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Elise Wayland
@elisewayland.bsky.social
Humor writer and rom com novelist. RIVALS TO LOVERS coming 8/12. Midwest to a fault. http://www.elisewayland.com
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If you have this energy, #booktok refugee, let’s be friends.

#booksky is a great place! Happy to have you here. Comment your favorite recent read.
Best night at Sidekick Books and Coffee! Wish I’d snagged more pics, but someone bedazzled my book!
October 12, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Minneapolis book launch!!
@elisewayland.bsky.social celebrates 💗RIVALS TO LOVERS💗 in conversation with @elizabethdavis.bsky.social at Tropes & Trifles.
Wednesday, August 27 at 7 PM. 🎉

https://loom.ly/enARkAs
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tropesandtrifles.com
August 16, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Love is in the air.
Join @elisewayland.bsky.social author of 💗RIVALS TO LOVERS💗 in conversation with @nicwillwrites.bsky.social at Beaverdale Books!
Friday, August 22 at 6:30 PM in Des Moines, IA. 📖
https://loom.ly/__TshYA
Join Romance Writers in Conversation - Beaverdale Books
One classic novel. Two adaptations. A competition that shakes up everything.Perfect for fans of Emily Henry and Ali Hazelwood, this steamy rivals-to-lovers romance set in Manhattan features two writers fighting to sell the adaptation of their favorite classic novel.
beaverdalebooks.com
August 15, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Rivals to Lovers is out today!
August 12, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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come hang out with us!!!
Book events! Rivals to Lovers launches 8/12 and it was listed as a most-anticipated romance for Fall 2025 by Publishers Weekly! Whether you’re anticipating it or not, I’m at these bookstores and hope to see some of you!
elisewayland.com/events
July 23, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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@publisherswkly.bsky.social has released their list of Fall 2025 books in Romance & Erotica! Do we spy 💗RIVALS TO LOVERS💗 by @elisewayland.bsky.social? 👀

https://loom.ly/xsE3GF0
July 7, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Book events! Rivals to Lovers launches 8/12 and it was listed as a most-anticipated romance for Fall 2025 by Publishers Weekly! Whether you’re anticipating it or not, I’m at these bookstores and hope to see some of you!
elisewayland.com/events
July 23, 2025 at 1:03 PM
I got my first big review from Publisher’s Weekly and it’s a good one! Plus, how often do you get to see “eponymous” in the wild.
Rivals to Lovers is out 8/12!
June 18, 2025 at 11:13 AM
me to me: be normal
me to me: be normal
me to me: be normal

me to everyone: do you ever think about pizza rat and if they went on to have baby rats that had obnoxious opinions about pizza that their friend rats rolled their eyes at?
May 31, 2025 at 11:13 AM
A few months ago, the algorithm showed me a crochet rat by @amazingamyw.bsky.social and I fell in love. Long story short, there’s a giveaway of cute rat stuff (and an ARC!) over on my IG
May 27, 2025 at 10:31 PM
I’m memeing Chappell/romance novels. Get in, girls.
March 24, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Final day to enter this giveaway! www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...
March 23, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Do not mess with librarians. They let complete strangers borrow their books. For a living. Even the hardcovers. They are so much stronger than you know.
February 13, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Something I really like is that when I’m trying to share buy links, I just search “Rivals to lovers penguin.” I hope that someone is collecting those data points to make an emperor penguin romance novel or romcom happen.
Maybe I should use google so it spies on me more?
February 13, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Get to know my book taste with a trip to my local indie! What should I read next, #romance readers?
February 12, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Ahhh Rivals to Lovers is up on #netgalley. Romance ARC reading folks, go request if you want a Fiyero-coded hero and a Midwestern heroine, with lots of bookish jokes
February 6, 2025 at 4:46 PM
You deserve a hundred little treats right now, and it would be great to get them spread out like
#romance novel shaped hugs over the next few months.

Barnes & Noble sale! Preorder now for cheap and get book jokes and kissing in the mail in August!

www.barnesandnoble.com/w/rivals-to-...
February 5, 2025 at 12:07 PM
These books are so great, but especially It’s A Fabulous Life. One of my faaaaaves.
New opportunities to read these oldies but goodies for a healthy dose of 🌈🌈🌈 joy.
All 3 books in THE OUT ON THE ICE SERIES are available for the first time ever in KU!
And the eBook for IT'S A FABULOUS life is currently on sale for the low, low price of $1.99.
Visit my website in b!0 for more deets.
February 5, 2025 at 12:32 AM
I’m thrilled to share the cover of my debut rom-com, Rivals to Lovers! It’s out 8/12, and if you like banter, bi rep, classic books, hot tubs, and midwestern leading ladies, then preorder from your favorite place to do so!
February 4, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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If you're wondering whether you should promote your book or your latest publication now with all the chaos, the answer is yes. We need your words. We need to flood the channels with art and literature. So go for it, friends.
February 3, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Heads up! 🍩 Goodreads Giveaway for JUST OUR LUCK!
Link: www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...
February 3, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Read.
Read books.
Reading books is resistance.

Buy.
Buy books.
Buying books is resistance.

Share.
Share books.
Sharing books is resistance.

Celebrate
Celebrate books.
Celebrating books is resistance.
January 25, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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All groups are political. Your book club. Your knitting group. Your gardening collective. The companies from which you buy your food, clothes, entertainment. The place you work out. Right now, in this cultural moment, anything you can do in the groups you're in contact with makes a difference.
January 24, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I don’t know what gods blessed me but I was 300th in line in the library app for Onyx Storm and somehow got it on the first day it was out.

Libby is my girlfriend now. We are going steady.
January 24, 2025 at 10:51 PM
there are a lot of us in this particular burning house.
THE meme of 2025 for me.
January 24, 2025 at 10:47 PM