About Elle
Elle Thorpe lives in small town in regional Australia. When
she's not writing stories full of kissing and chemistry, she's a wife, and mum
to three tiny humans. She's also official ball thrower to one slobbery dog
named Rollo.
After being a booklover for as long as she can remember, Elle first began
writing in high-school. She scribbled stories not so loosely based on the
hottest guy in school during sleepovers with her bestie. When she moved into
the workforce, she always kept a notebook hidden in her filing, writing outlines and scenes whenever no one was looking. She took an extended break from writing when the tiny humans made their appearance, but her characters were always there, telling their stories in the back of her mind. When her youngest was eighteen months, Elle began using naptime as writing time and wrote two books over the next eighteen months. Those will never see the light of day. But then this kind of arrogant, but kind of a sweetheart character named Low started
talking, and the rest is history.
Why Drama Llama Romance?
Elle's family own an alpaca farm where she regularly gets
the chance to be kicked and spat at. Just joking. They're beautiful.
Mostly.
Amongst Elle's writing friends, she is known as the Drama
Llama. Her style of romance is full of angst, heartbreak and swoony chemistry
to keep you flipping pages until the wee hours of the morning. Although she's
well aware that llamas and alpacas are two different animals, she figures they
deserved a spot in her tag line anyway.
Be sure to follow Elle's social media for regular drama
llama updates and pictures.
Awards and Career Highlights
2019 Winner of the Self Publishing
Foundation Scholarship
2019 Finalist for Favourite Small Town
Romance in the Australian Romance Readers Awards. (For 25 Reasons to Hate
Christmas and Cowboys)
2020 Guest speaker on The Self
Publishing Show with Mark Dawson and James Blatch
2021 Inkers Con panelist on
"Finding Six Figure Success with Indie Publishing."
2021 Became a USA TODAY Best-selling
author with "Hate to Want You Anthology" (now unpublished) hitting
the list at 101.
2021 Hit the US Amazon top 10 at
number 3 with "Locked Up Liars."
2022 Hit the US Amazon top 10 at number 7
with “Start a War.”
2023-2025 Hit the US Amazon top 100
multiple times with various books from her Saint View series.
2026 Over 2 million copies sold.