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the atlas six tor hardcover edition, my mechanical romance, the atlas paradox (the atlas trilogy book II), alone with you in the ether tor hardcover edition, one for my enemy tor hardcover edition, masters of death tor hardcover edition, from a certain point of view: return of the jedi anthology, in these hallowed halls anthology, the atlas complex (the atlas trilogy book III), twelfth knight, januaries available now
forthcoming releases: gifted and talented april 2025, girl dinner october 2025

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official playlist for GIFTED & TALENTED:

the american dream is killing me - green day
fake a happy face! - smallpools
family of six - petey usa
4x4 - dominic fike
big shot - flor
you're on your own, kid - taylor swift
waste my life - alice merton
evergreen - pvris
one & only - oliver tree
blame - the maine
save my life - the band camino
what doesn't kill you makes you paranoid - the beaches
see the light - stephen sanchez
cold tea - new west
would you come to my funeral - crawlers
darling, the planets - the rare occasions
cannonball - michigander
always been you - clubhouse
life was easier when I only cared about me - bad suns
love to walk away - the vaccines
u come near - bby
you're gonna go far - noah kahan
fight club - giant rooks
hey, travesty - white ferrari
keep going - guster
greek tragedy - the wombats
making the bed - olivia rodrigo
scared - joywave
tough season - bendigo fletcher
america in your 20's - winnetka bowling league
til the morning - royel otis
kid again - jon bellion
everybody's different - joe p
way less sad - ajr

#playlist #gifted & talented

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I, my dagger, and my bottomless pit of opinions on children's television return to chat in reply to asks/reviews/comments in a series of boldly shameless rambles wherein I, Olivie Blake, am not writing. Today's topics include revisiting MY MECHANICAL ROMANCE for Holi (0:40), a nice lil eyeful of the GIRL DINNER advance reader copies (2:36), undressing GIFTED & TALENTED for a flirty look under the cover (3:22), music, movies, and TV I've recently consumed (4:39), enjoying the wow that's happening now (instead of obsessing about your boyfriend's past relationships) (13:03), deciding which creative project to work on first (20:36), character-first secondary worldbuilding (23:15), and a few ARCs I'm looking forward to reading (28:07).

[ gifted & talented tour links, my episode of ve schwab's no write way ]

#did this in the wrong order today

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allonmyown-b asked:

Olivie!! so first off i love you. second you tend to keep us updated on your favourite books which i love but i haven’t seen much about things like music or tv shows. what are your current favs or obsessions in those areas?

hello after one hundred years, answered in this week's not writing episode! (also available here every month)

#love you too #olivie blake is not writing

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obssesedwithscandaledits asked:

Hi Olivie,

I’m very excited to read Gifted and Talented! I was wondering, how do you choose what story idea to work on next, when you have so many that seem interesting and you feel the same way about all of them and see potential in each one?

thank you so much and answered in this week's not writing episode!

#olivie blake is not writing

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[ gifted & talented tour links, my episode of ve schwab's no write way ]

#well well well look who decided to show up #olivie blake is not writing #let's talk about love baby #big sistering #gifted and talented #girl dinner #writing advisements #Youtube

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seeing straight men be disgusted by booktok smut recommenders has actually radicalized me to the side of booktok smut recommenders. girls your taste may be atrocious but i will never disparage you for exposing mainstream discourse to the concept of soaking through your underwear. spent my whole life listening to men talk about penises it’s about time they get jumpscared by women talking about pussy in crude detail on social media. go forth and goon my warriors

insomniac-arrest

I work at a bookstore and hearing one of my male coworkers call smutty romantasy "the downfall of society" because it's "literally just porn" radicalized me

Men have an entire industry. Entire industries dedicated to their sexualities. Let women have fantasy sex. there's not even a camera crew involved.

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Left this in the notes

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Hi! Is "Stargazing is Necrophilia" the LA Gothic?

hello! no, KISS YOUR DEVILS IN LOS ANGELES is the LA gothic (august 2026) and STARGAZING IS NECROPHILIA is a literary romance like AWYITE (probably 2027 or later)

#stargazing is necrophilia #kiss your devils in Los Angeles

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Mad about politics again

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us.macmillan.com

From The New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six comes the story of three siblings who, upon the death of their father, are forced to reckon with their long-festering rivalries, dangerous abilities, and the crushing weight of all their unrealized adolescent potential. ✨⁣ ⁣ @olivieblake's Gifted and Talented is out on 4/01!!

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#gifted and talented #illustrated by #polartss

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arleney asked:

I was saving Januaries for election night—the plan was to disconnect and wait for morning—but I couldn’t concentrate. Then I couldn’t concentrate for a few days. I finally picked it up, though, because you always make me feel like the world is a beautiful place, and I needed that.

Anyway, I sat down with Januaries and I teared up a bit when the first story was The Wish Bridge. What a great one. I’m not sure if I made a note of it when I read it before, but this time I fully cried when Lila learned about the phases of the moon.

It was so wonderful to see some of the old favorites. I hadn’t read A Year in January since it was first published and my goodness I forgot how much I liked it. Also a large spider crawled across my page when I started The Animation Games, so that was fun and fitting.

So okay. I happened to read Monsterlove when I was sitting around waiting to hear from my friend who was in the hospital giving birth. This is actually the first time someone I love has had a kid. I know it’s a lot, intellectually, but it’s not something I can really understand. And I know she’s been afraid in that way that people with bad parents are afraid, even though her baby is so wanted and so so loved. Monsterlove was moving and powerful and intimate, and I haven’t read anything like that before. Reading that story in that moment meant so very much to me.

Preexisting Conditions is my other new favorite! That is so exactly my thing. I won’t say anything else because spoilers but I found that ending hideously satisfying.

I’ll stop rambling but I spent a week reading Januaries and it was amazing. Also, you described the audiobook somewhere and I realized I need to listen to that eventually too. For The Atlas Paradox, the whole cast was great but I was completely blown away by the Belen chapter; if that voice actor has done more work for you, then I definitely need to check it out.

Happy new year! I hope you’re doing well 💙

omg thank you so much for this, I don't even know what to say, I'm so honored my work makes you feel the world is a beautiful place. I feel like that is the goal? the point? but many people don't walk away with that feeling or don't really receive that message and then I feel like I failed in some way. so. thank you

I am ALSO thrilled that monsterlove spoke to you because I knew it might mean something to other people who had also experienced that, but wasn't sure how it would read to someone who hadn't. what a wonderful thing to hear. and YAY okay so a lot of people have expressed how much they dislike preexisting conditions (which I don't get, since it's basically exactly the same story as the animation games but told more spitefully lol) and I personally had to fight for that story to even be in the collection. I like it!! I think it's funny! SORRY!!! but anyway thank you so much. "hideously satisfying" is exactly what I was going for, you understand me

yes, the actor who voiced belen is alex palting and she read "chaos theory" and "monsterlove," which were probably the two most demanding performances in the collection. she KILLED it, I truly think she should win awards for that performance. her rendition of violeta is my favorite thing. I also find the audio version of "the audit" to be soooo funny. I've listened to it multiple times

#thank you so much for being in the ether with me #truly I feel so seen #thank you!!!#januaries

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Submitted by mythoughtsvsreality

From a first time mom with the most wonderfully silly and slightly feral eight month old, thank you for sharing Monsterlove.

Motherhood has rocked me to my core in a way that in the abstract I knew would probably happen, but couldn’t fully comprehend how until now in the thick of it.

Reading Monsterlove was just..there were parts that resonated deeply. The exhaustion is intense but the love is so so immense.

Thank you 🤍

oh thank you so much! it's such a wild time of life, truly, and I knew there was a risk that lots of people would simply Not Get It when it came to that story and I wasn't surprised when a lot of people were like meh, not for me. like, fair enough!! for real!! but if you get it you get it, and I'm so glad it spoke to you. it really is immense, the entire experience, it just swallows you whole in so many ways. thank you so much for reading it, for sharing that experience with me

#submission #januaries #monsterlove

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thebellekeys asked:

Person who asked you what sociopolitical event radicalized you here! Thank you for your honest answer in your vlog. As a genz, I always find it interesting to hear the generational answers on questions like this... especially being born as a brown Muslim in October 2001, haha. Not haha. You know.

Side note: In 2020 I dropped out of law school to study foreign languages (for identical reasons to yours for dropping out of law, seeing as my perspective on the law and society became extremely, cough, Marxist in the middle of a pandemic that took away two years of my youth, haha). I think your own status as a law-drop out filters through your work somehow, I don't know, maybe it's in part why I connect with your writing so much.

Question: Would you ever write a "hard" dystopia? As in, you write about the future a lot in your works, but never full-on societal collapse. If you did write a dystopia (think Orwell, Atwood, Collins, Bazterrica, etc.) would might it look like? What aspect of our today might you exaggerate to build your future?

I regret to inform you (I just generally regret to be in this position because it's so on the nose) but I am currently writing a "hard" dystopia, as in a story set in the far future (100 years) that has been irreversibly altered by natural disasters, viral disease, and—most critically—technocracy. the initial idea came up ages ago, over a year maybe, when someone I was with accidentally said "the hunger games by susanna clarke" and I was like fuuuck what a good pitch, I'm gonna write that (meaning, hunger games in content, but tonally JONATHAN STRANGE & MR. NORRELL)

but, and I'm sure you saw this coming, I can't actually write like susanna clarke—I don't have that kind of patience—so instead it's become this series of interconnected novellas that's similar in structure to OUR SHARE OF NIGHT by mariana enriquez. and while there is a hunger games element, in typical olivie fashion, we enter the story from the misleadingly banal perspective of an archivist who can't log into his account (he also happens to be the only person in his family who is not a psychiatrist).

so basically it is the hunger games by susanna clarke as re-told to you by your friend olivie blake, aka nothing like either source material because I am too obsessed with the specific issue of unregulated tech and systems that prioritize profit over people. and the underlying concept of the book is essentially this:

NEWPHORIA: that you will accept untenable ethical conditions for the illusion of return—in most cases, progress that approximates but doesn’t achieve true innovation.

#newphoria

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addieclmont asked:

Hey Olivie!

First off, I just wanted to say that I sincerely adored the Atlas Complex and got through it in a single sitting. It had me gripped like no other book ever has, and I absolutely did need a good week to get over that ending. But I actually was wondering, in general what is your daily writing routine as a full time author? If you do end up answering this, thanks so much and I hope you're doing well!

I'm pretty sure I answered this in the previous video but basically the answer is I don't really have a routine/it depends what I'm working on. I think at the time I answered I was still structurally revising one manuscript (gothic/romantic suspense: KISS YOUR DEVILS IN LOS ANGELES) while drafting another (sci-fi far future: NEWPHORIA) and then I also got the first pass of GIRL DINNER, so for a couple of weeks there I had my workday broken down into like 15 minute intervals to try to get everything done. but I just turned in a bunch of things so now I just have the new manuscript on my plate to draft, and so things will return to 3-6k writing days depending on whether it's a half day or a full day for my son at preschool. I'm somewhere around 30k into the book, which will probably be long, maybe 125k first draft. so at this point my goal is to finish the rough first draft before I leave for the GIFTED & TALENTED tour, at which point I will probably again be revising the gothic, sitting down to revise the new ms, and drafting the new thing, which will likely fall under the romantic category (it's all very sisyphean that way although don't let my tone fool you, I do love it)

#olivie blake is not writing #oh and thank you for saying that about the atlas complex #I am very grateful and happy to hear it

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the one where the cannibal sorority tries to decide who to eat for dinner

OFFICIAL SYNOPSIS:

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.

#girl dinner