My writing journey so far

I’ve been writing since as long as I can remember. In high school, I’d sit and daydream in class, have a notebook under my workbook and be enthralled, not by what I was being taught by the teacher, but by the world I was creating on paper when I should have been studying.

I’ve always been like this.

I’ve always written something. Back in high school it was sweet high school romance, your typical misunderstood bad boy meets dorky girl, nothing profound but it kept my creative juices flowing well into adulthood. I wrote stories and ten years went by before I’d pull it out again. I was a closet writer, never having the confidence to show anyone my work.

Then one day, after reading adult romance books for years, I decided to start writing my own motorcycle series. It was lockdown March 2020 and I had nothing better to do.

I love MC romance, but I kept finding the stories I read were a lot of action-packed drama and not a lot of connection between the Hero and the heroine. Sure, there was plenty of sex, but again, no real connection. I wanted more.

I wanted more romance. More connection. More of everything, so I thought, why not? I’ll write about a small-town MC where they’re not 1%ers but they’re still bad asses. The heroes are alpha male who protect their women and their club. All the characters I created in the first chapter of Steel (book 1) had my full attention. They all had a story to tell.

I wanted strong women who aren’t afraid to speak their mind but also be vulnerable. I wanted to create a family. A town that you’d want to go visit, with people you feel like you know. While my books are steamy and are adults only due to violence and steamy scenes, I never wanted the sex to get in the way of the romance. I wanted that to be the true hero in my writing.

I never thought that 2 years later, I’d be on the verge of quitting my day job to write full-time and book 9 in the Bracken Ridge Rebels Series will be released on 31 January 2023. 

I still pinch myself.

I’m so happy that my readers loved what I did with the world I’d created. I adore the fact that you wanted more pages, characters, books and romance. I had such an outpouring of support that I still feel like the luckiest girl in the world. I strive to make every book I write better than the last, and you’ve allowed me to do that.

So, from that one leap of faith, I wrote 15 books in 2 years (5 of those were co-writes with my twin sister Dakotah) plus 2 more completed and ready for release in 2023.

The journey hasn’t always been easy, I suffer imposter syndrome and nerves all the time. But the one constant is the joy I have for writing and bringing the worlds in my head to life with words.

There’s no better job in the world, and I couldn’t do it without you, the reader.

Here’s to 2023 and making it count.

Thank you so much for your support!

Hugs, MF x