Winterwolf Worlds is one person with a great many worlds in her head.
Meet the creator
I write as Laura Cristina Cantu. Fiction, a question-asking series, books for children, courses for writers, and whatever else I can’t stop making. For a long time those lived in separate places — separate names, separate accounts, separate everything.
Part of why they’re together now is unromantic. I didn’t want a dozen bank accounts and a dozen companies just to be one person. One checkout, one set of terms, one address to write to when something goes wrong.
The rest of it isn’t unromantic at all. The stories are different, but the view behind them is the same, and I spent years keeping the different sides of myself apart. I’d rather be whole.
Why Winterwolf
Years ago, long before I took the name, I dreamt I was inside a wolf — inside it, seeing out. The longer I stayed, the less I thought like me. At first I was anxious, worried I might hurt someone. The deeper I went, the more I felt its instincts and its drives and the pull of things, and how completely foreign that was to the way a person thinks.
What stayed with me when I woke was how true to itself it was. I deliberate. I weigh things, I ask whether a choice is good or bad. The wolf simply moved. It didn’t second-guess itself once. I’ve wanted to be a little more like that ever since.
Before this
I was a professional dancer — fourth in the world in Argentine tango at the World Championships, national titles in tango and salsa, years of teaching ballroom. I mention it because it explains more about how I work than any publishing credential would. You cannot fake tango. Two people are either telling each other the truth in that moment or the whole thing falls apart, and everyone watching can tell.
I still can’t sit still, which is part of why I love working the way I do now. I used to write everything by hand at a desk. These days I can talk a book into being while I walk.
What I’m actually doing here
Asking questions out loud, and seeing who else wants to ask them.
I’d like followers — I’m building the channels, so it would be strange to pretend otherwise. What I don’t want is to be anybody’s guru, or to hand you a belief system to join. I’d rather you left with your own thinking sharpened than with mine installed. If something I make is useful to you, good. If it isn’t, that’s okay too.
The larger goal, honestly: I’d like to help people see themselves more clearly. I think a great deal of suffering is delusion we agreed to, and I think it can be put down. I’d like to build something good alongside whoever’s willing, in curious company.
About AI, plainly
I use it, and I’ll tell you exactly how.
These stories have been in my head for more than thirty years. The old route meant millions of dollars and the right contacts, and at best one idea every three or four years. AI means I finally get to birth them. That’s the honest reason.
I know precisely what I want and I direct it line by line. The thinking, the questions and the words start with me and end with me. And I’m not frightened of AI learning from work like mine, because people have always learned from each other — nobody writes a sonnet having never heard one. What matters is whether you turn the influence into something of your own.
Everything here is mine. The AI helped me get it out of me.
Winterwolf Worlds is a Nevada LLC, and it’s the name on your receipt no matter which of these worlds you came in through.
One howl. Many voices.