Would you read a dark academia theater novel about three university students whose fates are tragically linked by a curse dating back to the New England vampire panic? 👀🥀 She Haunts Me Still is on NetGalley now!

Staging a comeback to say that my dark academia theater novel is up on NetGalley and ready for early readers 👀🥀🐦‍⬛

I am a published author today. This Raging Sea is the book of my heart, and now it officially belongs to you. 🌊✨🖤

YOU’RE HERE AND YOU EXIST: Exploring Bisexuality Representation in THIS RAGING SEA, a dark oceanic fantasy, a guest post by De Elizabeth teenlibrariantoolbox.com/2025/09/23/y... @tltkaren.bsky.social @wordsbyde.bsky.social

a chaos bi author on her green velvet couch and her chaos bi book (that will be on shelves in 11 days 🤯) 🩷💜💙

I’m writing more books!!! 🥹🥹🥹 So excited to announce my next YA novel, A DEATH KISSED SONG, coming Summer 2027. 🎻🕯️🎹🎧🪽 This one is so special to me. I can’t wait to tell you more about Cami and Evander. For now, let’s stare at this stunning art by MaeOwl 😍

Hey I know her 👀👀👀

Some (most) days in publishing it’s quiet. Some days there’s a couple of emails and then you have something major to share soon. Something that’s so deeply special to you and you can’t believe you get to say it out loud. Book news defrosting…. 🎻🎹🕯️🕰️🪽

Can't wait to read @wordsbyde.bsky.social's debut, This Raging Sea? Head to the Cosmopolitan website to read an extract - a whole month before the book comes out! www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainmen... #WalkerBooks #YABooks #ThisRagingSea #YAFantasy #RomantasyBooks

Growing up, I used to read Cosmo with friends at sleepovers. Back then, becoming an author was a faraway dream. It feels extremely full circle—and surreal—to say that my book is featured there now. You can read an exclusive excerpt from THIS RAGING SEA below🖤🌊 www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainmen...

Patiently waiting for the “bring back yearning” crowd to find This Raging Sea because Finn Adler basically has a PhD in yearning. He literally studies physics magic so he can rearrange time and protect the girl he loves in every universe over and over… even if he knows how it always ends 🥺

I keep forgetting to post here please don’t hate me bluesky… anyway finished copies of This Raging Sea have landed and they are stunning 🥹🥹🥹 So surreal to be holding my book for the first time. ✨🌊

On the last day of pride, I’m thinking of teenage me who kept so much inside. In less than 3 months I will become a published author, writing books with bi characters. Every word I write is for the girl I used to be—and for anyone who hasn’t found their voice yet, but still deserves to feel seen.🩷💜💙

My personal author goal in every book is to write a plot twist that hits as hard as “Oh, Anna. If only there was someone out there who loved you.”

just bc I can't shut up about this beauty and bc my bestie's talent consistently blows me away... 🌊 preorder is available 🌊 www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/787391... #booksky #writingcommunity @wordsbyde.bsky.social

✨ IT'S HAPPENING! ✨ we are just over 3 MONTHS away from pub day for TRS by @wordsbyde.bsky.social (Holiday House Books) SO thrilled to be on her team before the release of this masterpiece of a story! *disclaimer: you're going to want to read this* #writingcommunity #booksky #pubday

🚨Announcement🚨 There’s going to be a street team for This Raging Sea! If you like atmospheric dark fantasy books, bi4bi romance with yearning, and soft magic systems based in science, I’d love if you joined! 🥹

Happy pride to everyone, whether you’re out or not. I’m glad you are here 🫶🌈

ICYMI because the algorithm is a mercurial beast…. You can now read This Raging Sea early!! 👀🌊 #BookSky

Crying in the club (the blue sky) 😭🦋

The news is out! This Raging Sea is officially available to request on NetGalley! 🥰🌊🖤 I can’t wait for readers to meet Briar and Finn and their “in every lifetime” love story. #BookSky

What if I said I had an announcement for This Raging Sea tomorrow? And what if I said it’s something I’ve been asked about pretty much every day for the past few months? Aaaand what if I also said you could find it out now if you’re stealthy enough? 😌🌊 #BookSky

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This is just a friendly PSA to say that if you’ve preordered This Raging Sea, please hang onto your receipts!! There’s some gorgeous bookish surprises in the works 👀🌊💌

Had a blast annotating one of my author ARCs of This Raging Sea, and I’m giving it away! All the details are on my IG. 🌊🖤👀 #booksky

A normal trope board vs….one with weird girl energy 🐐👀 #booksky

If you’re ever on the fence about messaging an author to tell them how much you loved their book, this is your sign to do it. Your words might end up meaning more than you realize. 🖤

🚨ARCs of This Raging Sea are here!🚨 And I think that means I should annotate one and give it away soon 👀 #BookSky

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This is very specific but if you love the song “Would You Fall in Love With Me Again?” from EPIC: The Musical and want to read a book that feels like it, I wrote one for you! It’s called This Raging Sea and it will be on shelves in 6 months 🥹🌊✨ #BookSky

This piece was commissioned by the lovely @wordsbyde.bsky.social 🌹 #illustration

🚨 News! 🚨 ARCs of THIS RAGING SEA are starting to make their way into the world and the first stop is Edelweiss! If you’re a bookseller, librarian, educator, or anyone with an Edelweiss account, you can be among the first to read Briar and Finn’s “in every lifetime” haunting love story.

Most of what comes out while drafting is just the bones of the story. But every once in a while you write a banger line that you know will stay with you all the way until it becomes a book.

Whenever someone asks what I’m most excited for people to experience in my debut this year, I always try answer with something serious or emotional but what I really want to say is “the 26-word chapter that was originally labeled in my scrivener as ‘absolute chaos.’” 😇

I keep forgetting about this app 😭 Going to try to post here more because twt is the bad place and 🧵 gives me the anxiet™️ So hello again #booksky!

I said it once, and I'll say it again... I'm here for the #writingcommunity ✨️💛✨️

It’s Briar and Finn’s first-ever Barnes & Noble preorder sale! 🥹✨🌊 If you’re into dark fantasy books with science magic, endless yearning, bi chaos, and the “in every lifetime” trope, it’s a great day to preorder THIS RAGING SEA. #BookSky

“You’re so funny” Thanks this is my comfort show

Thank you to everyone for all the love on my cover reveal this week. 🥹 Here’s a closer look at the gorgeous cover of THIS RAGING SEA—along with the official book description! THIS RAGING SEA publishes 09-23 (bi visibility day 💗💜💙) from Holiday House Books. You can preorder it now!!

a million years ago @wordsbyde.bsky.social let me read this book. i have not stopped thinking about it since i read it. eternally proud of my friend and can't wait for y'all to read this. www.teenvogue.com/story/dark-f...

The day has arrived!!!! You can officially see the gorgeous cover for my debut dark fantasy book, THIS RAGING SEA, over on TeenVogue. And, not only that, but I’m thrilled to share that you can also read the first chapter!!! 🥹🥹🥹 Find everything here: www.teenvogue.com/story/dark-f...

Today while drafting a book I cannot talk about yet 👀, I managed to recycle one of my favorite moments from a previously shelved WIP, and it fits even better in this new project. As if it was always meant to live here. No book is ever really dead. They are constantly given new life in new ways. 🖤

The cover reveal for my debut dark fantasy book THIS RAGING SEA is coming in just four days!!! And it will be revealed on teen vogue dot com…along with something else that’s very exciting 🥹🫶✨🌊

method writing (dressing like my main character in hopes she’ll let me deeper into her brain) 🕯️🎻🎧 #booksky

A little guide to my upcoming books: 🌊THIS RAGING SEA (2025)- an upper YA dark fantasy with physics magic and an “I’ll find you in every lifetime” romance 🫀A SHARED HAUNTING (2026)- an adult romantic horror about three theater students racing against time to break a devastating curse #BookSky

Debut year, let’s do this! I can’t wait for everyone to meet Briar and Finn from THIS RAGING SEA…which comes out ✨this✨ year

It’s 2025 so I can finally say these words that I’ve dreamed of my whole life: MY BOOK COMES OUT THIS YEAR 🥹✨

I don’t have arcs of my book yet but I do have these: three special notebooks, each containing musings and lists for the three books I worked on this year. Farewell 2024, you were lovely and difficult and all the things in between. Next up: debut year. 📖🥳🌊

Authors, can we do a thing? 👀 What is your main character’s New Year’s resolution? And, perhaps more importantly, do they keep them?

This week, I’ve been going through pass pages for my YA debut THIS RAGING SEA. In a few days, I will turn it in for the last time. And it’s starting to hit me that this is going to be a book. On shelves. In readers’ hands. For so long it was just in my head. Soon it will belong to you. 🫶📖