ERIN HALBMAIER

Erin Halbmaier writes clean, no-spice romantasy fairy tale retellings with magic and a dash of adventure


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  • The Strength to Fight

    Today is Femme Audio Takeover day! Female audiobook narrators across social media will be posting scenes with strong female characters. I actually submitted two to @emmafayeactor because I couldn’t make up my mind and decided to let her choose.😂 The criteria for submissions: “Ideally, we want to highlight scenes where the femme character is asserting/reclaiming

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  • One in a million

    It’s supposed to be the stress-relieving, ultra-comfort activity for women, but I hate shopping. And clothes shopping is the worst. I suppose it’s possible that I would enjoy it more if stores carried things I like. If I walked into the store and found an entire section of clothes in my favorite colors, prints that

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  • “If she had been in his boots, she would already have given herself a sleeping draught, tossed her unconscious body over the horse’s withers, and ridden as fast as possible just to get it over with.” If you subscribe to the newsletter, you’ve heard me mention the next story in the series. It’s been less

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  • I’ve given out a lot of copies of my prequel, Night of Dance, lately. Perhaps you’re one of the amazing people who decided to take a chance on my stories. If you loved the start of Michael and Ella’s story and you’re wondering which one of my books to jump into next, I hope this

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  • The Lost Kerchiefs

    I probably should have posted this sooner…but I’m not in the habit of blogging. 😜 I should try to fix that! So, I decided to participate in something called The Arista Challenge this year. For this, the organizer chooses a fairytale, and then everyone who participates writes a retelling of that fairytale. The stories are

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  • Romantasy Deals, Update

    It’s the last day of February, that once-every-four-years extra day. If you’re Frederic from The Pirates of Penzance, you’re one birthday closer to being free of your indenture! Yes, that was a music joke. I was one of the daughters my senior year in college – Gilbert and Sullivan is always so much fun. 😜 Free books Who

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  • Good morning! I don’t know where you live, but here, it’s threatening snow again. My kids have a two-hour delay for school…and they’ve already had three snow days in the last week. They still might have one today. Naturally, my kids think it would be great if they do! I remember those days – looking

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  • Happy New Year! It’s the time when everyone comes up with a list of things they want to change about themselves, hoping that this will be the year they maintain their goals past the first month or two. Some people succeed. Some…don’t. Last year, I was going to finish the score and mock-up of my

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  • October Newsletter

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