Erin Bartels
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Erin Bartels

Erin Bartels writes character-driven fiction for curious people. Her readers know to expect that each of her novels will tell a unique story about fallible characters so fully realized that it's hard to believe they are not real people. Whether urban, rural, or somewhere in between, her settings come alive with carefully crafted details that engage all the senses and transport the reader to a singular time and place. And her themes of reckoning with the past, improving the present, and looking with hope to the future leave her readers with a sense of peace and possibility.

Erin is the award-winning author of We Hope for Better Things, The Words between Us, All That We Carried, The Girl Who Could Breathe Under Water, and Everything Is Just Beginning. A two-time Christy finalist and winner of two 2020 WFWA Star Awards and the 2020 Michigan Notable Book Award, Erin has been a publishing professional for more than twenty years. She lives in Lansing, Michigan, nestled somewhere between angry protesters on the Capitol lawn and couch-burning, beer-ponging frat boys at Michigan State University. And yet, she claims it is rather peaceful.

You can find her online at www.erinbartels.com, on Facebook @ErinBartelsAuthor, and on Instagram @erinbartelswrites. You won't find her on Twitter because that place is a cesspool of negativity.


Books by Erin Bartels

  1. Everything Is Just Beginning
    Paperback

    Everything Is Just Beginning

    Jan 2023
  2. Everything Is Just Beginning
    E-Book

    Everything Is Just Beginning

    Jan 2023
  3. The Girl Who Could Breathe Under Water
    Paperback

    The Girl Who Could Breathe Under Water

    Jan 2022
  4. The Girl Who Could Breathe Under Water
    E-Book

    The Girl Who Could Breathe Under Water

    Jan 2022
  5. All That We Carried
    Paperback

    All That We Carried

    Jan 2021
  6. All That We Carried
    E-Book

    All That We Carried

    Jan 2021
  7. The Words between Us
    Paperback

    The Words between Us

    Sep 2019
  8. The Words between Us
    E-Book

    The Words between Us

    Sep 2019
  9. We Hope for Better Things
    Paperback

    We Hope for Better Things

    Jan 2019
  10. We Hope for Better Things
    E-Book

    We Hope for Better Things

    Jan 2019