And now for something completely different...
Feb 25, 2026 5:55 pm
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How's the weather where you are? It is SO freaking cold here in Florida. My sister came to visit from Colorado and it was warmer there than it is here. Mother Nature is on a rampage, right now. 🤣 Then again, Florida weather has always been a little crazy. Until things warm up though...
I've got a little something for all you fans of fan fiction.
I feel SO blessed to have been invited into this multi-author collaboration project.
Have you ever read a story and thought… Wait, this is how it ends?? Not on my watch! I have!!! And ten other authors have too.
Thus, introducing Because Canon Sucks!
A multi-author collab like you’ve never seen before.
Link to series: https://mybook.to/CanonSucks
Paying homage to the magical world of fanfiction, the entire series is imagined as fanfic writers writing AUs of the Canon story. From dark romance to contemporary to fantasy, from sports to werewolves, and everything in between (mine is a hit man and a male escort, set in my existing world of Belle Argo, Florida), you will have the pleasure of seeing Rowan and Milo get their deserved happy ending in eleven different Alternate Universes (AUs). Get ready for unhinged tags, insane author notes, and side quests done in footnotes you won’t be able to forget.
The authors involved in this project are:
Disclaimer: I don’t own the characters of Rowan and Milo, just borrowed them to play. They deserved better than what Canon gave them, and once you read it, you’ll agree with me. Go on, read it. Tell me I'm wrong for wanting to fix this!
Link to Canon: https://dl.bookfunnel.com/w38hloc5yv
(It's a FREE short story to kick off an exciting series)
((Credits Sarah Jo Chreene for the character art, and ArtStudio Zrnić for creating Canon’s cover.))
Getting to know you...
Have you picked up Guardian yet? Well, whether you have or you haven't, I was recently asked some questions about these books and the inspo behind them, so I'm sharing them here for you:
Q: What inspired you to write this book?
I’ve had the pleasure of hanging out with a number of people who are sex workers. Pro Dommes, strippers, escorts, etc. The reasons folks arrive at that kind of work are as varied as the people who do it, but what always fascinated me most was the relationship stuff. Understandably, it can add some very real and significant complications to the mix. I love love, and I love romance, so those complications are a thing my brain has chosen to chew on for a long time, and exploring the conflict sex work might create in a relationship is what led me to write my first book, Blackmail, which is about a male escort who is caught with a client by that client’s husband.
Q: Did one of the characters speak to you louder than the other?
Ravi, the hero of Guardian, has definitely been the loudest. He’s also the youngest, but he’s strong-willed and brilliant, and he had very specific demands about his HEA. Of all the books in this series, his felt like it wrote itself in a way that really surprised me. Like, I went back to edit, and couldn’t believe some of the things Ravi had done. I didn't even remember writing some of them. And even though his book is the third in the series, he was vocal from the beginning of book 1, which you can kind of tell if you’ve read the first two books. My biggest shock was when he told me this ex-military vigilante guy I’d introduced briefly in book one was his happy ending. I couldn’t see how they fit together at first, but Ravi showed me they were perfect.
Q: How did you select the names of your main characters?
I name characters in a lot of ways. I’ve developed a weird habit of paying attention to name tags at restaurants, the grocery store, and if I see a name I really like I try to file it away for later. Sometimes the character tells me exactly who they are, and sometimes a character’s name changes several times throughout writing. In the case of Guardian, Ravi was named after a guy I’d had a crush on at my old gym, but the name is definitely where the similarities end.
Q: Do you read in the same genre you write? Do you have any favorite series or books?
I try to read widely, but my love of dark romance is what led me to write it. In the past I’d written stuff that well-meaning friends told me was way too dark. Then I stumbled upon Onley James, and went, “wait a minute…I love this, and clearly other people do, too,” which inspired me to give it a real shot. So, her books have a special spot in my heart, along with the Vampire’s Mate series by Grae Bryan, because I’ve been a paranormal fan forever and vampires were my first love, going all the way back to Lara Adrian's Midnight Breed series.
Q: If you could spend the day with one of the main characters in your book, which would it be, and what would you do together?
I’d love to hang out with any of my characters, but most likely it would be Ravi. He’s sassy, and he loves animals, like I do. We’d probably go out for breakfast burritos, drink too much coffee, and then go to pet dogs at a shelter or shop for sex toys or something.
Q: Is there a scene in this book you’re really proud of? Why?
There’s a scene in Guardian where Ravi really turns the tables on Liam. Most of the story is him begging Liam for attention, and Liam trying really hard not to give in. But once Ravi decides he has nothing to lose and goes after exactly what he wants, that moment changes everything for both of them. It's Ravi really coming into himself in a way that truly blew my mind, and I love it so much for him.
Thank you and happy reading,
Beth Christopher
