Drink with Holloway Hearth ☕ What my rom-com characters order: Nate, pomegranate green tea with vanilla. Henry, peppermint mocha with raspberry. Lila, London fog. Trish, pumpkin spice latte. Whose order are you stealing? #booksky

"Don't judge a book by its cover" except I maxed out my library card on every rom-com cover that caught my eye 📚 Gotta figure out my own cover style somehow. Which one would you grab first? #booksky #romcom

Reading lines from my book that sound super cringy out of context 😅 "Even if the man was hot. Especially if the man was hot." #booksky #romcom

The mornings are getting darker, so the light-up vest is officially back 🔦 My walking buddy does not care what time the sun comes up. Lila starts her day with a neighborhood walk too, right before everything goes sideways. #booksky #amwriting

A new series: Romancing a Rom-Com Life 📖 I believe we should all be romancing the rom-com parts of our own lives. First up: Lila's red hair, inspired by my best friend's beautiful strawberry blonde hair. #booksky #romcom

Making Trish's favorite drink 🎃 Nate and Henry both have funky orders. Trish is the opposite: a pumpkin spice latte. She's one of the first people to see what's going on between Nate and Lila 👀 #booksky #romcom

Pumpkin pancakes will forever and ever have my heart 🥞🎃 I can never get them to come out right at home, though. Drop your best tips below! #pumpkinseason #booksky

Fall color from the boat 🍁 Peak season is so short, so I soak in every second. Nate's moving to Wisconsin after his sister's wedding. Would you trade a view like this for the person you met? #booksky #romcom

Making Henry's favorite drink ☕ Like Nate, Henry gets teased for his odd order: a peppermint mocha with raspberry, the Henry specialty. Verdict: not terrible, but not great. Trish's drink is up next! #booksky #romcom

Throwback to when my furry coworker was small enough to carry 🐾 She's much bigger now and still thinks she's a lap dog. Still deciding if Lila and Nate end up with a dog. She votes yes. #booksky #dogsofbluesky

Lila or Nate? Wedding planning edition 💍 Romantic or cynic? One of them plans dream days for a living. The other just wants the budget to make sense. Which one are you? #booksky #romcom

Making Nate's favorite drink 🍵 Green tea with pomegranate and a shot of vanilla. Part of me hoped it was good. Part of me hoped it was still weird. Verdict: it is indeed weird. Sorry, Nate. #booksky #romcom

Lila never goes anywhere without her binder, so I made one 💕 The Thompson Wedding, color-coded tabs and all. Mine secretly holds my book plans (calendar, socials, illustrators, to-dos), but the cover is all Lila. #booksky #romcom

My cozy first date outfit, complete with my grandma's sweater 🧶 Four years later, we're still together. Maybe that's why I write love stories where the little details matter. #booksky #romcom

Making Lila's favorite drink ☕ She used to be a barista, and today it's a London fog: black tea, soy milk, and vanilla syrup (never lavender, it tastes like soap to me). Follow along this week for more character drinks! #booksky

Sneak Peek Sunday: Lila's green flags 💚 Four of them, straight from my debut rom-com. Can you guess what they are? #booksky #romcom

Drawer to bookshelf upcycle 📚 A little project I did with my dad many years ago, built to move with me through dorms and apartments. This little piece has seen a lot of life with me, and it makes me happy every time I look at it. #booksky

My guidelines for writing a rom-com with OCD rep 💚 1. No "I'm so OCD" jokes in my book 2. The romance doesn't cure her OCD 3. A sensitivity reader will read it, because my experience isn't the end-all-be-all. Thank you for spending OCD Awareness Week with me and Lila! #OCDweek #booksky

In my debut rom-com, it's important to me that the main character's OCD is part of her story, not her whole story. Here are a few examples of how I live WITH OCD, not a life OF OCD 💚 #OCDweek #booksky

Improv, comedy shows, and live theater are some of my favorite pastimes 🎭 Sharing a story with a whole crowd, plus great research for writing banter. #booksky

Why my main character has OCD, part 2 💚 OCD lives in shame. A big part of my own journey was saying the thoughts out loud. So this book puts that out into the world: OCD belongs in rom-coms too, because it coexists with real life. #OCDweek #booksky

Guys, the pic wouldn't come out well, but I promise the moon looked so cool at 5am when I left for an event 🌙 The glamorous side of event planning! #booksky

As a wedding planner, Lila has backups for her backups. As a real life event planner, those backups came in clutch this week 🎧 Wrong headphone connection? I had both types, because of course I did. #booksky

What OCD looks like for Lila 💚 She has checking OCD. The thought: did I leave the straightener on? The check: back inside, turn it off 4 times, unplug it, snap a photo of it unplugged. And she still has a full, busy life. #OCDweek #booksky

My therapist said my imagination is too good at thinking up "what if" OCD scenarios. But that also means I'm a really creative writer, and I can do happy endings too 💚 #OCDweek #booksky

Expectation vs. reality, crochet edition 🧶 My crocheting may not win any awards. But Lila's may win her a husband. #booksky #crochet

My lukewarm take on "I'm so OCD": you will never see a character in my book say it. OCD can be scary and isolating, not a quirky trait. So just describe the trait! "I like my desk organized" works great 💚 #OCDweek #booksky

For all you bird nerds: birds actually play a not-insignificant part in my debut novel (and maybe a related future one 👀👀) #booksky #birds

Week 2 of writing my debut rom-com: what I'm learning 📖 My writing pace is slowing a little with life stuff, and that's okay. I didn't know I'd love talking with you all this much. #booksky #amwriting

If you loved how real the OCD representation felt in Turtles All the Way Down, meet Lila 💭 Checking the stove. Checking the door. Turning the car around a mile away to check one last time.   #booksky #romcom #OCDweek