Thanks so much for showing interest in my stories. I hope you enjoy following my characters antics as much as I had writing them.
I’ve been writing in one form or another my whole life. In my early 20s, I imagines myself as the next popular horror novel writer and remember toiling day after day over my first novel. I never had a plan and I never finished the book (and the world is better for it) but it taught me a lot about the dedication necessary to seeing a project through.
I’ve always been a reader, but never found myself drawn to the typical romance titles. Then one day I discovered yaoi and BL manga. Here was a love story where I didn’t feel forced to self-insert into the story, something I never could do. I also enjoyed getting immersed in the emotional interiority of the characters. It was a romance I could root for, instead of hope for myself.
The stories I found myself drawn to were typically the low to no spice variety. There’s no judgement there, and I have some pretty spicy favorites, but more and more I wanted to write the kind of love story that was just about the topsy turvy time of falling in love, messing it up, and figuring it out in the end. If there was a genre called “smart men being idiots and falling in love” then my stories would find a home.
When I’m not writing, I’m getting angry at myself for not writing and living among the farmlands of southern Pennsylvania with a trio of furry idiots (my cats, I should specify). There are more Woodlawn College stories in the future as well as some other connected world series I’m working on.
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Love, Hartlee