Perpetual quitter Vera Kwan thinks she's got it made when her style blog catches the attention of narcissistic actor Carmen Juarez, but after egos ignite a gossip war, Vera has to learn to balance her flighty ambitions and her attraction to Carmen's prickly, gorgeous manager Sharise before her Hollywood dreams fall apart like a cheap polyester blouse. ***** It's not Vera Kwan's fault that she can't hold down a job. A fashion school dropout, she dreams of becoming a famous designer, but the life of a style influencer is more grind than glamour. She just needs one big break, one chance to prove her styles are red carpet worthy. When a snarky post about her celebrity crush Carmen Juarez catches the actor's attention, Vera wins her ticket to stardom. As Carmen's stylist, she sets out to prove that she's more than just pretty clothes and the right filters, and maybe even win the affections of Carmen's aloof manager, Sharise, who she quickly finds herself falling for. After a clever fashion stunt goes viral, Vera is suddenly the most sought-after stylist in Hollywood. She even gets a job offer from Carmen's rival. But her style success may not be getting her any closer to her designer dreams, and secrets are beginning to fray her sense of purpose. If Vera can't figure out what's important enough to see through to the end, even when it seems impossible, she risks losing both the professional relationship that made her and the romantic relationship that might be the one thing that matters to her as much as fashion. ***** Complete at 100k words. *featured on Wattpad's A Latte Love, #WrittenWithPride, From Our Stars, and In her words #IWD2020 reading lists* Cover by the incredible @AnnaofthePond

(Formerly known as "When Our Paths Crossed") **** A tale of two lost souls brought together by pain, grief and trauma. Atlas tries to find a place in a world he's worked so hard to escape. Elijah struggles to balance the life he's building and the chaotic relationship with his twin. Together, Atlas and Elijah discover a love built not only on tragedy but also on hope. ΔΛΔΛΔΛ Featured on: ⭐ FreeTheLGBT profile ⭐ ContemporaryLit profile x2 ⭐ StoriesUndiscovered profile

Miles Brigg is a kindergarten teacher who lives a simple life of working and spending time with his family. Until he meets him. Julian Caldwell is a wealthy businessman who helps run several companies, including Home Our Community, a non-profit that provides homes for members of the LGBTQ+ community that were kicked out of their homes. Julian's an out of the closet man, trying to find a person to spend the rest of his life with and when he meets Miles, he might have found the one. The only problem is: he's straight.

Jamie is excited to finally be on campus. It's time to find his kind of people - gay, that is. Instead, he finds a blindingly handsome straight guy who keeps following him around, calling him 'roomie' (they're not roommates), and breaking through every defense Jamie has put up. Is it possible for a stranger to imprint on you like that? And is Davis as straight as he says he is? Tropes: college romance, slow burn, friends to lovers, enemies to lovers, gay for you, bisexual awakening. No trigger warnings. Mature rating for a few sexually explicit scenes. P.S. This story is written, so don't worry. I will publish new chapters every Tuesday and Friday. By the way, this is my first story and I'm excited to hear what you think! Feel free to leave comments and tell me your thoughts. Yayyy.

Levi Whitehouse's life consists of one thing - his son. For three years, he has spent his life raising Kai, trying to give him the best life he possibly could. On one trip to the bar, he meets the confident bartender that immediately catches Levi's eye. Aria Morales is a soon-to-be astronomer that spends his life working and going to school. When he meets the amazing father that tends to put his son's happiness before his own, he jumps at the opportunity of getting to know him. From secrets to tantrums to stranger danger, their lives collide into one that can either end up being very good or very bad.

Reviewing restaurants is normally a safe pursuit, but Kate and Lorne face torture and death when they try to unravel organised crime's infiltration of the fine dining scene. Kate is a novelist and a dining columnist. Lorne is a lawyer, a prominent wine writer and an incognito restaurant reviewer who, since his teens, has believed he's asexual. Playmates when they were toddlers and friends ever since, they are now thrown together by increasingly dangerous circumstances as the Mob targets them. The intensity and closeness trigger Lorne's deeply buried sexuality and Kate's long-suppressed desires. Will they be able to set their passions aside and focus on evading and entrapping the Mob?

[bxb, gxg] When Reid Edwards is shoved into a locker by his bully on the last day of high school, 1970, he certainly doesn't expect to tumble straight into a room containing the high school's three oddballs. What ensues is a carefree summer full of drinking, dreaming, and watching the stars. But as Reid grows closer to the three of them, Art in particular, he's caught between his religious home life and the quickly snowballing gay rights movement that his new friends are determined to be a part of. ✶ featured on the teenfiction the full spectrum reading list ! ✶ featured on the generalfiction freestyle fiction reading list ! ✶ first place for teen fiction in the andromeda awards ! ✶ first place for teen fiction in the campfire awards ! ✶ first place for teen fiction in the oscar awards ! ✶ third place for romance in the mystical awards !

Seventeen-year-old Apollo Reyes-Perez is struggling to understand two things: his identity and his best friend's suicide. But when Amory Hartmann, the new boy in town, catches his attention, he discovers that the answers to those questions may be more complicated than he had anticipated. ...... After the passing of his best friend, Apollo is left in an unfamiliar world, or perhaps one he never understood. Swimming, friends, and family. That was Apollo's universe. Until one day it wasn't. His friends expect too much, his parents don't talk enough, and swimming feels wrong. It only took one day for his life to change. Isn't the world supposed to stop when the person closest to you is gone? That's what he believed. But when the realities of growing up as a Mexican-American teenager hurdle towards him, he must accept the simple fact that life goes on. This becomes abundantly clear when Amory Hartmann enters his life, forcing Apollo to face the parts of himself he intended to keep hidden. Pieces of himself he's been too afraid to share with a boy. Will Apollo learn to leave the past behind him and move towards the future, or will his demons keep dragging him back to the darkest point of his life? Featured by @TeenFiction 🥇1st place LGBTQ+: The Novelists Awards 2022-2023 🥉3rd place Romance: The Pride Awards 2023 💜 @YARomance Undiscovered Book of The Month {November 2022}

The real world skins you alive. It's a hazard of growing up in rural Suffolk... or possibly, it's a hazard of growing up. Either way, the Dorian Andrade and Isaiah Matalon who reunite at a party in Oxford have become equally disenchanted imitations of the boys who used to spend summers eating apples on the riverbank. A lot has changed in the six years since they saw each other. One thing is still the same: the longing for each other's company. But aren't the objects of our yearning so much easier to encounter in the imagination than when they're standing in front of us? GENRE: literary fiction, queer romance TROPES: second chance romance, friends to lovers, mutual pining COMP TITLES: A Little Life, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Call Me By Your Name, basically Wolfstar Muggle AU featured in Ambassador Reads featured in Ambassador Recommendations: Living Beyond Labels Dec 24 featured in Ambassadors: Slice of life featured in ContemporaryLit: Ambassadors' Picks featured in ContemporaryLit: LGBTQ+ Contemporary featured in ContemporaryLit: Literary Fiction featured in Chicklit: Ambassadors' Picks featured in lgbtq: ManxMan (NA/Adult Fiction) featured in FreeTheLGBT: Diverse Literature featured in WattpadLitFic: Novels featured in WattpadMulticultural: September 2023 Reads of the Month

Vaughan McClellan was born to a life of comfort and ease, and embraced this without argument. As a blooming author who has suffered an extended case of writers block, he is forced to leave his comfortable lifelong home and daily routine in exchange for a year long deal that will change more than just the way he has his morning tea. CURRENTLY UNDERGOING MAJOR REVISIONS TO EARLIER CHAPTERS. So far, chapters 1 through 5 have been revised. Chapter 6 is in progress. Thank you! "At some point while he argued with himself, he had made his way half down the hall and could hear the voices louder, but it wasn't until his name rung out that any of it registered. Suddenly, he was tugged back down to reality with a heavy hand landing on his shoulder, causing him to promptly squeak in absolute terror. Hand clutching his chest , heart rabbiting underneath he spun around to see Myles standing, hand still outstretched, and that stony look morphing from its grim demeanor raising those heavy brows and a huff came out. Vaughan was unsure, but he thought the man looked pulled between exasperated and amused."