Olivia Atwater

Olivia Atwater is an author based in Canada. She is best known for her Regency Faerie Tales trilogy, which comprises Half a Soul, Ten Thousand Stitches (2020), and Longshadow (2021). She has also written the fantasy novel Small Miracles (2022), a novella with her husband, and non-fiction works about writing.

Career Atwater started writing at a young age after being inspired by a Dungeons & Dragons campaign led by her father. She submitted her first novel to a publishing company at the age of twelve, but later decided to pursue different careers and continue writing in her spare time. She worked as a web developer, historical re-enactor, repairperson, and salesperson. After researching self-publishing, Atwater followed a friend's advice and published her debut novel, Half a Soul, on her own in 2020. The novels received positive reviews from Publishers Weekly, The British Fantasy Society, Tor.com, Booklist, and Library Journal. She wrote the novella A Matter of Execution with her husband Nicholas as a prequel to the fantasy novel Echoes of the Imperium.

Atwater sold the English rights of the Regency Faerie Tales to Orbit Books, who re-released all three novels in 2022. Writing for The New York Times, Olivia Waite recommended the novel, likening it to Pratchett's work. Small Miracles won the eighth edition of the Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off.

Writing style and technique

Atwater usually develops her novels starting from a singular scene and sticks to the original outline of the plot. Reader-Friendly Writing for Authors (2023)

Victorian Faerie Tales The Witchwood Knot (2023)

Other works Small Miracles (2022)