Since I'm a bi-weekly newsletter sender, this is actually the LAST email you'll get from me in 2025! That's nuts!

Even more nuts??? How Not to Woo Your Human Warrior is an international best seller! My first orange banner!!

That's a wrap:

What. A. Year.

First, I just have to say thank you. I am incredibly privileged to continue to do this thanks to all your hype, reviews, reading, and more. It's so exciting to go into 2026 off such a wonderful high, and that's entirely because I have the best readers around.

I'm notoriously bad at reflecting, but I'd love to share some really cool stats with you from 2025.

Books released - 5 (Guard & Guise, The Crown of Fractured Darkness, Hell & High, How Not to Charm Your Human Colleague, How Not to Woo Your Human Warrior), +1 under a secret pen name

Books written this year - 5, with 2 in progress - Crown (edited), H&H, Charm, secret project, Woo, Pursue (WIP - started), Trick (WIP - started)

KU Pages read - 3.6M

Milestones - 4.5M lifetime page reads (yes, that means I hit 1M this year too), Charm and Curse break 1M page reads each, 100 Patreon members (free and paid), completed the Smoke and Shadow series, first All Star bonus, Woo hits international best seller on amazon, first two selling events

I'm still in shock in the best way. Partly because life has really gotten in the way the last several months of the year (sickness, my little no longer napping, chronic fatigue getting worse), so sometimes I am too focused on the now to realize how much I've actually gotten done this year. Typing out this wrap really helped me put all that into perspective.

Latest Release - How Not to Woo Your Human Warrior:

Signed copies of How Not to Woo Your Human Warrior are available on Etsy. They come with several goodies too!

Featured Books:

ROMANCE FAIR

QUEER FANTASY AND SCI-FI GIVEAWAY

Patreon has started releasing chapters of How Not to Pursue Your Human Perfectionist, book 5 in the Falling for Demons series. My AU story this month is a cozy crossover between Aofe/Kizros (How Not to Charm Your Human Colleague) and Aspen/Malachi (Guard & Guise)!

Other Upcoming Books:

• Faeted Hearts series (Trick & Tangle - drafting)
• Books 5 & 6 in Falling for Demons (up next)
• Spin offs of the smoke and shadow series

Laura Winter

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