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About
I can finally admit that I began writing in middle and high school to cope with moving away from the guy I liked.
In my stories, my self-insert could have the romance that I didn't find until, oddly, I found my first and last love in my now-husband. We've been together for nearly fifteen years, and he is the man I always wrote, the person I thought could only exist in my mind. By the time I got together with my husband, however, writing was a habit and need for me, a part of my life that I could not give up. I have written YA, non-fiction, and fantasy, but finally found a New Adult Romantasy concept that was the first I needed to finish. Selfish Fate, my passion series, follows the conflict of destiny and choice in love. My characters took over, and I am where I am today because the voices in my head decided to talk until I put words to paper.
Now, I give those words to you.
The Inspiration
A BRIEF PERSPECTIVE ON
ORIGINALITY AND THEMES
Love triangles have a bad reputation in modern society and I don't blame anyone for that perspective. Often, love triangles are tedious and come with a host of problems. Why, then, would I write a series that is one inescapable love triangle? Well, I'm a sucker for characters and a sucker for romance, and, occasionally, a sucker for intriguing ideas.
There are very often three types of love triangles:
A: Our protagonist is indecisive, likes the different qualities of both options and has difficulty choosing between two other characters. (a la 'Twilight')
B: The very feisty protagonist is doing their own thing and couldn't care less, and the love interests are more flavor (a la 'Hunger Games')
and
C: We know whom the protagonist is going to end up with, we simply need someone to exhibit how desirable the main character is (a la 'Fifty Shades')
I had the idea: What if we know whom the protagonist ends up with but she prefers the other love interest? How would that be possible?
While reading traditional romance, we generally know who the love interest is, we are just waiting to see how they get together. The mystery is great and the circumstances can seem impossible, but the love interests are seen pining and gravitating toward one another.
I wanted to write a story where one man is the cover love interest and the other is the textual love interest. The reader has the opportunity to be misled and wonder which matters more, the end we suspect or the story we're told.
Love triangles shouldn't be and often aren't about indecision, but about what the protagonist needs or thinks they need. We want to root for someone. There's a reason people take sides.
I think readers want to be able to make decisions about what the protagonist needs based on their perspective of what makes the protagonist who they are.
We don't get one option for love in real life and if we did, well...
Would you choose to believe in fate?
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