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COVER REVEAL TIME IS HERE so let me share the gorgeously feral HAZELTHORN with you!! When I say I am OBSESSED. I’m deep in my botanical horror era and cannot wait to drag you down into the garden to rot with me next October. Hazelthorn is a deeply unsettling yet hauntingly beautiful tale of mystery and botanical body horror, perfect for fans of Andrew Joseph White, Belladonna, and We Have Always Lived in the Castle. A teenage orphan inherits a murdered reclusive billionaire’s gothic estate and must find the killer with the help of his (unfortunately attractive) nemesis and contend with a mysterious garden that has a dark and terrible appetite. My next standalone YA Gothic Horror is out on October 28th, 2025 from @fiercereads! Stunning cover art is by Jana Heidersdorf @checanty who also did the incredible artwork for Don’t Let the Forest In. The vibes? Immaculate, unparalleled, perfect. 🍃YA Gothic Horror 🥀botanical body horror 🍃evil Secret Garden vibes 🥀crumbling mansion 🍃hate-to-love 🥀MM romance 🍃”I hate that I love you” 🥀rich family drama I N T L TOUR-WIDE G I V E A W A Y 1 reader will get a physical ARC of Hazelthorn! 1 reader will get a hardcover preorder of Hazelthorn! HOW TO ENTER: - Like & leave a comment. - Follow me, @fiercereads & @mtmctours. EXTRA ENTRIES: - Tag up to 5 friends in different comments! - Share this post to your stories tagging @mtmctours & @paperfury. - And visit #HazelthornMTMC for more! Stunning graphics designed by the amazing @thereaderandthechef! Ends December 17th. Results announced on MTMC. Not af filiated by IG. #Hazelthorn #CGDrews #mtmctours #horrorbooks #dontlettheforestin

I’m about to lose my mind because I get to say MY BOOK IS A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER??!?!?! MY BOOK. I WROTE THAT??? I’M— Don’t Let The Forest In just hit the NYT bestseller list at Number 3 (NUMBER 3!!!!) and the Indie Bestseller List at Number 4 (!!!!!) and I can’t breathe basically hahaha. FREAKING BESTSELLER. This feels incredibly not like real life and I am so happy right now. And so grateful!? Thank you for hyping my book and supporting me and making it sell out in bookstores and just— I can’t get my brain around this. You all loved my feral forest rot horror so freaking much?!? And the most massive thank you to my editor, Emily Settle, and my team at Feiwel & Friends and @fiercereads and my agent @clairefriedman.agent!! You made the most gorgeous book possible and championed it so hard and I’m forever grateful. I’m just 😭🖤 my previous book came out 5 years ago and then I had 5 years of nonstop rejections and I truly thought I was too autistic to ever get a real chance in publishing. NOW THIS IS MY LIFE. I don’t even think it’s sunk in yet hahahah omfg that’s my book on the NYT BESTSELLER LIST???? #dontlettheforestin

Beyond excited to officially share that Don’t Let The Forest In is a Barnes & Noble YA Book Club Pick!!! Time to be haunted by fairytale monsters and forest rot while moss grows along your collarbones as you get a copy of the @barnesandnoble exclusive edition. 🍃 I can’t believe this is real, this is such an honour?!?! I cannot get over it. I’m so endlessly grateful to B&N booksellers for championing my dark academia horror. the B&N Exclusive Edition has: - exclusive designed endpapers - mossy sprayed green edges - unique case stamp - bonus fairytales - and an annotated chapter Release day has been utterly surreal and such a dream come true with seeing it hit # 5 on B&N’s Teens & YA bestsellers and knowing it’s in their stores (on tables!! piles of my book!!). I’ve chatted to such lovely booksellers and I’m so thankful for you all. Don’t Let The Forest In is OUT NOW from @fiercereads and ready to haunt you in beautiful ruinous ways. We’ve let the Forest in now and there’s no going back. 😌🍃 #dontlettheforestin #horrorbooks #darkacademiabooks

name a series on your tbr? or recommend me a series with more than three books! the finale of Royals of Embermere is hereeee and I’m excited to dive into this series now that Fae Reckoning by @luciaashta is out. thanks to MTMC Tours for having me on the Bookstagram & Creative Tour! The Fae Heir Trials might have ended, but the ba ttle for the Mirror World has only just begun. Fae Reckoning is the fifth and final book in the Royals of Embermere series, which concludes with a HEA. Out now & the entire series is on KU! I N T L TOUR-WIDE G I V E A W A Y 1 reader will get their choice of ANY book in the Royals of Embermere series! HOW TO ENTER: - Follow me, @luciaashta & @mtmctours. - Like & leave a comment. EXTRA ENTRIES: - Invite up to 5 friends who might want to enter!   - Share this post via stories tagging @luciaashta + @mtmctours. - Visit #FaeReckoningMTMC from Jan 20th to 29th for more. Ends Feb 1st. Results announced on mtmctours. (Not af filiated by IG) #FaeReckoning #LuciaAshta #mtmctours #romantasybooks #fantasyreaders

how many book ideas do you have? i mean, my half-formed ideas are countless but I feel like I have about 8 books in my “i could write this any day” queue l o l someone help me. my biggest writing weakness is that I always want to be writing the book I am not currently writing 💀 my brain tells me switching to something else would be easier even tho i know it is lies!! everything is hard!!! currently writing YA Horror 3 👀 first you got Don’t Let The Forest In, next Hazelthorn in October 2025, and this book will be for 2026. #amwriting #booktok #writerslife #writingabook #writingtips #bookaesthetic #desksetup

Don’t Let The Forest In is for when you want dark academia monstrous forest rot aesthetics and also two dumbasses with one braincell who do not know they’re in love. thomas: *crawling into andrew’s lap* andrew: this is probably as friends US and UK editions are both out now!! art by nanna.arts #dontlettheforestin #horrorbooks #booktok #bookaesthetic #amwriting #writers #horrorbookstagram

2025 is our gothic era and im bringing the unhinged kids along to the party (and the rotting crumbling gothic mansion i personally want to own tbh). all of you are like “don’t let the forest in hurt my feelinggggs” which is super cute because im about to GET WORSE. Hazelthorn is my YA garden gothic horror about an orphan teen who inherits a crumbling gothic estate with a carnivorous garden and must team up with the boy he hates to solve a mvruder mystery. Out October 28, 2025 from @fiercereads! #darkcottagecore #darkfantasy #bookaesthetic #booktok #amwriting #writers #horrorbooks #gothicbooks

have you read any of these/any on your tbr? 🍃📚 haven’t had a chance to read much lately and am missing my reading era where i ate through a few books a week 🥹 but you know!! when im off deadline it’s OVER for my tbr!! featuring some floral and green covers i adore as well as my two sons (Don’t Let The Forest In and Hazelthorn) in all their botanical horror glory. #bookflatlay #bookaesthetic

weekly meme dump >>> this week has definitely been a you-deserve-a-lil-book-treat kinda week 💀anything new on your tbr?? am 1/3rd through writing my current YA horror wip so that’s exciting, but wow is focus hard lately 🥹🥲 also so much chaos with insta changes and tiktok going away for the usa. wdym it’s only 2 weeks into this year. tell me your fave meme or like/share this to stories if you enjoy these posts!!🫶🏻 #bookmemes #alwaysreading #bookobsessed #booksbooksbooks #bookaesthetic

tell me some sequels on your tbr for this year 👀 because I am so ready for the sequel to Raise Hell. there is something about a bodyguard romance ok!! So excited to share the stunning cover of TAKE ROOT by @britks_books! In a kingdom consumed by chaos, a Queen and her former guard must fight to restore order, their love the only light in the darkness. But as they battle betrayal at every turn, they risk losing everything—including each other. Take Root is the second book in the Eleventh Hour series, a Paranormal Romantasy to be published on June 3rd, 2025! 🍃📚 I N T L TOUR-WIDE G I V E A W A Y 1 reader will get a digital copy of Raise Hell (book 1) + a digital ARC of Take Root! HOW TO ENTER - Like & leave a comment. - Follow me, @britks_books & @mtmctours. EXTRA ENTRIES - Tag up to 5 friends in different comments! - Share this post to your stories tagging @mtmctours & @britks_books. - And visit #TakeRootMTMC for more!! Ends January 24th. Results announced on MTMC Tours’ account. Not af filiated by IG. #fantasyromance #bookobsessed  #mtmctours

writing tips? i know a few 😌not to brag but i’ve never met a character whose life i couldn’t successfully ruin. what are you reading/writing this weekend? 👀 #writers #writerslife #writingprompts #bookmemes #darkacademiaaesthetic #booktok

G I V E A W A Y 🍃🖤 it’s finally release day in the UK for Don’t Let The Forest In!! if you’re looking for a dark academia forest rot horror with eldritch fairy tale monsters and two boys who are obsessed with each other, then allow me to softly place my feral mossy book in your hands. the UK paperback includes the stunning illustrations by Jana Heidersdorf and it’s out from @teambkmrk. time to let the moss grow up your throat as you fall into my dark fairy tale. to celebrate, i’m giving away one UK paperback copy of Don’t Let The Forest In!! Open INTL. to enter just— - you must follow me, like and comment on this post. - extra entry share to your Stories - extra entry tag a friend in the comments ends January 22nd. not associated with IG 🕯️📖🍂 #darkacademiabooks #dontlettheforestin #horrorbookstagram