Jamie McGuire

Beautiful Disaster was self-published in 2011, sold well enough that a major house bought it, and became one of the early cases that made publishers take self-published romance seriously as a business. The Maddox books follow one family of brothers through linked novels. The central relationship in the first has been argued about for more than a decade, with readers describing the man as abusive and McGuire answering that the book does not present him as a model. She has kept publishing independently alongside the trade editions.