Susanne Winter

We have paperback!

2. September 2025 by susannewinter

So yes, the ebook is available on all the Amazons (sorry, right now I’m keeping it there exclusively).

I am hard at work (well, not as hard as I would like but you know how it is) on book 2. That one should be out around the end of the month, maybe October.

In addition to the ebook version you can now also buy a paperback version! Again, only on Amazon but I’m working on making it available elsewhere, I just have a bit of trouble setting up an account for that. I’m sure it will all sort itself out.

Anyways, here is the paperback version, tada:

It looks way better in person, and also when you order it yourself it won’t have that weird „not for resale“ band all over it. I haven’t ordered a regular copy yet, this is just the proof.

But hey, a real book!

Get it on:

Or any other Amazon store. I’ll let you know when book 2 will be available, can’t wait for you to read on.

And it’s finally here!

16. May 2025 by susannewinter

The first Eva Mandel book is almost here! You can pre-order „Masked in Ice“ already!

This is very exciting! Here is the cover and the book description:

Will she be able to stop the nefarious plan? Will the old gods come back? Will she master her powers in time?
Twenty years ago magic rushed back into the world and changed everything.
Since then Eva Mandel has made the study of magic and psychology her life’s purpose. Even when it was clear she would never be a practitioner.
Now a mysterious private university calls her to fill in as lecturer on the psychology of magic after her predecessor suddenly dropped dead.
In the aftermath of a magical explosion everything she knew about magic will turn out to be wrong. She’ll have to learn fast…

It will be out on May 31st and it will be in Kindle Unlimited. For now it’s only in ebook and on Amazon but there will probably be a paperback edition later.

I’ll keep you posted and I’d love it if you went and pre-ordered, thanks.

And still alive, and the Eva Mandel book will be coming out soon!

28. February 2025 by susannewinter

I was just going through my feedreader (I know, so old-fashioned), culling everything that I either don’t read or that hadn’t updated in the past few years.

Well.

This blog has been dormant for years as well. Sorry. Life happened and I wanted to redesign it (still want) and I wanted to focus on writing because I had way more to do than I had time or energy for, and then was now.

Anyways. The Eva Mandel trilogy is written. Book 1 is about to be launched into the world in all its ebook glory. I’m still a bit undecided whether I should focus on bringing this website up to speed or do a cover reveal, preferably both, of course.

So, I promise to not fall off the face of the world for years again without checking in, and will keep you posted.

And I am doing NaNoWriMo yet again

6. November 2019 by susannewinter

Last night I finished the last of the Eva Mandel trilogy.

If everything goes according to plan newsletter subscribers will get a free prequel story before the end of the year and the first novel will be out at the beginning of next year.

In addition to that I am attempting to write 50,000 more words this month.

The eagle-eyes will see that it is already November 6. Yeah, things do not always go according to plan. Nothing major, though, just a big bout of procrastination last week.

Of course now things will go much better, I will write 2,000 words every day and everything will be fine.

I am hoping to update this here blog a little more often, stay tuned and see how that goes.

Still not dead

6. February 2019 by susannewinter

Well, first of all NaNoWriMo did not go as expected. The last one was the first one ever that I attempted and didn’t „win“. I’d say there were two parts to it, one being the fact that I was sick for 2 1/2 weeks in November. As in having a cold and no energy whatsoever. I spent most of my days in bed waiting to get better. That is a valid reason for not writing much for sure.

But before that I had been struggling with not writing much for about a year already.

Now writing an average of 500 to 700 words per day sounds pretty good but for me it just doesn’t feel enough. First of all there are a lot of stories I want to tell and I don’t want to have to pull out an idea ten years later because I was writing so slow. Also, I do write pretty fast even with the „Writing in the Dark“-method so 700 words typically take me between 15 and 20 minutes.

Spending only fifteen minutes a day on the thing that you claim is most important to you? Slightly pathetic. Mind you, I don’t have day job that eats my whole day, no commute, I could easily devote an hour a day on writing if I only tried hard enough.

So I’m trying to remedy that and have so far written an average of 2,000 words a day for three days in a row.

The reason I didn’t write anything here on the blog was that I took the advice in „Blogging for Authors“ to heart to not fill my author blog with stories on how difficult writing is.

Since I’m still working on the trilogy (slowly) and since I want to finish all three books before publishing there isn’t much else to tell.

I do have plans for blog posts that aren’t on how hard writing is, though, and am hoping to not abandon this space for weeks at a time again.

Thanks for still reading this.

And NaNoWriMo begins again

1. November 2018 by susannewinter

Sorry for not posting in months. I’m still rather busy with the writing. I am currently on book two of the Eva Mandel series.

I’m doing NaNoWriMo again, this time as a rebel because I started this book a few weeks ago.

First few paragraphs of book two:

It was my first day coming back to the university after a week off. I only had spent one night in the hospital but the doctors had thought it best for me to rest instead of work.
I did resent that because I didn’t like not working but then I realized that they were only talking about not going in to teach. Nobody had said anything about research.
And I had to say that spending a week at home had been very nice. Now that I had my home back, my tiny little house, parked behind Katherine’s barn. I sat on my stoop with a cup of tea in my hands, looking at the woods.
I hadn’t dared to go in again so far but I couldn’t avoid it forever. I was a little scared of finding the clearing again where I had met that weird, magical creature. I was almost equally scared of going into the woods and finding out that there was no clearing. Or no creature.
I had had a lot of things to think about in the past week, not the least if it being my newfound ability to use magic. For thirty years I had been very sure that I was the least magically inclined person there could be and then things exploded in my face. Literally. When I started to work at the academy.

I’ll try and check in a little more often this month.