2012 was the year everything got fucked up. LOL. For real. My publisher, Silver, absconded with a lot of my money, and I never saw payment for any Texas books, or my Sanctuary books 🙁 On a positive note, I released my first self published books – the short Love Is stories… this got me dipping my toe in the indy pub waters, and stood me in good stead when I abruptly received all my books back from Silver at the end of the year.
Books included: The Only Easy Day, Face Value, The Art Of Words, Still Waters, Full Circle, Child Of The Storm, Texas Heat, Follow The Sun, Book Of Secrets, Love Is In The Title, Love Is In The Hallways, Love Is In The Message, The Decisions We Make, The Journal Of Sanctuary One, How Much For The Whole Night?, New York Christma
I said in my last post (2011) that Sanctuary saved my house. This was because I managed to get out my first big self published book – Sanctuary 6, The Journal of Sanctuary One – in time for Christmas, and it sold well. Add in New York Christmas, and somehow we rode out Silver and made it out the other side alive.
One of the casualties of Silver was the Men of Halfway House series, book 1 of which I wrote with Reese Dante and which sold really well (not that I saw any money from it!). I handed my rights to that book to her and she continued on and made it a successful series. It was a relief I think, as it was way too tied into Silver and the mess I’d landed in.
I did, however, write Book of Secrets, which was the sequel to my first ever book, and one of my favorite books to write
My first co-authored book with Meredith Russell, The Art of Words, came out as well, the first of many to come.
Competition
The Journal of Sanctuary One is a classic Trapped in a Cabin story – one of my favorite tropes. Do you have a favorite trope in romance! Comment below for a chance to win.
Prize: An e-book from this featured year, or your choice from my backlist
Friends to Lovers or Enemies to Lovers is always good. I really like when couples get together young and stay together through all the crap life throws at them. The Decisions We Make is my second favorite Rj book after the Texas series.
Friend to lovers is my favorite trope.
I actually love the trapped in a cabin theme!
I love so many tropes!! I like some really dark such as kidnapping, noncon/dubcon, master/slave, but my all time favorite is gay for you with friends/enemies to lovers.
Miranda you’re a winner – email rjscott.team@gmail.com
Friends to lovers is my all time favorite
I like all of the tropes I read and go through phases as to what is favorite when. Current favorites are May/December and hurt/comfort.
I love many different books but my favourite has got to be Alpha male meets soul mate.
My favorite would be hurt/ comfort.
i am a huge fan of enemies to lovers stories with lots of angst
I absolutely love age gap stories!!!! And all the angst there is 🙂
Oh gosh, I love ALL THE TROPES but I guess my favorite is friends-to-lovers with a healthy dose of oblivious pining and UST. The slower the burn, the better.
I love friends to lovers or manny helping single dads. These pretty much always bring a smile to my fast. If we are going fantasy, it’s to large to choose from list mate stories or just magic and a quest and falling in love on the way.
Anything involving breaking stereotypes… especially in suspense/mystery genres.
I love most, enemies to lovers, gay for you, men in uniform too many to mention lol
Enemies to lovers… that’s my all time favourite
I love forced proximity. Along with friends to lovers and GFY, these are my favorites.
I’ve been reading a lot of Daddy/boy books lately, and I also enjoy Friends to Lovers and Hurt/comfort
Dark/light.
Taboo
Paranormal
I love enemies to lovers.
Enemies to lovers is my absolute favorite
Too many to pick. If a story is well written I can like it.
Hurt/comfort.
I like the unknown two people who may know each other or might meet for the first time but the more time they spend together the more they grow into one
Forced proximity, age gap, and hurt/comfort
My favorite trope is age gap. I also love vampires and aliens that look like aliens.
anything I read then all
I love older lovers and age gap lovers.
Friends to lovers, PNR fated mates, trapped cabin. As long as the MCs aren’t TSTL, I’ll happy.
Love Journal of Sanctuary One – any plans for audio book? Please say yes! I like second chance stories and forced proximity works well with that – you can see why I love This book so much!
I enjoy a good hurt/comfort story.
Second chance, friends to lovers, rockstars and protectors
Rockstars, tattoo artist, bodyguard, enemies to lovers, muscular boy with female boy.
Friends to lovers. and anything with LE/ Military
Friends to lovers or In love with a brothers friend….and thinking there is no way it’ll ever be returned.
I love them all. It depends more on how the author writes it.
Friends to lovers or gay for you are my two favorites.
It all depends on how I feel at the time of reading but recently I’m on a fated mates and mafia kick
Second chance. And friends to lovers.
I love anything dealing with family. To me family is everything and I love reading it and everyone getting their HEA.
Age gap or enemies to lovers
Friends-to-lovers and second chance stories are two of my favorite tropes.
I’m a sucker for both enemies to friends and nerd and jock. Love the conflict, angst, and HEA
This question is asked a lot and I guess I don’t really have a favorite trope. If a book is well written I like it!
I so sorry about your experience with Silver. Like the saying goes…adversity makes you stronger…but who wants to go through it?
I love the friends to lovers since they already have a deep connection…it feels really natural.