About Beth Thorne

CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE AUTHOR

Hi! I am beyond delighted you found your way here!

So a few things to know about me. I've been reading like it's a competitive sport since middle school. We’re talking about over a hundred books a year. I have, on multiple occasions, finished an entire series in four days flat. Eventually I stopped wanting to just read the escape and started wanting to create it.

I believe books are one of the few genuinely magic things left in the world.  A good one can hand you rest when you're burnt to a crisp, drop you smack dab in the middle of life you've never lived, hand you perspective on something you've been struggling with for weeks, or, my personal favorite, make you fall in love with a layered alpha hero with slight signs of emotional constipation you’re more than willing to work through. 

That's no small thing. To me, that’s the whole point.

So that's what I'm here to do. I want to make you laugh, possibly at a line you'll feel too weird to quote out loud. I want the spice to make you sweat — hot, plot-driven, and dripping in delicious chemistry that only happens when you want it just as bad as the characters do. I want the ever-afters to feel earned, not handed to you. And somewhere in there, I may on occasion make you cry — the good kind. The cry that sneaks up on you at 12AM when you swore you'd only read one more chapter and the next thing you know your pillow is tear soaked, you’re smiling a little manically, and your dog is looking at you like you’ve grown a second head.

Sarcasm, sizzle, and satisfying ever afters — that's my promise. You've had a long week. You deserve the sweet treat!

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Why ‘Beth Thorne’?

Here's the truth: A pen name gave me two invaluable things: First, anonymity, which in the world today feels like common sense. Two, a permission slip, a door to walk through to give my mind the freedom to dream and explore worlds totally unlike my own.

As Beth I get to dream bigger, weirder, and enter into considerably more shenanigans than I ever can in the real world. That's the whole appeal of a pen name, if you ask me — it's not about hiding, it's about being able to embrace pieces of yourself more fully than others, even if just for a little while. The same way I want my books to be an escape for you, Beth is mine. A little privacy, a little distance, and a lot more room to write exactly what I want.

Why Beth Thorne, specifically? Well, Beth is an anchor to my real life, and Thorne is a little something sassy, that’s inherently part of something truly beautiful. 

So while you probably won’t see my face out there all that much, it’s not because there's anything to hide. It's because the whole point of an escape is that it actually feels like one, for both of us.

Ready to escape with me?

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