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Instagram live chat—just catching up and sharing all of my latest updates on covers, upcoming series, signings, and so on! https://www.instagram.com/tv/Cn0T3OdIKlH/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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The new editions of my Bargainer series are now officially out! You should be able to find these versions at your local bookstores or online! They are honestly so stunning. I’ll try to hop online soon to show off what they look like since I have a box of them! These books are also re-edited and Rhapsodic has an extended climax and The Emperor of Evening Stars has an added spicy scene. 🤭🔥 https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn0AwuCy2G8/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Just formatting the ebook of Bewitched and I wanted to share a small snippet with you! 🖤 I can’t tell you how much I love these two. I can’t wait for you all to get to meet them—release day is April 18! I’m going to be sending out ARCs in another few weeks. If you’re interested, make sure to join my reader group on Facebook (Laura Thalassa’s Reader Group). Joining doesn’t guarantee you’ll get an early copy, but that’s where I pick readers! https://www.instagram.com/p/CnnZNsyvGw5/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Pestilence artwork by the wildly talented @kd_ritchie! How jawdroppingly stunning is this image of Pestilence and Sara? KD has also made artwork for my upcoming book, Bewitched, and I can’t wait to share that one with you once we get closer to the release date! https://www.instagram.com/p/CnfJfEZPf_u/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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It’s release day for the UK editions of my Bargainer series! Thank you to @hodderscape for all the love they’ve given these books! You can now order the series from you UK bookstores! The books are the same versions as the new US ones, and I’m going to use this as an excuse to squeal all over again at the new cover! Lastly— Make a deal if you dare because the King of the Night always collects his debts … https://www.instagram.com/p/CnPqUsVvXl6/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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2023 Book Schedule It feels like ages since I’ve sat down at my desk, but I’m finally back! And, as promised, here’s a bit about what’s going on this year: I’ll be releasing Bewitched, the first book in a new paranormal romance series, on April 18, 2023. This book is already complete—at the moment I believe copies of it are getting printed for its spring release. To be honest, these are totally new waters I’m navigating—to have a traditional publisher handle the print books. But I am excited to be able to release the e-book, print book, and the audiobook all on the same day, so hurrah to that! And Bewitched will be in Kindle Unlimited, for those of you who are members. I’m now working on the second book in my Bewitched series, along with the novella that will come between books one and two. I’m tentatively planning on that novella to be released fall/winter of this year, though that is a guestimate. It will release before book two in the series, which is set to come out spring of 2024. What else is going on? Well, I have some plans with a couple different book boxes, one of which is my Fallen World series. That will go on sale on January 13. I’ve seen some of the artwork already and it is so stunning. As far as author events go, I will be attending Book Bonanza in June. I don’t know if I’ll be doing any signings around Bewitched’s release, but I will definitely try to set a couple up in California. Oh, and I’m going to really, truly try to be on here more. Last year I just couldn’t swing social media, but this is a new year and I’m excited to change that. I’m terrible at all of it—I suck at taking pictures, I get even more squeamish about selfies, and I always panic at the last minute because I feel like I have nothing worth sharing. Oh, and my posts are usually speckled with errors. Buuuuut, I’m still gonna try to be more present online! Because besides my own updates, I have a million book recs I want to gush about, and I want to share more teasers and host more giveaways and have live chats with you all, so I hope you’ll hang out with me and maybe hold my hand if I’m a little rusty at this. Big hugs, happy reading, and happy new year! https://www.instagram.com/p/Cm9zkMkSSeF/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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This is a picture of my kids running away from me after I tried to get them to smile for a picture. Ingrates. Swipe for evidence of them fleeing-slash-leading me to their respective castles. Apparently they each have one on this side of the bridge. They’ve been holding out on me with these vacation properties. In case it isn’t obvious, I’ve been out of the office for the holidays, so if I’m quiet on here, this is why. The older I get, and the longer I’m in this career, the more I realize I need times like these to turn off my writer brain and just exist in the moment for a bit. And now for that grand old wrap up. 2022 taught me that sometimes you have to make your circle small when it comes to what you can accomplish. I think this year I was overstimulated, overdrawn, and a little too emotionally vulnerable to the opinions of strangers. 🤷🏼‍♀️ It happens, and I’m a people pleasure, so it’s a hard habit to break. But, this year brought me so much personal growth, the biggest of which is realizing I have agency over everything in my life, which, no duh, but *knowing* that is different from *living* that. And for me, taking agency has meant not letting someone else’s bad mood become mine, not playing the victim to avoid accountability, and not being a doormat or a martyr for the sake of politeness, peer pressure, or some societal construct. Actually, overall this year has been me taking agency in my own personal growth. Which—and this won’t come as a shock to those of you who’ve been doing this for a while—is freaking HARD work. That all being said, I can’t wait for all the excitement (and books!) the next year will bring. I’ll post more soon on my 2023 schedule and all things book related, but until then, have a great rest of your year! https://www.instagram.com/p/CmvgV5vu0e6/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Merry Christmas from my family to you and yours! My mom took this photo using my new Xmas present! I think Polaroids are very forgiving when it comes to bad photographers (which I am), so I’m so excited to give this one more of a spin. I hope you all have had a wonderful day full of love and joy! And regardless, I’m sending you all my love and well wishes! Happy holidays! https://www.instagram.com/p/CmnPsw3J2Ob/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Hi all! This Sunday at 7 p.m. EST I will be doing a Talk Shop Live chat with Piper CJ and Emily McIntire! There will be signed copies of my books and we’ll be chatting about all things romance and chatting with you all! You can check out the event here: https://talkshop.live/watch/8v36yie716DD I hope to see you there! ❤️ https://www.instagram.com/p/ClRoGoQSISF/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Hey, to all the readers asking about why The Vanishing Girl and The Decaying Empire are not on Amazon, thank you all for reaching out to me. I’ve been working to get my rights back on this series, which was owned by one of Amazon’s old publishing imprints. I’d been in limbo with them over the last few months, but it looks like they decided to take the titles down. What does that mean? Well, I’ll need to double check with Amazon that I officially have my rights back, but once I get confirmation, I’ll get the books back up on the site. Please be patient with me as I work to reformat the books and cover/re-cover them. I‘lol have more info as I go along, but I wanted to let you all know what was going on! https://www.instagram.com/p/CilVaywvd8-/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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I promised you all a Bewitched teaser, and while I have a bigger one coming your way, I thought I'd leave you a small one for now! Add Bewitched to your "To Read" list here: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60225993-bewitched https://www.instagram.com/p/CidhhXCvQNe/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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I promised you all a Bewitched teaser, and while I have a bigger one coming your way, I thought I'd leave you a small one for now! Add Bewitched to your "To Read" list here: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60225993-bewitched https://www.instagram.com/p/CidgkuhPGo3/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Cover re-reveal day! I'm beyond excited to get to share the new covers for my Bargainer series! Fangirlish has exclusively revealed the new covers for the entire series and you can see them here: https://fangirlish.com/2022/09/03/cover-reveal-laura-thalassas-bargainer-series/ Bloom’s new covers will replace the old ones over the next few months. I will be taking down The Bargainer omnibus in the near future as well, so this is your official notice! I've had a few people ask how different the books will be now that they've been edited, and though I've made a lot of tweaks to the writing, the series will read nearly the same, so if you've read it before, you won't need to read it again. But I mean, if you *want* to, who am I to stop you? Hehe. Now that Bloom owns the series, it will be available on all platforms--including Nook and Apple (links below). So if you or someone you know has wanted to read the series but has been unable to, that's about to change! I hope you all love the new covers as much as I do. The originals will always hold a special place in my heart, but I am enamored with the redesign! Rhapsodic Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BCX4F7NG Nook: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/rhapsodic-laura-thalassa/1125351634?ean=9781728272917 Apple: https://books.apple.com/us/book/rhapsodic/id6443356361 https://www.instagram.com/p/CiD20IcPU3Q/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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I’ve been keeping a teeny tiny secret from you all. Over the last six months, @read_bloom has taken over my Bargainer series and helped me edit and polish Des and Callie’s story. And … they’re re-covering it! I’m so excited to share the new cover of Rhapsodic with you all this Saturday, but for now, I’m going to tease you with this little glimpse! https://www.instagram.com/p/Ch7_18Rv9n8/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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So excited to announce that I’ll be at Book Bonanza next year! Hope to see you! 🖤 https://www.instagram.com/p/ChNVECNpYqL/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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I’m so excited to finally reveal the cover of Bewitched, designed by the amazingly talented KD Ritchie of Story Wrappers | Custom Book Cover Design! I can’t believe I finally get to share this cover with you! I've been sitting on this one for over a year, and when I tell you it's been hard not to share this one early ... I really mean it! I think I gasped when I first saw the cover. Bewitched is the first of three books (plus two novellas). It takes place back in the same world as my Bargainer series and my Unearthly series. (An entirely new set of characters, but they exist in the same shared universe.) Included below is the book's description! I’ve posted an unedited teaser on my website if you want a little sneak peek of what’s to come! I'm tentatively planning on releasing this book around November/December 2022. (But I'm leaning more towards November!) It will be up for pre-order closer to its release date, but until then, you can add Bewitched to your "To Read" list on Goodreads right here: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60225993-bewitched I will also be sending out emails with updates on this book and series, so if you want to stay up to date on it, please consider joining my mailing list (http://eepurl.com/DDpYL) Bewitched Description Come to me, Empress … It was supposed to be a simple magic quest, one that would get a witch like me accepted into Henbane Coven. I was never supposed to survive a plane crash, nor was I supposed to discover an ancient tomb and the beautiful, sleeping man trapped inside it. I knew you would come, my queen. I knew it wasn’t true. It couldn’t be. A love like ours defies everything. I am yours forever … I definitely wasn’t supposed to wake Memnon the Cursed. I probably shouldn’t have kissed him either. You were my everything, and you betrayed me … Now I fear I’ve unleashed an ancient evil on the world, one who has set his wicked sights on me. And despite his good looks and the beguiling pull of his magic, this terrifying supernatural thinks I’m some long-dead wife who betrayed him, and as payback, he’s determined to take every last thing I care about from me—my heart included. Unless I stop him first. https://www.instagram.com/p/CfcU8-hPSlU/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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So, it has come to my attention that I have a lot of updates to tell you all about, and I have mentioned a peep about any of them. Well, maybe a peep, but not much more. In general this year I’ve had so much less time to do all the writing things, so I’ve committed myself to doing them and sacrificing a lot of my social media presence (which is where I place all my updates). Getting off of social media has done amazing things for me, but I also love chatting with you all and getting excited about all my upcoming projects. The biggest one is the first book in my upcoming series, Bewitched. Bewitched is takes place in the same shared world as my Bargainer series and my Unearthly series, though it has totally new characters! It has witches, curses, ancient evil, romance, spice, and murder! I’m in love with this book. I’m just about to finish the first draft, and then I will go back and do edits … or work on the novella that will follow it. Did I mention there are going to be three books and two novellas in this series? And all of them are about Selene Bowers and Memnon the Cursed (versus a new character in each book). In the coming weeks I’ll be sharing teasers and months I’ll be sharing teasers with you, but for now … who wants a cover reveal? (Psst, it’s a rhetorical question—it’s going to happen sometime next week. I cannot fricking wait! Hope you’re half as excited about it as I am. I’ve been sitting on this cover for a year and the secrecy has practically killed me.) Oh, any questions you have about the book, release date, etc. please post it below! If I know the answer and can share it, I’d love to! Oh, and that’s my car. She has nothing to do with this post except to make it cuter. ❤️ https://www.instagram.com/p/CfMtmqlv8q6/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=