists when he needed to, even when she didn’t know it. Little did he know, the same was true of Evie; Reed was literally everything she’d ever hoped for, the boy who used to lay in the grass at night and indulge her lectures about astronomy and the night sky. But as life often does, it pushes a wedge between them. And when her world starts to crumble, Reed is the only one she trusts to step back to catch her during the freefall.

   1. Tropes and TW include: high school to college to adult romance, curvy/plus size FMC, pro hockey player (obviously), body dysmorphia, friends to lovers, found family, touch her and catch hands, physical violence (on the ice and in a backyard), possessive MMC, sexual violence/trauma, soft only for her, trauma/death of family, children/pregnancy

4. Luke & Kate: Luke lived and breathed baseball, enough so that it got him signed pro as soon as he graduated from college. His biggest supporter and number one fan was always Kate, the girl he had known his entire life, the literal girl next door. Best friends all the way through high school, college pulled them in opposite directions, but they never lost touch fully. But it isn’t until their 10 year reunion that they reconnect, and sparks fly

   1. Tropes and TW include: friends to lovers, long distance romance, small town romance, professional baseball player, professor/teacher, he falls first, possessive MMC, physical trauma/violence during a game, golden retriever boyfriend, rough sex/(very) light bdsm, with more to come, as this is in the very early stages

5. Jack and Quinn: Quinn needed a job, like yesterday, so when she got a call back to be a live in assistant for the CEO of an up and coming financial firm, it solved all her problems: a place to live with out her douche ex, and a job to pay off her student debt. Jack hated having a personal assistant, granted, he knew full well he needed one, especially with the IPO going live. He could barely keep himself from tripping over his own feet most days, let alone manage his schedule, so when Quinn fixed his calendar before she was even out of the interview, he knew she was the only real choice. Of course, having a gorgeous curvy woman to look at wasn’t a bad deal, he’s been single too damn long, and having her live in his detached garage apartment behind his house… he’s not sure if that’s a blessing for him or a curse on the HR department.

   1. Tropes and TW include: Boss/employee, curvy/plus size woman, soft only for her, he falls first, workplace romance, secrets, accidental voyeurism, possessive, obsessive and yet still clutzy MMC, touch her and catch hands

These are the ones I’m pretty well in on, none of them are complete, but this will help me decide what to work on next, as I will have a lot of time to write/edit during my upcoming leave.

Please feel free to leave comments with story requests, thoughts, comments, and anything else you’d like to share. I’d love any and all feedback.

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Thanks everyone! Happy reading!

🖤 Tath