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“What could you possibly have to say?” For M.K. Williams, those words could have been the end of her writing journey. Instead, they sparked a decade of self-publishing, helping other authors, and building a community of 32,000+ on YouTube. Read her story at the link in our bio.

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I smile for the camera because my debut book SMILE FOR THE CAMERA is OUT NOW!💝📖🇵🇭📚💝 My dreams of becoming a published author have finally come true!🙏🏽🥹💝 I began writing this book at my MFA program in 2019 and believed in it so much that I persevered through 7 years of rejections and waiting. Now, the book of my heart is finally out in the world!

As a FilAm who never saw herself represented in her fave YA romance books, it was important to me to write a book with a FilAm FMC getting her love story and HEA with a cute guy. SMILE FOR THE CAMERA includes everything I love: a sweet romance, a musician LI, summer adventures, and ofc a FilAm girl learning to follow her heart. I wrote this book for the Teen Trish who longed to see another FilAm girl being loved and happy, and I hope other Filipinos will feel this way as they turn the pages of my debut. Emilyn and Jase are truly special to me, and I can’t wait for you all to meet them and all these characters I’ve loved for years!💝

Infinite thanks to my family who have supported me from the very beginning!💝 So grateful to have you all by my side and for being there for me through all the smiles, tears, joy, and successes!😘

Massive thanks also to my wonderful agent @stephaniehansenauthor @metamorphosis_literary_agency 🥰 I’m so thankful for all your hard work, patience, and dedication! You believed in me and this book as much as I do, and I’m truly so grateful that you persevered through 3 years of Sub with this book. You made make my dreams come true! So happy to have you in my corner!🥰

Also massive thanks to my wonderful publisher @evernightteen 🥰 Thank you so so much for believing in this book and for bringing my dreams to reality! I truly appreciate all of your amazing work, from the design to the edits. Thanks to you, the book of my heart can now make it to readers all over the globe, a dream I’ve had since I was a teen girl! And the cover by @simplydefinedart is an absolute dream come true!😍

Another massive thanks to @tantoraudio for bringing my dreams to reality in audio format!😍

SMILE FOR THE CAMERA is OUT NOW!📸

#bookstagram #yabooks #filipinoamericanhistorymonth #filtheshelves #fyp

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After all these years, I can’t believe I finally get to say this: my debut book comes out TOMORROW!

Even though this book received hundreds and hundreds rejections from agents and editors, I believed in it so much that I stuck with it. And my wonderful agent @stephaniehansenauthor and my wonderful publisher @evernightteen and wonderful audio producer @tantoraudio believed in it too. Now, the book of my heart will be yours in just one day! And ofc I had to use audio that features “Brain Stew” by Jase’s fave band Green Day!💝

Thank you to everyone who’s stuck by me in this journey. All of your support truly means a LOT to me!💝

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In my YA Romance SMILE FOR THE CAMERA, a Filipina American teen enlists the help of a guitarist to win a photography competition without her family’s knowledge.

If you smile for…

📸FilAm rep
📸Jenny Han vibes
📸Slow burn summer romances
📸Cozy reads
📸Good girl/Bad boy couples
📸Strict but well-meaning family
📸FMC facing every introvert’s biggest fear: public speaking
📸Artists bonding over each other’s art

Then you’ll smile for SMILE FOR THE CAMERA 📸

Out by @evernightteen TOMORROW

Audiobook by @tantoraudio on NOV 24

#bookstagram #debutauthor #yabooks #filtheshelves #filipinoamericanhistorymonth

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Did somebody say preorder?! 😏 This week’s lineup is stacked with something for everyone. Be sure to check these and the full list of preorder campaigns we have up on our site. Let us know which book you can’t wait to get your hands on! 🫶🏻

WHERE ROMANCE MEETS MUSIC AND FOUND FAMILY HER STUDENT IS HIS DAUGHTER. FALLING FOR HIM COULD COST HER THE FUTURE SHE FOUGHT TO RECLAIM.
 Zella Mondesir spent years hiding the brilliance that once made her a star. Now, while finishing her doctorate and teaching composition in Chicago, she is reclaiming music on her own terms. Patrick Bianchi has built his life around his daughter, his family, and Prime. Their attraction is undeniable, but with Zella’s career and future in Chicago uncertain, choosing Patrick could put everything she has rebuilt at risk.

Waking up married in Vegas? Not exactly part of the plan.
 Especially when the groom is Jax Wilder—Chicago Railers hockey star, shameless flirt, and the most infuriating man I’ve ever met.
 I want an annulment. He wants to stay married.
 But with custody of my younger siblings on the line, a stable home—and a husband—might be exactly what I need to keep us together.
 Jax offers me a deal: stay married, move into his penthouse, and let him help until everything is settled.
 It’s only temporary.
 Except Jax doesn’t just make room for me. He makes room for all of us.
 And somewhere between family dinners, late nights, and sharing a bed with the husband I never wanted, our marriage starts feeling dangerously real.
 Falling for my husband was never part of the plan. Neither was wanting to keep him.

The line between love and hate is so thin that it’s almost transparent.
Sometimes, I don’t even know what side I’m on.
After the torture I’ve endured…
What I’ve somehow managed to survive…
The last place I thought I’d find myself was back here, behind these high walls and massive iron gates.
Home.
Where I should be safe.
But it still feels like the prison it was when I was a child.
All I find here are complicated feelings about my past and more fear of what is to come…
Until Ellis becomes my refuge from the storm life has become.
His strong arms, intensely protective nature, and prom

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We’re halfway through the Indie Author Collective Series Book Blast.
Featuring a range of free and discounted books of all genres.
Have you downloaded any books this month?

#indieauthorcollective #indieauthorcollectivesyk #booksbooksbooks #bookblast #freebooks

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Indie Author Collective is hosting a stuff your kindle / stuff your eReader event called Gotta Get 'Em All, featuring books that are part of a series of some kind. Yes, indeed, I dare you to be the very best and download all these discounted books and free books to your TBR sooner rather than later!

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Visit these wonderful authors' pages for updates and more info on new and upcoming books and releases!

@indie.author.collective @author_ellemartin @sashkina_author @1mkwilliams @kalleighroynwrites @jennathesoulwriteromalley @zofiavonhuck_writer @bri_eberhart @ataleof_books @giastonebooks @shreynoldsauthor @aknevermore

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Romance Book Recs for Every ✨ Mood ✨

Hello fellow mood readers! Here are some amazing romance recs for every vibe.

I want to…

LAUGH

It’s a Business Doing Pleasure With You by Lindsay Lewis
The Christmas Curse by Alix Kelinda
Soon by You by Dahlia Adler
Second Time’s a Charm by Taylor Epperson
Most Eligible by Isabelle Engel
Spikes, Dice, & Other Variables by Harper Kinsley

CRY

You’re Dead to Me, Reed Walker by Gwenyth Reitz
The Free Verse Society by Delali Adjoa
Last Night I Dreamed of Home by Sophie Li
With All My Haunted Heart by Isabel Sterling

SWOON

Spellwright by Heather Kassner
The Demon’s Kiss by Scarlett Ash
The Love Code by Connie Kitson
Into the Midnight Wood by Alexandra McCollum
Wrong Order by Alice Li
The Education of Imryn Dyre, Wizard’s Apprentice by Artemis Whelan
Veiled in Shadow by Liz Edelbrock

GO ON AN ADVENTURE

Thunderstruck by Lissa Layland
Fake Out Make Out by Kate Williams
We’ve Hit Turbulence by Jessica L. Cozzi
A World Apart by Meghan Nesmith

FEEL THE TENSION

Silk and Sensibility by Mengxi Seeley
Zahra, Unapologetic by Mina Zafri
Witch Season by Julia Bianco
It’s All in Your Head by Sabina Nordqvist
Everything She Wanted by Rosey Kaur Hwang

Which one are you adding to your tbr?

#romancebookrecs #moodreader @2026debuts

LAUGH

It’s a Business Doing Pleasure With You by Lindsay Lewis
The Christmas Curse by Alix Kelinda
Soon by You by Dahlia Adler
Second Time’s a Charm by Taylor Epperson
Most Eligible by Isabelle Engel
Spikes, Dice, & Other Variables by Harper Kinsley

CRY

You’re Dead to Me, Reed Walker by Gwenyth Reitz
The Free Verse Society by Delali Adjoa
Last Night I Dreamed of Home by Sophie Li
With All My Haunted Heart by Isabel Sterling

SWOON

Spellwright by Heather Kassner
The Demon’s Kiss by Scarlett Ash
The Love Code by Connie Kitson
Into the Midnight Wood by Alexandra McCollum
Wrong Order by Alice Li
The Education of Imryn Dyre, Wizard’s Apprentice by Artemis Whelan
Veiled in Shadow by Liz Edelbrock

GO ON AN ADVENTURE

Thunderstruck by Lissa Layland
Fake Out Make Out by Kate Williams
We’ve Hit Turbulence by Jessica L. Cozzi
A World Apart by Meghan Nesmith

FEEL THE TENSION

Silk and Sensibility by Mengxi See

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part 8 is here 🩷📚

books with disability representation will always be one of my favorite series to make. there’s something so special about finding characters who experience things that you don’t always see represented in books, especially when you’re someone living with chronic illness yourself.

this one is a little mix of everything, and i hope you find a new book to add to your tbr 🫶🏻

if you know a book with disability representation that i NEED to add to part 9, leave it below!! 🤍

save this for your next tbr 📚✨

#disabilityrepresentation #bookrecommendations #disabilityawareness

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Y’all seem to really love these posts, so here are some more recs my brain made connections between. The earlier ones can be found in my highlights if you don’t want to scroll through all of my posts to find the others. Here are some book recs based on similar tropes of books you already know you have enjoyed. Some of these books start out feeling like dupes of the other books but finish wildly differently, some remain similar throughout the entire plot, and some just have similar vibes. This is my first one of these where I have a whole series comparison. #bookstagram #ifyoulikethisreadthat

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Day 1 of Sept so yk it means we’re sharing the most-searched authors/books on NarratAbility!

In August, we had over 700 people searching for books with representation for Chronic Pain, Autism, POTS, Endometriosis, Fibromyalgia, Anxiety, Cane User, among others.

Most popular authors included @barbaradelinsky @laurelhollbooks @katemichaelsonwriter @nishawrites @lillielainoff @r.jackson.bennett @lexcanroar @vesperdoom @francesmthompson @1mkwilliams @laurelhollbooks @crystalswriting and others 🥰

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