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Olivia Dade
@oliviawrites.bsky.social
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Author of bawdy romcoms with a big ♥. She/her. Coming soon: ZOMROMCOM (August 5) and SECOND CHANCE ROMANCE (November 25)!

My website: oliviadade.com
My newsletter: http://go.oliviadade.com/Newsletter
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Speaking of warm things...I don't suppose that 1) you would ever consider making something like this for sale or 2) I could afford it if you did?
A very warm and beautiful-looking blanket made in a flying foxtail pattern with something called brioche? I don't know what it all means. I just know that I love it so very much. The blanket is a reddish-brownish-foxy orange and white.
November 20, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Look, I was told I should have a hobby, & now I have 6:
1) diamond painting
2) browsing diamond paintings
3) buying diamond paintings
4) organizing diamond paintings
5) trying & failing to make room for all my diamond paintings
6) snickering at YouTube comments by ppl unaware of DP's alternate usage
A comment reading: "I got my sister into dp, and we talk about it all the time. It has really bonded us and are always sharing photos."
November 20, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Maybe you'd like to see the amazing cover for WORLD'S OKAYEST ORACLE (RELUCTANTLY) SEEKS DEMON, my book about an infamously underpowered oracle saving the world alongside the uptight demon who helped ruin her life 20 years ago?

AMZ: go.oliviadade.com/WOOamz
Other links: go.oliviadade.com/WOOprh
The illustrated cover of WORLD'S OKAYEST ORACLE (RELUCTANTLY) SEEKS DEMON by Olivia Dade, featuring a man and a woman standing back to back against a hot pink background, appearing poised for action. The woman is holding a curved athame, while the man has a fireball just above his open, upturned palm. There are flames and small hearts surrounding them.
November 13, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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When I say we've worked on a lot of covers together, I mean we've worked on A LOT of covers together! (And there are three more in progress, FYI.)
Leni's illustrations as seen on the covers of the following Olivia Dade books: Spoiler Alert, All the Feels, Ship Wrecked, At First Spite, Second Chance Romance, Zomromcom, Teach Me, 40-Love, and Sweetest in the Gale.
October 23, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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If you love @lenikauffman.bsky.social's work as much as I do or have ever been curious about our partnership--we've worked on so many projects together, and she's slayed every single cover--please join us this Saturday at 2 p.m. ET on Instagram via @avonbooks!
The graphic shows the cover of Olivia Dade's SECOND CHANCE ROMANCE and illustrations of Olivia and Leni Kauffman, as well as a photo of Seth @dramakingbooks. The text reads: Avon Books Instagram Live with Olivia Dade & Leni Kauffman, Moderated by @dramakingbooks. Tune in on 10/25 at 2 PM ET via @avonbooks, @lenikauffman, @dramakingbooks.
October 23, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Yes! ♥ But also...
The cover of "A Gentle Feuding" by Johanna Lindsey, featuring a naked man on one knee embracing a woman whose dress seems to be poised to fall off.
October 8, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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Just for you, Tori...
An illustration of a man's naked, thick, amazing butt.
October 8, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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Here are a couple pics of my "Birth of Venus" diamond painting, which may help to explain things better:
A closeup of a mostly-completed section of the diamond painting canvas, which shows the grid, some of the symbols, and a few colors of the drills (the resin pieces). My diamond painting of "The Birth of Venus." I chose a closeup version of her face, because that's the part I love most. Her red-gold hair is whipping in the breeze, and she's a pretty white woman/goddess.
October 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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I should note that Albert Joseph Pénot is most famous for his absolutely iconic bat-woman painting, "La Femme Chauve-Souris" (~1890), which I also hope to diamond-paint at some point, because WOW.
"The Bat Woman" (La Femme Chauve-Souris) by Albert Joseph Pénot. The painting features a naked white woman poised in mid-air in a dark, cloudy sky by moonlight, with eerie, glowing round eyes and bat wings. Her dark hair is whipping out behind her. She's awesome.
October 7, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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In recent weeks, I've been either working on edits for WORLD'S OKAYEST ORACLE (RELUCTANTLY) SEEKS DEMON or diamond painting--and I just turned in my edits! So now I can concentrate more fully on my latest project, the diamond-painting version of "Départ pour le Sabbat" (1910) by Albert Joseph Pénot:
"Départ pour le Sabbat" (1910) by Albert Joseph Pénot, which features a naked witch on a broomstick in a blue sky with billowing gray and brown clouds. She's looking directly at the viewer over her shoulder, her hair flying out in front of her, with an expression of calm confidence. Her butt is excellent.
October 7, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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🎇 PREORDER BONUS ALERT! 🎇

If you order SECOND CHANCE ROMANCE from @lovessweetarrow.bsky.social by 11/15, you'll receive a dust jacket inspired by old-school romances, with gorgeous new artwork by @lenikauffman.bsky.social and lots more '80s-inspired fun!

shop.lovessweetarrow.com/product/seco...
The graphic has a peachy-pink background and shows the dust jacket for Olivia Dade's SECOND CHANCE ROMANCE. The dust jacket features a naked, hot, fat man on one knee embracing a pretty fat woman, whose hair flows out behind hair and whose suit jacket is falling off her shoulder.
October 7, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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To me, the most incredible aspect of this painting (Carl Bloch's "In a Roman Osteria," 1866) is how viscerally Bloch evokes the squirming discomfort of social rejection by people who are much cooler than you (and, in one case, probably gossiping about you despite the seeming napkin on her head?).
In this painting, three people--two women and one man--are sitting at a a small table, eating and drinking wine. They are all looking at you. The dude looks pissed that you dared to disturb them or even enter their proximity. The women look disdainful but amused, as if this is just fodder for more mean gossip about you, and one of them appears to have a napkin on her head?
September 15, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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My absolute favorite aspect of this painting ("The Siren," John William Waterhouse, 1900) is the shipwrecked sailor's expression: fascination mixed with dread and fear as he stares up at her. I also love the shine of his wet skin.
The painting shows rock formations in various shades of brown and green jutting out of the green-blue water. On one of those rocks sits a naked siren with long, dark red hair and a lyre (I think) in her hands as she looks down at a sailor in the water below her. He is shirtless, with a rope wound around his upper arm, with longish dark hair, an earring, and an indescribable look of dread and fascination as he looks back up at her.
September 14, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Just a quick heads-up: I'm chatting with Chloe Angyal about her lovely books (and mine too) later today! :-)
Against a pale green background with a subtle leaf pattern, there are images of Chloe Angyal and Olivia Dade and the logo for HEA Book Boutique, along with the following text: Broadcasting Live, IG Live: @HEABOOKBOUTIQUE, Facebook: HEA Book Boutique, YouTube: @HEABOOKBOUTIQUE. Saturday, Sept. 13, 1 p.m. CST.
September 13, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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A Sexy Man with flowing white-blond hair and a silver headband, has his muscular arm lifted and his eyes closed and his head turned to the side. He appears to be checking on the efficacy of his deodorant, or possibly checking whether he remembered to apply it.
September 10, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Okay, one last announcement, because I was really happy and proud. Thank you to all my readers for supporting me and my work and making this moment possible! 💜💚💗
The graphic has diamonds in various shades of purple and green, and superimposed on that background is a screenshot of the USA Today list for the last week with ZOMROMCOM at #52. The graphic's text reads: "ZOMROMCOM IS A USA TODAY BESTSELLER!"
August 16, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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💜 TODAY'S THE DAY! The zombies are going down!** 💜

**and so is Max, albeit in a very different way

AMZ: go.oliviadade.com/Zamz
B&N: go.oliviadade.com/Zbn
Kobo: go.oliviadade.com/Zk
Bookshop.org: go.oliviadade.com/Zbs
AMZ UK: go.oliviadade.com/Zamzuk
Other links: go.oliviadade.com/Zprh
The illustrated cover of ZOMROMCOM by Olivia Dade, featuring the tagline: Love can make you lose your head. The background is a speckly bright purple, and in the foreground are a man dressed in black and a woman in bright pink overalls and a white tank top standing back to back and holding hands. He has a huge sword at the ready, and she is brandishing a shiny cleaver. All around them, clutching at them from the edges of the image, are bright green zombie hands.
August 5, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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Here's the entire giveaway package, and it's AWE-INSPIRING. Thank goodness for artists and craftspeople and beauty born of human skill and creativity! bit.ly/4mjzteM

And again: tomorrow is too late! You need to enter TONIGHT!
Against a wooden backdrop, a hand-knitted purse in the shape of a cleaver, alongside two custom purple, sparkly soaps and the paperback of ZOMROMCOM by Olivia Dade.
August 5, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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ANNOUNCEMENT: There has been a Bangening!

(and not in the usual romance-author way)
A photo of myself in my office with wavy bangs and a chin-length wavy bob.
July 18, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Maybe you'd like a free, awesome book??? bit.ly/4ebgLTO
A graphic reading "Must Read Books of August Giveaway" with the covers of various Ace and Berkley books, including House of Monstrous Women, Too Old for This, the Dragon Wakes With Thunder, Zomromcom, The Sun and the Moon, The Possession of Alba Diaz, The Magician of Tiger Castle, If Not for My Baby, Mrs. Christie at the Mystery Guild Library, Once Upon a Time in Dollywood, and The Ever King. The text at the bottom reads: No purchase necessary. US residents, 18+. Ends 7/20/25. See official rules at official website.
July 9, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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I know! The glow-in-the-dark cover is amazing! 😍
The illustrated cover of Olivia Dade's ZOMROMCOM, in partial darkness with the title, her name, and various reaching zombie hands in green neon glowing in the dark.
July 9, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Alternatively, B&N has 25% off all preorders (print, ebook, & audio) for Rewards/Premium members until 7/11, using the code PREORDER25!

SECOND CHANCE ROMANCE: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/second-cha...

ZOMROMCOM: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/zomromcom-...

@barnesandnoble.com @nyliterary.bsky.social
The graphic shows the illustrated covers of Olivia Dade's SECOND CHANCE ROMANCE and ZOMROMCOM, with the following text: "B&N Pre-Order Sale! July 8-11, 25% off. Discount code: PREORDER25."
July 9, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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I've always said that I have a Neanderthal forehead. 😂
A photo of myself in front of a fireplace in the early 1990s, with majestically feathered bangs and long, wavy hair over my shoulders. I am wearing a jumpsuit with shoulder pads, because of course I am.
June 30, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Advice needed: I stole my husband's hair appointment tomorrow because I desperately need a cut. (I haven't had one in...15 months?) I'm trying to determine whether the cut on the right will work on me, but I'm not sure. I haven't had bangs since the early '90s, & those were feathered, so...thoughts?
A photo of me at my desk just now, looking directly at the camera, with my rock collection and my books on shelves on behind me. I am not wearing makeup, so apologies for that. This woman is very pretty, but I didn't want to use her face without her permission, so I blanked that part of the photo out. The important part here is that she has eyebrow-length bangs and a chin-length bob and some texture to her hair.
June 30, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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the YouTube algorithm has cursed me with this suggestion
The caption on the image reads "Make pizza in 20 minutes! Yummy homemade pizza." The thumbnail image shows four slices of untoasted standard white bread on a sheet pan, topped with an unclear melange of different foodstuffs, including red onion, sausage slices, olives, tomato pieces, and assorted other stuff. It does not resemble any pizza I've ever seen before.
June 29, 2025 at 10:14 AM