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Ellen B. O'Brien

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Ellen B. O’Brien writes spicy romance novels with heat, heart, humor, and run-on sentences galore. She prefers to write stories set in the modern world, often in the paranormal, monster, and fantasy romance subgenres, and enjoys exploring themes of trauma and recovery, creativity, neurodivergence, family, and flying. Currently available are Monsoon, a long contemporary fantasy romance novel that answers the age-old question of whether it counts as being "caught in the rain" if a water fae caught you there on purpose, and Bites on Bourbon, a vampire romance novelette about a buttoned-up engineering grad student and a cheeky vampire shopgirl set in 1994 New Orleans. Upcoming works are Whiskey Pooka Foxtrot, a spicy monster romance available O ...more

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Ellen B. O'Brien Her book had finally been uploaded to Amazon, just before the system locked her out of edits, and she was free!

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When and how did you start writing?

Ellen B. O'Brien The first story I have evidence of writing was some Elfquest fanfiction I wrote with my cousin. I was maybe 12 years old and we wrote it on a Commodor…moreThe first story I have evidence of writing was some Elfquest fanfiction I wrote with my cousin. I was maybe 12 years old and we wrote it on a Commodore 64 in the '80s. I do have a dot-matrix printout of two of the stories in a folder somewhere.

I wrote a decent amount of anime fanfiction (mostly Ranma 1/2) in the mid-'90s to early '00s and then stopped writing for almost a decade. My desire to rewrite was rekindled when I found Buffy the Vampire Slayer in 2014, and over the course of the next decade I wrote about 1.6 million words of Spuffy fic.

I had not considered writing my own original stories until 2022, when I went back to school to study digital arts and took a screenwriting class. My projects for that class did not get turned into screenplays in the end, but they did get translated to romance novel concepts which I started working on for future publication. I was not very serious about it, though, until the summer of 2024, when I heard about the Vellys Awards that were being run through Kindle Vella. I quickly brainstormed the plot of Monsoon and started writing. While Kindle Vella shut down before I could finish the story, I kept writing and completed it in January of 2025. It's been making its way through editing and the remaining work needed for publication ever since.

In the meantime, I was invited to join the Monster Brides Romance community, which led to the writing and publication of Bites on Bourbon and plans for several more monster romance stories. So it's a complicated answer! I started writing a long time ago, but the road to publishing original fiction has been a long one. And I am fortunate that along the way I found some amazing writing friends to brainstorm, co-edit, and cheerlead each other's work. ](less)

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	Monsoon 4.68 avg rating — 19 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bites on Bourbon 4.67 avg rating — 9 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Fae's Guide to Tactical Botany: A Monster Brides Romance 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2026	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Whiskey Pooka Foxtrot: A Monster Romance 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hot Ghouls Read: An Anthology of Monster and Paranormal Romance by S.C. Principale (Goodreads Author), Roslyn St. Clair, V.V. Strange 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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I have been largely coasting as an author, focusing more on writing and schooling than promo, but less than two weeks from now I will be in the Indie Author Pavilion at Tucson Festival of Books!

If you're at the festival, I'd love to see you - I'll have my table set up from 1:30-4:30 pm, after which I will probably mosey on down to Pidgin Palace for film club stuff. I'm also volunteering on Saturd Read more of this blog post »

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