Brigitte Winter
Brigitte Winter is a novelist writing fabulist fiction about your favorite monster ex-girlfriends. She also writes narrative games, poetry, and short fiction. The capacity of storytelling to connect, inspire, and incite is central to Brigitte’s art and her activism, and she makes art that is queer, feminist, intimate, and deliciously weird. Her writing has appeared in PodCastle, City of Weird: 30 Otherworldly Portland Tales, New Year, New You: A Speculative Anthology of Reinvention, and Yellow Arrow. She was a 2023 Dicebreaker Tabletop Awards Finalist for Designer of the Year and a 2024 PNWA Literary Awards Finalist. Her game, Psychic Trash Detectives, won the 2024 CRIT Award for Best Indie TTRPG and Best Cover Art. She is a 2023 alumna of Viable Paradise and a member of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association and the Horror Writers Association. Brigitte lives in Maryland with her partner and six rescue animals.
The Normal Monster Club
In this cozy sapphic horror romance set in a cryptid-obsessed small town, two exes–a paranormal podcaster and a stubborn skeptic–must reunite to save a missing child while investigating an unsolved mystery from their childhood.
When Em was thirteen, she started a paranormal investigation club with her best friends Sid and June in her small hometown of Normal. The club dissolved, along with Em and Sid’s budding romance, when June turned up dead and became Normal’s latest unsolved mystery. Em accepted June’s death as a tragic accident, but Sid was bullied for insisting that June was killed by the Normal Monster, the town’s local cryptid. Sid eventually left town, penning a monster memoir that became a cult hit. Em settled down with her high school boyfriend while the town capitalized on Sid’s book by growing an economy around monster tourism.
Seventeen years later, brash, freewheeling Sid returns to Normal to produce a podcast about the monster and prove herself to the community that exiled her. Cautious, reserved Em just wants Sid to leave town and stop wreaking havoc on her carefully curated life. But when another child goes missing, Em and Sid must confront their guilt over June’s death, and their lingering feelings for one another, as they join forces to find him.
When buried secrets and monsters surface with the summer cicadas, will Em and Sid learn to love their own monstrousness before the past repeats itself?
Publication
US: Generous Press
Release date: April 2027
