Media Kit for Talena Winters

Bios

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One-liners

Heartfelt page-turning novels and faith-filled songs of love, redemption, and hope against all odds.

Talena Winters writes faith-filled songs and page-turning epic mermaid fantasy, romantic women's fiction, and clean contemporary romance novels about love, redemption, and hope against all odds. She would really like to know why the tea is always gone.

Long Biography

Talena Winters writes page-turning stories for teens and adults across genres, including epic mermaid fantasy, small-town romance, women’s fiction, and the occasional cryptid thriller. She’s also an award-winning songwriter whose work spans pop, country, folk, alt-rock, Christian contemporary, and musical theatre—including Queen of Persia, a full-length musical co-written with her long-time friend Candace Marshall.

Beyond fiction and music, Talena has blogged since 2006, run a knitwear design business for fifteen years, and spent several more as the lead writer for Move Up, the Peace Country’s regional magazine. As a freelance editor and copywriter, she’s passionate about helping other writers transform their words into gold. Her clients have gone on to win awards and land literary agents.

Her first novel, the inspirational romance The Friday Night Date Dress, was released just two weeks after the sudden and traumatic loss of her three-year-old son in 2015—an experience that reshaped her outlook on life, love, death, and faith. She poured that refined understanding into her second novel, Finding Heaven, a romantic women’s fiction about a woman recovering from an abusive past. Readers responded with overwhelming praise—Kristin Dyck, editor of Mile Zero News, called it “one of the most beautifully written books I have read.”

Since then, she's launched the young adult epic historical mermaid fantasy series, Rise of the Grigori series. The first book, The Undine’s Tear, has been praised as “un-put-downable” and a “hit out of the fantasy ballpark,” and the second, The Sphinx’s Heart, has received similar glowing reviews.

In 2022, she began publishing the Peace Country Romance series—clean, heartfelt small-town love stories inspired by her adopted hometown and the resilient people she met through Move Up. The following year, she launched the Books and Tea League, a reader community where fans can dive deeper into her worlds and creative process and get early access to her work. She is currently working on upcoming titles in both her fantasy and romance series—and rediscovering her voice in the modern music industry.

Talena lives with her husband, a rotating cast of their three young adult sons, two Husky dogs, and a neurotic orange cat named Aang on an acreage in the Peace Country of northern Alberta. Her writing is fueled by an insatiable passion for stories, dark chocolate, and making the world a better place. And she would really like to know why the tea is always gone.