Happy Opal + Pepper Day

My cozy, chaotic book is finally out!

Hiya, my delicious sugar snap pea!

IT’S PUB DAY FOR LATE BLOOMER AHHHHHH!!!!! I meant to write this yesterday from the airport and be nice and organized and have it scheduled to hit your inboxes this morning but that good ole’ aderall wears off around 6pm and I—shocker of all shockers—had a few travel nightmares happen so here we are! (my Chipotle brand slides broke at the airport which was devastating for a second time because i glued them back together with gorilla glue last summer and i just feel like adhesives aren’t what they used to be)

I’m currently in a cafe in St. Louis called Ivy with an interior that essentially looks like the cabin I pictured at The Thistle & Bloom, sipping a lavender espresso martini so good my skin has cleared and back doesn’t hurt. And!! In just a handful of hours, I’ll be meeting the lovely folks at Novel Neighbor and chatting with Alice Clayton at tonight’s launch event (tickets still available!)

I’ve talked about it before, but the road to today has been a rough one, but in this moment I feel so damn happy and grateful for this beautiful life and the career I’ve worked so hard and been so lucky to get to.

Late Bloomer is available wherever books are sold, and it would mean so much to me if you would pick up a copy or grab from your library! You’d also be doing me a massive solid if you’d take a moment to review LB on various retail sites (I promise not to read!) Barnes & Noble | Amazon | Kobo | Apple | Walmart | Target | Goodreads |

And to Opal and Pepper, my girls, my friends that feel so beautifully, terribly real to me, I found you in a time I needed softness and introspection and a safe escape to a beautiful place, and you gifted me that. You belong to readers now, and all I can hope for you is that you bring that sense of coziness and found family to anyone that needs it. I’m stopping and smelling all the flowers to day in your honor 🥹🌸💘

Tour Update

Tickets for my launch event at Novel Neighbor are still available! I am so thrilled to be chatting with the one and only Alice Clayton (I will be massively fangirling over the movie release of Wallbanger!) This will be Tuesday, April 16th at 7pm!

I’m heading to Quail Ridge Books in Raleigh, NC tomorrow to talk with the loml Serena Kaylor, then Brooklyn on Friday to chat with CASEY DAMN MCQUISTON yall!

All event registration links and additional info can be found here!

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The End 🤡

All my love,
Mazey ❤️🧠🦷