Forever Better Together COMING SOON!

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BLURB-
“Three B’s?” 
“Brothers, besties, and boyfriends.” 
“I’m pretty sure those three words aren’t usually put together.” Griffin shook his head but he smiled. 
“Yeah well, we’ve always been unique. Why stop now?”

After suffering a traumatic childhood, Griffin is given a fresh start with foster parents who help him discover what it’s like to be loved, wanted, and protected.
Quincy has lived a comfortable life with his grandparents and the constantly changing faces of their foster children. Kids come and go and Quincy knows staying friendly yet unattached is best. But when scrawny, scared Griffin moves in, Quincy’s world is turned upside-down.
Griffin and Quincy have a shaky start, but soon they bond as best friends and eventually brothers. The hormone-filled teen years reveal an unanticipated attraction between the two.
Now in college, Griffin and Quincy set out to determine if the sexual tension brewing between them since high school is worth jeopardizing their nearly decade-long friendship. Will they lose everything they’ve found in each other, or will they seize the opportunity to turn their friendship into something even better?

Forever Better Together is an opposites attract, friends-to-lovers story, but it’s slightly more complicated than that.
This book is a part of the Common Elements Romance project.

Excerpt-
“Guy from home. I miss him. He’ll be at college with me and that’s on my mind a lot.”
“Something happen that you could start back up?”
“Nah, I mean, something happened, but we were just kids.”
“You gonna at least ask him out?” Jaylin raised a brow.
Griffin’s gorgeous face flashed in my mind along with his words, “What we have is so important to me. I can’t lose my brother and best friend. We’ll be fine, right?”
“He doesn’t feel that way about me. We’re just friends.” I shrugged and checked the time.
“Some of the best relationships start as just friends.”
“Some of the best friendships are ruined by trying to be anything else.”

Hello, my name is A.D. Ellis. I’m a teacher and author. My pronouns are she/her.

Before we get started, if you are in need of learning/understanding terms, here’s a great resource: https://www.glaad.org/reference) Also, I’m a visual learner so the image HERE (and shared on this post) is very helpful to me. It helps to visualize the spectrums of assigned sex, gender identity, gender expression, and sexual orientation.

**I’m a cis gender person (meaning, I identify with the gender assigned to me at birth.) So why do I have my pronouns (note: there’s a push to change “preferred pronouns” to just “pronouns” because a person’s pronouns aren’t just a preference they are who the person is)…anyway, as a cis gender person, why do I list my pronouns on my email signature (so far I *think* I’m the only staff member doing this, but I’d highly encourage everyone to do it) and on my social media profiles? If I, as someone with the privilege to have never had to worry about my pronouns, makes it seem like a normal practice then it CAN become a normal practice.

“As a cisgender person, it costs you nothing. For a cisgender person (a person whose gender is in alignment with the sex they were assigned at birth- more on that another time!) there is little to no risk in sharing your pronouns. When you’ve never questioned what pronouns people use for you, or even thought about the idea of pronouns after you learned about them in 2nd grade, sharing your pronouns on digital profiles is easy and costs you nothing.

For a person who is transgender or nonbinary, sharing pronouns can be a bit riskier. If someone is transitioning at work and only a few people know about it, sharing pronouns may out them before they’re ready. For a nonbinary person, sharing they/them pronouns often only sparks a lengthier conversation (*coughthisarticlecough*) rather than simply inform people.

That’s why we ask cisgender people to lead the change by sharing pronouns. It normalizes the process, has little risk, and actually makes for a safer environment for everyone.”

(Source: https://medium.com/gender-inclusivit/why-i-put-pronouns-on-my-email-signature-and-linkedin-profile-and-you-should-too-d3dc942c8743)

**Here are some GREAT tips for allies of transgender people: https://www.glaad.org/transgender/allies

Some other great sources:

—https://www.cultureamp.com/blog/sharing-gender-pronouns-at-work/

—https://www.themuse.com/advice/using-pronouns-gender-inclusive-language-in-the-office