Frequently asked questions
Is Everly Ren your real name?
No. This is a pen name.
Pen names are used for various reasons. Mine is due to very serious privacy issues. I ask readers to respect that boundary. I have no wish to be contacted in any way via channels in my personal life. Not everyone is a media personality. Some of us are just writers.
When will Collision: A Dark Romantic Suspense be available?
Collision will be published on August 24th, 2026.
Where will Collision: A Dark Romantic Suspense be available?
I will publish my books everywhere books are sold, including, but not limited to, Amazon, and will make them available in libraries as well. The books will not be available on Kindle Unlimited.
Will there be an audiobook?
I am looking into this, but I do not see this happening for a long time.
Will there be an ARC team, Beta readers, or a street team?
No.
Do you have Spotify playlists and Pinterest boards for each book?
I do!
Follow me on Spotify and Pinterest.
I have created all the playlists and boards for each book, but some are hidden until the book is announced.
Are you active on social media?
I am. I share a lot of teaser videos for the books, specifically on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and YouTube. My favorite platforms are by far and away Pinterest and YouTube. I created massive boards for each book on Pinterest and will set them to public in the months leading up to each launch. As mentioned above, I also create playlists for each book on Spotify. I have a Threads account, but I am not very chatty.
I am also on Goodreads and Romance.IO.
Please note: I do not check my DMs.
How many books are in the EVERLY VERSE?
I have written my first 2 trilogies (OBVIOUSLY each book will go through 475 rounds of edits before publication), and I have outlined 20 books in total.
Ideally, I’d like to publish 2 books per year, but you never know what real life, career, health, etc., will bring.
Do I need to read every book or read the books in the EVERLY VERSE in order?
I have written each book as an interconnected standalone. The primary romantic relationships between the main characters will have a clear and happy ending in each book, but the plot is plotting in this universe. I am not playing when it comes to hidden clues and character crossovers. I recently reread page 5 or so in book 1, and it contains clues for page 300 in book 6.
Will you want to read them all? Maybe. Maybe not. All of my characters exist in the same universe, so you’ll witness them grow and change in later books.
Which genres do you write?
Dark romantic suspense.
Will I write other genres? Maybe. But for context, in 2nd grade, we were asked to write a Christmas story for school. I wrote one called ‘The Christmas Mouse.”
It was about a down-on-his-luck, middle-aged writer mouse with a lifetime of regret and a drinking problem living in a small apartment in New York City with no heat or hot water. He was alone on Christmas, and the only joy he had in his life was the sensation of water hitting his fur in his cold shower while he cried hot tears of melancholy and rage and pounded his little claws bloody on the white tiles.
I was eight.
I’m not sure I have a small-town romance book in me, but I sure do like reading them, and if I write one, you will be the first to know.
Is your content sensitive, and will you have trigger warnings?
My books are suitable for readers 18+. I am, however, writing transparently about extreme trauma and recovery. I will do my best to list comprehensive trigger warnings on my website and in the books. I am a voracious reader, and I want you to experience the same joy that I have when reading. I am not trying to shock or harm anyone.
That said, I have written a universe where trauma is explored in uncomfortable and alternative ways, and it can be triggering to read. There is also not just one way to process, navigate, or heal trauma, and it can be very uncomfortable to read something you were not aware of, are not educated about, or don’t agree with.
What if I don’t agree with how you wrote something, it’s not what I believe to be accurate, or I don’t like how your characters handle something?
Totally fair. Also, I promise you this will happen.
Do you agree with how you perceived and handled every thought, feeling, and decision in your life throughout the last year? What about 5 years ago? 10 years ago?
Probably (and hopefully) not.
For perspective, some of my readers will never have experienced what I write about, some readers will be survivors of it, and others will have been the abusers and perpetrators. You will all interpret the story differently.
Our education, perception, perspective, maturity, mental health, resources, and feelings are all dynamic. They change. We change. Our exposure to experiences and the tools we have to cope with them change. I don’t have to get it right. And it would be weird if I wrote a book or a character that was universally liked, loved, and agreed upon by everyone, or that reflected how they would live their lives.
I’m not telling YOUR story, and that’s important to remember.
I’m just sitting here by the campfire telling my character’s stories.
This is fiction. Not a dissertation.
I am not writing about how I see the world or the choices I would make. I am writing about how my characters see the world and the choices they make.
If you have big feelings about something I wrote, I want you first to remember that this is a universe built on people navigating complex trauma. It may not always feel good. I encourage you to sit with your feelings, explore them, and ask yourself why this word, sentence, character, dynamic, or plot point brought them up.
What inside of you has not been seen or heard?
What story within you has not been told?
When have you reacted similarly to something in your past?
Because my characters are here to make mistakes. They hurt themselves and each other. They struggle to acknowledge what happened to them. They act out. They say the wrong thing. They do the wrong thing. They are deeply flawed, and they are supposed to be. They are allowed to learn lessons the same way we all do. The whole point of the EVERLYVERSE is that they are loved for who they are. And they don’t have to be perfect or earn it. They are loved in their wholeness.
Please bring a level of self-awareness to your reading experience.
If you hate tapping into empathy vs. reactivity, you will HATE my books.
If you hate reading about trauma, you will HATE my books.
If you hate flawed characters, you will HATE my books.
If you hate women, you will HATE my books.
If you expect to like every character or understand the layers of every story in the first few chapters and have no wish to go on a growth journey in a dark romantic suspense with my very flawed human characters, you will HATE my books.
It can be triggering to read about a character who makes a mistake that you would not be forgiven for, or who has traumas that you have been ostracized and shamed for. I read stories where characters are loved despite what happened to them, and I reflect on my own experiences, and it honestly makes me want to cry sometimes. But it also doesn’t mean the author is a bad person. Healing wounds can hurt.
Always remember, there will be other readers who have experienced the trauma I write about in my books. If you have something to say, please say it about me, not about the imperfect experience of other survivors. I am not creating this space as a free-for-all to attack people who have survived abuse or struggle with their mental health.
This is about compassion, healing, connection, and forgiveness.
We’re all just walking each other home, and kindness lights the way.
What are your thoughts on AI?
I don’t use it.
I write, edit, and format my own books. I make my own covers, build my own websites, and do my own marketing. If you don’t like something about Everly Ren, I promise you, it’s definitely ME you don’t like.
But I do want to make a note of something:
The cadence at which I publish is not the cadence at which the books are written (see my answer above). I have a full-time career and some challenging life circumstances that require a great deal of my time and energy. Publishing and marketing are NOT the same as writing. Please don’t be that person on the internet who makes a random accusation of AI because I finally found the time and energy to publish my books.
I barely survived 2022-2026.
One of the few things that kept my head above water when it felt like all was lost was the goal of publishing the universe that had existed in my head and heart for so long. If you can’t be happy for me for surviving that challenging time and finally publishing my books, at least try not to cast aspersions.
If you genuinely question my creative process, please email me directly, and I will write you an epic poem about how horrible the last few years were. I might actually find that therapeutic.