Get excited: The end is near! (and a Kobo Promo)

an author and her books update

November 10, 2025

It’s November, and the Cozy Season is upon us! (The Cozy Season in my life begins when the clocks roll back an hour as they did a week ago Sunday.) Time to snuggle up with a story and a warm beverage while a fire crackles on my tv screen thanks to YouTube.

It also means that the end of the year is quickly approaching with all of its festivities.

But that’s not the only end in sight! Because I’m so close to done with the first draft of Don’t Tell My Best Friend I Love Her. Just how close to the end am I?

I need to write half a chapter for Fred and Esther’s story, and then, I have to write the Steps Toward a New Beginning chapter that lets us all know who the next couple in the series will be. Any guesses about which Bennett sibling is next? I’m close enough to start making some tentative plans to release the book before the end of the year. (Will I make it before holiday cut-offs from the retailers? I’m working hard to hit that deadline, but… Stay tuned.)

I’ll share details about pre-orders and when I will share the story on Patreon as soon as I have the story completely finished.

So, that’s the future, but in the present, I wanted to let you know about a promotion that Kobo has going on for those who live in the UK, NZ, AU, US, or CA.

Until November 17, 2025, they have a 40% off promotion running, to which I submitted all my Hatfield Falls books.

Click here to go to the Kobo Promotion landing page

Click here to go directly to the Hatfield Falls Series on Kobo

And (as you can see from the graphic) they accepted ALL of them!!

So Books 1-3 are all 40% off until November 17 but you MUST use the promo code NOVEMBER40 at check out to get the discount.

That’s it for my writing and book news for now.

If you’re a YouTube watcher, I am experimenting with creating a series of One Thing I Liked About (a book or movie) videos to see if there is any interest in that sort of thing, to see if I can get comfortable with making short videos (I’m currently very uncomfortable with this lol), to see if I can help the algorithm find more subscribers who love reading for my channel, and to see if I can actually fit making them into my busy schedule. I also hope it helps make me more of a real person in an age where AI is so prevalent. (Yep, that’s a lot of variables to consider — some are more measurable than others.)

If you’d like to see my most recent upload to this list, you can find it here.

Until next time… Happy Reading!

<3 Annilee