🌺Hello, From Xanthe Walter
23rd September 2025
Greetings, my lovelies!
In this newsletter:
- I come bearing a very special gift. If you’ve been reading my Dark Water series, you’ll love this ❤️.
- Dark Water has been an amazing experience, but the one thing I kept being asked for was ‘an entire novel of Alex and Josiah just being happy’.
- I can understand why. Those poor broken boys do go through A LOT in this series.
- So, I’ve written a 21,000 word novella that’s just that.
- It’s called Safe Harbour, it’s exclusive to Walter’s World members ONLY (that’s you!), and you can find it by clicking the link below.
- WARNING – IT’LL MAKE NO SENSE IF YOU HAVEN’T READ THE ENTIRE DARK WATER SERIES! So don’t skip ahead – read them first!
- Dark Water has been such an amazing success I still can’t believe it. During its recent free promotion, Crocodile Tears was number one in LGBTQ Mystery, LGBTQ Sci-Fi, and Gay Romance and reached number 104 in the ENTIRE free Kindle store.
- As my list besties, can I ask you a small favour? If you’ve enjoyed this series, please recommend it to other MM Romance loving friends. I’d love Dark Water to reach as many readers as possible.
- And if you could also leave a review on Amazon and post about the series on social media, that would be awesome too! Remember to tag me into your social media posts! @xanthewalter.
- If you haven’t seen the videos we made to go with the series then head on over to my Instagram, Tiktok and Facebook accounts and check them out.
- If you’ve loved the books, you’ll love some of the videos and trailers we made to go with them. We’re fandom girls so we love making fannish things!
- APOLOGY!!! In my recent welcome sequence, I gave the wrong link to where people can download their FREE stuff. So I’ve created an EXCLUSIVE GIFTS section which I’ll include in all my newsletters going forward, with ALL the links. See below!
In Other News…
- Would you like to join my Street Team? If you’ve enjoyed Dark Water, and are active on social media, I’m looking to expand my street team.
- All you’ll be required to do is to repost/share/engage with my social media content. If you feel confident enough to create your own, that’s a bonus! Sign up here.
MM Romance Roundup:
- The featured author in this newsletter is Steven A. Coulter with Copperhead 2, which one reviewer described as “a great read, hard to put down, keeping me up late.”
- There’s the usual fabulous selection of themed MM book fairs and sales promos for you to enjoy ❤️.
Safe Harbour
What does ‘happily ever after’ look like for two men who’ve been through hell and high water to earn their happy ending?
You asked for schmoop and spice, so here it is – 21,000 words of it!
Enjoy this Dark Water bonus novella from Xanthe Walter, exclusive to Walter’s World mailing list members.
WARNING: ONLY READ THIS NOVELLA IF YOU’VE READ ALL FOUR OF THE DARK WATER BOOKS. IT WON’T MAKE SENSE OTHERWISE AND IT’LL SPOIL YOU!
🎁 Exclusive Gifts!
As a member of Walter’s World, you have access to a whole array of FREE goodies!
📚 Exclusive Story Content
• Dark Water bonus novella Safe Harbour
• FREE gay BDSM pirate novella A Willing Lad
• The Worlds of Xanthe Walter chapter sampler.
🎵 Multimedia Extras
• Curated Spotify playlists
• Ashton’s complete song from Ghost Eye
• Alex’s photo stash from The Lost Zone
🗺️ World-Building Deep Dives
• Flood map showing London’s lost zones
• The Daily Lowdown – a fully designed news site with headlines from Elliot Dacre’s murder
👥 Join Me On Social Media
You can find me on Instagram, Tiktok, Facebook, Goodreads, Bookbub, X, Bluesky, and Threads – and don’t forget to join my friendly Facebook group, Xanthology! All my links are on my Linktree.
👨💻👩💻Do You Want To Be On My ARC Team?!
As an ARC (Advance Reader Copy) member, you’ll get a free copy of my upcoming books, in eBook or audiobook form (your choice) before they are officially released. In return, you will be expected to leave an honest review on sites like Amazon and Goodreads. This is important, so please only apply if you can do this. Find out more by clicking on the link below.
👋 That’s All, Folks!
Until next time, my lovelies!
XOXO
Xanthe
PS Remember to download The Worlds of Xanthe Walter to read the first two chapters of Crocodile Tears!
