About

When I was young, I read books with stickers on the cover (argh) and rainbows inside the pages (good grief).

Those aren't the books we're looking for. This blogger loves diverse YA on the darker spectrum. With absolutely zero stickers on the cover. I promise.
So, booklings and bloggers, step into (fictional) worlds of magic, madness, and murder.

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Looking for your next fantasy read?

So I wrote a Mulan + Swan Lake retelling AND villain origin story:
When villain protag Mo accidentally stabs a runaway witch-princess, she ends up cursed and hunted by the princess’ assassin girlfriend. To return home, Mo has to fight demons, break curses, and learn to kill witches.


Blogging statistics:

  • This blog receives approximately 10K monthly pageviews.
  • My highly-engaged email lists reached 1000 subscribers as of September 2018 and is growing rapidly, doubling last year in 2017.
  • I now bimonthly giveaways for Asian SFF books, which can gain over 25K impressions on Twitter and reach a potential audience of over 40K on Instagram Stories.
If you'd like to sponsor a giveaway or send me a review copy, email me at alyssa[dot]carlier[AT]gmail[dot]com!

What I say about me, in third person:

Alyssa Carlier writes (and more often rewrites) novels about girls in worlds of magic, madness and murder. By day, she is a medical student; at night, she recovers by doing much harm to her characters. She is represented by Kiana Nguyen at Donald Maass Literary Agency.

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