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Faded pink image of a woman. Text is an excerpt from How Not to Pursue Your Human Perfectionist. Reads: ““You don’t have to explain right now. Or ever. We just… want a chance.” She swallowed. “And… we’d do this together? All of us?””

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February 14, 2026 at 2:45 PM

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December 16, 2025 at 11:35 PM

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A. K. Caggiano

@akcaggiano.bsky.social

⚔️ HOW NOT TO WOO YOUR HUMAN WARRIOR ⚔️

Falling for Demons - Book 3 - by
@authorlaurawinter.bsky.social

She's here! Prepare to explore more of the world and characters you only got brief glimpses of in Court and Charm, and fall in love all over again this time with a spicy human and a spiky demon!

December 4, 2025 at 1:12 PM

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A. K. Caggiano

@akcaggiano.bsky.social

How Not To Woo Your Human Warrior by @authorlaurawinter.bsky.social will be here tomorrow!
⚔️Angry x angrier dynamic where they constantly rile each other up
🫂A cutsie found family of lovable dummies
🧠The breath of fresh air MMC who's got brains and brawn in equal parts
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How Not to Woo Your Human Warrior

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December 3, 2025 at 2:58 PM

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C.L. Cannon, USA Today Bestselling Author

@clcannonauthor.bsky.social

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November 28, 2025 at 5:50 AM

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A. K. Caggiano

@akcaggiano.bsky.social

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November 26, 2025 at 2:00 PM

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A. K. Caggiano

@akcaggiano.bsky.social

📖Blurb Time📖

⚔️Book 3: How Not to Woo Your Human Warrior
💚@authorlaurawinter.bsky.social
💜Eyes forward, sword up, heart true
💚Releases December 4th, 2025

💌Book 4: How Not to Tame Your Human Tease
🩶@akcaggiano.bsky.social
💛Sugar and spice and everything naughty
🩶Releases December 11th, 2025

How Not to Woo Your Human Warrior Blurb: Eyes forward, sword up, heart true.

Kalypso has a long list of things to be angry about, starting and ending with a spiky purple demon who reluctantly rescued her and five other women from the Dreadmoor. Trapped in the demon realm, Ozirax is the final barrier standing between her and her sister, so she’ll play nice for now. The only issue is… she’s never been nice, and when she drives away the one person she’s dedicated her life to, Kalypso is left without a purpose. Until she finds a demon warrior whose simmering anger calls to her own.

On the cusp of promotion in the demon guard, it must be a cruel joke from the gods that Ozirax ends up saddled with the rage-filled human woman. Kalypso is stubborn, vicious, and unafraid—the kind of distraction he doesn’t need—but she holds the key to his rise in rank. Work together, keep her in line, and the captain’s position is his. But there’s a cunning mind behind the spicy human fighting him at every turn with fists and blunt teeth, and with danger lurking in the Dreadmoor, she might be the very warrior their realm needs.

They’ve found their match, a mirror to the anger burning within. Kalypso has shown her colors, sharpened her defenses, but Ozirax is filling in the cracks of her broken pieces, and she’s not sure how to separate them again. Love has always been her weakness, but loving a demon? It might very well be her downfall.

The world has taught them to flare their spikes, but when passion blurs the lines of fury, can they walk away with their hearts intact?

How Not to Tame your Human Tease Blurb: Sugar and spice and everything naughty.

A sunless city, a magical boundary, a demon around every corner—what could be better? Nothing, if you ask bright, bubbly Brioni. In fact, being trapped in the demon realm and assigned a letter carrier position might be the best thing that’s ever happened to her, even if she is one of only six humans in the entire town. Except there’s still something missing. Something that makes her feel truly wanted. Something that’s all hers and is maybe a little…deviant. The guilt of her past life and the strain of her new one have her seeking relief that she’s sure only the gruffest, grumpiest, growliest demon can give her.

Meet Ragnar—gruff, grumpy, growly, and gray. His magic and color were lost long ago, and with them went his civility. Self-sequestered to the outskirts of his homeland, the city’s resident beastkeeper would much rather spend his time taming ferocious animals than dealing with his fellow demons. Good thing Brioni isn’t a demon because she wants to be dealt with—in fact, she insists.

Brioni is sugary sweet and endlessly frustrating—everything Ragnar is looking for in a mate. She needles him and causes mischief, and Ragnar can’t seem to get enough of her brattiness, but he also can’t wrap his tail around the fact that her teasing is genuine evidence of infatuation.

Their attraction is instantaneous, and Ragnar would like to give her the punitive satisfaction she keeps hinting at, but at what cost? Will she continue to visit his reclusive corner of the woods after she gets what she wants? Will she know she has a choice once he gives in to his own possessive and domineering desires? Ragnar would rather give her the friendship he also knows she craves than ruin everything by indulging in the monster he believes he is. Brioni, however, is determined to win Ragnar’s heart…and every other part of him, horns included. Because Ragnar lives by one rule: trespassers will be punished.

October 16, 2025 at 9:27 PM

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A. K. Caggiano

@akcaggiano.bsky.social

Falling for Demons - Cover Reveals and Release Dates!

⚔️ HOW NOT TO WOO YOUR HUMAN WARRIOR
Releasing Dec 4th 2025 - @authorlaurawinter.bsky.social

💌 HOW NOT TO TAME YOUR HUMAN TEASE
Releasing Dec 11th 2025 - @akcaggiano.bsky.social

October 15, 2025 at 1:12 PM

Laura Winter - Romantasy Author

@authorlaurawinter.bsky.social

Meet Ozirax & Kalypso

There was a lot of growling and screaming between them in charm, and now you can probably tell why.

Be sure to stop over to @akcaggiano.bsky.social 's page to see the tropes for Ragnar and Brioni in Tease!

Graphic for Falling for demons character tropes for how not to woo your human warrior

Ozirax character tropes over character art: dyslexic, angry, fearless, walking porcupine, tats are runes, bisexual

Kalypso character tropes over character art: dyslexic, angrier, “spicy”, does not trust easily, stubborn, bisexual

October 8, 2025 at 2:39 PM

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A. K. Caggiano

@akcaggiano.bsky.social

😈 Falling for Demons 😈

Meet Brioni and Ragnar. Well, you kind of already did if you’ve read COURT and CHARM, but you haven’t been following along with them yet.

You can check out @authorlaurawinter.bsky.social for Ozirax and Kalypso’s more aggressive (but ultimately sweet) character tropes!

October 8, 2025 at 12:46 PM

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A. K. Caggiano

@akcaggiano.bsky.social

FFD Trope Time!

⚔️How Not to Woo Your Human Warrior
@authorlaurawinter.bsky.social
💚angry x angry
💜reluctant partners
💚spicy bargains
💜he falls first and hard
💚ew, feelings

💌How Not to Tame Your Human Tease - Me
💛grumpy x sunshine
🩶she’s obsessed
💛he’s secretly pining
🩶primal play
💛funishment

October 2, 2025 at 6:01 PM

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A. K. Caggiano

@akcaggiano.bsky.social

🌻HOW NOT THE CHARM YOUR HUMAN COLLEAGUE🌻 by
@authorlaurawinter
is out on audio everywhere today! What a great way to begin October!

rbmediaglobal.com/audiobook/97...

🎧 Sunshine x Sunshine
🎧 MMC with Slutty Lil Glasses
🎧 FMC with Secret Piercings
🎧 Disability Rep
🎧 Knotting and Tail Stuff

October 1, 2025 at 11:21 AM

Laura Winter - Romantasy Author

@authorlaurawinter.bsky.social

Audiobook release day!!!

rbmediaglobal.com/audiobook/97...

Audiobook cover for How Not to Charm Your Human Colleague, black background with blue-green text

October 1, 2025 at 9:53 AM

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A. K. Caggiano

@akcaggiano.bsky.social

💌 HOW NOT TO TAME YOUR HUMAN TEASE 💌

Character art by the wonderful @satmolls.bsky.social (whose commissions are open!)

Go check out @authorlaurawinter.bsky.social for the full character reveal from HOW NOT TO WOO YOUR HUMAN WARRIOR!

September 24, 2025 at 2:49 PM

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Angela Montoya

@angelamontoya.bsky.social

Hi! First official post on here to let you know my 3rd book—CARNIVAL FANTÁSTICO—is available on NetGalley now!

An unputdownable romantasy following a young woman posing as fortune-teller at a magical traveling carnival, where the handsome boy who once broke her heart resurfaces and warns her that c

September 22, 2025 at 6:59 PM

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💫 nova | on vgen! 🔞

@neonstardust.bsky.social

The Boy and The Reference

#ocsky #digitalart

Illustration of an alien man laying down, fingers against his head.

Photo of Peter Steele laying down, fingers against his head.

September 22, 2025 at 8:54 PM

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titsay 𓆏

@titsay.bsky.social

stargazing

September 22, 2025 at 9:15 AM

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A. K. Caggiano

@akcaggiano.bsky.social

💜 THRONE IN THE DARK – ARC Giveaway! 💜

We’re about six weeks out from release, and I’ll be giving away my last two ARCs of THRONE this week, one to a US reader and one to an international reader! The form to enter is at the top of the links page in my bio.

September 22, 2025 at 2:25 PM

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A. K. Caggiano

@akcaggiano.bsky.social

My bff @authorlaurawinter.bsky.social is, as always, lightyears ahead of me, but that means I get to indulge in her books, which is such a gift and a motivational inspiration! She's headed to the Lexington Legendary Book Bash this weekend, and...

September 5, 2025 at 8:07 PM

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A. K. Caggiano

@akcaggiano.bsky.social

When you're secretly just as awkward as your best demon buddy. Interested in the second half of some of the conversations from FFD books 1 & 2? You'll just have to wait for 3 & 4! @authorlaurawinter.bsky.social made some of my drafting and editing extremely easy by writing this scene already 😘

September 8, 2025 at 9:18 PM

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