Explore expansive aromantic love and connection in stories across genres These twelve stories showcase aromantic people breaking generational curses, finding acceptance, and protecting the vulnerable while highlighting the infinite ways people find connection and love without romance. A high school matchmaker learns a lesson about love. A rebellious spaceship pilot defies his culture’s compulsory coupling. A boy magically transforms banned romance novels into living dragons. A teen immune to romance, and the zombie virus, fights to survive the apocalypse. Being Aro is full of stories throughout real and imagined worlds that cross genres and disrupt the status quo.
Authors
Madeline Dyer is a novelist, poet, and anthologist. She is the author of the SIBA-award-winning Untamed series and the Dangerous Ones trilogy, as well as the Aces in Love series (written as Elin Annalise) and the Roseheart Ballet Academy series (written as Elin Dyer). She is the editor of the Being Ace anthology and co-editor of the Unbound anthology, which was a Suspense Magazine “Best Of” 2021 pick and was named a Foreword INDIES 2021 finalist. She teaches writing and is in the final year of her MFA in Creative Writing at Kingston University London. In 2020, she founded YA Thriller Con, a yearly online celebration of everything thriller, crime, and mystery. She has a herd of Shetland ponies, loves anything ghostly, and can frequently be found exploring wild places. At least one notebook is known to follow her everywhere she goes.
