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CUT TO THE ENDING (@littlebrown, 11/3/26)
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🎬Announcing the CUT TO THE ENDING pre-order campaign!🎬

All copies purchased by 10/27 from @therippedbodice will come signed (and personalized, if that’s your jam!) and with a slew of fun goodies:
- a character art print by @shaki0o
- two stickers
- two Magician’s Gambit character tarot cards (art by sial_draws)

CUT TO THE ENDING hits shelves on 11/3 from @littlebrown , and features:

✨millennial humor
🎬a spotlight on Hollywood’s invisible workforce
🧙‍♂️a love letter to fandom
💻workplace adjacent romance
📖a story within a story
🐈‍⬛black cat x (anxious) golden retriever
🪶epistolary elements

Pre-order from any other retailer and submit proof at the 🔗 in the usual place to receive:

- a signed bookplate
- a character art print by @shaki0o
- two stickers
- one of two Magician’s Gambit character tarot cards (art by sial_draws)

All orders placed through @beguiledbooks will automatically receive all goodies. Open to US addresses only (sorry, international friends!) through the end of pub week (11/8). by @mariamillagewrites

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When I was a kid, my dad used to take me to Barnes & Noble every weekend and set me loose in the YA section while he read a newspaper in the cafe. I’d pick a book or two (or let’s be honest, three or four) and we’d read together across a sticky table while I ate the foam off his latte and fantasized about having a book with my name on it on the shelves one day.

I’m over the moon (or should I say the Hollywood sign?) to announce that lifelong dream will come true next fall. Thank you thank you to my rockstar agent @clairefriedman.agent for believing in me and this book and for finding us the perfect home with @lifeofdeparty62 and @littlebrown. Working on this book together has already been such a dream, and I’m so excited for everything that’s still to come.

To @mallorymarlowewrites, @lauramariemeyers, and @nicoleknightley: this book literally would not exist without you. Thank you for four (!!) years of notes and encouragement and laughter and your steadfast belief that I could write Max and Delaney’s story even when it was beating me up in a back alley.

This book is my love letter to my adoptive home of Los Angeles (but also a little bit of a roast) and to ambitious women who don’t believe they can have it all but meet someone who makes them want to try anyway. It’s about the joy of fandom spaces and that hyperfixation you had in middle school that never really left. And I’m so SO excited to share it with you all next year! by @mariamillagewrites

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Happy book birthday to my favorite person (@mallorymarlowewrites) and her THIRD BOOK!!!

ENTITIES TO LOVERS is a delightfully spooky romp through the haunted streets of Boston, and it’s chock full of the best things about Mallory’s writing: offbeat settings, a wacky cast of characters (including a haunted doll who really comes in clutch), jokes galore, and a truly special earnestness that is in everything Mal writes.

I am always proud of Mal and how much she’s accomplished, but having gotten a backstage pass to watching this book come together into a final form she’s proud of only makes me MORE PROUD.

EVERYONE GO BUY TEN COPIES!!!!!!! 👻👻👻 by @mariamillagewrites

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We are just about three weeks out from pub day (!!) and I’m thrilled to be sharing this stunner of a blurb from @amybuchananbooks! Amy’s books are funny and swoony and sexy and achingly heartfelt and, to use her own words against her “an absolute joy”. I’m so very grateful to her for taking the time to read Cut to the Ending early, and for saying such lovely things about it! by @mariamillagewrites

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🎬Attention New York Comic Con goers!! 🎬

Stop by the Hachette booth (#3445) on Saturday beteeen 10-11am to pick up an early copy of CUT TO THE ENDING! Available while supplies last. by @mariamillagewrites

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We are just under one month from pub and I still have one too many galleys sitting on my shelf, so let’s give one away!

TO ENTER:
- follow me (@mariamillagewrites)
- like this post
- comment with a book you’ve recently read and loved!

EXTRA ENTRIES:
- tag up to two friends in the comments (separate comments, 1 extra entry per comment)
- add CTTE to your Goodreads want to read shelf and submit proof to the 🔗 in my bio (1 extra entry)

I cannot track reposts and shares to your story but they will earn you my never ending love and affection. 💙💛

Giveaway runs from 10/7 - 10/14. Winner must be comfortable providing me with their address for shipping. Open to the US & Canada.

CUT TO THE ENDING is “A deliciously swoony Hollywood romcom about an aspiring screenwriter who gets the opportunity to write the finale of a megahit fantasy franchise, and the nerdy—but annoyingly hot—assistant she teams up with to teach her the series’ canon, for readers of How to End a Love Story and Book Lovers” featuring:

✨millennial humor
🎬behind the scenes Hollywood setting
🧙‍♂️a love letter to fandom
💻workplace adjacent romance
📚a story within a story
🐈‍⬛black cat x (anxious) golden retriever
🪶epistolary elements by @mariamillagewrites

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🌟A STAR FOR MAX AND DELANEY🌟

One of the items on my list of pie in the sky author goals was to receive a starred trade review, and I am so thrilled to share CUT TO THE ENDING has received one from @library_journal! Honored, overwhelmed, very grateful for the response to this book that I love so very very much.

CUT TO THE ENDING hits shelves on 11/3 from @littlebrown, and features:

✨millennial humor
🎬behind the scenes Hollywood setting
🧙‍♂️a love letter to fandom
💻workplace adjacent romance
📚a story within a story
🐈‍⬛black cat x (anxious) golden retriever
🪶epistolary elements by @mariamillagewrites

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This week’s blurb hails from the brilliantly talented @audreygoldbergruoff whose sophomore romance, VENGEFULLY MATCHED is out TOMORROW (October is the perfect time for spooky, witchy romance so you should go buy it immediately!!)

Audrey was one of my beta readers on an early draft of CUT TO THE ENDING and I have been nothing but blown away by her enthusiasm and love for this book since she read it. She’s a grade A cheerleader, my #1 Lorelai Landis stan, and an even better friend. Now go read all of her books!!

🎬Cut to the Ending is out in FOUR WEEKS!!🎬 I hope you’ll pick it up if you like:
✨millennial humor
🎬behind the scenes Hollywood setting
🧙‍♂️a love letter to fandom
💻workplace adjacent romance
📚a story within a story
🐈‍⬛black cat x (anxious) golden retriever
🪶epistolary elements by @mariamillagewrites

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✨ Get ready to fall in love with your next favorite romance author because we’re celebrating our 2026 debut authors with a virtual event!

Join us on October 29th at 8PM ET on CrowdCast for a discussion with:
💙 Summer N England - The Impossible Garden of Clara Thorne
💙 Thomas Kent West - City of Iron and Ivy
💙 Emily Heil - A Pinch of Magic
💙 Maria Millage - Cut to the Ending
💙 Moderated by USA Today bestselling author Cara Tanamachi - Kiss, Marry, Kill

They’ll discuss their publishing journeys, the inspiration behind their stories, and what readers can expect from them next. Perfect for romance fans looking to discover fresh new voices!

🚨 People who register for this event will be automatically entered to win a bundle of books from the authors!

📚 You can purchase copies of their books via Bookshop.org or Libro.fm to help support your favorite indie bookstore!

✨ Click the link in our bio to register to watch live or get the replay sent straight to your inbox!

Hope to see you there!

#ReadForeverPub #LittleBrown #DebutAuthors #VirtualEvent by @mariamillagewrites

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I had so much fun doing this trend once that I had to do it twice, because what’s the point of writing a film franchise into your book if you don’t also get to caption some (fake) screencaps?

I had so much fun building the world of Magician’s Gambit, my second world dark fantasy story within a story in which everyone is maybe a little bit out for themselves and I am very excited to introduce you to Dorian and Magdalena (and Max and Delaney) in just over ONE MONTH!

CUT TO THE ENDING, my debut romance about an aspiring screenwriter writing the finale to a megahit fantasy series and the nerdy (but hot!) talent manager’s assistant she recruits to teach her the series canon, hits shelves on November 3rd from @littlebrown! I hope you’ll consider picking it up if you like:

✨millennial humor
🎬behind the scenes Hollywood setting
🧙‍♂️a love letter to fandom
💻workplace adjacent romance
📚a story within a story
🐈‍⬛black cat x (anxious) golden retriever
🪶in universe mixed media
❔more body horror than you’re probably expecting from a romance by @mariamillagewrites

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So very thrilled to be sharing this week’s blurb from the brilliant and lovely @annie_m_writes!

I first met Annie through the KissPitch program four (I think? God time is so weird!) years ago and I am honored to be able to call her a friend. Her debut is high stakes, swoony, and deeply heartfelt (also nightmare fuel for me personally who would probably immediately d!e if I got stranded on a deserted island even if it was with my very capable and very hot ex-boyfriend).

“Fresh, funny, and irresistibly romantic, Cut to the Ending is a love letter to fandom and the messy magic of creating your own happy ending. Maria Millage is a voice rom-com readers will adore.”

Go pick up a copy of CRASH LANDING! And if you happen to snag CTTE at the same time, peep that third slide for goodies that could be yours!! by @mariamillagewrites

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The @2026debuts Fall releases will be hustlin’ ’til the ‘Ber months are over! 💪 Brew your pumpkin spice latte and support some wonderful independent bookstores by pre-ördering — you’ll get extra goodies too. Which reads do you have your eye on? 👀

For your Fall TBR we’ve got:
⚡THUNDERSTRUCK by @lissalaylandauthor
🔮LOVE, WITCHES AND WAHALA by @christinecowanauthor
❄️NOW THAT WE DON’T TALK by @rachelpologewrites
🎥CUT TO THE ENDING by @mariamillagewrites
✨SPELLWRIGHT by @heather1ee
🌊SALT WATER BLOOD by @heinrich.manuia
💻THE LOVE CODE by @conniekitsonwrites
🛸STRANGE LIGHTS by @mira.h.gonzalez
💕EVERYTHING SHE WANTED by @xoroseyhwang
🫀I AM THE DEVOURING DARK by @kimberly_lynn_books
🌹LAST NIGHT I DREAMED OF HOME by @sophie.x.li
💀THE BONE BRIDES by @marleyroseteter
📚THE EDUCATION OF IMRYN DYRE by @artemiswhelan

🏷️ #2026debuts #tbr #bookstagram #reading by @mariamillagewrites

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