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Elise Wayland
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Humor writer and rom com novelist. RIVALS TO LOVERS coming 8/12. Midwest to a fault. http://www.elisewayland.com
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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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Rivals to Lovers is out today!
Rivals to Lovers by Elise Wayland against a cornfield and apartment background
August 12, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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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!
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Rivals to Lovers book tour info, including stops in Des Moines Iowa, Minneapolis Minnesota, Ames IA, Overland Park Kansas, Omaha, Nebraska and Pittsburgh PA. The book is a romance novel with two people holding stacks of books and looking mischievously at one another. The book is by Elise Wayland and full details of events are on her website elisewayland dot com
July 23, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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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!
Review for Rivals to Lovers by Elise Wayland. Publishers weekly says: “Charming. Wayland executes the eponymous trope with plenty of tension between her sparring leads”
June 18, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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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
Cute crochet rats around Rivals to Lovers
May 27, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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I’m memeing Chappell/romance novels. Get in, girls.
Me coping through romantasy because I’d rather deal with dragons than (gestures broadly) with Chappell Roan in her Joan of Arc outfit accepting an award
March 24, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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Final day to enter this giveaway! www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...
March 23, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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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?
A duck duck go window with “rivals to lovers penguin” in the search bar. The first search result is rivals to lovers by Elise Wayland, on the Penguin random house site
February 13, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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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
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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
Rivals to lovers by Elise Wayland available on NetGalley
February 6, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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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-...
2/5-2/7 only. 25% all preorders from Barnes and noble using code Preorder25 at checkout. Valid for physical books, ebooks, and audio. Some exclusions Apply. The book in the image is Rivals to Lovers by Elise Wayland, with two white thirty year old writers with arms full of books eyeing each other in front of a bookshelf. The colors are mostly pink and blue. It’s very cute!
February 5, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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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!
A pink book cover with a scruffy man and a brown haired woman looking at each other, each with a stack of books in their arms. Rivals to Lovers by Elise Wayland. The text says She wrote an adaptation of a classic book. He wrote an adaptation of that classic book. There’s only one book deal. A little competition and kissing is healthy, right? Out 8/12/25
February 4, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Luna says hi even though she’s a little sleepy
Sleepy looking black dog
January 19, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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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.
A meme with a goose in the top panel labeled “me recommending books”. In the bottom panel, the goose is chasing a person and yelling “did you read it yet??” The person is labeled “my friends with job, families, lives”
January 19, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Oh no, I actually agree with Elon?
An obviously doctored tweet that says “If we stop buying romance novels, there will be no more humanity” from Elon
January 18, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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They all graduated summa honk laude from SGU
Silly goose university sweatshirt
December 10, 2024 at 11:42 PM
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“There’s only only book deal”

Hi #romancesky !
A grid with a quote “he wondered what her library hold list looked like” A grid with “I didn’t say stop” and a girl with a mischievous expression
November 22, 2024 at 1:09 PM