{"id":35445,"date":"2026-01-04T10:09:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T16:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/?p=35445"},"modified":"2025-10-05T14:13:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T19:13:14","slug":"wotr26-authorinterview-raine-winters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/?p=35445","title":{"rendered":"#WOTR26 #authorinterview &#8211; Raine Winters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WOTR26banner.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-35088\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WOTR26banner.jpg?resize=300%2C157\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WOTR26banner.jpg?resize=300%2C157 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WOTR26banner.jpg?resize=1024%2C536 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WOTR26banner.jpg?resize=768%2C402 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WOTR26banner.jpg?w=1200 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WOTR26banner.jpg?w=948 948w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Raine-Winters.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-35446\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Raine-Winters.jpg?resize=300%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Raine-Winters.jpg?resize=300%2C300 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Raine-Winters.jpg?resize=150%2C150 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Raine-Winters.jpg?w=450 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>#WOTR26 Author Interviews<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tell us your name and then a bit about yourself.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Raine Winters. I am a contemporary romance and fantasy author from the Midwest. Writing is my passion. When I&#8217;m not writing, I spend my down time with my husband and two corgis either hiking, kayaking, or biking. (And yes we do take the corgis with us everywhere we can) <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>How did you hear about this event?\u00a0 How many years have you attended?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-sheets-root=\"1\">I&#8217;ve been following the event for two years, but this is my first opportunity to attend!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>What genres do you write?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-sheets-root=\"1\"> contemporary romance and fantasy<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is a book of yours you wish more people read?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-sheets-root=\"1\">This one is hard. I&#8217;m really torn between Whirlwind Redemption and Starlit Whispers. These two novels are really where I got my feet under me as an author, and I think it shows. The two siblings in these books are my heart. They challenged me at every turn, and they pushed me to think of things a way I never have before (Raven I&#8217;m looking at you).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is one fun fact about you?\u00a0 It can be anything like food allergy, fear of something, weird way you broke a bone&#8230;&#8230;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-sheets-root=\"1\">I once tried hiking without coffee first. Never again. I still have emotional damage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are your social links?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-sheets-root=\"1\">insta, facebook, &amp; tiktok: @rainewintersbooks<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are your buy links?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Raine Winters\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"474\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen style=\"max-width:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.com\/kp\/card?preview=inline&#038;linkCode=kpd&#038;ref_=k4w_oembed_ZyUJqXGTsSeIGi&#038;asin=B0C8JMSB11&#038;tag=kpembed-20\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#WOTR26 Author Interviews Tell us your name and then a bit about yourself. Raine Winters. I am a contemporary romance and fantasy author from the Midwest. Writing is my passion. When I&#8217;m not writing, I spend my down time with my husband and two corgis either hiking, kayaking, or biking. (And yes we do take &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/?p=35445\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">#WOTR26 #authorinterview &#8211; Raine Winters<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paSW8H-9dH","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WOTR26banner.jpg?fit=1200%2C628","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35447,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35445\/revisions\/35447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}