From the #1 New York Times bestselling author comes a contemporary fantasy of love, sacrifice and enchantments as Polish folklore thrives in today’s Chicago.
WHEN AMONG CROWS by @veronicarothbooks.com is coming soon in paperback! ✨🌞
https://tinyurl.com/mtu57wum
Maybe this will clear up the apparent yes/no confusion among VA voters!
This Is Just To Say
I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update
and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize
Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying
A Statement In Opposition to HR 7661 The freedom to speak and to read is a fundamental principle of the United States of America. That is why we have joined together — parents, students, educators, library workers, authors, free expression advocates, booksellers, and publishers — to stand in support of our nation’s school-aged children and teens and in opposition to H.R. 7661. H.R. 7661, if passed, will compel nationwide book censorship. It confuses obscenity with identity and stigmatizes vulnerable young people, particularly trans children and teens, based on who they are. It will continue to drain funding from our already underfunded schools and libraries. And it will threaten the creativity and critical thinking that are vital to education in the U.S.
Authors Against Book Bans has joined dozens of other organizations, nonprofits, publishers, & stores to issue this joint statement opposing HR7661
Come on then, and remove him.
New review: Olivie Blake’s GIFTED & TALENTED. A character-driven family saga with a sharp satirical edge. If you love messy siblings, vague magic, and prose that feels like eavesdropping on a very clever argument, this one’s for you.
@olivieblake.bsky.social @torbooks.bsky.social
Book cover for Girl Dinner by Olivie Blake on a pale blue background. The release date “August 11, 2026” appears at the top. The pink cover features bold black serif text reading “GIRL DINNER OLIVIE BLAKE.” A gold fork with red splatters resembling blood crosses the lower half of the cover, with additional red splatter behind the book. Tagline reads “Feed your ambition.” Review blurbs appear above and below the title. “U.S. Edition” and the Tor logo are at the bottom.
Book cover for Girl Dinner by Olivie Blake on a pale blue background with the date “20 August, 2026” at the top. The pink cover features large black serif text with the title and author. A gold fork with red splatters appears across the center, with a large red splatter graphic behind the book on the left. A black vertical band on the right reads “The multiple Sunday Times bestselling author.” Tagline says “Feed your ambition.” “U.K. Edition” appears at the bottom with the publisher logo.
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six, Girl Dinner is a darkly fun novel about power, lust, and eating your fill, as wealthy moms and sorority girls practice a sinister new wellness trend . . . Good girls deserve a treat. Every member of The House, the most exclusive sorority on campus, and all its alumnae, are beautiful, high-achieving, and universally respected. After a freshman year she would rather forget, sophomore Nina Kaur knows being one of the chosen few accepted into The House is the first step in her path to the brightest possible future. Once she's taken into their fold, the House will surely ease her fears of failure and protect her from those who see a young woman on her own as easy prey. Meanwhile, adjunct professor Dr. Sloane Hartley is struggling to return to work after accepting a demotion to support her partner's new position at the cutthroat University. After eighteen months at home with her newborn daughter, Sloane's clothes don’t fit right, her girl-dad husband isn’t as present as he thinks he is, and even the few hours a day she's apart from her child fill her psyche with paralyzing ennui. When invited to be The House’s academic liaison, Sloane enviously drinks in the way the alumnae seem to have it all, achieving a level of collective perfection that Sloane so desperately craves. As Nina and Sloane each get drawn deeper into the arcane rituals of the sisterhood, they learn that living well comes with bloody costs. And when they are finally invited to the table, they will have to decide just how much they can stomach in the name of solidarity and power.
🍽Feed your ambition.🍷
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six, Girl Dinner by @olivieblake.bsky.social is a darkly fun novel about power, lust, and eating your fill, as wealthy moms and sorority girls practice a sinister new wellness trend . . .
Out on August 11, 2026!
I've seen people trying to defend it today by saying "No, no, I just use it to brainstorm, bounce ideas, I do the actual writing" and with all the kindness in the world I need to tell you: if there is a stage of writing you are not good at, you need to get good, not use the plagiarism machine.
someone’s gotta bring the flavor
A working cocker spaniel lying down holding a copy of Gifted and Talented by Olivie Blake
A fox red lab lying down with a copy of Gifted and talented by Olivie Blake
Yesterday’s book mail
Gifted and Talented by @olivieblake.bsky.social
@torbooks.bsky.social
I’ll let you decide which one is Gifted and which one is Talented
nice
V.E. Schwab Fans Will Devour Katee Robert's The Tarot Trials
Read an excerpt exclusively on @people.com!
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Enemies all the time.
Lovers, occasionally.
I don’t think this qualifies perfectly for the terms of the prompt but I do want to suggest MODERATION by elaine castillo to you specifically
SIDEWAYS STORIES FROM WAYSIDE SCHOOL by Louis Sachae
yeah I love dark academia
I’m reading through all the @olivieblake.bsky.social books and just finished Gifted and Talented. It was exactly what I needed at this particular moment.
Thank you to @authorsabb.bsky.social heroes @beccacoffindaffer.bsky.social and Ed Underhill, we have some slides that can be shared by anyone about this, with particular reps to target. Let's kill this bill in committee.
more yogurt than expected but @veronicarothbooks.com and I knew the y(j)agassaince would come
it brings me so much unfettered joy to see the way this book brings out the puns in people
I can’t express firmly enough how much I’m not trying to talk to you. I’m simply not sitting down to any of my correspondences the way they would like you to believe
THE HOUSE OF GARDENIAS, my YA debut full of ghosts and hoping and fighting even when you feel powerless, is out September 29, 2026.
Preorder here! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/723544...
No, but you need this one, if you don’t have it yet. Someday someone else will enter the Sad Midcentury Queer Romance Olympics but until then Cat’s winning gold across the board.
some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing
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as always, more stuff
truly unparalleled
so few people could have pulled it off, the whole show was glorious and bonkers and the best version of television
I referenced the show extremely vaguely in my story “the audit,” obscure lore that feels worth mentioning now
and of course his masterwork: the character of james van der beek in the bitch in apartment 23
we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
the thing is, this is a thin but real pressure point. as I convolutedly explained to alix over the phone, I see this like the story “but what does he eat” where we have an obscure but very real chance to make it a worse day for darth vader (starwars.fandom.com/wiki/But_Wha...)
