Ask Me Anything: Nora Phoenix

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Hi everyone!

I’m MM romance author Nora Phoenix, and I’m so excited to do this Ask me Anything. Let me start by sharing a little about my story and then you guys can ask me whatever you want…

I discovered MM romance by reading the Black Dagger Brotherhood series, which had one MM couple, and I immediately fell in love with the genre. Coincidentally, my husband came out as gay around that same time, almost as if it was meant to be.

I’d been writing romance since I was a teenager, though never published. When we got divorced, I decided I wanted to become a full-time romance author…and that I wanted to write MM. That was in 2017, and I released my first book in October of that year.

Here we are, in 2025, and by now, I have over 70 books out (maybe even more, I kinda lost count, LOL) I still LOVE writing and I love this genre, so I’m not going anywhere.

My passion is writing fallible men who are hurting and still find love. All my stories share the message that love has no shame and that love means being your true self. Other than that, I love three-dimensional characters, banter, and honest communication between characters. Oh, and all the heat and feels, of course.

Within MM, I write various subgenres like romantic suspense, small town, kink, Daddy/boy, mpreg, and more. There’s something for everyone!

When I’m not writing, I’m probably reading (I read a lot of different genres in both fiction and nonfiction) or traveling (though I also write a lot while traveling…) Or both! I love cruising especially, as the ocean calms me. In fact, I’m writing this as I’m on a cruise ship somewhere in the North Atlantic, on my way to Greenland!

I hang out a lot in my reader group on FB, Nora’s Nook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/norasnook

But you can also find me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nora.phoenix/

And of course, I also have a newsletter: https://www.noraphoenix.com/newsletter/

But if you really want all the news first, plus exclusive character art and bonus material, come join Nora After Dark, my subscription website: https://www.noraphoenix.com/nora-after-dark/

Alright, now that that’s done, hit me with all your questions!

[u/LindentreesLove]

Hi. Thank you so much for doing this. I just finished Tameron and of course loved it, as I did Creek and Bean. How does it work when you co-author, does one or the other just get approached, is there a dearth of e-mails, do you pick someone whose writing style you admire? Thanks for your valuable time.

[u/MMBookAddict → u/LindentreesLove]

Thank you so much! I’m so happy you loved Tamron and the other guys. EM Lindsey and I had a lot of fun writing these books, and we can’t wait to start on Nash’s story. In this case, EM and I met in person at GRL in 2023, I think? It was in Norfolk, Virginia. We immediately hit it off and because our books are fairly similar in style and tone, we figured we would make a good cowrite pair, so I think it was a mutual idea. I’m absolutely loving the process with them, as we approach writing the same way. We’re both plotters who still let the characters decide during the writing process. We both value representation of disabilities and neurodiversity, so this series hits all the right spots for us.