Olivia Waite

A wild baby appears… The second volume of the Dorothy Gentleman series is now available from Tordotcom in your format of choice!

I am delighted to show you all the cover for Murder by Memory, first in the Dorothy Gentleman sci-fi mystery series!

The latest newsletter included this astonishing piece from Time that offers the reader a panoply of practical advice about stealing art.

At the urging of Charlotte from Close Reading Romance, I finally picked up Laura Kinsale’s most infamous romance, Flowers from the Storm.

For my astronomer heroine in The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics, I turned some of my favorite romance novel covers into constellations.

I am writing this from Seattle.

No romance novel exists alone—every one is building on the work of writers who came before.

I have spent a lot of time (and essay space) thinking about our responsibility to history: what parts we should keep, what parts we should not repeat, what parts we should unerase.

Their children will surely be dangerous.

At long last, my final two backlist books have been shined up and champagne-polished for re-release!

Lately, and quite accidentally, I read three books in a row that involved shapeshifting or similar transformations.

"Romance," says James Scott Bell in Writing Great Fiction: Self-Editing and Revision, "is about the characters trying to get love."

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It's so hard to balance principled resistance with self-care and necessary breaks from The Self-Sustaining Dumpster Fire.

For a recent milestone birthday, Mr.

{Courting Critique is a post series that takes a literary-critical and intersectional feminist look at romance texts — not so much to prove that romance is feminist or anti-feminist, but because good analysis can be as fun and escapist as a love story.

{Olivia never met a fake romance title she didn't immediately want to write.

{Courting Critique is a post series that takes an analytic and intersectional feminist look at romance texts — not so much to prove that romance is feminist or anti-feminist, but because good criticism can be as fun and escapist as a love story.

If it seems like we just had a cover reveal around here, you're right!

You'll be thrilled to hear that finally some brave literary man is daring to write about sex!