Laura Huie | busy working on her next standalone

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Fantasy author and reader. A parent of fuzzy and less fuzzy ones. Author of The Thedre Trilogy, The Sunset Sovereign: A Dragon's Memoir, and Honey, I've Leveled the Kids. Find them at: https://linktr.ee/dragonhoarder

eARCs for Our Ways Unmasked are coming in mid-May 🎉 If you'd like to receive a copy, please sign up using the form below ⤵️ (even if you've already signed up—bots flooded the last one). Then comment here when you're done!

Would you like an eARC of Our ways unmasked?Sci-fantasy, hopeful dystopia, horror. Read book 1 first.Comment below this post if you'd like to join my eARC team and please leave a review for 25 June.

Got my yearly guide to using as much Gamelit/Progression Fantasy/LitRPG as possible to complete this year's r/Fantasy reading bingo card! Might do some more guides for indie works in general or YA, but I know I'm weak on more recent YA books.

2026 r/Fantasy Bingo Guide: Progression Fantasy, LitRPG, & Gamelit - Erin Ampersand

If you aren’t aware, every year, the massive r/Fantasy Reddit publishes a reading bingo sheet. https://old.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/1s9n3e6/official_rfantasy_2026_book_bingo_challenge/ If you com...

erinampersand.com

Kind of excited to watch the Artemis II launch (hopefully tonight)! Launching the first lunar mission in 50 years on April Fools Day will probably seem fake to a lot of people, but despite not hearing about this before today, I am pretty sure it is legitimate. :D

Artemis II: NASA’s First Crewed Lunar Flyby in 50 Years - NASA

Meet the Artemis II crew and learn how NASA’s 10-day lunar flyby mission will test deep space systems and pave the way for future Moon landings.

nasa.gov

Check out the cover of Erin Ampersand’s TIME TO PLAY 💥🐢 The start of a rollicking LitRPG series that Matt Dinniman calls “pure gold” in which everyone on Earth is forced to take part in a worldwide survival competition—everyone, including Meghan Moretti and her three kids. Out August 18, 2026!

Text that says: Coming August 18, 2026 

The cover of Erin Ampersand's Time To Play is displayed. 

Background is 'apocalyptic" Picture this: You’re home with your three kids, racing to get soccer uniforms washed ahead of practice when the power shuts off. Your cell phone goes dead. And a voice coming from nowhere and everywhere all at once booms:

Congratulations! Your planet has been selected!

And just like that, Earth becomes the newest unwilling participant in a high-stakes intergalactic game show competition. What that means becomes terrifyingly clear as monsters drop onto the front lawn, an interface appears in your field of vision, and you—and your nine- and six-year-old sons and three-year-old daughter—are each offered a choice of supernatural abilities.

Part of you wants to laugh. Your husband’s away on business, coming home late tonight. Well, he was. But you clamp down on your rising panic. It doesn’t matter how much harder it will be. You’re a mom. Your kids need you; it’s up to you to keep them safe. You can do this.

Then, in quick succession, you discover: 

1) your toddler has unilaterally decided her supernatural power should be for her beloved turtle stuffie to come alive.

 2) every person on Earth will have to fight, no matter their age. You're going to have to teach your kids to stand on their own—and yourself to let them.

This is Meghan Moretti’s morning, and where Erin Ampersand’s rollicking, unputdownable LitRPG adventure series, Apocalypse Parenting, begins.

I am excited to share that the entire Apocalypse Parenting series has been picked up by Tor Books for publication. You’ll be able to find the paperback for Book 1 in physical bookstores on August 18 of this year, simultaneous to the eBook release of Book 5! (Bought myself a sweet hat to celebrate!)

Erin Ampersand in a bedazzled fancy hat that is either a wizard's or a witch's hat. Possibly both!