Julian Winters

This article is about the author. For the football player, see Julian Winter.

Julian Winters
Occupation	Novelist
Writing career
Period	2018 – present
Genres	Romance, LGBTQ
Website	http://julianwinters.com/

Julian Winters is an American author. His works include Running with Lions, How to Be Remy Cameron, The Summer of Everything, and I Think They Love You.

Career

Winters' debut novel, Running with Lions, was published in 2018. It is a young adult novel about a high school soccer player who must confront his former friend, whom he has feelings for, at soccer camp. The book received a gold Benjamin Franklin award from the Independent Book Publishers Association.

His second novel, 2019's How to Be Remy Cameron, follows a gay and Black interracial adoptee who must confront his identity after being asked to write a paper on it for school. His other young adult novels include The Summer of Everything, As You Walk On By, and Right Where I Left You. In 2024, Winters published Prince of the Palisades, where the prince of the fictional African kingdom of Îles de la Réverie falls in love while at a boarding school in Los Angeles.

His first adult novel, I Think They Love You, was published in 2025. It follows the son of a retiring CEO who fake-dates his ex-boyfriend in hopes of proving himself responsible to his family and being chosen to assume his father's position. A sequel, Last First Kiss, was released in 2026.

In 2026, he published Find My Way Down To You, a young adult urban fantasy novel about a grieving boy who follows a psychopomp into the underworld, where he tries to reunite with his deceased boyfriend.

Personal life

Winters is queer. He was formerly a management trainer. As of 2026, he lives near Atlanta.

Publications

Young Adult Novels

• Running with Lions. Duet Books. June 7, 2018. ISBN 978-1945053627.
• How to Be Remy Cameron. Duet Books. September 10, 2019. ISBN 978-1945053801.
• The Summer of Everything. Duet Books. September 8, 2020. ISBN 978-1945053917.
• Right Where I Left You. Viking Books for Young Readers. March 15, 2022. ISBN 978-0593206478.
• As You Walk On By. Viking Books for Young Readers. January 17, 2023. ISBN 978-0593206508.
• Prince of the Palisades. Viking Books for Young Readers. August 20, 2024. ISBN 978-0593624425.
• I Think They Love You. St. Martin's Griffin. January 28, 2025. ISBN 978-1250326249.
• Last First Kiss. St. Martin's Griffin. January 27, 2026. ISBN 978-1250326263.
• Find My Way Down to You. Viking Books for Young Readers. August 4, 2026. ISBN 978-0593624456.
• Sweet Disaster. Delacorte Press. April 13, 2027. ISBN 979-8217029693.

Adult Novels

• I Think They Love You. St. Martin's Griffin. January 28, 2025. ISBN 978-1250326249.
• Last First Kiss. St. Martin's Griffin. January 27, 2026. ISBN 978-1250326263.

Anthology contributions

• "Victory Lap". Out Now: Queer We Go Again!. Edited by Saundra Mitchell. Inkyard Press. May 26, 2020. ISBN 978-1335018267.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
• "Under Our Masks". Up All Night: 13 Stories between Sunset and Sunrise. Edited by Laura Silverman. Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. July 13, 2021. ISBN 978-1643750415.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
• "The Legendary Lawrence Cobbler". Black Boy Joy: 17 Stories Celebrating Black Boyhood. Edited by Kwame Mbalia. Delacorte Press. August 3, 2021. ISBN 978-0593379936.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
• "What Makes Us Heroes". Fools in Love: Fresh Twists on Romantic Tales. Edited by Ashley Herring Blake and Rebecca Podos. Running Press Kids. December 7, 2021. ISBN 978-0762472345.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
• "Who Will Save Me". Eternally Yours. Edited by Patrice Caldwell. Viking Books for Young Readers. September 20, 2022. ISBN 978-0593206874.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
• "Our Joy, Our Power". Cool. Awkward. Black. Edited by Karen Strong. Viking Books for Young Readers. January 10, 2023. ISBN 978-0593525098.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
• "1:00 P.M.: Xander Wilson, 15, Undecided". The Grimoire of Grave Fates. Edited by Hanna Alkaf and Margaret Owen. Delacorte Press. June 6, 2023. ISBN 978-0593427453.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
• "We'll Always Have June". Mermaids Never Drown: Tales to Dive. Edited by Zoraida Córdova and Natalie C. Parker. Feiwel & Friends. September 26, 2023. ISBN 978-1250823816.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
• "Coping with Imposter Syndrome". Writing in Color: Fourteen Writers on the Lessons We've Learned. Edited by Nafiza Azad and Melody Simpson. Margaret K. McElderry Books. August 20, 2024. ISBN 978-1665925655.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)