Heartlanders Rebrand!

Author and Comedian Kelsey Humphreys has announced the rebrand of her wildly popular Heartlander series from low-spice to no spice.

Humphreys wrote to her readers ___

"I have good news and maybe bad news. The good—nay, great—news is I have mapped out the whole next series after Juniper Falls! What?! A four book series that is going to be so hilarious and swoony and perfect and I want to give you a hint but I can't yet...🤠...Eeeek you're going to love it. Trust me. 

The bad news, which some would say is not bad news at all, is that from now on all my books, old and new, will be CLOSED DOOR romances.

I know I will get some heat for this, pun intended, and it is a big bummer for some of you and I truly get it. I read spicy books. I wrote spicy books! 

So why the change?

It aligns better with who I am personally and professionally. In real life, I don't cuss much, if ever. As a comedian, I have a clean stand up set, no cursing, no dirty jokes. But then my books didn't match my set. I had some opportunities pop up, and the two were in conflict with each other. I felt like I was like I was trying to be two things at once, my books were never quite spicy enough for booktok, but they were too spicy for a huge part of my comedy audience.

Also, closed door romance—not sweet or clean or Christian romance, by the way, just closed door—seems like a dying art, all the big names who wrote amazing, gritty, steamy closed door romcoms have started adding spice, Emily Henry, Abby Jiminez, Sarah Adams. And then each book gets spicier. This happened to me as a writer and I didn't even realize it. 

What exactly is changing? Not much.

I've edited most of my existing books and it's a minimal edit because my books are based in characters and relationship growth. They were already very slow burns anyway. You get the same amazing chemistry and banter, but I took the descriptive sex off the page and I removed the F bombs. There are still other "cuss words."

...I laughed SO hard when talking about this with my assistant because she agreed, what adult female in their 30s says "butt" and not "ass"? Literally no one. No one says butt. Why is the word butt so funny? 🍑 I am, as always with six kids, very tired, so maybe it's just me." ___

Humphreys made the announcement via email and on her Instagram account. All of her books in all three series will get updated covers and new files.

If you already have the kindle book or audio book downloaded, it will not change unless you delete it and re-download it. The audio books are being edited and will be re-released as well. Specific release dates are TBD.