Susanne Winter

That was a summer!

12. September 2026 by susannewinter Leave a Comment

So, no monthly newsletter, no updates here, no author photo, no nothing.

I did write a bit but haven’t finished the second romance yet. What was supposed to be a 40,000 word novella now sits at almost 50,000 words and the story is far from being over. Looks like this will become a proper book. Eventually.

We’ve been having all sorts of shenanigans, ailing parents that need more care than before, moving one of them into a care home, and then there was summer break that I spent dealing with cataract surgery. I had the first one at the beginning of the school break and the second one a couple of days ago.

So for several weeks my eyesight was wonky. And I’m not supposed to strain my eyes which means I have to limit reading and screen time in general.

I also got stuck writing the romance mostly because I always do but also because my head was so fully in crisis mode that there was no capacity to let the story grow in the back of my head.

So I switched to revising the first book in the next Urban Fantasy series. That one is almost done, it still needs an ending, though.

I hate not being able to move projects forward but it is what it is.

The good thing is that I did a research day trip one day when we were visiting my mother. We went to Muenster where the romance series is set and that was great. I only took two pictures the whole day which was dumb. One is of our lunch, very good food:

And the other is of a rather old building on the way:

Sorry. I went to my camera roll expecting a ton of pictures but no, just those two. I’m blaming my wonky eyesight, I was so busy trying to navigate the city with one eye that could see basically everything and the other being fuzzy and only marginally clear in the distance that I didn’t think of taking pictures.

Anyway, things are still moving forward if at a glacial pace, eventually I will have another book out or two.

Still here, still writing, still busy

28. May 2026 by susannewinter

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In order to subscribe, just go anywhere on SusanneWinter.com and you’ll see a handy sign-up form on the right. Thanks.

Sorry, shameless plug is over but you know how it is, you read about something, you’re all set on clicking the link and getting the freebie and then you forget and you can’t find it again.

Just me, then?

Anyway. I am busy writing, it’s just taking more time than I hoped it would. Life is busy and there are so many, many interesting things and also a lot of things that need to be done every day, by me.

I am currently working on the second M/M contemporary romance, the first one is done and I do have an idea for book 3. And maybe more of those but that will come later.

There is another urban fantasy that will be the first in a second series and that one has an almost finished first draft.

And there you have the reason why I haven’t posted for so long, there really isn’t much to say. On the other hand I do want to make it clear that I haven’t forgotten you guys, so there’s that.

One of my other projects is that I want to learn how to take better pictures and then get myself a new author photo. This is one I took yesterday while we were out enjoying a free day, and this is not it. But I’ve had worse:

Anyway, remember that the newsletter gives you monthly-ish updates and behind the scenes stuff, and I’ll make sure to tell you when the next book will be out.

It’s been a while, read the complete Eva Mandel trilogy

3. April 2026 by susannewinter

Well, I say complete trilogy, there might be another book or two eventually. If you readers want them and when I feel inspire to write them. So far there are a little more than 14,000 words of book four and then I lost interest and started focusing on publishing what I had instead of writing yet another book in the same series.

Anyway. The last time I posted here was in September, I said I’d be publishing book 2 around October but that didn’t happen. Not quite sure why. I do know I definitely slowed down in December when I was sick with covid for the first time and again in February when it was bronchitis. I still find myself wondering why I feel so exhausted until I remember.

But. The great news is that I did, indeed, publish book 2 at the end of January and book 3 a couple of days ago and apparently that is freeing up enough of my mind that I can think about actually telling people about it.

So, just as a reminder, there is book 1:

Masked in Ice

Then book 2:

Masked in Stone

And book 3:

Masked in Silver

And here they are, all three next to each other in paperback. The ebooks are exclusive to Amazon which means you can borrow them in Kindle Unlimited if you want but the paperbacks should be available almost everywhere:

I really hope you’ll enjoy Eva’s adventures.

I am also hard at work on two other projects, one will be a gay romance, so something completely different, and the other a brand-new urban fantasy series. You will meet two main characters this time and one of them is a jazz pianist.

It is all very exciting!

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.