Some very good news.

I've been keeping a secret!

Hi! I’m so excited so I’ll just get right to the point: I’m publishing another book!! With Little, Brown! It’s called LITTLE ONE and will be out in 2026. I am overwhelmed with joy and gratitude. Writing books is my dream, and sharing them with the world is like… dreams upon dreams upon dreams. I am so deeply happy.

This book is all about Catharine, a character who has lived inside my brain for a long, long time. This book feels like turning my heart inside out and throwing it in front of the world. This book is all the things I don’t quite know how to say but feel all the time. I’m proud, I’m terrified, and I’m overwhelmed with joy and gratitude that it has a whole team of talented, creative people behind it. I can’t wait to share more.

Before I go, I want to say that I have read many versions of this kind of announcement in my life and thought, “When I have that, I’ll feel worthy.” I’ll feel good enough. I’ll feel like a Real Writer. I will never question if my words deserve to be read. I will believe in myself. I’ve spent most of the past year quietly working very, very hard on LITTLE ONE, revising and polishing it all while publishing my first novel at the same time. For most of that time, I didn’t know if I would be able to keep writing books full-time. I put everything I had into making it happen, and I told myself that if it did, I would stop questioning myself. I would finally know that I was worthy, and that any success I have had was not just a fluke. I’ll let you take one guess as to whether that happened. Even writing this now, there is a faint drumbeat in my head that says, “fraud, fraud, fraud…” I still have found so many ways to doubt myself. I’m beginning to think that the self-doubt is just part of it. It’s built into the essence of writing and sharing and trying to connect with other humans.

In other words, if you read this newsletter and you think that your value as a writer would be more real if you had this or that, I am here to tell you that you (and I!) are wrong. I promise you the doubt will still be there when you achieve XYZ. But the thing that will also still be there is the thing that matters. It is the thing that makes you want to write in the first place. It is the thing that means you keep going, despite all the doubt. It’s the deep, life-affirming heart of it all: The love of writing. That’s the thing that is forever. And it’s very real. It’s more important than the doubt or what you imagine will erase it. You love to write. You’re a writer. You will keep writing. You feel that too, right? The unshakable truth of it? I’m here cheering you on.

Thank you for all your support always, always, always. More soon.

Olivia