Today marks the 10th publishing anniversary of the original Winter Jacket. 10 years since that broken classroom heater. 10 years of Ellio and Hunter. Since then, the novel has become a 5-book series and has been masterfully narrated on audiobook by Angela Dawe (we stan a queen).

It’s wild to think about changes that have occurred in the past 10 years. In 2013, same-sex marriage was still decided upon state-by-state in the United States. TikTok didn’t exist (I mean, it still doesn’t exist for me, but I hear that it’s a thing). A giant Cheeto hadn’t resided in the White House yet. It’s even wilder to think about the changes that have occurred in my own life since May 2013. I got married. I moved to Boston. I got my dream job.

I owe so much to Winter Jacket and to YOU who took a chance on a self-published author who has seriously just bumbled her way into publishing close to 25 novels. With tomorrow’s release of Stolen Hearts (Don’t Call Me Hero, book 6), I’ll have officially published 23 novels with many more on the way!

Thank you, thank you, thank you for ten years of support. Thank you for reading and reviewing. Thank you for supporting sapphic literature. Thank you for raising up self-published authors.

Eternally grateful,

Eliza