HeyJaredNicky's Paper Trails
A newsletter for readers who love messy emotions, spicy stories, morally grey heroes, and a little chaos. Welcome to Paper Trails, where I bleed on the page, so you don’t have to.
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Lolita Got Heart Sunglasses. Romance Got a Warning Label. (opens the original)
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Hello lovelies, I’ve been busy rewriting the first two chapters of The Scars We Hide from scratch.Deleted the file, opened a blank document, started over.There was nothing wrong with that first version except that I hadn’t properly met Logan when I wrote it.That’s the thing nobody warns you about with a pantser. You can be twenty chapters deep and still be writing a stranger. Then somewhere around the middle of the book he does something you didn’t plan, and you sit back and go oh. There you are
Which Book Boyfriend Should You Meet First? (opens the original)
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A few new people have found their way here lately, and I realised I’ve written two novels, a spicy novella, several posts about morally grey men, and somehow never made it particularly easy to figure out where to start.So I fixed that.Maybe you’ve already read everything and came for the behind-the-scenes gossip. Maybe you just arrived and have no idea who these people are.Either way, consider this your map.My Hidden Truths books are interconnected standalone suspense romances. Each couple gets
Surprise! I wrote a novella. (opens the original)
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I was supposed to be writing Book 3, The Scars We Hide.I am writing it. Logan and Mari are alive and well and making my life difficult in all the ways I enjoy.That’s why I set up the pre-order release date as far in the future. I need flexibility to move the release date after learning it the hard way with The Lies We Live. The looming deadline gave me too much anxiety and then I discovered that the Zon lets you move the date only once. The creative drain was real!My writers friends begged me to
Logan is ready, but are you? (opens the original)
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YAY. The time has finally come to share this widely and loudly!Logan’s book finally has a title, and I’m ready to share it!The Scars We HideWhat do you think? Which vibes do you get?<source type="ima
I Thought Logan’s Story Was Finished. I Was Wrong. (opens the original)
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Hi lovelies,I can finally say it! Book 3 in the Hidden Truths series is coming soon! *happy dance*<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1350" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!39FG!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl
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