✨MORE NEWS!?✨👀 Yup! There’s a Goodreads giveaway for 50 ARCs of Not Your Typical Love Story happening NOW! That’s right, you can download the e-ARC on NetGalley *AND* enter to win a physical ARC on Goodreads. 🔗 below, details on Goodreads!
Caitlyn Averett
@craverett.bsky.social
Author of NOT YOUR TYPICAL LOVE STORY (Wednesday Books, April 20 2027) | rep Amy Bishop-Wycisk | former editor at LBYR and Jimmy Patterson | she/her | https://linktr.ee/craverett
My debut is up on NETGALLEY! And you know what’s even better? It’s READ NOW for a week! So anyone interested in a romcom about 2 asexual/aromantic teens, now’s the time to go download Not Your Typical Love Story. It’s a perfect summer read if I do say so myself! www.netgalley.com/catalog/book... 
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If you’d like to support a debut author or aroace books (OR BOTH!), my book is 25% off this week at Barnes & Noble! And keep those receipts—I’m planning a preorder campaign! 👀 www.barnesandnoble.com/w/not-your-t...
My ARCs are here!!! 😍🤩 There are actual, literal copies of my book are on my shelf, what!? I keep waiting for this whole debut thing to feel real but so far, it’s just as surreal as that first call with my now-editor before the offer, a call I can’t even remember bc I was so excited and nervous.
ARCS HAVE ARRIVED! Omg I have actual, literal ARCs of my debut book! It’s like, a real thing!!! 🫠 (Videos/pictures to come…once I get the nerve to rewatch the video!) Also, if you want to check out my asexual/aromantic YA romcom, preorder links are up! read.macmillan.com/lp/not-your-...
Not Your Typical Love Story 9781250423993 - Macmillan
Loveless meets You’ve Got Mail in a charming YA romance centering two aspec (asexual and aromantic) teens at the heart of their own kind of love story.&...
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Money is tight and it’s Pride and my birthday month, so I’m finally biting the bullet and making myself available for AMA video calls. I have 20 years in the publishing industry. 16 as an editor of award-winning & bestselling MG and YA fiction and now as an agent.
So exciting to see my debut, Not Your Typical Love Story, featured on this list by LGBTQ Reads along with other great books with aromantic rep! read.macmillan.com/lp/not-your-...
LGBTQReads@lgbtqreads.bsky.social · 2mo agoHappy Aromantic Visibility Day 2026! Young Adult Shapes of Love by L.V. Peñalba When nineteen-year-old Sasha’s first album throws her into stardom, her fans become obsessed with discovering who inspired her love songs.... https://lgbtqreads.com/2026/06/05/happy-aromantic-visibility-day-2026/
Happy Pride month! 🏳️🌈 Personally, I don’t love talking about being aroace publicly, tho I did write a whole book about it, which is a little terrifying (why did I do this to myself???), BUT I’m so happy I can write books about ace/aro teens for the kids like I was (or anyone who doesn’t quite fit).
I’m so excited for Caitlyn and I cannot wait to read this book! 😍😍😍
Caitlyn Averett@craverett.bsky.social · 3mo agoSo excited to share ✨THE COVER✨ for my debut, Not Your Typical Love Story, a YA romance about two asexual/aromantic teens. And it’s better than I ever imagined! Look at those colors! The characters! The title treatment! Ahh! 😍
So excited to share ✨THE COVER✨ for my debut, Not Your Typical Love Story, a YA romance about two asexual/aromantic teens. And it’s better than I ever imagined! Look at those colors! The characters! The title treatment! Ahh! 😍
✨Cover reveal✨ incoming TOMORROW! Can’t wait to share the cover for my debut novel—it’s everything I could’ve hoped for and more!
Something ✨FINAL COVER IMAGE SHAPED✨ showed up in my inbox today and it is SO. GOOD. Omg I can’t wait to share! 😍😍😍
✨WE HAVE A PUB DATE!✨My debut YA aspec romance will be out April 20, 2027! & it’s up for PREORDER! With an official book description! 👀 (🔗in bıo + down) Things are getting REAL! I’m excited to share details of this book, which exists because I wanted to see aspec characters get a happily ever after
Caitlyn Averett@craverett.bsky.social · 4mo ago✨Book news incoming TOMORROW!✨ I *finally* have news to share about my debut YA aspec romance! 👀👀👀
✨Book news incoming TOMORROW!✨ I *finally* have news to share about my debut YA aspec romance! 👀👀👀
I might have ✨book news✨ coming a lot sooner than I expected like oh, a pub date…? And maybe an official pitch plus more??? 👀
Um…I think I get to make one of those “there’s a cover (sketch) shaped thing in my inbox 👀” posts and like, wut. Y’all, it’s SO GOOD! How am I not supposed to be insufferable about this while staring at it all day??? It is everything I hoped it would be and this is JUST the black and white sketch! 😍
Happy Aromantic Awareness Week! For my debut YA romance, I knew I wanted to include aromantic rep for one of the main characters. I’d never seen an aro love interest & wanted to explore what a love story could look like for an ace + aroace pairing. So Not Your Typical Love Story is just that.
IT’S HERE! 🎉 Congratulations to the 2026 Round Table Mentor mentees! Our mentors are SO excited to get started and will be personally reaching out to their chosen mentee via email to kick things off, so keep an eye on those inboxes! **See more details below 👇**
Nothing in publishing (or life) is ever a straight path, but looking back, I can see the moments that led here even if I had no idea at the time. So as we near the end of the year, I’ve been thinking back, & is particularly strange because come 2026, I’ll be able to say “my book is out next year!”
The time has come🥳Mentee applications are now open until November 21st! Interested parties should head over to www.roundtablementor.com/apply and feel free to DM for any questions! We can't WAIT to dive into your submissions!!!! ❤️
Today’s the day! Have a question about the program, application process, or our mentors? Ask it below! #writingmentorship #roundtablementor #writingcommunity
Attention applicants! We're hosting an AMA on the RTM socials on 11/3 starting at 8 a.m. EST! We'll be answering questions about the program or anything specific you have for our mentors. (Some will also have AMAs on their personal pages, so keep an eye out!) See you then!
Author photos are here and I’m taking a poll because how am I expected to choose?! So, which one is your favorite? It’s strange to be at this stage in the process, because although I’ve spent years working towards being a published author, I never pictured this moment. 1/3 #debutauthors
There are GALLEYS OF MY DEBUT! The emotions I felt when I first held my book (and still feel every time I look at the galleys on my shelf) were…I don’t even know. A lot. A jumbled up mix of a whole freaking lot. 1/4 #author #yaauthors #queerya ##2027debut #asexual #aromantic #debutauthors
It’s Ace Week 💜🤍🩶🖤 and so I thought it would be appropriate to post a sneak peek from my ace/aro debut book, Not Your Typical Love Story, which centers aspec teens at the heart of their own kind of love story. #aceweek #asexualawareness #asexual #author #queerya #2027debut
Excited to be part of @roundtablementor.bsky.social 2025-2026 mentorship program with a fantastic group of other mentors! I’ll post my #MSWL soon, but in the meantime I’ll say that I’ll be looking for MG, YA, or NA with a focus on queer stories in the following genres…
Excited to be part of the 2025-2026 mentor group! Stay tuned for our MSWLs, coming soon!
Round Table Mentor@roundtablementor.bsky.social · 10mo agoWe are SO excited to announce our 2025-2026 Round Table Mentors! The talent, dedication, and energy of this team is simply incredible. Full bios and wishlists will be up on our website soon! 📢🗓️For interested parties—mentee applications open Nov. 6, so mark your calendars!
We are SO excited to announce our 2025-2026 Round Table Mentors! The talent, dedication, and energy of this team is simply incredible. Full bios and wishlists will be up on our website soon! 📢🗓️For interested parties—mentee applications open Nov. 6, so mark your calendars!
Over on my Instagram people voted for what they wanted to see in celebration of my debut reaching 100 adds on Goodreads…and the winner was the first vs final opening! So here’s my cringy opening compared to the final—and a few other variations that existed along the way.
