USA Today Bestselling Author of DON'T WANT YOU LIKE A BEST FRIEND (
@Avonbooks
) · Screenwriter · Theater kid · Stress Baker · Rep
@stacy_testa
· She/her
DON'T WANT YOU LIKE A BEST FRIEND debuts TODAY! I'm a published author!
I'm so excited for my sapphic Victorian parent-trapping debutantes to be out in the world! Available everywhere books are sold in print, ebook, and audiobook!
I am extremely excited to announce that my debut lesbian Victorian parent trap novel, “Mischief & Matchmaking” is being published by
@avonbooks
in 2024!
I am so grateful and honored that Avon has decided to take me on, and that I get to share this story with all of you!
The cover of my sapphic Victorian parent trap debut DON’T WANT YOU LIKE A BEST FRIEND is here, coming Jan 9th, 2024 from
@avonbooks
!
Illustrated by the incomparable
@lenikauffman
, a true DREAM!!
Pre-order:
Requests on NetGalley & Edelweiss+ are live too!
I can finally say, it's Debut Year! My book comes out in just 8 days!
January 9th, 2024 (Jan 11th in the UK). I cant wait for all that 2024 has to bring!
MORE THAN A BEST FRIEND is out TODAY, Jan 11th, in the UK and bookstores selling English Language books!
My sapphic Victorian parent trapping debutantes are officially seeing the world!!
That's my book, on a bookstore shelf!
Thank you to everyone who helped celebrate the debut of "Don't Want You Like a Best Friend" yesterday!
My sapphic Victorian parent-trapping debutantes are on shelves now, I can't quite believe it!
I am so excited and proud to announce that DON'T WANT YOU LIKE A BEST FRIEND has received a Starred Review from
@ALA_Booklist
!
We're a little over one month away, I can't believe it! Beth and Gwen hit shelves Jan 9th, 2024 in the US, and Jan 11th, 2024 in the UK!
✨Two. Days.✨to debut!
Getting to make this trope board was one of the highlights of announcing my sapphic Victorian parent trapping debut novel. Wanted to share it one last time before "Don't Want You Like a Best Friend" enters the world on Tuesday!
I am so excited and incredibly honored to announce that DON'T WANT YOU LIKE A BEST FRIEND is a ✨January 2024 Indie Next Pick!✨
Thank you so very much to
@ABAbook
and all the amazing independent booksellers who read, reviewed, and voted for my sapphic Victorian debutantes!
In honor of Small Business Saturday I am SO EXCITED to announce my Signed Pre-Order Campaign with
@therippedbodice
for DON'T WANT YOU LIKE A BEST FRIEND!!
All orders will receive a signed, personalized copy, plus an art print illustrated by the amazing
@lenikauffman
!
Don your hoop skirt and grab your curlers because DON'T WANT YOU LIKE A BEST FRIEND by
@ERAlban
is on sale tomorrow and we're pining in anticipation of more readers falling in love with the the sapphic Victorian Parent Trap/Bridgerton mashup of our dreams 😘
Something pretty wonderful arrived at my door last night (yesterday was THE BEST).
You can pre order DON’T WANT YOU LIKE A BEST FRIEND, my sapphic Victorian parent trap romance, coming January 9th, 2024 w/
@avonbooks
.
The gorgeous cover designed & illustrated by
@lenikauffman
!
We're six months to debut day, Jan 9th, for DON'T WANT YOU LIKE A BEST FRIEND!
Instead of finding husbands themselves, two debutantes team up to get their widowed parents together in 1857, and end up falling in love along the way. Beth and Gwen can't wait to meet you guys!
Heading to the
#steamylitcon
this weekend as an attendee! If you see me walking around, and would like a DON'T WANT YOU LIKE A BEST FRIEND bookmark or bookcard, please say hi! Can't wait to celebrate Romance with awesome people!
Today's a great day to pre order some sapphic Victorian parent-trapping debutantes at Target (or at your local indie). Just sayin'.
20% off through Saturday 10/7 with Target Circles.
DON'T WANT YOU LIKE A BEST FRIEND officially comes out ✨ONE MONTH✨ from today!
Sapphic Victorian parent-trapping debutantes hit shelves January 9th, 2024 in the US, and January 11th, 2024 in the UK!
Publishers Weekly says if you want tenderness, not trauma, in your queer period fiction, DON'T WANT YOU LIKE A BEST FRIEND will hit the spot!
If that sounds good, today's the LAST DAY to enter the US ✨100 Print ARC giveaway✨ (🔗 below)! Beth and Gwen wish you luck!
I had the MOST amazing debut launch event for "Don't Want You Like a Best Friend" at
@TheRippedBodice
LA last night!! Thank you so much to TRB,
@avonbooks
, the wonderful Edward Underhill, and everyone who came out to celebrate!
Truly couldn't have imagined a better event!! 💜💜
I hear we're sharing trope boards? I've never gotten to do this as a published author before!!
DON'T WANT YOU LIKE A BEST FRIEND is available everywhere books are sold in print, ebook, and audiobook (avail as MORE THAN A BEST FRIEND in print and ebook in the UK)!
Just got home from the Happy to Meet Cute Summer Book Festival (which was fabulous!) to find that DON'T WANT YOU LIKE A BEST FRIEND has gotten over 2000 adds on Goodreads! Thank you, everyone!!
"Don't Want You Like a Best Friend" comes out ONE WEEK from today!
And, DWYLABF has been chosen as an Amazon Editors' Pick for Best Romance Books of January!
I can't wait for this book to be in readers' hands next Tuesday 1/9 (Jan 11th in the UK as "More Than a Best Friend")!
Pinning, DON'T WANT YOU LIKE A BEST FRIEND was listed in
@PublishersWkly
's Fall 2023 Adult Announcements issue yesterday!
I'm so honored, and SO excited for all of you to meet debutantes Beth and Gwen. I can't wait to share their sapphic Victorian parent-trapping love story!
@Writers_Write
Put the circle inside the triangle. Then you get a healthy life, AND the deathly hallows. As master of death, you can do just about anything.
DON'T WANT YOU LIKE A BEST FRIEND officially comes out ✨two weeks✨ from TODAY!
I am so excited for this book to be in the world, and I cannot wait to celebrate with all of you on Jan 9th, 2024!
The launch event at
@TheRippedBodice
LA will be pretty awesome too, just sayin'.
If you want to know a little bit more about my lesbian Victorian parent trap debut romance--
“Mischief & Matchmaking,” coming from
@avonbooks
in 2024--
I humbly present my *cringe* board (I’m about 5 months late to this
#booktwitter
trend, but I’ve been so excited to share):
In my dual POV sapphic Victorian parent trap debut:
Meet Beth: She's petite, excellent at duets, an avid reader, quick-witted, and hopelessly in love with Gwen.
Meet Gwen: She's tall, unashamedly loud, fences, trick rides, gambles, and is head over heels for Beth.
#romtalk
.
Hi, my name is Emma R. Alban. I write queer historical Romance, and this is my mood board for my upcoming lesbian Bridgerton x Parent Trap debut novel "Mischief & Matchmaking" (Avon 2024, please support
@hcpunion
!).
#romtalk
.
I'm extremely happy to announce that I am now represented by the wonderful
@stacy_testa
! An absolute dream come true. Stacy is a phenomenal agent and I am so excited for all that's to come as we jump off the literary cliff together!
Publishing is slow-slow-quick-quick-slow, but I've just gotten my first pass pages for my sapphic Victorian parent-trap debut, and it looks like an actual book, all formatted and everything! Utterly surreal.
So glad people are enjoying the fantastic audiobook for DON'T WANT YOU LIKE A BEST FRIEND, narrated by
@moragsims
and Mary Jane Wells!!
A
#1
Best Seller today in LGBTQ+ Romance and Victorian Romance!
So incredibly honored and excited for DON'T WANT YOU LIKE A BEST FRIEND to be one of
@OprahDaily
's 6 Romance Books That Will Sweeten Your Valentine’s Day!!
So honored that DON'T WANT YOU LIKE A BEST FRIEND is the Other Paperback Indie Favorites highlight alongside the Indie Bestsellers List for Paperback this week from
@ABAbook
!
Three weeks out, and there are still such lovely surprises for this book. I can't stop smiling.
Instead of finding husbands themselves, two debutantes team up to get their widowed parents together, and end up falling in love in the process in my sapphic Victorian parent trap debut.
*Making out in hedgerows, sapphic pining & shenanigans galore!*
Coming Jan 9th,
#wiphug
.
I know publishing & writing are bleak. An hashtag won’t solve, change, pay, or restore jobs. I don’t seek forced positivity
But! If you want to—pitch your books with
#wiphug
🫂
Your (trad/self) published, contracted, on sub, querying, drafting, idea kernel books ♥️
The B&N 25% off Pre-Order Sale continues through Friday 9/8!
Pre-order DON'T WANT YOU LIKE A BEST FRIEND today, and have parent-trapping sapphic Victorian debutantes arrive at your door to fight those winter blues! Coming Jan 9th, 2024 from
@avonbooks
.
We're giving away 🔥100 Print ARCs🔥 of DON'T WANT YOU LIKE A BEST FRIEND!
Open 12/1 - 12/9 in the US. Enter to win some sapphic Victorian parent-trapping debutantes!
Beth and Gwen wish you luck!
Oh my goodness, so utterly delighted to have "Don't Want You Like a Best Friend" included in
@KirkusReviews
' "20 Fiction Breakthroughs That Live Up to the Hype" list among these wonderful books!!
Well, this feels very official! New header just dropped.
Beth and Gwen (designed and illustrated by the fantastic
@lenikauffman
) are so eager to meet all of you on January 9th, 2024 when DON'T WANT YOU LIKE A BEST FRIEND debuts with
@avonbooks
!
Don’t think about it. Don’t try to be cool. Tell me; what was your favorite book when you were twelve?
I bought this at a camp book fair and read it SO many times.
Don’t think about it. Don’t try to be cool. Tell me; what was your favourite book when you were twelve?
The way I read this book so many times as a kid...
Full time author practice starts...now! Two weeks off from work means two weeks to focus solely on Book 2 (and family, and holidays, and...sleep, somewhere in there). What are your holiday writing plans? And non-writing holiday plans?
YOU'RE THE PROBLEM, IT'S YOU hits shelves in SIX MONTHS on 8/27/2024 (8/15 UK)!
The enemies-to-lovers Achillean Victorian romance follow-up to "Don’t Want You Like a Best Friend" is avail for pre order now! Also avail for request on NetGalley (US & UK) & Edelweiss, & Good Reads.
They're so gorgeous!! 💜💜💜So excited for readers to get their hands on MORE THAN A BEST FRIEND January 11th in the UK!
Thank you
@VikingBooksUK
@books4mine
@lydia_fried
! And the amazing
@lenikauffman
for Beth and Gwen's gorgeous cover!
You lovely reading humans have gotten DON'T WANT YOU LIKE A BEST FRIEND into the top 10 most requested Romance titles on NetGalley, and the top 2 most requested LGBTQIAP+ titles!
Gwen and Beth are exceedingly honored to be among these incredible books!
My sapphic Victorian parent-trapping debutantes are 3 weeks old today!
Thank you from the bottom of my heart to everyone who has read, requested at their libraries, hyped up the audiobook, and been so supportive. This has been such a dream of a debut, and we're just beginning!
My sapphic Victorian parent-trapping debutantes are coming to the UK and bookstores selling English language books across the world with a new title:
MORE THAN A BEST FRIEND on 11th January, 2024 with
@vikingbooksuk
!!
Readers can Pre Order now and request an ARC on NetGalleyUK!
Hi
#writersoftwitter
! I'm Emma. I write queer historical romance. My debut sapphic Victorian parent trap novel MISCHIEF & MATCHMAKING comes out in Winter '24 with Avon Books (support
@hcpunion
!). I'm a theatre kid who lives in LA, a stress baker, and a skier (who hates the cold).
We’re five months from debut, so I thought I would share the amazing blurbs from
@evie_dunmore
and
@amaliehoward
for DON’T WANT YOU LIKE A BEST FRIEND (Jan 9, 2024 -
@avonbooks
)!
I couldn’t be more thrilled or more grateful. Thank you so much to Amalie and Evie for reading!
My book, my parent-trapping sapphic Victorian debutantes, on the "17 new romance novels we can't wait to read in 2024" list from TODAY?
SO incredibly honored to have "Don't Want You Like a Best Friend" included among such fabulous titles!
via
@TODAYshow
"A gorgeously immersive tale that’s a must-read for fans of Bridgerton, the friends-to-lovers trope and swanky romances that leave you swooning." Out Jan 9!
@ERAlban
@avonbooks
Review:
UK readers, my debut sapphic Victorian parent-trapping romance MORE THAN A BEST FRIEND officially comes out ✨1 week✨ from today, on Jan 11th!
I am so grateful to
@VikingBooksUK
for bringing Beth & Gwen to UK and international readers! I absolutely can't wait!
INCREDIBLY honored to have "Don't Want You Like a Best Friend" included with such wonderful titles on the
@KirkusReviews
' Most Anticipated Fiction Books of 2024 list!!
This year is quickly coming to a close, which means now is the perfect time to decide what books you want on your 2024 TBR list!
Swipe to see some of the most anticipated books of 2024 📚
See our full book list here ⬇️
#BookRecommendations
#KirkusReviews
@BadassMomWriter
Bumble and Bumble has been a godsend for me. Their Creme de Coco and Curl Defining Creme absolutely changed my hair forever. Nicely defined curls, good body, and very limited build up over the week.
My debut is dual POV. Meet my sapphic Victorian debutantes:
Miss Beth Demeroven (left) loves duets, reading, sweets, forests...and Gwen.
Lady Gwen Bertram (right) loves fencing, whist, high tea, lazing around her parlor, and making out in hedges with...Beth.
#romtalk
Incredibly excited and honored to see DON'T WANT YOU LIKE A BEST FRIEND on this list of The Best Romance Novels to Read in 2024 from
@Cosmopolitan
!! 💜💜💜
@mixbecca
I mean… a long rambling hurt/comfort fic where the characters just run a coffee shop and tend to each other after a flu or a non-traumatic broken bone, and there’s no plot just vibes? I feel like it could be tempting…
We're giving away ✨100 Print ARCs✨ of DON'T WANT YOU LIKE A BEST FRIEND!
Open 11/13 - 11/20 in the US. Enter to win now for sapphic Victorian parent-trapping debutantes!
Beth and Gwen wish you good luck!
This author stands with the
@hcpunion
. 19 days, a record breaking strike for HarperCollins, and still no word to the union from management. The union deserves a fair contract. It's far past time.
#hcponstrike
.
I finished my first draft of Book 2 today. And to celebrate, I made a Victoria Sponge that is just as much of a trash draft as the actual draft. They’re both ugly and need revision, but they exist, and I’m gonna celebrate that.
Hi! My name is Emma. I'm a queer historical romance author debuting in 2024.
Comfort read for the past 4 years: "The Bear and the Nightingale" by Katherine Arden. Fantasy, folklore, history, old Gods, romance--it's got it all. An adult fairytale with sumptuous writing.
#romtalk
I’m a TV drama writer focused on YA and Period. 6 years as a writer’s assistant and in lit management. Avid historical fiction/fantasy reader. My YA protagonist Penny is every single Edward Cullen’s obsession, but she's NOT YOUR F*CKING HEROINE.
#WGAStaffingBoost
I'm so excited to say that "Don't Want You Like a Best Friend" is the LGBTQIAP+ Spotlight Book of the week on
@NetGalley
and will be a READ NOW title all week!
They're sapphic, Victorian, and they've got parent-trapping and accidentally falling in love to do!
#MoreThanaBestFriend
is out today in the UK and bookstores selling English Language books!
So excited to have Beth and Gwen out in the world with my wonderful team at
@VikingBooksUK
!!
I am…
□ single
□ taken
☑ Definitely not falling in love w/ the season's new debutante while we parent trap my widowed father and her recently widowed mother, so neither of us has to find a husband...
DON'T WANT YOU LIKE A BEST FRIEND (
@avonbooks
1/9/24)
✨3. Days.✨ until "Don't Want You Like a Best Friend" is out in the world!!
Here's a little peak at my favorite brainstorming note from when I came up with my sapphic Victorian parent trapping plot almost 2.5 years ago!
do this challenge with me, posting and liking both 👀
QRT w/ your book aesthetic & for every like you get, comment w/ one reason you love your WIP. A theme, scene, character, detail, fun fact, line ♥️
and check this to prompt other ppl to love their work too
Today's a great day to pre-order DON'T WANT YOU LIKE A BEST FRIEND, my sapphic Victorian parent trap novel, coming from
@avonbooks
January 9th, 2024!
B&N is running their 25% off Pre-Order Sale, Sept 6th-8th.
Okay, who else is pining and desperately waiting for
@ERAlban
's DON'T WANT YOU LIKE A BEST FRIEND? It's the sapphic Bridgerton/Parent Trap mash-up of our dreams and we're already obsessed! 😍
Pssst. DON'T WANT YOU LIKE A BEST FRIEND is in here. Parent-trapping Sapphic Victorian Debutantes are coming, and they're surrounded by fantastic other Romances! Beth and Gwen are very excited (it's me, I'm Beth and Gwen).
So incredibly honored that DON'T WANT YOU LIKE A BEST FRIEND has been included in the
#WeAreBookish
roundup from for 2024! Thank you so much
@NetGalley
!
Jan 9th, 2024 is so soon!
I'm very proud to have gone on sub and signed a 2 book deal last year for two Queer Historical Romances (support the
@hcpunion
!!). It's been an amazing ride, and I can't wait to see what 2023 brings. I also learned to put chains on my car, that was big.
#romtalk
@WGAStaffBoost
1-hr drama writer here for obscure musical theater references, ambitious character baking projects, percussion knowledge & historical research. Multiple YA & Period projects focused on female relationships, found family & what it means to be human. And vampires!
#WGAStaffingBoost
Listen to the first minute of Chapter One of the incredible audiobook for DON’T WANT YOU LIKE A BEST FRIEND!! Narrated by the fantastic Mary Jane Wells and
@moragsims
!! 🤩🤩
Available wherever you get your audiobooks!
@avonbooks
#audiobooks
I am so incredibly excited and honored to announce that I'll be a panelist at The LA Times Festival of Books this year!
Thank you
@latimesfob
and
@therippedbodice
! I can't wait to talk Romance and meet wonderful readers April 20-21! Come join us!
#bookfest
Author Achievement Unlocked: I finally ordered a fancy standing desk.
Will this prevent me from sitting like a crinkled slinky 90% of the time? We shall see.
🤩Absolutely delighted and honored to see “Don’t Want You Like a Best Friend” on
@EW
’s “Hot Stuff: The 8 best romance novels of Winter 2024” among these FABULOUS titles!! 🤩
#hcponstrike
I signed the
@hcpunion
open letter of solidarity for the HarperCollins Union strike (now on day 21), and you can too through the link here: .
If you haven't already, what are you waiting for, go out and buy "Love, Lists & Fancy Ships" by
@grundercats
! I laughed, I cried, I sank into a world fully realized with wonderful characters and a beautiful romance, and a supremely real and artful depiction of grief. FANTASTIC.
TONIGHT
@TheRippedBodice
LA at 7pm, we’re celebrating the launch of DON’T WANT YOU LIKE A BEST FRIEND!
Come join me and the wonderful Edward Underhill for a lovely evening! Limited 🎟️s below!
TONIGHT IN LA! To celebrate Don’t Want You Like a Best Friend, we’re hosting an
#AuthorEvent
with Emma R. Alban
@ERAlban
.
She will chat about her queer Victorian romance with Edward Underhill. 💜
🎟️ Limited tickets:
#TheRippedBodiceLA
@lily_bart
@skygirl55
@bunysliper
@crazysecondname
@acertainzest
He clicked off the call and sat back in his chair.
The public library, at night, with Beckett. She may be dating motorcycle-driving-heart-saving-muscles-boy, but books--books were his territory, and libraries his domain. Suddenly, his night didn't look so bad.
@OliviaJRowe
Losing hope I'll turn into a morning person. "You'll grow out of it," they said. No, sir, I am still frequently up writing at 1am, getting in bed at 2am or later for my 9am work day. My circadian rhythms have not adjusted since college. I am now just perpetually tired.