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alix e. harrow
@alixeharrow.bsky.social
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NYT-bestselling fantasy author in charlottesville va
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some of the birds have little bird speech bubbles 🙏
close up of the wallpaper, where a crow has a speech bubble that's just like, a picture of a smaller bird
November 8, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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my husband--who had both kids, alone, for over a week--also wallpapered my office and built me new bookshelves while i was gone. bc it's my birthday tomorrow. they're calling him the best to ever do it
charming little office with lots of bookshelves and dramatic wallpaper with crows in flight
November 8, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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well boys: we did it
picture of my book that says a nyt, usa today, and indie bestseller
November 6, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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good morning charlottesville!! what a lovely day to not vote for a school board candidate who promised to keep police out of schools and then voted in favor of it anyway, without robust data or engagement with the public!!
keep police out of cville schools! 2025 school board candidate guide. zyahna bryant [✓]: opposed school resource officers lisa torres [✓]: voted against SROs dashad cooper: supports SROs emily dooley: voted for SROs as chair VOTE NOV. 4 2025
November 4, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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berkeley and raleigh are sold out, but: come hang out with me in these other cities!! us.macmillan.com/tours/alix-e...
a graphic with all my tour stops. full text and details are available at the link!
October 27, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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sort of feels like i have a book coming out in four days?? (if you're local, there are uhh quite a few signed copies available at new dominion! 🥰)
fairly impressive stacks of hardcover books in a cozy office. my book, actually, btw, the everlasting, which is out in four days. just fyi.
October 24, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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the southern festival of books was amazing?? special shoutout to the booksellers who kept murmuring gently to me the number of people left in the signing line, in a noble yet doomed effort to get me to stop talking so damn much
a frankly gratuitously long line of people at an outdoor event
October 20, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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shout out to @amalelmohtar.com for linking me to a reddit ama (!!!) with mr. adams. he's extremely correct about this btw:
I never met Tolkien, and I can't say I've seen the films. I hear they're good. I think the Lord of the Rings is first class. Wonderful. There aren't enough novelists today writing stories. Not many novels nowadays are really stories - they concentrate on character and the relationships between characters. Sad love and happy love. But a story. "Once upon a time...". It's not sophisticated enough you see, but I think there' a real place for it.
October 14, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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amal........this is my kids' ages exactly.....im emotional
I didn't have an age in mind - my children were 9 and 7 when I wrote it though. It seems equally enjoyable by children as by adults though. I think I was more honest about death, yes.
October 14, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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hi charlottesville! if you're voting in the city school board election this november, there are four candidates running for three seats. here's where they stand on the return of police to our schools:
keep police out of cville schools! 2025 school board candidate guide. zyahna bryant [✓]: opposed school resource officers lisa torres [✓]: voted against SROs dashad cooper: supports SROs emily dooley: voted for SROs as chair VOTE NOV. 4 2025
October 8, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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most people don't know this but you're not technically a fantasy writer until your book has a map in it. with the topography drawn in charming miniature. and at least one dragon
fantasy map, on exactly the style described
October 3, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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what if i told you the everlasting (out oct. 28th) has ILLUSTRATIONS and a MAP drawn by the incredible @alicecaoillo.bsky.social ??? what then???
pen and ink art in a neo-victorian style, showing a lady knight on a bier. there's cool stuff in the border, too, like a pistol and a boy reading a book knight kneeling before a queen, who looks like a yassified margaret thatcher man and a woman beneath a really tight tree. there's a cute cottage in the border
October 3, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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i'm doing a live streamed reading from the everlasting tonight, during which you can preorder the book and get a signed bookplate! of my own (questionable) design
talkshop.live/watch/N1uECq...
a brown square sticker with a decorative border of birds, stars, snakes, and swords. if a professional artist did it you wouldn't be impressed but *i* did it so you're a little impressed
October 1, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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the seinfeld guy saying i gotta focus. I'm shifting into [book] mode
October 1, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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good time to call your democratic reps and describe to them what having a spine might look like
If passed, the law would prohibit trans surgeries, strip [health insurance] Medicaid coverage from transgender people and ban Pride flags from public buildings, such as schools and universities.
September 29, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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me playing hades 2 refusing to figure out how the whole hex thing works
that old office meme of the forgettable late season actor saying SHUT UP ABOUT THE SUN except I've cleverly edited it to say MOON
September 29, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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"you could have purchased this easily and inexpensively on ebay, at any time" wrong
September 24, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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the indescribable high of finding a formative text, with the most 1989 cover imaginable, for 25¢ at the rummage sale 🙏
alanna: the first adventure but she's wearing a lot of eye shadow for some reason???
September 24, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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our local police department--which was previously planning to ask for an extra $800k to police our kids--has magically discovered that actually they have enough money internally. wow! really makes you feel like these numbers are very real and not made up at all!
We understand and share the community’s concerns about costs; by reducing the number of SROs from 4 to 2, the Charlottesville Police Department will be able to staff these officers from their currently budgeted positions with no budgetary impact aside from the training of the officers (which can be absorbed in the professional learning budget of the police).
September 23, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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every book release you are allowed one (1) senseless, time-consuming project to manage your anxieties, and this time it's: embroidering this goodwill blazer to sort of match my cover 😂
my book next to an unremarkable black blazer, upon which someone has inflicted amateurish but not unappealing floral embroidery. it doesn't exactly match the book cover but it's got the spirit
September 22, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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annnd the full list of tour stops!!! come hang out this fall!
us.macmillan.com/tours/alix-e...
a graphic that says, somewhat demandingly: JOIN ALIX E. HARROW ON TOUR with a picture of me looking with amused skepticism at my own book
September 19, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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wrote a little essay about prose, 90s historical romances, and why fascists love AI so much 💕

subscribe to my newsletter to enter a giveaway for a physical arc of the everlasting!
buttondown.com/alixeharrow#...
NEWSLETTER: on purple prose this isn’t an essay about how writers used to be good and now they’re bad (untrue, boring). i think it’s an essay about my fear that we have pruned our gardens too ruthlessly, and saved no corners for the impractical, the vivid and wondrous, the joyous and fantastic. that we call prose “purple” because we’ve gotten too used to prose without any color at all.
September 18, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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confirming that you CAN get your covid vax without a prescription in VA! at walgreens you just check the box that says you're high risk 🫡
a middle aged white woman showing off her walgreens band aid like it's a fish she caught
September 15, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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spent the longest time trying to figure out why it would be my "thing" and it's bc i joked about the sandwich guy last week. idk i guess I'm saying we shouldn't let these people define "political violence" for us they seem bad at it
instagram dm reading "i thought you'd be celebrating - i thought violence against conservatives was your thing"
September 11, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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me: i'm a grown up! i am working in a narrative universe that does not promise a traditionally happy ending! in fact the very concept of a happy ending is a false comfort we cling to in a fundamentally impermanent world!

also me: remembering A.S. Byatt's obituary--
While she never addressed the loss of her child directly in her fiction, she said the experience had changed her writing. “I suddenly thought, Why the hell not have happy endings?" she recalled to The Paris Review. "Everybody knows they're artificial. Why not have this pleasure, as one has the pleasure of rhyme, as one has the pleasure of color?"
September 10, 2025 at 11:54 AM