My Fault

Mercedes Ron was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1993 and later moved to Spain, where she studied audiovisual communication at the University of Seville. Ron launched her writing career in 2015 through the social media platform Wattpad, publishing My Fault in March 2017 under the title Culpa Mía. According to biographical information in the source text, Ron gained “more than 50 million readers” via her original publications on Wattpad, and she credits her expansive fan base on Wattpad as the source of the support and success she needed to make “the leap to bookstores in 2017” (408). Penguin Random House bought the rights to Culpa Mía and published it in English as My Fault Shortly thereafter, Ron published the second and third installments in the Culpables series—Culpa Tuya came out in 2017, and Culpa Nuestra came out in 2018. These titles were later translated into English under the titles Your Fault and Our Fault.

Ron is now known as “a benchmark in youth romantic literature with more than a million copies” of her books sold internationally (408). In the source text’s acknowledgments, Ron attributes her authorial success to “everyone who was there with [her] on Wattpad in the beginning” (406).