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Dealing with mental illness is hard because the methods of treating it are basically trial and error. “I was really rocked by that diagnosis,” she said. I just really feel better when I’m creating something that has meaning.”īlake is also an outspoken advocate for mental health as someone who has bipolar disorder, and she said it is important to talk about it. “It was about a woman in her twenties who was hitting a dead-end and having a quarter-life crisis and people who read it were like, ‘Is this about you?’ I was like, ‘Oh no.’ It was more the process of writing that was important to me at the time and it was a way of understanding what I was going through and my way of reflecting on my experience was to write a book. “I call it my primal scream manuscript,” she said.
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One of the reasons it went viral is because of how gorgeous the illustrations are and how well it translates to a visual medium.”īlake said she got into writing full time when she dropped out of law school and that her work in a public defender’s office was “emotionally draining.” Shortly after leaving that world behind, she self-published her first book.īut almost immediately, she pulled that book from the internet. “I attribute as much of this book’s success to her art. “She’s incredibly talented and we’re both essentially self-taught because I started writing for fandom and she started by making fan art,” she said.
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The pair also produce the graphic series and webcomic “Clara and the Devil.” This week’s bestsellers at Southern California’s independent bookstoresĪnother aspect of “The Atlas Six” that fans gravitated toward was its illustrations, which were conjured up by Blake’s friend and artist Little Chmura. 25.īlake said she enjoyed the video banter and creative ways fans were interacting with her work using the hashtag #BookTok on TikTok, and she has seen similar posts being shared via Twitter and Instagram as well. (Her editor at Tor, Molly McGhee, went viral on Twitter after this interview had been conducted when she said in a letter that she was leaving the publisher after being denied a promotion, which sparked a larger conversation about labor and equity in publishing.) The second installment, “The Atlas Paradox,” will be out Oct. Going viral landed Blake a publishing deal and “The Atlas Six,” which is the first part of a three-part trilogy, was re-released with additional content and edits by Tor Books this month. Currently, the hashtag has more than 20 million views on the social media network. The sensation she speaks of consisted of TikTok users responding to the book by making videos that praised it, sharing its artwork and discussing its plot using the #theatlassix hashtag among the #BookTok community. I’m not even on TikTok, so I was watching it all from the outside like, ‘Holy crap!’ There was this whole sensation happening.” “Later that day, someone sent me a Tumblr message like, ‘You know this went viral on TikTok.’ I saw it and I just had no idea other people knew about this book. “I was literally in the hospital giving birth and my husband said, ‘The sales on ‘The Six’ have really spiked’,” she recalled with a laugh during a recent phone interview. Over a year had passed since “The Atlas Six” was first released into the universe, and in May 2021 Blake and her husband were busy preparing to welcome their first child when they suddenly noticed an uptick in sales of the book.
