Member Spotlight: Belle Reeves

Why is writing important to you and why do you think it’s an important medium for the world? I would have quit writing years ago if only the stories would quit me. That urge to create defines us as humans. Shakespeare makes us feel we can be more than human. I’m happy if I can simply provide entertainment for a reader for a few hours.

What are your tried and tested remedies to cure writer’s block? Go back to the last part of the story that feels true and start again from there. I let characters rent space in my head to act out scenes until it feels right. Or I switch to another story completely and let the other one sort itself out.

What is your favorite time to write? Ideas and stories come at all times. I try to catch them on notebooks or receipts, or other scraps of paper. Sometimes they come in the middle of the night like my latest book Wreck Me coming out this month with Totally Entwined Group. It’s my least favorite time to be inspired but I’ve learned to drag myself out of bed and record what’s developing, because sometimes it will lead to something.

What’s the best piece of writing advice you’ve ever received and would like to impart to other writers? Bibi Wein, author of The Way Home, told me to always have something nourishing to read while writing.

What excites you most about being a writer in today’s age? I have a YA coming out in 2026, but I also write for reading apps, and I enjoy the instant gratification of real-time feedback.

Belle Reeves’s Wreck Me is out now with Totally Bound Publishing.