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Alechia Dow @alechiadow.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Do you like this art? If yes, you’ll love the book! Bonus, Until the Clock Strikes Midnight is 50% OFF at the Barnes & Noble #BNBookHaul sale right noooooow! Please tell everyone!!! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/until-the-...

Artwork of the main characters from Until the Clock Strikes Midnight

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Alechia Dow @alechiadow.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Until the Clock Strikes Midnight comes out NEXT WEEK!! Check to next slide to find out more about the story! Also, I’ll be traveling over to celebrate its release. Caption in the alt text :)

Dearest Friends,

In a quirky kingdom far, far away, where magic is real and glitters, a fairy and a Misfortune compete for a mentorship by helping a down-on-her-luck bookseller avoid an Unhappily Ever After in Until the Clock Strikes Midnight. Our fairy, Darling Sparkleton, believes everyone *needs* a Happily Ever After, while our Misfortune, Calamity son of Blight, believes only an Ordinary Ever After can prevent chaos. And our bookseller, Lucy, well... she believes that living is just something you do while you dream of art and the beautiful girl who makes your heart race every time she comes in to buy a book. But what if it could be more?

This fairytale is near and dear to my heart; it’s inclusive, BOLD, and full of joy. It features representation that means the world to me; mental illness, disability, body neutrality, and never shies away from big, messy emotions. My hope is that by the end, you’ll feel seen and loved, and––like Darling and Calamity––believe all things are possible with compassion, trust, and a generous dash of fairy dust. I hope you’ll give it a chance.

All the love,
Alechia

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Alechia Dow @alechiadow.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

TWO WEEKS until my cozy young adult romantasy comes out. Vibes are a fairytale devil and angel sitting on your shoulder giving you their conflicting advice while kinda sorta falling in love. I hope you’ll preorder a copy or eight.

A stack of Alechia Dow’s book, Until the Clock Strikes Midnight, sitting on a teal foot stool by a yellow couch

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Alechia Dow @alechiadow.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

#GIVEAWAY for EU & UK only. Comment below and tag a friend to win a copy of Until the Clock Strikes Midnight. I’ll select three winners by Jan 28th!!

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Alechia Dow @alechiadow.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

ONLY ONE MONTH!! Did you know about the preorder campaign? Ask me. Did you preorder? Please do. Are you going to see me on tour? I’d love that.

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Alechia Dow @alechiadow.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Do you subscribe to my newsletter? You should. I’m sorta funny and heartfelt on there. Feel free to subscribe: alechiadow.beehiiv.com/subscribe

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Alechia Dow @alechiadow.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Please preorder UNTIL THE CLOCK STRIKES MIDNIGHT! Get signed & swagged copies from An Unlikely Story and Mysterious Galaxy! Enter receipts into my linktree for a chance to win a $100 for a bookstore. Just telling libraries and friends is supporting too 💜💜 Preorder: bookshop.org/p/books/unti...

Graphic with pictures of my book, the characters, me, info about the preorder campaign, and Brandy & Whitney’s Cinderella

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Alechia Dow @alechiadow.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

PREORDER CAMPAIGN. Every entry will be entered into a drawing to win a $100 gift card to their fave Indie bookseller, and every 20th can pick one annotated copy of my books. Submit receipts here: bit.ly/PreorderUtCSM If you don’t have Google, please write me on my website: www.alechiadow.com/contact

Preorder campaign graphic. All info above but it has a picture of my books on a green background with glittery gold

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Alechia Dow @alechiadow.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Friends!! I’m going on tour with Fierce Reads and three amazing authors.

Details announcing a book tour with Petra Lord, Caroline Bonin and SG Prince.
PORTLAND, OR: Feb 9th at 6:30pm, Always Here Bookstore with Aiden Thomas
SPANISH FORK, UT: Feb 10th at 6:30 pm at Poppy Books with Tricia Levenseller
DOWNERS GROVE, IL: Feb 11th at 6pm at Anderson’s Bookshop with DL Taylor
KANSAS CITY, MO: Feb 12th at 7pm at Rainy Day Books with Becca Coffindaffer

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Alechia Dow @alechiadow.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

A great review from @publisherswkly.bsky.social !! Did you know there’s a goodreads giveaway happening right now? Go check it out. And you can preorder too :)) Tell your friends, family, and enemies. Goodreads: bit.ly/3WNVjfo Preorder: bookshop.org/p/books/unti...

Text reads: Calam and Darling’s charming alternating first-person POVs combine to deliver a hijinks-forward, vivacious true love story that empathetically portrays mental health challenges. Characters are intersectionally diverse.

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Alechia Dow @alechiadow.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

It’s a STAR from Kirkus!! They called Until the Clock Strikes Midnight “UNMISSABLE”. This is my first on the page bipolar character and for her to receive their acclaim means the world to me. You can read the full review here. www.kirkusreviews.com/author/alech... Also please preorder if you want!

A review from Kirkus that can be read at the link above. It contains a picture of the book’s cover with a star

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Alechia Dow @alechiadow.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Friends at NYCC, if you go to the Fierce Reads booth, can you please take a picture of the Until the Clock Strikes Midnight arcs?! Pretty please!!

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Alechia Dow @alechiadow.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Heyyyy, @fiercereads.bsky.social is doing an advanced copy GIVEAWAY of Until the Clock Strikes Midnight on Goodreads — enter to win a copy right now!! bit.ly/3HXbgw2

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Alechia Dow @alechiadow.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

My next YA cozy fantasy, A Taste of Memories, is coming your way in Spring 2027 from Feiwel & Friends!! This one is magical, foodtastic, and incredibly meaningful. You will cry while spreading some sweetly tart jam on your scone. I hope you’ll love it. Alt Description below :))

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Alechia Dow @alechiadow.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

There’s a 25% off preorder sale at Barnes & Noble right now for premium & rewards members. You can grab Until the Clock Strikes Midnight on here if you’re one of those and want it! Thanks!! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/until-the-...

A page in a notebook detailing the B&N preorder sale with pictures of the Until the Clock Strikes Midnight cover and commissioned art. It’s not well done. I really had no idea there was a sale and B&N probably won’t even stock it sooooo

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Alechia Dow @alechiadow.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

LOOK!! Until the Clock Strikes Midnight is one of the most requested books on NetGalley! Have you requested it here or Edelweiss, added on goodreads?Please do! All this helps my book. NG: www.netgalley.com/catalog/book... EW: www.edelweiss.plus#keywordSearc... GR: www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...

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Alechia Dow @alechiadow.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

INDIE BOOKSTORE PREORDER PARTY! Get 15% off using code: Party2025 at participating Indie stores this June 27-29th. Please keep your receipts for a chance to win prizes. Also, keep the receipts for me too because… fun things are in store :) www.mystgalaxy.com/book/9781250...

Graphic of Until the Clock Strikes Midnight and info about the indie bookstore party mentioned above

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Alechia Dow @alechiadow.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

PREORDER Until the Clock Strikes Midnight because Jason June it “…reads like drinking that perfect cup of cocoa: warm, cozy, and entirely mood-lifting. There’s no better time than right now to pick up this utterly enchanting book!” On Indie Bookstore Party (June 27-29t) get 15% off preorders!

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Alechia Dow @alechiadow.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

This is 40 and a sixth time published author. Peep the 7th book waiting for 2026 (and possibly a clue to an 8th book? Nooooo, right?). Thank you for the support this last year, I know it’s tough and there’s so much going on, but I’m grateful for all of you.

Alechia Dow standing with her books and the book cover of Until the Clock Strikes Midnight

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Alechia Dow @alechiadow.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

wrote this book in 2017, never subbed it. Finally revised with sharper, better skills, fantastic feedback from my agent, and whewwww. What a book! Scifi. Dystopian. The angriest story I’ve ever written. YA/New Adult. Action-packed. 🤞🏽

Picture of a word doc saying: The End..For Now. 307 pages and 88979 words!

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Alechia Dow @alechiadow.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Happy Juneteenth!! Today would be a great day to support Black owned businesses, learn about Black history, read and buy books by Black authors! Request them from libraries. Shout about them online. Today & everyday. I wrote these but if you want recs, ask me below! bookshop.org/p/books/unti...

The cover of Alechia Dow’s Until the Clock Strikes Midnight

The covers of Alechia Dow’s books: The Sound of Stars, The Kindred, A Song of Salvation, Just a Pinch of Magic, The Cookie Crumbles, Their Just Desserts

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Alechia Dow @alechiadow.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

ARE YOU ALL READY FOR THIS?!? Have you preordered?! Please do! Until the Clock Strikes Midnight is a young adult cozy romantasy mashup of Brandy’s Cinderella andThe Good Place, following a fairy and a Misfortune in a competition to sway one doomed mortal girl’s fate. bookshop.org/p/books/unti...

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Alechia Dow @alechiadow.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

JUST A PINCH OF MAGIC has been nominated for the Garden State Teen Book Awards Fiction Grades 6-8!!! I’m so so excited to see my book up for such an amazing library award. Means the world to me 💜💜

A letter from the New Jersey Library Association stating Just a Pinch of Magic is a nominee

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Alechia Dow @alechiadow.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Todayyyyyy!! Their Just Desserts is out today! Such an incredible blast to write this middle grade foodie mystery sequel to The Cookie Crumbles with my friend of 9 years, @tracybadua.bsky.social … Please grab a copy if you can!! bookshop.org/p/books/thei...

Alechia Dow holding a copy of Their Just Desserts in the sunshine with a very ridiculous smile

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Alechia Dow @alechiadow.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

It’s the last Sunday before Their Just Desserts launches!! Grab some strawberry scones and let @tracybaduawrites and I take you on another mysterious baking adventure. Are you ready? Order here: bookshop.org/p/books/thei...

A copy of Their Just Desserts by Tracy Badua and Alechia Dow beside a plate of strawberry scones

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Alechia Dow @alechiadow.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

COVER REVEAL!! My YA cozy romantasy about a fairy and an agent of misfortune competing for a magical mentorship, Until the Clock Strikes Midnight, comes out 2/3/2026 from Feiwel & Friends. Art by peach.pod, design by Meg Sayre! Preorder now!! bookshop.org/p/books/unti...

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Alechia Dow @alechiadow.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

7 full novels come February. 2 anthologies. My first goal was 5 books. My second goal was 7 books. Dream with me, my new goal is 10 books, one of which will be an Indie bestseller. Putting it out into the universe.

All my books on a shelf. the sound of stars, the kindred, a song of salvation, just a pinch of magic, the cookie crumbles and their just desserts, anthologies out there and absolutely normal

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Alechia Dow @alechiadow.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Two weeks!! Did you preorder your copy of Their Just Desserts? bookshop.org/p/books/thei...

Alechia Dow holding a copy of her book, Their Just Desserts!

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Alechia Dow @alechiadow.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

HAPPY INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORE DAY!! How are you celebrating?! What are you going to get today?

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Alechia Dow @alechiadow.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

B&N members, there’s a preorder sale this week that you can use on Until the Clock Strikes Midnight…OR!! You could wait for Indie Bookstore Day and shop local!! Just saying. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/until-the-... Or bookshop.org/p/books/unti...

Graphic for Until the Clock Strikes Midnight. Two Black fairies embracing, one with wings. Preorder if you like Magic, Fake Betrothal, She’s a 10 but she razzle dazzles too close to the sun, he’s a 10 but he doesn’t razzle dazzle because he’s too sensible, vibes of Whitney Houston’s fairy godmother meets The Good Place. Black, queer, mental illness rep :))

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Alechia Dow @alechiadow.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Very lucky I live in Germany and could take a little trip over to Scotland for a few days. Some of it for research on another YA cozy romantasy… most of it for food and sights

Scotland castle through pink flowered trees

A spooky store called The Witchery, black with plants around it and yellow letters

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Alechia Dow @alechiadow.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Remembering when people wrote through my website form to say I should stop writing my crappy books and go back to baking. Anyway, I made these blueberry oatmeal muffins while working through revisions. Don’t limit me! I can do both, thank you.

Blueberry oatmeal muffins sprinkled with oats sitting on a black cooling wrack

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Alechia Dow @alechiadow.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

So anyway, triple chocolate m&m cookies. Because Monday.

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Alechia Dow @alechiadow.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

This is where I’m working on my cozy YA fantasy about food today. Germany is treating me well these days.

Cup of tea on a small table beside a laptop overlooking a garden

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Alechia Dow @alechiadow.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

My Junior Library Guild, ALA Notable & Imagining Tomorrow pick, “Dow’s debut is a testament to hope and the power of art” said Buzzfeed, my biggest selling book that launched at the beginning of COVID, came out 5 years ago today!!! Thank you all for support over the years 💜💜💜

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Alechia Dow @alechiadow.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Hi! I’m Alechia Dow, author of: The Sound of Stars, The Kindred, A Song of Salvation, Just a Pinch of Magic, The Cookie Crumbles & Their Just Desserts with Tracy Badua & more to come. Please feel free to support my books this Black History Month and all the other months! bookshop.org/beta-search?...

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Alechia Dow @alechiadow.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

My Oooo-Girl-I-Need-Some-Chocolate Cookies!! There’s Oreo, dark cocoa, M&Ms and a looot of chocolate in them. But they’re well balanced! The recipe is in my newsletter, please subscribe if you like. alechiadow.beehiiv.com/subscribe

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Alechia Dow @alechiadow.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

AUTHOR GOALS for 2025. Know your worth isn’t connected to your sales and reviews, be proud, stay excited, filter out the noise, know there’s an audience for your stories

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Alechia Dow @alechiadow.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Until the Clock Strikes Midnight is coming out Feb 3, 2026 from F&F Macmillan!! Mark your calendars!!

Picture of a plus size Black fairy saying: don’t listen to a Misfortune. No matter how dreamy, they are dull and philosophical. No glitter. No fun. No wand. If you want a fabulous future, trust me, a fabulous fairy.
Above a Black guy snapping his fingers, saying: Never trust a fairy. No matter how cute, they are chaotic and nonsensical. Especially her. She’s the worst!

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Alechia Dow @alechiadow.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Packed my child’s lunch and she came home with the clementine left, saying she couldn’t get it out. In my defense, I made it at 6am and in retrospect, it was difficult to get it into this box.

A half of a clementine stuffed into a square cube in a teal lunchbox

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Alechia Dow @alechiadow.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Said goodbye to my best boy, Biscuit aka Bisco Disco, Biski, Biscotti and Lil Bop, early this morning. We had him for 8 years and it was a privilege to love and be loved by this little guy. If you have a pet, please give them an extra snuggle or piece of cake for him. He loved cake.

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Alechia Dow @alechiadow.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Up late but here we are!! My adult rom com featuring a bipolar plus size Black girl getting loved at Christmas with so much banter is done (again)!! Fingers crossed. It’s special. Truly.

A word document saying THE END, for real this time

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Alechia Dow @alechiadow.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

This is one of my absolute favorite snacking cakes. Brown sugar sour cream pound cake from @kingarthurbaking !! Very delicate crumb, I use dark brown sugar, molasses, sugar cardamom pan. Especially delicious with tea while you’re trying to revise your next book :))

Slice of golden brown cake on a plate with a cake in the background

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Alechia Dow @alechiadow.bsky.social · 10/07/2024

Do you want to make this dog (Biscuit) even sadder (he's not sad, he just looks that way) or do you want to preorder the paperback of Just a Pinch of Magic? www.barnesandnoble.com/w/just-a-pin…

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Alechia Dow @alechiadow.bsky.social · 11/06/2024

TOMORROW!!! Did you buy The Cookie Crumbles???? You know you still can, right? booksofwonder.com/products/97800632…

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Alechia Dow @alechiadow.bsky.social · 06/06/2024

I was on @TheRhodeShow today!! Thank you all for having me on to promote The Cookie Crumbles (out June 11th, you can preorder)––it was immensely cool. Still can't believe it, to be honest.

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Alechia Dow @alechiadow.bsky.social · 04/06/2024

This book is out 6/11. Like most MG books recently by Black/Authors of Color, it will not be in Barnes & Noble. Tis what it is. If you're interested though, please get a copy or eight––signed & personalized too, from:...

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Alechia Dow @alechiadow.bsky.social · 03/06/2024

Come chat about cookies & murder with us! 6/8 Bronx Book Festival 6/11 Books of Wonder, NYC, register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/launch-the-coo… 6/13: Scrawl Books, Reston, VA 6/15 An Unlikely Story...

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Alechia Dow @alechiadow.bsky.social · 01/06/2024

Are you going to be there?!! Come see me and @tracybwrites at The Bronx Book Festival next weekend at Fordham Plaza. Don't forget to RSVP

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