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Two Weeks! New Giveaway!

July 19, 2021 Filed Under: TPWK

Two weeks left until the Gallery Books edition of The People We Keep is on-sale! I’ll send a custom soft enamel mayflower pin to 25 readers who email preorder receipts to info@allielarkinwrites.com. Winners will be selected using a random number generator. Hardcover, ebook, audiobook and Book of the Month receipts are all eligible. Thank you so much to everyone who entered the previous preorder giveaways! If you didn’t win the last one, your entry is automatically rolled over into this new giveaway. This giveaway closes on Monday, July 26th at midnight PST. Stay tuned for one more giveaway on … [Read more...]

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THREE WEEKS UNTIL PUB DAY FOR THE PEOPLE WE KEEP! + A NEW PRE-ORDER SURPRISE!

July 14, 2021 Filed Under: Uncategorized

Three weeks left until the Gallery Books edition of The People We Keep is on-sale! I’ll send a custom TPWK guitar pick to 25 readers who email preorder receipts to info@allielarkinwrites.com. (They’re also pretty handy as bookmarks). Winners will be selected using a random number generator. Hardcover, ebook, audiobook and Book of the Month receipts are all eligible. Thank you so much to everyone who entered the first preorder giveaways! If you didn’t win the last one, your entry is automatically rolled over into this new giveaway. This giveaway closes on Monday, July 19 and stay tuned for a … [Read more...]

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3Ws – Reagan Pasternak

July 8, 2021 Filed Under: 3Ws

I owe Reagan a huge apology. I've been sitting on her 3Ws interview for awhile. At first because as the owner of an older dog, I couldn't bear to think about dog loss. And then because losing Stella was so painful, I put it off a little longer. But I think Reagan has put her experience and empathy to great use in creating a journal that honors the great friendships we have with our pets and the grief we're left to process when they're gone. Thank you so much, Reagan, for your patience, and for sharing your kindness and insight with the world. ~Allie  What do you create? I have been a … [Read more...]

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Four Weeks Until Pub Day for The People We Keep! + A New Pre-Order Surprise!

July 8, 2021 Filed Under: Uncategorized

Four weeks left until the Gallery Books edition of The People We Keep is on-sale! I designed 25 different bookplates with personal photos or found images specifically related to the book, and I’ll sign and send one each to 25 readers who email preorder receipts to info@allielarkinwrites.com. I won’t print these designs again, so each bookplate will be one-of-a-kind! Winners will be selected using a random number generator. Hardcover, ebook, audiobook and Book of the Month receipts are all eligible. Thank you so much to everyone who entered the first preorder giveaway! If you didn’t win the … [Read more...]

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The People We Keep is a July Book of the Month!

July 8, 2021 Filed Under: Uncategorized

So excited THE PEOPLE WE KEEP is a July pick from Book of the Month! And huge huge thanks to Rachel Bilson for choosing TPWK and sharing a beautiful write up of the book on the BOTM website. BOTM members can get a special edition of The People We Keep before publication day! And if you're new to BOTM, there's a code on the site to get your first book for $9.99!   … [Read more...]

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Pre-Order Surprise!

June 23, 2021 Filed Under: writing, writing advice

There’s only SIX WEEKS until my new novel, The People We Keep, is published by Gallery Books! I wanted to say thank you to everyone who is preordering my book! I’ll have some fun things for readers in the coming weeks, but I wanted to start with something special for writers. I’m offering a free virtual workshop for ten writers on Thursday, July 22nd at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific. We’ll be discussing character development and techniques you can use to get to know your imaginary manuscript friends. This workshop is great for any level of writer, anyone who wants to start writing, or any … [Read more...]

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Stella

May 11, 2021 Filed Under: STELLA

Our dear friend Stella passed away yesterday. She was thirteen years, four months and seven days old. We were fortunate to be hers for more than twelve of those years. She had degenerative myelopathy and spinal stenosis and we were told well over a year ago that she would rapidly begin to lose mobility. Stella did everything her way, including this. She had some back leg stiffness, but we were still walking a mile a day (on hills) until Friday morning when it all seemed to catch up with her at once. I am so sad, but also thankful that she got to be her full Stella-self right up to the end … [Read more...]

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Goodreads Giveaway for my new novel, THE PEOPLE WE KEEP!

March 31, 2021 Filed Under: Uncategorized

I’m thrilled to tell you that my publisher, Gallery Books, is giving away 50 advance reader copies of my new novel, THE PEOPLE WE KEEP on Goodreads! You can enter here, or you can find the giveaway by searching for Allison Larkin or THE PEOPLE WE KEEP on Goodreads. I hope you’ll enter! I hope you win! I hope you enjoy this book. I’ve been working on it since before I finished STAY and these characters feel like they come from every piece of my heart. I’m so excited to share them with you. … [Read more...]

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Lyn Liao Butler Cover Reveal!

October 7, 2020 Filed Under: books are awesome

I adore Lyn Liao Butler. We share a connection to a special place in New York State, and I've loved getting to know her on social media and watching her path to publication. Her debut novel, THE TIGER MOM'S TALE is coming July 6, 2021 from Berkley/Penguin Random House, and I'm thrilled to be part of her big cover reveal day!  First a little about Lyn's novel!  Lexa Thomas has never quite fit in. Having grown up in a family of blondes while more closely resembling Constance Wu, she’s neither white enough nor Asian enough. Visiting her father in Taiwan as a child, Lexa thought … [Read more...]

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Daughter of Black Lake by Cathy Marie Buchanan

October 7, 2020 Filed Under: books are awesome

So excited for Cathy Marie Buchanan's new novel, DAUGHTER OF BLACK LAKE, out today!  Here's the description: It’s the season of Fallow, in the first century A.D. In a northern misty bog surrounded by woodlands and wheat fields, a settlement lies far beyond the reach of the Romans invading hundreds of miles to the southeast. Here, life is simple–or so it seems to the tightly knit community. Sow. Reap. Honor Mother Earth, who will provide at harvest time. A girl named Devout comes of age, sweetly flirting with the young man she’s tilled alongside all her life, and envisions a future … [Read more...]

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Internationally bestselling author of three novels as Allie Larkin and THE PEOPLE WE KEEP. Look for HOME OF THE AMERICAN CIRCUS @gallerybooks May 2025

“Larkin abandons the typical story arc in favor “Larkin abandons the typical story arc in favor of a more naturally flowing up-and-down journey that basks in beautiful moments like a slice-of-life story. Whether it’s banter at the bar Freya’s working or a leaking roof that is simply one more thing than she can possibly handle right now, the characters and their experiences are so real and pure that their joys and sorrows are amplified tenfold.” 

So honored by this AP review of Home of the American Circus! 

https://apnews.com/article/home-american-circus-allison-larkin-book-review-79ea3d1fdb69ef16232a8dfb7d148ad6

#homeoftheamericancircus #booksbooksbooks
I’ve seen a bunch of references to Home of the A I’ve seen a bunch of references to Home of the American Circus as my second novel. It’s actually my 5th! Before The People We Keep, under the name Allie Larkin, I wrote three books: Stay, Why Can’t I Be You, and Swimming for Sunlight. Here they are in their various editions with some of their translations! (And @justjuliawhelan also narrated Stay and Why Can’t I Be You, if you’d like to listen!)

Fun fact: That gorgeous dog on the hardcover of Stay was actually our dog Argo, and I took that photo of him when @duttonbooks couldn’t find the perfect photo of a black German Shepherd. #booksbooksbooks #bookstagram
Pub Day Part One. The thing is, it’s really hard Pub Day Part One. The thing is, it’s really hard to be a creative person in the world, and the blessing, the salvation, the joy of it is the community around art: the writers who will call an emergency novel Zoom meeting when you’re stuck on a draft, the ones who roll up their sleeves and make sure your words are saying what you intend to say, the one who writes an interview to promote your book in the local paper, the reader who captures pictures of the event and makes a reel, the bookstore saints who plan a meal based on the story and serve blue and yellow cupcakes and sing happy birthday to your book on launch day, the readers who show up and get books signed and ask great questions and tell stories about their lives. That’s book magic. And thanks to @townecenterbks (especially Judy and Stacey although I know there are bookstore saints behind the scenes too) and @reneewritesnovels and @woolfmania and @cassandra.a.dunn and @lindalattelessons @aneedleinmybookstack and everyone who showed up to Read it and Eat, I will never ever forget the pub day for Home of the American Circus. You all made it so special. Thank you! I love you. I’m so grateful to be part of the community of writers and readers. ❤️🐘
@deborahblakeauthor RIGHT BACK AT YOU! ❤️❤️❤️
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I will be back on Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I will be back on the grid tomorrow! I love you all so much and I’m so grateful for your support! 😘😘😘 #homeoftheamericancircus
Well, here we are on the eve of Pub Day for Home o Well, here we are on the eve of Pub Day for Home of the American Circus! 

You know that classic bit of writing advice about how you’re supposed to write the book that scares you? Well, for a long time the thought of actually writing and sharing Home of the American Circus scared the heck out of me. I spent many many years collecting ideas for this book, terrified by the thought of how deep I’d have to dig to tell this story the right way. The book is firmly fiction, and the characters are all my imaginary friends, but the setting and themes are literally and figuratively close to home for me. Freya’s story isn’t mine, we have different life events and demographics, but I understand her sense of grief and loss and floundering and hope on a cellular level. And of all the characters I’ve ever written, the way her mind works is the closest to how I think and feel. It takes place in the town where I grew up. And I think when you read this book, you won’t know my life story, but you will know the tenor of my heart. I grew up as a kid with undiagnosed ADHD in a place where I didn’t fit, frantically trying to look normal, believing it was the only way anyone would love me. Always falling short, terrified of failure. And then in my early twenties, I dropped out of college and worked at a biker bar and made such a huge mess of my life that I was forced to build myself up again brick by brick—this time knowing that failure isn’t the worst thing that can happen to a person. That as long as you can find the strength to try again in one way or another, falling flat on your face is not the end of the world. And I learned that the only way to truly feel loved is to be yourself and see who’s up for loving you in your natural form. The people I keep taught me that. And even though it scared me, this was a book I needed to write, it’s the work I’m most proud of, with characters I love the most. So sharing it doesn’t feel like the end of the world at all. Just the end of the world where I have not shared this novel set in ny hometown with a character who has a heart like mine. #misheardlyrics #rem #homeoftheamericancircus #awkwardguitar #itstheendoftheworldasweknowitandifeelfine
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