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About A.J. Marchant
Against all good advice, I'm an unapologetic genre-hopper. Which means I write stories in many forms-- literary, romance, action & adventure, fantasy, crime & thriller-- but I believe the most important part of a story are the characters, no matter in which genre they're portrayed.
Like myself, my main characters are queer, gay, lesbian, pick your word (or don't, I'm not one for labels either). But it's their strength and the way they overcome whatever life throws at them that I like to push to the front. For the most part, sexuality plays a role only in the background. My hope is that it's stories like these that become part of mainstream publishing, and mainstream media and entertainment as a whole.
I have no great story about how I became a writer. It isn't something I've wanted to do since I was five. I wasn't the kid in the back of the class scribbling down a story. Words were just my way to process as a teenager and young adult (they still are). They're my way to think outside my brain and my body, a way to learn and know myself, the world, to pull myself out of a funk and up by the bootstraps, to write down the good and bad, both important and worth remembering.
The best I can say it is through the words of poet Andrea Gibson --
"I didn't come here to write my heart out, I came to write it in." (Truce)
Books have always been a part of my life. Stories of all kinds. As a teenager I was reading books most adults have never even picked up.
From the classics, to crime novels, to comics, to literary fiction-- my parents never held back when it came to providing stories to read, always encouraging and scrambling to keep up as I tore through them on holidays. I can't remember ever not having a book to read.
Speak what is on your mind. Write what is in your heart.
Drop a comment or get in touch, I'd love to hear from you.
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Website: ajmwrites.com
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Tilda hates Christmas. Clare loves it.
After a bizarre run-in at the emergency room and a set-up at the local pub brings them together, Clare takes on the challenge to put a little festive spirit into Tilda’s life.
Can Clare change Tilda’s mind?
All She Wants is a Christmas holiday romance set in a small rural town in Australia. It’s a light-hearted love story packed full with cheer, a well-trained border collie, quirky locals, and a comedic twist on the quintessential family moments that make Christmas the most wonderful time of the year.
Is it love... or obsession?
Lori is a university lecturer.
Addy is a student.
In her head, Lori knows better.
But the pull between her and Addy isn’t something she finds easy to resist—despite her friend’s warning about Addy’s questionable past behaviour.
After a fun night out that ends in a major lapse in judgement, Lori wakes up in Addy’s dorm room.
And her whole life unravels.
Mine First is an age-gap thriller romance filled with forbidden love and broken hearts, suspenseful obsession, and a fight to stay alive to reach that ever-wanted happy ending.
One is a criminal. One is a killer. Can she catch them both?
Just like her father, Detective Micah York has spent her career bringing criminals to justice; except one.
Even after decades of manpower and a specially formed taskforce, Morelli has slipped from their grasp time and again. Despite his known trading in an underground black market, he’s untouchable.
That is, until a cold case, the murder of a young man in cartel territory, turns up a connection that may lead straight back to him.
Spiralling deeper into Morelli’s game, Micah hustles to keep up without losing sight of herself, or her wife and kids. But each turn of events takes her further along a dangerous path, one she may regret ever going down.
Bodies drop around her, betrayals come to light, hard choices have to be made.
Will the killer be brought to justice?
Will Morelli go down alongside him?
And at what cost will justice be served?
Things have been great for Tilda and Clare since Christmas.
Now it’s Valentine’s Day. And their first proper date.
Tilda is nervous. Clare is distracted. The townspeople are quirky as usual.
It was planned to be a fun night, starting with a fundraiser dinner and dance marathon… but mishaps and misadventures make a bumpy road for their romantic night.
At least it will be one they won’t forget.
All She Loves is a sweet romantic comedy with a splash of family drama, a too-smart-for-her-own-good border collie, a necessary costume change, a glitter trail that leads to a misdemeanour, a charming surprise, and a life-changing decision no one saw coming.
All She Loves is a follow-on novella from the full-length novel All She Wants.
"The lawyer hadn't left Hennie with much, just the deed to the property, a bunch of keys, her mother's journal, and his condolences. None of which she had much use..."
After the death of her estranged mother, Hennie returns to the Lloyd family property to find a rundown house and an orchard in decay. While Hennie works on fixing up the house, her partner Dot reads Faye's journal to her, reliving sweet moments from Hennie's childhood and the events that led to her leaving the small rural town as a young teen, uncovering a secret, and giving her something she thought she'd never have.
Hennie spent most of her life not thinking about the past, how will she cope when she's surrounded by it?
What if the one thing you thought you didn’t want, is the one thing that changes your mind?
After a breakup, August spends a few days back in her home city. She didn’t plan on staying long but curiosity makes her stick around.
A girl in an elevator, a girl in a bar, and a kid with a lego pirate ship.
An unexpected offer, a strained relationship, and a surprise meeting with an old friend.
They all change her mind and her life, for the better, and in ways she thought she never wanted.
It’s a space without rules. It's a project of freedom in creativity, expression without expectation. To share the pieces that pulled me into the work I love, and the words of others that have shaped new paths in my heart and my mind. To air past heartbreaks that lingered. To study why some things stick in my mind, and how others are lost the second I see them, barely seen or recognised in the moment. To release the simple thoughts, the one-liners and brain worms that burrow and repeat in my mind. To show the accidental and offhand shots that picture truth in glimpses of the cities I’ve fallen in love with and then left, their graffiti and street art, their people and places, their grunge and softness.
I didn’t create any of these things for you. But I made this space to share. In reading, I hope that you’ll find a freedom of your own, see things from a different perspective, appreciate the little things in life that make it whole, that make it ours and no one else’s.
The "Prose & Procrastination: Call It" series is a four-part, zine-style, mash-up of prose, street photography, articles, short stories, and one-liners.
From the very beginning, Quinn and Anna had something different; until Anna left without a word.
Having moved on, finally getting her life back to a kind of normal after the loss of her father, Quinn’s world is turned upside down when Anna comes back.
From one moment to the next, everything can change.
Everything can happen, or nothing.
Quinn was never sure in which direction things would shift. But when it came to Anna, she thought she knew where they were going.
And then the one thing happens that Quinn could never have seen coming.
Anna dies on duty, and Quinn goes into a spiral, looking for something to hold on to, while at the same time learning to let go.
Tilda hates Christmas. Clare loves it.
After a bizarre run-in at the emergency room and a set-up at the local pub brings them together, Clare takes on the challenge to put a little festive spirit into Tilda’s life.
Can Clare change Tilda’s mind?
All She Wants is a Christmas holiday romance set in a small rural town in Australia. It’s a light-hearted love story packed full with cheer, a well-trained border collie, quirky locals, and a comedic twist on the quintessential family moments that make Christmas the most wonderful time of the year.