Anne Britting Oleson (she/her)

Aventurine, a writer whose professional life has always revolved around ferreting out secrets, has a few of her own. When she is asked to take her nephew on a research trip, those secrets threaten to surface and destroy the relationships she shares with her family. #Pitmad #WF

@Mamatoboys76 @GarnElizabeth You’ve only got a year until Aventurine 3 #aventurineontheborder, so you’d best get cracking on 2, #aventurineonthebailgate. <3

@GarnElizabeth I pre-ordered the latest from @AnneBOleson, but it's still waiting for the perfect reading situation.

Have you ever been looking forward to a new book for so long and then it finally releases and arrives in the mail but you leave it on your counter for days because you know you only get to read it for the first time once and then it will be over? No? Just me? Oh. #BookTwitter

@Mamatoboys76 I’m accidentally in an episode of Lewis. Walked right through a filming outside the Covered Market in Oxford, rolling my blue suitcase. ;)

Watching an episode of Inspector Morse filmed at the hotel where we stayed in Oxford a couple of weeks ago. So fun!

@AgathaChocolats An Affair to Remember

Name this movie. Wrong answers only.😉 #MovieMonday

@nathaliejacoby1 That would be me.

Advance readers copies for Aventurine on the Bailgate are now available on @booksirens. Grab yours while spots remain! booksirens.com/book/FE8Z03N/O… #ARCs #BookReviews via @booksirens

@BoldickV Hey. Anthony Doerr has a one paragraph chapter in ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE, and look where it got him.

Hey #WritingCommunity, can I do a two page chapter? Is that allowed?? (Look, I already know the answer is no, and I'm going to flesh it out.. but later. For now, we have a two page chapter 🤣🤣🤣)

@Phil_Sledge Toast!

Post the last photo of your pet on your phone. I’ll go first. No cheating 😂

@contactrebecca Push on. I find that if I go back, I get hung up on trying to perfect what I have, and don’t move forward. Revision is always ther. But you can’t revise what you haven’t written.

I'm 100 pages into my novel & wondering if I should stop & go back over pages to revise/edit the stuff I know needs work OR keep going w/story until I have the whole thing down, then go to the beginning & start revisions. How do you do it? Which one's better? Thanks! :) #writers #writingcommunity #writing #writersoftwitter #novel #middlegrade #mgbookchat #kidlit #writingtips

@TheImprovisor One. Mostly because there was no Blockbuster near me when I was growing up.

I scored a 0. Is it the lowest score or the highest that's considered the winner for this test? 😂

@Mamatoboys76 I brought mine over here from the house finally today. Since I live two blocks from the lake now.

First paddle with my sweetie in our new-to-us kayaks.

@mlduncan7 Walk. Ride my bike around the block (which in this town is really a lake, and a 16 mile loop).

Dear #writers, I've heard writers tend to be sedentary. What do you do for physical activity/fitness/exercise (whatever you want to call it)? I love lifting weights. I'm forced to do yardwork.

Rich let me talk about the only thing I’ve ever wanted to do. :)

@DowntownRichK Thanks for letting me talk about the only thing I’ve ever wanted to do!

Organizing that first draft. #AventurineontheBorder

@WillFlemming "Discovered"? Really? Something tells me Bajos de Haina existed before Columbus's pals arrived.

@Mamatoboys76 You’re going to make me cry.

@AnneBOleson Oh, Anne. I'm only a short way in and it is just so, so tender and beautiful.

Apologies to all my other books in progress, but when my favorite author launches a new book, I can't wait to read it. ❤️📚🎉 Happy book birthday, @AnneBOleson! So proud of you for doing what you love.

@Mamatoboys76 @RuthMBuchanan Thank you. So much. <3

@RuthMBuchanan @AnneBOleson The depth of the characters, the beautiful prose, the plot twist I did NOT see coming. Bonus points for being set in my home state and written by an author that actually lives there and knows the place. My review:

@LaidBackInSong Vaguely remember…