AUTHOR • STORYTELLER
Scott G. Nelson writes emotionally honest stories about love, identity, belonging, and the moments that change the course of a life. His debut novel, The Man I Wasn’t Supposed to Love, explores the complicated space between the people we love, the choices we make, and the stories we carry with us.
BEHIND THE STORY
The Man I Wasn’t Supposed to Love began with memories I had carried quietly for years. Some were painful. Some were complicated. And some never fit neatly into the way I had learned to describe the past.
Writing gave me a way to return to those memories differently. Over time, pieces of lived experience became fiction, and Reed Carver became a way to explore first love, desire, secrecy, family, and what happens when love and hurt exist in the same memory.
I started putting pieces of this story on paper years ago. Finishing it at 51 made me realize I had also written something for the younger version of myself—the one who didn't yet understand everything that was happening around him but kept going anyway.
This novel is where that story begins.
BOOK TWO
THE STORY CONTINUES
The Man I Wasn’t Supposed to Love is only the beginning.
Reed Carver has built a life beyond Silvermere and the choices that shaped his youth. But some parts of the past never disappear completely.
Years later, a familiar face returns in the most unexpected way—and with two simple words:
“Hello, stranger.”
Reed Carver’s story continues in Book Two.
COMING SOON