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Nobody in Particular

Sophie Gonzales
Chapters (61)
  1. Copyright Notice
  2. Dedication
  3. AUTHOR’S NOTE
  4. ONE DANNI
  5. TWO ROSE
  6. THREE DANNI
  7. FOUR DANNI
  8. FIVE ROSE
  9. SIX ROSE
  10. SEVEN DANNI
  11. EIGHT ROSE
  12. NINE DANNI
  13. TEN ROSE
  14. ELEVEN ROSE
  15. TWELVE ROSE
  16. THIRTEEN ROSE
  17. FOURTEEN DANNI
  18. FIFTEEN DANNI
  19. SIXTEEN ROSE
  20. SEVENTEEN DANNI
  21. EIGHTEEN ROSE
  22. NINETEEN ROSE
  23. TWENTY DANNI
  24. TWENTY-ONE DANNI
  25. TWENTY-TWO DANNI
  26. TWENTY-THREE ROSE
  27. TWENTY-FOUR ROSE
  28. TWENTY-FIVE DANNI
  29. TWENTY-SIX ROSE
  30. TWENTY-SEVEN DANNI
  31. TWENTY-EIGHT ROSE
  32. TWENTY-NINE ROSE
  33. THIRTY DANNI
  34. THIRTY-ONE DANNI
  35. THIRTY-TWO ROSE
  36. THIRTY-THREE DANNI
  37. THIRTY-FOUR ROSE
  38. THIRTY-FIVE ROSE
  39. THIRTY-SIX DANNI
  40. THIRTY-SEVEN ROSE
  41. THIRTY-EIGHT DANNI
  42. THIRTY-NINE ROSE
  43. FORTY DANNI
  44. FORTY-ONE ROSE
  45. FORTY-TWO DANNI
  46. FORTY-THREE ROSE
  47. FORTY-FOUR DANNI
  48. FORTY-FIVE ROSE
  49. FORTY-SIX ROSE
  50. FORTY-SEVEN DANNI
  51. FORTY-EIGHT ROSE
  52. FORTY-NINE ROSE
  53. FIFTY ROSE
  54. FIFTY-ONE ROSE
  55. FIFTY-TWO DANNI
  56. EPILOGUE ROSE
  57. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  58. Also by Sophie Gonzales
  59. Praise Page
  60. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  61. Newsletter Sign-up
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Copyright Notice

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Dedication

To everybody who believed in this book, and in me.
I needed every one of you to make it here. Thank you.

AUTHOR’S NOTE

Dear Reader,

Nobody in Particular is both my oldest child and my youngest. Eleven years ago, I met someone, and in the high of romantic bliss I wrote a 94,000-word manuscript in fifty-four days. I knew exactly what I wanted it to be, and the queer twist on the “royalty falls for commoner” trope poured out of me faster than my fingers could type it. I queried it and received an offer of representation within a matter of days, and I allowed myself to hope that this would be it. The book that would make me a published author.

Yet, it wasn’t. Over the next year I saw it taken to acquisitions again and again, only to be told repeatedly that there was no audience for a queer royal romance. It was a niche topic, by all accounts at the time. No matter how many times I edited it—and it went through more than its fair share of edits that year—this feedback remained the same. And so, I shelved it.

As any voracious—or even casual—reader can tell you, time eventually proved that there was, in fact, an audience for a queer royal romance. Many of them, even. And while I never forgot my beloved firstborn, the concern in my mind by this point was that my once-unique story had suddenly nosedived from “too niche” to “overdone.” One piece of media in particular followed the original plotline so closely I feared people might accuse me of copying it should I ever publish my own—predated—version. But when a few friends asked to read it in 2021, and I combed through it to “tidy it up,” I realized two things. One, I still loved this story intensely. Two, experience and fresh eyes had given me insight into how to update the plot somewhat, preserving the original heart but expanding it in a way that made it new again.