About Merritt Gale

Merritt Gale is a French Canadian author of high-heat MM romance who chose to write novels in English because she likes the word fuck far too much.

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To this day, she still finds it hilarious that authors write their own bios in the third person.

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So, hi. I’m Merritt.

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I write emotional, character-driven MM romance about men who have already lived a little before they find each other—the ones carrying grief, old wounds, bad relationships, or years of believing that a certain kind of happiness simply wasn’t meant for them.

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And then I make them fall in love anyway.

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My stories tend to come with small towns, found family, forced proximity, hurt/comfort, complicated pasts, plenty of heat, and men slowly realizing they’ve found home in another person.

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The happily ever after is non-negotiable.

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I’m a romance reader as much as I am a romance writer, with a particular weakness for grumpy men with feelings they’d rather not discuss, characters who desperately need to communicate and absolutely refuse to do so, and relationships that sneak up on people who thought they were perfectly fine on their own.

My debut novel, The Still Hours, is the first book in the Glenwood Lodge Series, a collection of interconnected standalones set in the Adirondacks. Meet Evan and Terry and discover where it all begins.

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I also believe music belongs in stories. My characters have playlists, certain songs become part of their relationships, and my books tend to develop soundtracks of their own.​​

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Listen to Evan & Terry’s playlists