🗡️COVER REVEAL! 🗡️
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six (under the penname
@OlivieBlake
) comes Twelfth Knight, a YA romantic comedy and coming of age story about taking up space in the world and learning what it means to let others in.
hating on fanfic in a world where 95% of traditionally published authors are white and 88% of the industry is straight is not the intellectual take you think it is
I am so incredibly grateful to
@LindseyHall17
for signing on to everything my lil brain wants to do, including TWELFTH KNIGHT which is an
@afarolfollmuth
romcom AND a three forthcoming standalone titles about hot people doing magic
very excited to show you the full
@torteen
hardcover for TWELFTH KNIGHT, including custom stenciled edge and (not pictured) the shameless pun I sent in an email that my team then chose to use for the case stamp, proving we are true soulmates!!!
preorder:
hot take, but even JKR's best work indicates an inability to sort out anything w/emotional or moral complexity. What she created is powerful bc of how many people it helped shape. We have turned it into something much more vast than she was capable of creating alone
@OlivieBlake
I'm curious how much you keep up with JKR and her various controversies? It seems to me that the fic community is so much its own entity that her nonsense doesn't register much, but I'm interested in whether your experience is different.
🎵 WE PICKED OUT A HOME AND CALLED IT HOLIDAY HOUSE 🎵
very excited to announce MY MECHANICAL ROMANCE will be coming summer 2022!
@AmeliaLAppel
is the best ever and this is the stuff of wild daydreams. absolutely can’t WAIT for you to meet my bb engineers!
okay so around hour four of pushing I needed serious motivation (we started with abba but they can’t all be super trouper) so I had them put on my playlist of lady jams and, in conclusion,
my beautiful baby son was born to the song I Love It by Icona Pop
happy valentine's day lovers! so excited as a lover of libraries (and love) to announce that MY MECHANICAL ROMANCE is a
@JrLibraryGuild
gold standard selection. may 31 can't come soon enough! 😍 gorgeous cover art by the fantastically talented
@jacqlnli
lil bts for MY MECHANICAL ROMANCE: the tape deck catapult was inspired by an actual project submitted by one of my husband’s physics students. I asked him to draw a version of bel’s for me and now in addition to science being sexy, it is also smol and cute
I am done with the whole “you’re too critical, give him a chance” thing that only ever gets said to the female MC. no girl, stay critical, either he rises to your expectations or for the rest of the book we abscond to the woods and brew potions in peace
!!! 7 days until publication of My Mechanical Romance by
@afarolfollmuth
(also known as
@OlivieBlake
) !!! My audiobook is pre-ordered, I'm OOO on May 31st, I'm ready. And, oh, yeah, I added prints to my r*dbubble with Bel and Teo ✨
i hate to be the one to tell you this but i am probably not going to get around to changing the plot point you don't like from the fanfic i wrote 4 years ago
I know
@afarolfollmuth
/
@OlivieBlake
is busy writing great fantasy novels but please tell me you will also be doing more YA contemporary because after Teo & Luna from My Mechanical Romance I need more 😭❤️
my soft summer prince is discussing career goals with his students and someone wants to be an author. he said MY WIFE IS AN AUTHOR and went on to describe how hard I worked to get here and what an inspiration I am to him. everything is fine. my emotions are normal. as you were
pregnancy was a nightmare and I’m currently doing PT for a 3rd degree tear bc I can’t stand up without pain. nobody who doesn’t choose this should ever have to do it, period
came home to mr blake saying “I was just sitting here so I asked myself what I could do that would be most useful to you” and in conclusion my romantic leads are about to get a LOT less believable because bitches he nailed it
what am I even supposed to do with my life I basically write in the morning and then I bathe in horror on twitter at lunch and then I??? revise in the afternoon???? I have therapy in an hour and what the fuck am I supposed to say
"this coup is bothering me"
?????????
🚨It’s PM official!!🚨 The hugest congrats to the supremely talented
@afarolfollmuth
/
@OlivieBlake
for writing an amazing story, and to the brilliant
@mollymcghee
on her first deal!! I can’t wait to see what
@torbooks
does with this trilogy 💙
I have things to say about this being MMR release day but the goblin has recently expanded his chaos radius so anyway it will happen at some point probably JUST KNOW THERE ARE EMOTIONS
hi I know I am being very confusing today so just to clarify: I used to be
@OlivieBlake
which is now a NEW separate account but still me, alexene is pronounced like alexis (preferably in moira rose's voice), I'm named after alexis carrington on dynasty... ok that should cover it
cutting this draft is like cleaning out my closet. impossible. sentiment everywhere. I like this sentence, I might wear it again. unbelievable the way I can get emotionally attached to a string of adverbs
"you really have a knack for how high school girls talk to each other. it's really annoying, very accurate." (deep sigh.) "I miss them so much."
- my husband the quarantined physics teacher while reading my YA manuscript
"there is so much wisdom in your stories, sometimes I have a hard time believing that you're not 80 years old"
everyone go home this is the only review I need, goodbye
super excited to reveal the first author of our forthcoming collabor-advent is the incomparable
@StacieTurner
! I cannot wait for you guys to read her classic tale of enemies-to-kissing inspired by “12 Days of Christmas” as part of the A LITTLE LIGHT PINING collection 🌲✨
mr blake is SAVAGE a student just interrupted his zoom lecture to say “hey mister do you miss me” and he said “less and less as class goes on” and went back to Newton’s laws or whatever without even missing a beat holy shit I love him so much
Well guess who can get their hands on
#MyMechanicalRomance
from TODAY?! UK readers, that's who! Huge congratulations to multi-talented
@afarolfollmuth
on this adorable opposites-attract YA romance (feat. robots!), available now! 💕🤖
"I know it seems a bit problematic for me to say things like I’m only dating him for access to the demon who lives in his body, but is it really all that different from the men who’ve only been with me for sex?" contemplates my extremely relatable protagonist
I'm SO excited for UK readers to get their hands on MY MECHANICAL ROMANCE later this month! It's wonderful -
@afarolfollmuth
has penned a super-hit 🧪❤️🔩
Macmillan Children's Books snaps up Atlas Six author's YA debut in multi-book deal
Really struggling to word about how excited I am to be represented by
@AmeliaLAppel
!! Put simply: she heard everything I was trying to say in MY MECHANICAL ROMANCE and I am very lucky to have her on my side. Very excited about what's to come with
#TeamTriada
!
🚨GOOD NEWS ALERT🚨
I am absolutely thrilled to welcome
@OlivieBlake
to
#TeamTriada
!! Her STEM YA romcom (High school robotics! Family drama! Self-discovery! Girl power! Kisses!) is funny, thoughtful, sweet, and empowering. I’m so excited for the future! 💙
when my baby wakes up and doesn’t want to be awake he screams absolute bloody murder for five seconds before immediately falling asleep again and I think that’s beautiful
mr blake: so today the kids kept asking me weird questions like ‘what would you do if someone brought their pet guinea pig to school’—
me: oh, so someone definitely brought their pet guinea pig to school, huh?
mr blake: HE WAS IN HER SLEEVE AND HIS NAME WAS TYRELL
“I’m great at this,” proclaims mr blake upon reading the letters of recommendation written for his physics students applying to university
“So true,” says his underpaid ghostwriter
me: you could peel back my skin & find my insides rotting & fibrous, overripe & fragile like the bruises on a peach. but you are golden, you have gold in your veins, and the fact that sadness has not destroyed you makes you utterly incomprehensible to me
him: we’re out of cereal
@OlivieBlake
@afarolfollmuth
from the bottom of my heart, thanks for my mechanical romance. reading that book felt like drinking sweet tea with healing properties. this is to say, I loved it. 🌹
the binding for divination for skeptics by
@OlivieBlake
is finally done! 268 pages with a dark green and grey-cornered cover.
its not perfect but im proud of it!!!
update: have emerged from the office to hear him informing his zoom meeting “I’m cooking for my wife, she’s tired and she only wants to eat garbage so I’m making her fries”
I have just made a grilled cheese on sourdough, swiss and gruyere with a spread of strawberry preserves on both interior sides, and I am either a genius or extremely pregnant. also good: sharp cheddar with honey
look I don’t normally weigh in on this but when you leave a negative review on something written for free by someone who writes for enjoyment you are destroying the author more than you are helping other readers
sometimes mr blake curls up or laughs in such a specific way that I can see what he must have looked like as a child and it makes me want to raze villages to the ground to protect him from even the smallest bit of pain
.........which makes me REALLY nervous about motherhood
someday I will make a list of all the aphorisms my characters have butchered and somewhere near the top will be “you can lead a horse to water but what he does in the bath is none of your business”
my filipino family thinks boy but my in-laws think girl for the exact same old wives-related reasons so we’re going to find out who the real witches are
“we’re not codependent, we’re self-sufficient *as a unit*,” says mr blake
“hang on I have to write that down,” I reply, “it’s too good”
five seconds pass
“oh wait we’re totally codependent,” says mr blake
“do you want me to hold your cup so you can arrange yourself in your blankies?” is something my husband just asked me so yeah, parenting prep is going really well for one of us
to whoever needs to hear this today: you don't have to settle. there is More. saying "this isn't enough for me, I'm leaving" is something you don't see enough, but you can't always wait for the grand gesture. sometimes there's no grand gesture. don't wait
I wrote this for us, the girls that we are and the ones that we were. for the women we will be; for the many who will come after us and find, if we do our job right, that there is room for them here
The full lineup for ✨A LITTLE LIGHT PINING✨is now complete with our final author reveal: provocative envy, aka
@aa_nderson
! I am a broken record on this but you are not!! going to want to miss!! these stories!! 🥳2020 collabor-advent starts sunday and I for one cannot WAIT
today I had the thought "do I want this too much? should I be less desperate?" and my god, what a mess. AM I TOO MUCH is a ridiculous question and I wish we didn't have to ask ourselves that so often
important announcement: Drowned Country by Emily Tesh is like if
@CatSWrites
’s Martin was both recalcitrantly pining AND unwillingly beholden to a magical wood. amazing
“My mother would look at me and she’d say, ‘Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you are not the last.’ And that’s part of why breaking those barriers is worth it. As much as anything else, it is also to create that path for those who will come after us.”
Not only will Kamala Harris become the first woman in U.S. history to assume the role of vice-president, she’ll also be the first Black woman and the first person of South Asian descent to do so
just ABRUPTLY remembered while writing that getting asked to homecoming my junior year went like this: "whoa, flowers?" "yeah" "who are they for" "you" "but you hate me" "no I don't" "this isn't funny" "no, it isn't" "what are you doing" "I'm honestly not sure anymore"
Black lives matter. don't let them convince you prejudice isn't real or that equality is. if you've never been afraid when a cop pulls you over, you are privileged. recognize that and use it to protect someone else
@afarolfollmuth
deadass no idea who you are or what this book is about but thank you for making me laugh today bc i saw your book out of the corner of my eye in a random kmart, while wearing a my chem shirt
the universe has aligned today
This is possibly the most romantic line I've read all year and I really and truly did not expect to encounter it at the end of a 400k word Dramione fic but god works in mysterious ways.
in case it matters to anyone, aside from a little achiness and arm soreness I had no symptoms from moderna dose 2. soft summer prince was feverish and achy but it was gone within 24 hours “like it never happened.” point of relevance: he’s a notorious baby
the no. 1 influence on my writing? fairytales. "there's a seed of morality planted here and you have to dig it up"—that's how I approach storytelling. for me the story isn't "two characters do a thing," but "what does it mean about the world when two characters do a thing"
We are so excited to share the
#preorder
giveaway for MY MECHANICAL ROMANCE!
This adorable
#yaromance
from
@afarolfollmuth
is coming May 31st, so you have five weeks to pre-order your copy and let us know!
Pre-order options here:
remember when I wrote half a million words of fic referencing the film a knight’s tale so many times it became suggested within the plot that one of the characters was themselves an author of a knight’s tale fanfic
anyway I’m watching a knight’s tale
I’m low key concerned that mr blake and I may have separation anxiety when this is over? he just reminded me he loved me in advance of going into another room “just in case”
why in 2020 do I keep reading books with people casually smoking cigarettes? are we doing this again, really? am I the only one very angered by this? or am I just the only one successfully haunted by those pictures of destroyed lungs we had to look at when we were eleven??
🗡️COVER REVEAL! 🗡️
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six (under the penname
@OlivieBlake
) comes Twelfth Knight, a YA romantic comedy and coming of age story about taking up space in the world and learning what it means to let others in.
Callum rose to his feet with a nod. “What are we celebrating?”
“Our fragile mortality,” Tristan said. “The inevitability that we will descend into chaos and dust.”
have transitioned from socially conditioned platitudes to telling the truth about how I’m doing (not great, chief!) and fyi it’s making people very uncomfortable
“I made you a mix tape! it’s in a very purposeful order according to the sequence of our relationship. except for jaja ding dong, that’s just at the end” — mr blake celebrating our anniversary