Category: Announcements

• Magic Like Fire Title Reveal!

  Y’all, I am so excited to finally share the title for my YA fantasy debut! Magic Like Fire will release this coming spring from Nightshade Publishing. While you’ll have to wait for more details, like the full blurb, you’ll probably like it if you’re a fan of these tropes: -sibling dynamics-dangerous nobility-deadly magic-a sassy talking…

  Hailey Huntington

  January 7, 2026

  Announcements, Writing

  2026, Author, debut, Fantasy, Magic Like Fire, Nightshade Publishing, Spring 2026, standalone, title reveal, Writing life, YA

• Welcome 2026

  Happy New Year! Do you have any goals for 2026? This year will be a busy bookish year for me—I’ll be launching my debut novel! And to kick things off, the title reveal is next week! Be sure to check in January 7th to find out the title! I’m so excited to be able to…

  Hailey Huntington

  January 1, 2026

  Announcements, Updates, Writing life

  2026 Book Release, writing goals

• I Signed a Book Contract!

  After dreaming about signing a book contract for years, this moment is a little surreal. But, yes, I signed a book contract for my YA fantasy novel with Nightshade Publishing! I queried Nightshade after meeting with them at Realm Makers last year, and here we are now, with a signed contract. Some of you have been around…

  Hailey Huntington

  March 1, 2025

  Announcements, publishing, Writing life

  2026 Book Release, 2026 Books, Author, Book Contract, Contract, Contracted Author, My Books, my writing journey, Nightshade Publishing, Published Author, publishing, Writing life, YA Fantasy

• Cover Reveal!

  I’m super excited to share the cover for Creatures, Crowns, and Curses today! I am honored to have my short story, “Voiceless,” in this anthology. Creatures, Crowns, and Curses is edited by Literary Pearl Editing and releasing from Quill and Flame Publishing October 24th. It features eighteen authors and seven artists, and you can preorder…

  Hailey Huntington

  July 30, 2024

  Announcements, Updates, Writing

  anthology, anthology author, cover reveal, fairy tale retelling, fundraising anthology, mermaid, Mermaid story, Mermaids, my stories, Quill & Flame Publishing, short story, The Little Mermaid, Voiceless, writing update

• Anthology e-Book Sale!

  Last July, the Wags, Woofs, and Wonders anthology from the Fellowship of Fantasy released, featuring my short story, “Triple Threat.” To celebrate the anthology’s book birthday, the e-book of Wags, Woofs, and Wonders is $0.99 through the end of July! If you like feel-good, cozy fantasy stories and dogs, you’re bound to enjoy this anthology.…

  Hailey Huntington

  July 25, 2024

  Announcements, Random

  anthology, book birthday, Cerberus, dog stories, dogs, ebook sale, Hades, Hades for the Holidays, Triple Threat, wags woofs and wonders

• Grab your headphones!

  Have you heard? Yes, I’m intending a pun with “heard.” But what is it that you’re supposed to know? That I have a story narrated on the Havok Story Podcast! Ever since I started writing for Havok, I hoped to be featured on the podcast. And to my great honor and surprise, my story “For…

  Hailey Huntington

  August 29, 2023

  Announcements, Updates, Writing, Writing life

  audio story, flash fiction, For Waffles, Havok, Havok Story Podcast, podcast, scifi story, writing announcement, writing news, writing update

• “Perchance to Dream” is out now!

  Ye Olde Dragon Book’s latest fairytale anthology, Perchance to Dream, is now available! Perchance to Dream is a Sleeping Beauty retelling anthology, with seventeen fresh takes on the classic tale. And one of those seventeen stories is written by me! My story, SPINDLE, is a sci-fi spin on Sleeping Beauty, and I’m pretty proud of…

  Hailey Huntington

  May 1, 2023

  Announcements, Writing, Writing life

  anthology, book release, books, fairy tale retelling, fairy tales, Fantasy, my stories, published stories, published story, retelling, Sci-Fi, Sleeping Beauty, SPINDLE, Ye Olde Dragon Books

• “Vice and Virtue” is now available!

  Havok Publishing’s latest anthology releases today! 🥳 The Vice and Virtue anthology features thirty-one of the best stories published during the six-month season, as well as seventeen new stories found only in the anthology! I am honored to have two stories in this anthology. My story Cadenza is one of the thirty-one anthology winners, and…

  Hailey Huntington

  April 29, 2023

  Announcements, Writing

  A Poisonous Beauty, anthology, Cadenza, flash fiction, Havok, Musical, published stories, Snow White, Vice and Virtue

• Big News!!!

  Remember how Dandelion Wishes was a finalist for the Havok Casting Call anthology?  Well. . . *dramatic suspense*  Dandelion Wishes made it into the anthology!!! You guys. I am seriously so excited and so amazed that this little story of mine is going to be in print! It’s going to be in a real book!  When I wrote Dandelion Wishes, I…

  Hailey Huntington

  April 20, 2022

  Announcements

  anthology, Casting Call, character archetypes, Dandelion Wishes, flash fiction, Havok

• I’m Doing NaNoWriMo + A Tiny Bit about My New Book

  I’m doing NaNoWriMo again this year! (If you don’t know what NaNo is, here’s a post I did a couple years ago about it) This will be my fourth NaNoWriMo and my sixth novel. And I’m taking a completely new approach to writing it.  In the past, I have always outlined my novel. My outlines…

  Hailey Huntington

  November 2, 2021

  Announcements, Writing, Writing life

  2021, discovery writer, fairy tale retelling, Irish folk lore, leprechuans, NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month, plotter, Types of Writers, Writers, Writing, Writing life