💚 A New Novella, A Taylor Showdown, and… Another Weasel?

Issue #5 — New Releases, New Votes, and an Exclusive Poem 💚

Welcome back, my favourite readers.

This month’s newsletter has everything: a devastating new novella, a vote that could change literary history (or at least Volume XI of Songs to Stories), and a little poem that may or may not ruin you emotionally. In the best way.

📘 Songs To Stories Volume X: The Silence After is out TODAY—and I mean it when I say this might be my favourite thing I’ve ever written. It’s lyrical, haunting, and healing. It’s inspired by Cassandra and it’s the kind of story that whispers before it roars.

🎶 You’re now officially part of the creative process. Each month, you’ll help choose the song that inspires the next novella. This month? You’re choosing between Don’t Blame Me vs Getaway Car. Vote wisely. Or chaotically. I respect both.

📗 Yes, I’m re-releasing all of my Songs To Stories novellas. Why? Because I’m dramatic, I crave order, and I wanted green spines and my own barcodes. Just call me Taylor Swift in a BookFunnel t-shirt.

💚 And of course—the most important update of all: my 9th favourite animal has officially been named. This list isn’t a joke. It’s a lifestyle. And if you thought we were done with weasels… you were sorely mistaken.

Scroll down for all the chaos, all the feels, and an original poem that might just set your inbox on fire. Let’s go.

The Silence After: Sons to Stories Volume X

OUT TODAY: Songs to Stories Volume X — The Silence After

This is the one I’ve been waiting to share.

Inspired by Cassandra by the incomparable Dr. Taylor Swift, The Silence After is my most personal and powerful novella yet—a haunting, lyrical story about surviving cruelty, breaking cycles, and what it costs to tell the truth when no one wants to hear it.

Cassandra Whitaker grew up in a house that devoured the light. A father gone too soon. A mother turned to stone. A brother who left scars no one wanted to see. She learned early: silence was survival.

But two decades later—after rebuilding her life as bestselling horror novelist Leigh Smith—one message changes everything. The past is calling her back to the town she fled… and to the truths she buried with it.

If you’ve ever held something in for too long, if you’ve ever fought to be heard, if you’ve ever whispered the truth into a void and waited for someone—anyone—to believe you…

This one’s for you.

📚ORDER YOUR COPY OF THE SILENCE AFTER NOW!

📚 Back and Better Than Ever: The Songs to Stories Re-Releases Begin

In a move that can only be described as extremely Taylor Swift of me, I’m re-releasing all of my Songs to Stories novellas. Why? Partially for new formatting, updated content, and refreshed covers…

…but mostly because I wanted custom green spines and my own barcodes.

(We all spiral in our own ways.)

If you missed these stories the first time around—or just want a matching set that looks amazing on your shelf—now’s the perfect time to jump in.

👉The re-release parade begins here.

🎶 You Pick the Song — I Write the Story

Starting now, you get a say in which Taylor Swift song inspires the next Songs to Stories novella.

Each month, you can head over to @the.bananlity.of.britt on Instagram to cast your vote—and the winning song will be revealed on the 21st.

This month, for Volume XI, the choice is yours:

🖤 Don’t Blame Me — dark, desperate, and a little unhinged
💔 Getaway Car — reckless, thrilling, and destined to crash

Which one will I write next?

👉 Vote now and help shape the next story.

Silk-Lined Sabotage

Breaking news: I’ve officially named my 9th favourite animal.

It’s the mink—part sleek assassin, part chaotic goblin, wrapped in the kind of fur that once destabilized empires.

Is it dangerously unhinged? Absolutely.
Do I love it more because of that? Obviously.

👉 Click here to meet the tiny fashion criminal of my dreams.

Thank you, truly, for still being here.

For showing up in a world that never stops moving—and choosing to spend a few minutes in mine. With my stories. With these characters. With me.

This month, you’re helping bring The Silence After into the world, voting on the fate of Songs to Stories Volume XI (Don’t Blame Me is in the lead, but Getaway Car is not going quietly), and witnessing the dramatic rebranding of my entire novella series. For no other reason than I wanted green spines and control over my barcodes. Obviously.

You’ve laughed with me, voted with me, and tolerated my very intense animal ranking system. (We’re almost at #10. Prepare accordingly.)

Your support—your reads, your reviews, your gentle encouragement when I post unhinged TikToks—means more than I can ever say.

I’ll be back next month with another novella, another vote, another animal, and probably at least one identity crisis wrapped in a poem.

Until then—

Peace, love, and inspiration,
Britt Wolfe💚