A Love Letter to Whiskey

Kandi Steiner is a best-selling author known for her angsty and passionate romance novels. Her love of writing began in childhood, and she started writing and self-publishing romance novels after graduating from college. A Love Letter to Whiskey was a breakout hit when she published it in 2016, and her novels have been popular among diverse readers ever since. A Love Letter to Whiskey is so beloved that Steiner published a fifth-anniversary edition in 2021 that includes a new novella, Love, Whiskey, a retelling of the novel told from Jamie’s point of view. 

Steiner’s novels often cater to a “new adult” audience, focusing on late high school and college settings and situations. Many of Steiner’s novels also fall within the highly popular subgenre of “sports romance,” in which one or more major characters play for a professional or high-ranking college sports team. Regardless of subject matter, Steiner’s novels owe much of their popularity to their raw and intense emotion. As in A Love Letter to Whiskey, she focuses not only on the highs of relationships but also on the lows, detailing how characters must fight for the ones they love and face hardships along the way.