Emily McIntire > Recent Status Updates

Who wants to read the prologue and first two chapters of Burning Daylight to hold you over until release day?

You can download the sneak peek here: https://dl.bookfunnel.com/xbksg8gw3v

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Heard a rumor that my publisher is running a Goodreads giveaway on Burning Daylight right now *side eyes and runs away*

The voices of Burning Daylight are HERE! 🎙️
Andi Arndt and Aaron Shedlock will be Juliette and Roman in a duet style narration of Burning Daylight.

This audiobook will release in tandem with the paperback and ebook
📅 Releases September 30, 2025
👉 Pre-order the Audiobook: https://geni.us/burningdaylightaudio

Hey friends! I have my "Ask the Author" open today and am answering questions if you have any! :)

Take the Rosebrook Falls Family Loyalty Quiz!

🔥 Two Households. One Feud. 🔥
Calloway or Montgomery?

Welcome to Rosebrook Falls.
Some legacies deserve to burn.

Take the quiz and find out which family claims you: 👉 geni.us/familyquiz

Let me know in the comments whose side you're on!

Burning Daylight Tour!!

Come see me and celebrate the release of Burning Daylight!
geni.us/BDTour

PHOENIX – Sept 30
Bookish Shop
at Higley Center for the Performing Arts

SAN DIEGO – Oct 1
Meet Cute Romance Bookshop
at St. Paul's Cathedral

HUNTINGTON BEACH – Oct 2
Barnes & Noble

SACRAMENTO – Oct 4
Capital Books
at Esquire IMAX Theatre

PORTLAND – Oct 6
Grand Gesture Books
at Alberta Rose Theatre

Burning Daylight Tour
geni.us/BDTour

PHOENIX – Sept 30
Bookish Shop
at Higley Center for the Performing Arts

SAN DIEGO – Oct 1
Meet Cute Romance Bookshop
at St. Paul's Cathedral

HUNTINGTON BEACH – Oct 2
Barnes & Noble

SACRAMENTO – Oct 4
Capital Books
at Esquire IMAX Theatre

PORTLAND – Oct 6
Grand Gesture Books
at Alberta Rose Theatre

Burning Daylight Tour!!
geni.us/BDTour

PHOENIX – Sept 30
Bookish Shop
at Higley Center for the Performing Arts

SAN DIEGO – Oct 1
Meet Cute Romance Bookshop
at St. Paul's Cathedral

HUNTINGTON BEACH – Oct 2
Barnes & Noble

SACRAMENTO – Oct 4
Capital Books
at Esquire IMAX Theatre

PORTLAND – Oct 6
Grand Gesture Books
at Alberta Rose Theatre

🗞️ Just dropped: The Rosebrook Rag’s first official issue
👀 5 secrets. 1 legacy. And a love story that was never part of the plan.

📖 https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...

It's done, baby!

Tropes:
Star-crossed (Modern day Romeo & Juliet)
Rival families
Secret heir
He falls first
Slow burn
Corrupt small town

Microtropes:
Fighting as foreplay
She’s only soft for him (no, she doesn’t want to talk about it)
"You’re annoying. Let’s kiss.”
I hate you (but not really)
Legacy drama
She calls him out. He calls her pretty
Born to hate you, dying to touch you

Last week of my deadline until this baby goes in for the first round of edit!

TITLE REVEAL!!!

What do you get when you mix a corrupt small town, two rival families, and forbidden love?

Burning Daylight (Defying the Stars, Book 1)

-Gritty Contemporary Romance
-Slow burn, Yearning, and Spice
-Corrupt Town with Morally Questionable Characters
-Reimagining of a classic tragic love story
-Happily Ever After

I am soooo excited for you to dive into this new world with me on September 30th!

DEEPLY invested in these characters.

This new series is an interconnected series, and I had forgotten how much fun it is to build out a world I know we'll be in for a while! I'm so excited for you to fall in love with Rosebrook Falls and try to uncover all of its secrets.

It's so fun and also weird to be out of the Never After mindset and building another world entirely. Can't wait to be able to share more about this one *cries dramatically*

Hi, it's fine but we hit #1 on the New York Times Bestseller list and #1 on The Sunday Times in the UK for Hexed. Gonna go cry forever about it.

I'm proofing the final version of the re-vamped Beneath the Stars and why have I cried like three times even though I'm only on page 149 lmaoooo.

Why didn't y'all tell me I made this book so angsty??

Although, tbf it's probably moreso now since there's re-edits and new + extended scenes. STILL. I AM FINE, IT IS FINE.

Do y'all read the character profiles that are put in the back of my print books??

I'm writing new ones right now for... REASONS 👀 and I always wonder who actually enjoys seeing them.

I write them before I write the book as a way to get to know my characters and kind of cement them as "real" in my head.

After that, they start talking so loud it's impossible to get them to shut up lol

Whoops, dropped a Walmart Exclusive with full page character art 😛 Check the review on Hexed from me, or head to my IG to see the art!

(IG: http://instagram.com/itsemilymcintire/)


https://geni.us/Hexedwalmart

Doing my last read through of the final formatted pages of Hexed before it goes to printing and omg y’all I am genuinely so excited for you to get this book 🤣

I really think they're the most romantic couple I have ever written. If you saw my Day in the life TikTok yesterday, you saw me CRYING while reading which is honestly just so on brand for me lmao

Anyway, is it Nov 5th yet? *crying again*

Did you see the secret I've been keeping? *Side eyes aggressively*

Before Never After, there was Sugarlake...

https://www.instagram.com/p/C-XqI2YAH...

Hey, McCulties!

Have you read Hooked yet?

If not, dropping this free sample for you!

You can opt in to join my newsletter, but you don't have to. (I recommend it though because I give first looks, giveaways, and general rambles about my life)

https://dl.bookfunnel.com/91s1i4z7ks

Hey, McCulties!

My very first book baby, Beneath the Stars is a Prime Daily Deal for only $0.99!

Beneath the Stars is a gritty, contemporary romance and the first interconnected standalone in a series that follows a group of friends. It is NOT dark romance!

You can grab it here if you want it! https://geni.us/btstars

Read the prologue here: https://dl.bookfunnel.com/muefzswh07

Final manuscript of Hexed is turned in and with my editor which means I'm officially done writing the Never After Series.

*cries*

(Don't worry, I have so much more coming for you beyond it)

I can't wait for you to read Venesa and Enzo's story!

https://geni.us/Hexed

Did you see the cover and blurb reveal??? *side eye*

Going through final copy edits for this baby, and she's thickkkk coming in at just over 135,000 words.

You can pre-order now from your fave retailer! (Barnes & Noble Exclusive Edition is alternate purple cover w/ seashell foil detail) - Use code BLOOM25 if ordering on B&N!

Hexed Trope Reveal!

-Female Villain + Antihero = True Love
-Forbidden... He's engaged to someone else
-Touch her & Die/Touch him & Die
-He falls first
-Mafia
-Forced Proximity
-Slow Burn

https://geni.us/NeverAfterBook6

HEXED is with my editor for its first round of edits!

Give me a cookie for hitting my deadline, please *SCREAMS*

There's three rounds of edits, beta reads, sensitivity reads, etc. so it's not done til it's DONE but I am so excited for you to get this book!

This couple is everything. And when I tell you Hexed is going to be THICC? It's at 125K before developmental edits, so who knows where we'll wind up. OK BYE!

TITLE REVEAL DAY!!!

Anyone want an exclusive sneak peek excerpt from Cosmo?? *side eyes*

https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertai...

I'm at 80,000 words! HUZZAH! This book is definitely a slow burn so get ready for it, and as far as how it's falling on the "dark" scale (which is very much subjective and dependent on how a person engages individually) it's feeling similar to Hooked.

Also, the way their love story is unfolding? It's just so pure and makes me giddy, idk how to explain it lmao

P.S. - A birdie told me to keep an eye out this week

WORD COUNT UPDATE: 65,000

My MC's are making me SWOON!

Their connection feels so raw & real to me. There's an impatience I'm feeling whenever I'm *not* writing them, almost a sense of urgency to hurry back to their world so I can be in their heads and have that butterfly in your stomach, can't help but grin when you think about them type of feeling.

Can't wait until you meet them! *cries in impatience*