Ellen B. O'Brien

Ellen B. O’Brien writes spicy romance novels with heat, heart, humor, and run-on sentences galore. She prefers to write stories set in the modern world, often in the paranormal, monster, and fantasy romance subgenres, and enjoys exploring themes of trauma and recovery, creativity, neurodivergence, family, and flying. Currently available are Monsoon, a long contemporary fantasy romance novel that answers the age-old question of whether it counts as being "caught in the rain" if a water fae caught you there on purpose, and Bites on Bourbon, a vampire romance novelette about a buttoned-up engineering grad student and a cheeky vampire shopgirl set in 1994 New Orleans. Upcoming works are Whiskey Pooka Foxtrot, a spicy monster romance available October 1, 2025, and A Fae's Guide to Tactical Botany, a contemporary fantasy romance set in the same magical modern world as Monsoon, which will be released on November 15, 2025. She has other works in progress featuring such creatures as orcs, artists, mothwomen, giants, more fae, maybe an alligator, non-denominational angels, librarians, and lawyers. More information about Ellen B's plans for world domination through unhinged smut can be found on her website.

She also provides editing, illustration, and design services under her mundane name Bridget Engman Wilde. In her personal life, she makes jewelry, reads manga, embroiders, crochets, welds, cosplays, coddles her succulents, and enjoys Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She is also proud to have single-mommed three children to kind, clever, sarcastic adulthood.