Claire Winn

Hey new followers, and happy Pride! 🌈 reminder that I write books with q***r characters where q***rness is only a part of their stories and personalities--albeit an important part. here's to having adventures, falling in love, and thriving. 🥰

a little late, but happy PrideMonth2024! 🌈

I dedicated City of Vicious Night to all the q***r kids and misfits still searching for their found families.

with all the ugliness going around, I think it's more important than ever to find your people. so here's to being brave, visible, and unapologetic 💜

Been a while since I did a , but here's a GORGEOUS rendition of the bike scene from City of Vicious Night by Delta Caelum (@/deltacaelum on insta)! 🤩💜 I'm obsessed with the colors! the vibe! the details! the expressions!

One year ago today, my second book (City of Vicious Night) was released, and I got to have my first in-person launch parties!

Doing events at Literati Bookstore and Schuler Books was an actual dream come true, as was the post-launch bar crawl with dozens of friends. I'll remember it forever. ✨

Reminder that you can get ebooks of the full series AND book swag this week!

"oh my god, we're robbing you"

Some of my favorite parts of One Last Midnight (and the Requiem Dark books as a whole!) involve the chaotic rival team-up between Riven and Morphett.

loved getting to write this novella and its furious bodily-autonomy themes 💕 Reminder that the full series is discounted this week!

surprise! ~💜 in honor of book 2's one-year anniversary this week, I'm doing a swag giveaway! If you missed the original CoSL preorder prints (with art by Dri Gomez), you're in luck--

I have newly-printed CoSL art postcards, bookplates, and holo stickers available for anyone who wants them! Open to anyone (no purchases required; sending them until I run out), and open internationally until I run out of stamps! Google form in bi0~

ALSO, all three books (including novella) are on sale this week! 👀

"Ready your blade. Defeat the undead." 💀⚔️ loving my current read of Bonesmith by Nicki Pau Preto! It's checking all my favorite boxes (and I've been craving a monster-hunting book for a while).

(Fun fact: this started as an Orin from BG3 makeup test.)

(Other fun fact: it's a CHALLENGE to apply makeup wearing these contacts.)

so, SO thrilled to announce that I have a new agent--I'm now repped by Kaitlyn Katsoupis at Belcastro Agency!

Kaitlyn's enthusiasm and vision for my eldritch gods-and-monsters fantasy has me buzzing, and I can't wait to see where we go together. ⚔️⚜️

character art by Del Weiss Art!

If you love dark fantasy with:

-bizarre Baroque-industrial cities with Bioshock vibes
-angry q***r disasters with trust issues
-monstrous experiments & body horror
-absent gods who sang the world into being
-two bi MCs (again 😈)
-opulent theaters with gruesome backstage secrets
-ancient music to command eldritch monsters

then cross your fingers for me this year?? ✨

Late notice, BUT--

if you're supporting The Mighty Pens & We Need Diverse Books by writing lots of words this month...✒️🛡️
..you can snag another author annotated + colorful edged Requiem Dark duology (+ OLM download!) as a tier 3 pr!ze!

https://themightypens.org/prizes/

Thanks to Coreander's Bookshop for inviting me to sign books this week! ♥📚

Hey! Short notice, but for my Detroit area friends--this Sunday at 1PM, I'll be doing a quick signing/event at Coriander's Bookshop in Grosse Pointe! 💜

You can register (free) here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/author-claire-winn-book-reading-registration-752425453787

Happy Halloween! 🦇🎃💜 here's a snippet of the Halloween-adjacent Independence Festival shown in One Last Midnight 👀

During a YA book chat in 2020, a question was posed about what Halloween looked like in our books' worlds (if it existed), and I couldn't stop thinking about a cyberpunk smuggler-town version of a Halloween festival. So glad I got to play with it in this novella!

(And, what's this?! A physical copy of OLM?! A few exist, which are strictly not for sale--but there might be an opportunity to win one soon!)

Still recovering from the chaos of throwing a huge Halloween party this weekend IRL, but more updates to come 💕

anniversary sale! ~ Two years ago, I officially became an author.

Happy bday to the book that changed my life, opened new doors for me, & captured so many readers' hearts. As of last month, this series is now complete. 💜

(to celebrate, BOTH ebooks of the duology are on sale! And the audiobook narration is only a few bucks more!) https://linktr.ee/clairewinnauthor

giveaway ~ can't believe TOMORROW marks the two-year anniversary since my debut novel (City of Shattered Light) was published! 😳

To celebrate, my publisher is offering free digital copies of the spinoff novella ONE LAST MIDNIGHT to my newsletter subscribers! (mostly U.S., but we'll have a few international copies to send out!). A few other goodies on the way, too!

Sign up before tomorrow: https://clairewinn.com/newsletter/

One Last Midnight is out! 🥰 Here's the first page of Kaya's POV (Part II of the novella)--the story in which she proves why she's the most powerful member of the team. 💀

Even after the end of CoVN, Kaya has so much to contend with--her world-breaking abilities, her star-crossed romance, her lingering traumas, and her friends' new responsibilities. The series kind of started with Kaya, so it's fitting it end with her. 💚

We have so many book birthdays that we're celebrating with past guests today!

High fives to Elizabeth Eulberg (ZOMBIE WEDDING CRASHERS), Intisar Khanani (SUNBOLT), Kendare Blake (CHAMPION OF FATE), LL McKinney (A CROWN SO CURSED), Sandhya Menon (OF DREAMS AND DESTINY), Sara Ella (THE LOOKING-GLASS ILLUSION), and Claire Winn (ONE LAST MIDNIGHT - digital novella).

So. Many. Books. 📚

Readers, we encourage you to purchase your books at your local indie bookstore, but if you don't have one, you can find past guests' NEW books at the Happy Writer Podcast online bookstore (that also supports indie bookstores!) - check our linktree in the profile or find all our curated book lists at bookshop.org/shop/marissameyer.

237,476 words.

With the novella out today, I have three separate works published and my first series (Requiem Dark) is fully complete! 💜

No matter where my career goes next, these books (& characters) will always be special. They've opened so many doors for me & made my dreams real.

ONE LAST MIDNIGHT is available now in digital format, and the original duology (City of Shattered Light & City of Vicious Night) is available in paperback, ebook, and audio!

this chaotic disaster squad's story concludes TOMORROW! 💜

I've been lucky to work with so many incredible artists (Kynerie & Dri Gomez for character art & Sanjay Charlton for cover art), editors (Kelsy Thompson, Mari Kesselring, and Meg Gaertner), & publishing pros (including my agent Cortney Radocaj!) to bring them all to life. Forever grateful that the team enthusiastically allowed me finish out this series in ONE LAST MIDNIGHT!

💜4 days ✨ Here's a preview of the first page of One Last Midnight, from Morphett's POV!

The vibe of this story is very much Birds of Prey x Mad Max, and it was a ton of fun to get in this chaotic bounty hunter's head.

preorder @ https://www.amazon.com/One-Last-Midnight-Requiem-Dark-ebook/dp/B0CF3Q2PJD/

💜Six days💜 until the series is completely finished! ONE LAST MIDNIGHT is over 140 pages of chaos--and it's available for preorder!

https://linktr.ee/clairewinnauthor

Asa's birthday is TODAY (according to Morphett's story in One Last Midnight!) 🎉

Her bday is close to mine, mostly because I pictured her as a Virgo 😅♍️ the day also coincides with part of the city's Independence Festival!

Art by Ellie Lin/Kynerie

can't believe the novella (the extra finale to the Requiem Dark series) is only a month away! 😳

It features a certain bubblegum bounty hunter & chaos technomancer as the main characters. If you haven't read City of Shattered Light or City of Vicious Night yet, this is the perfect time to jump on board 💜

✨mini cover reveal! ✨ Here's the cover of ONE LAST MIDNIGHT, the official follow-up novella to the Requiem Dark duology! It's 100+ pages of:
🌃cyberpunk shenanigans
😈vengeance road trip
🏳️‍🌈group-chat banter
🎃 "Halloween" on Requiem
❤️‍more of your fave chaos technomancer & bubblegum bounty hunter (and the rest of the team!)

Coming September 19th as an ebook. So excited to wrap up those lingering plot threads and share the final piece in these characters' stories. (and, yes, I promise your fave is in it! unless your fave is [redacted] or [redacted], but...yeah).

City artwork by Sanjay Charlton (the same art he did for the back covers of the original duology)!

We'll be revealing the cover for a certain cyberpunk novella this week! 👀

ONE LAST MIDNIGHT is a spinoff of the Requiem Dark duology (book 2.5), featuring two new short stories, side character POVs, and over 100 pages of vengeance and shenanigans. ✨💜

The cover will be revealed first via my author newsletter on Thursday the 3rd, and then Friday on all socials!

Had a great time last night celebrating the launch of M. J. Kuhn's Thick as Thieves! 💚 If you're a fan of heists, snarky banter, and immersive fantasy worlds, you want this duology in your life!

Thanks to TBR Book Blogger for interviewing me! 🥰

TBR: Claire Winn About the Author: Claire Winn What would you like readers to know about you? Hi! I’m an author and legal writer who cosplays, LARPs, and plays video games in my spare time. I wrote the Requiem Dark duology, which started with City of Shattered Light in 2021 and concludes with City of Vicious Night...

Hey! THIS TUESDAY I'll be at Sidetrack Bookshop in Royal Oak, MI to celebrate the launch of MJ Kuhn's THICK AS THIEVES! ✨

I'll also be signing copies of CoSL and CoVN! Come say hi 🥰

✨TODAY✨ is the release day for City of Vicious Night's audiobook!

Getting to finish this duology (AND having both books in audio format) was always a dream.

I haven't listened to the whole thing yet, but Sarah Beth Pfeifer & Tantor Audio have done an incredible job once again!

It's available via Audible, Libro/fm, or wherever you get your audiobooks!

Oh look, the audio sample is up for a certain book 👀 Take a listen! The rest will be out in 3 weeks 🥰

City of Vicious Night - Audiobook by Claire Winn, read by Sarah Beth Pfeifer. Claire Winn presents Book 2 in the Requiem Dark series.

Signed books at 2Dandelions Bookshop in Brighton, MI this weekend! They still have signed copies of City of Vicious Night available 🥰