I am an award-winning Texas author born and raised in the Lone Star State. Rather than bore you with details about my history, I'll let my reviewers tell about my writing:
"Bartels’ writing isn’t as fluffy and surface-level as most M/M romance authors. His work delves deep, with gripping dialogue and complex characters that feel incredibly real due to their trauma and relatable experiences. Bartels excels in creating authentic and emotionally complex characters. The pacing is well-balanced, and the narrative is compelling from start to finish."
"All his books have fascinating, engaging, and well developed main characters that are easy to identify with and a plot that draws me in quickly and keeps me reading for hours straight to find out how the characters get to their forever person and place in life. In his books, at least one MC has had a severe trauma or life changing event as a young man and they work to find their partner, but not without adversity."
I am an award-winning Texas author born and raised in the Lone Star State. Rather than bore you with details about my history, I'll let my reviewers tell about my writing:
"Bartels’ writing isn’t as fluffy and surface-level as most M/M romance authors. His work delves deep, with gripping dialogue and complex characters that feel incredibly real due to their trauma and relatable experiences. Bartels excels in creating authentic and emotionally...
For Trevor, being away from home for the first time was difficult enough. Add being gay and completely inexperienced and the difficulty jumps a notch. Top it off with being disowned by your family and being uncomfortable in new situations, and life seems impossible. Then the attack happened.
Within one year, Danny lost everyone. His husband, his parents, and his birth mother. No way was he ready to jump into another relationship, but he longed for a friend, and Andrew appeared at just the right time. Then his dead husband’s brother shows up and demands the estate, saying, “you ain’t family.”
Brody had to escape. Between his mother and the family preacher, all he heard was about the evils of the world and how liberals were bad for the country. And each encouraged him to find a nice Christian girl to marry who would give him many children. Only he didn’t want a nice Christian girl, or any girl for that matter. But he knew nothing...