Favorite Trope

By: Emily Carrington

What is your favorite trope? (Doesn’t have to be LGBTQ related, but it *is* Pride Month…)

There are way too many tropes to list here, but I’ll name a couple I’ve written and love to read:

Hurt/Comfort, Grumpy/Sunshine, Opposites Attract, and Friends to Lovers are just four of my faves.

I’d like to highlight two books, one of mine, that are Hurt/Comfort.

The Prince and the Painter box set includes a lighter Christmas story, but also an extremely dark novel to balance out the light and fluffy with some angst. This second story is the manifestation of the quote at the end of my emails: “A moment in darkness… Eternity with a lover.”

Challenged By Love by Autumn Montague is a box set  about disabled men during the Regency Era finding romance in the arms of other men. This is a great Hurt/Comfort trilogy of stories and it’s not always the disabled man who needs the comfort.