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Katie 🌀@katiefliesaway· 10d

case in point: I found the hottest book of the year just chilling on the shelf

A library bookshelf, most notably holding OUT OF THE LOOP by Katie Siegel

Katie 🌀@katiefliesaway· 19d

this is what happens if you start playing “Smooth” by Santana at 42:28 of @gamechanger.dropout.tv S8E6 🎵

Katie 🌀@katiefliesaway· Jul 8

Shannon said she’s “forcing” her books onto me as if I’ll be like “oh noooo…free books…I’m being abused by my editor…” 💕

A stack of books. Titles:
The Friendsgiving Pact by Elizabeth Davis out 10/26
You’ll Be The Death Of Me by Holly Michelle out 8/26
Ship Happens by Mason Deaver out 8/26
Tropesick by Lauren Okie

Katie 🌀@katiefliesaway· Jun 30

if you want to come out in a way that’s very chic and nonchalant feel free to use my strategy from six years ago today

Tweet from Katie @katiefliesaway
I've gotten to the point where I'm so comfortable with my sexuality that I think I might just casually tweet about being queer one day forgetting that I haven't formally come out yet

Reply from Katie @katiefliesaway
wait

Katie 🌀@katiefliesaway· Jun 27

my favorite flavor of fanfiction is smut of a closed door romance where the author’s note is like

Katie 🌀@katiefliesaway· Jun 19

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Dear authors, please use easy words in your books/ fics - thank you
Yours truly - reader
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Tweet from user Lauren @ notabigjerk
I'm not falling for that hot take. That's clearly someone with a fetish for getting yelled at. I refuse to participate in that kind of perversion

Katie 🌀@katiefliesaway· Jun 9

everyone this morning

Katie 🌀@katiefliesaway· Jun 1

starting early this year

Screenshot of Discord message
KT 11:01AM
DURING PRIDE MONTH?????

Katie 🌀@katiefliesaway· May 12

🌀 the author 🌀 the shitty AI-generated scam email about the book

Katie looking very cute on the beach. She is white with brown hair in two short braids, wearing a blue baseball cap and a white mesh blouse over a blue and white bathing suit top.

The title is Out of the Loop. Amie is out of the time loop. But she is also out of the loop in her own life. She missed two years. She is catching up. The murder investigation is her way back in.

You are the author. Katie Siegel. This is a mystery novel for readers who love time loop fiction, amateur sleuths, bagels, ex girlfriends who want to be friends, grumpy neighbors with engineering hobbies, and wholly original takes on classic tropes.

Katie 🌀@katiefliesaway· May 7

this is gonna be my fourth published book btw

A Microsoft Word comment box.

Katie Siegel
May 6, 2026 at 10:41 PM

I wanted to share this momentous occasion that l just now in this moment discovered that if you click the little gray line along the margin it shows you how things look without the changes showing.
What a revelation. Technology is amazing

Katie 🌀@katiefliesaway· Apr 3

this was a threads exclusive yesterday bc they’re here on bluesky but now they won’t see this until they’re done because they should be busy formatting right now and NOT on bluesky 👀

tomorrow’s my deadline for One for the Books but I’m not allowed to bring it up bc I’m deadline twins with my friend for her PhD dissertation and she is having a slightly more stressful time than me with my cozy fantasy heist book believe it or not

Katie 🌀@katiefliesaway· Mar 18

this was the real kicker honestly

What's the biggest challenge you're facing with your book right now — is it getting found, getting people to buy once they land on your page, or building an audience that follows your work long-term?

Your answer will help me point you in the right direction, no obligations, just a real conversation.

Checkbox: I am not emailing about offering my services to make Katie's books more visible. I pinkie swear.

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Katie 🌀@katiefliesaway· Mar 18

KATHERINE!!! YOU SWORE!!!!

Sent via form submission from Katie Siegel
Name: Katherine Dietrich
Email: katherineldietrich@gmail.com
Subject: Most great books don't get the readers they deserve
Message: Hi Katie
Writing a book takes years of dedication, sacrifice, and courage, and yet for most authors, the hardest part isn't the writing. It's what comes after.

Katie 🌀@katiefliesaway· Mar 17

foolproof. try to get past this, scammers 😎

Checkbox (required) I am not emailing about offering my services to make Katie’s books more visible. I pinkie swear.

Katie 🌀@katiefliesaway· Mar 16

Baby’s fantasy debut!! More in my most recent newsletter post!!! HEIST HEIST HEIST HEIST

Publishers Marketplace Deal Report
Category: Fiction: Sci-Fi/Fantasy
March 13, 2026
ONE FOR THE BOOKS By Katie Siegel
Imprint: Avon A
Deal Report
March 13, 2026
Author of CHARLOTTE ILLES IS NOT A DETECTIVE and OUT OF THE LOOP
Katie Siegel’s ONE FOR THE BOOKS, in which a charming bookseller and a thief assemble a team to steal back a valuable book taken as tribute for the new king, to Shannon Plackis at Avon A, in a nice deal, by Melissa Jeglinski at The Knight Agency (world).
Multicolored silhouettes of five people. From left to right: A woman with a braid flexing an arm with a flowing fist. A man holding a glowing pocketwatch. A woman holding a glowing book. A woman holding a glowing sheet of paper and a glowing pencil to her mouth. A man with glowing hands holding a glowing object with a spark of magic between a finger and the object.

Katie 🌀@katiefliesaway· Feb 21

Thank you to CrimeReads for letting me yap about the companions in OUT OF THE LOOP, question Nancy Drew's taste in men, and possibly invent the word "Poiri" Sorry Raymond Chandler!! crimereads.com/why-fictiona...

CrimeReads
WHY FICTIONAL DETECTIVES SHOULD HAVE FRIENDS (AND KATIE SIEGEL IS SAD IF THEY DON'T)
The author of Out of the Loop on the emotional import of sleuths' companions
FEBRUARY 18, 2026 BY KATIE SIEGEL

CrimeReads
Now, despite being told by multiple people that I do not have "only child energy" (I have theatre kid energy, it's different), I am an only child. And I know many would not call their siblings their friends. But when I say that Detectives Should Have Friends and I Get Sad When They Don't, I'm saying 1
like it when detectives have some kind of companionship, whether it be a friend, romantic partner, professional partner, sibling, roommate, neighbor, grandma, or talking dog.

CrimeReads
When developing my post-time loop mystery, Out of the Loop, I knew that twenty-eight-year-old Amie Teller could very easily be alone in life. It would have made the two years she spent in a time loop even more lonely than such an experience would already be.
But time loops are scary enough, not to mention when there's a murder thrown in. So I gave her David, Amie's friend and neighbor, who interrupts Amie's spiraling thoughts with a voice of reason. I also gave her Ziya, Amie's ex-girlfriend, who assists with the sleuthing as the two try to navigate their new relationship as friends. Just friends.
Nothing more.
After a childhood filled with kid detectives, my first forays into the world of adult detectives were during my tweenage years, one of which was incited by the release of the adaptation that changed the fabric of Tumblr forever: BBC's Sherlock.

Katie 🌀@katiefliesaway· Feb 2

Happy Groundhog Day! May it only happen once this year 🫡 🌀🔎

imagine this: Groundhog Day, but one day later, and someone’s been 💀⚰️, and Bill Murray is a woman who still has feelings for her ex-girlfriend

Contents
Chapter 2: The Air Feels Different
Chapter 1: Emotional Support Plastic Flamingo
Chapter 3: A Disastrous Bagel Run
Chapter 1: Third First Friend Date
Chapter 4: Last First Friend Date
Chapter 1: Hallie From The Park
Chapter 5: Mac and Cheese
Chapter 6: Time Loop Maxims
Chapter 7: Gossip
Chapter 1: Alley- vous
Chapter 8: An Awkward Exit
Chapter 9: 2:23 AM
Chapter 1: Golden Spiral
Chapter 10: A Flower Arrangement
Chapter 11: Compliment Shower
Chapter 12: Guilt and Pizza
Chapter 1: ?
Chapter 13: Something Quiet
Chapter 14: The Sacred Rule of No Take Backsies
Chapter 0: Iceland
Chapter 15: How to Save This
Chapter 16: Voicemail
Chapter 17: Fall
Chapter 18: Fell
Epilogue
Acknowledgements

Book cover. Light blue background with a darker blue spiral. Red text reads: Out of the Loop. Below that, in white text: A mystery. September 17 calendar pages form a spiral around the title, ending with a September 18 calendar page under a magnifying glass. Black text below that reads: Katie Siegel. White text below that reads: By the author of Charlotte Illes Is Not A Detective. In the top right corner is the image of a red flower with a black stem and leaves. In the bottom left corner is a black shoeprint.

Text around the book with arrows pointing from them:
What happens after a time loop ends?
Amateur sleuth who is both overqualified and underqualified for the job.
Stereotypical “Guy Who Builds Rube Goldberg Machines”
Repressed sapphic feelings for ex-girlfriend.
The worst person to get stuck in a time loop.
The most perilous bagel run of all time.
Fun chapter titles (fork found in kitchen)

Katie 🌀@katiefliesaway· Jan 10

MY POST-TIME LOOP MYSTERY BOOK IS OUT IN ONE MONTH 🌀📆

Katie in a red velvet romper dress reading Out of the Loop and smiling. Text: One month

Katie holding Out of the Loop open in front of her face. Text: The time loop ends and the mystery begins. For the past two years, Amie Teller has been stuck in a time loop. Each day, she wakes up and it’s September 17th. Same day, same weather, same people, same conversations. Until, one day, it’s September 18th, and Amie is free.
Before she can celebrate, Amie learns her neighbor was kiIIed the day before—the day Amie has lived hundreds of times. Amie knows she has to help; nobody knows yesterday like she does. But acclimating to her new non-repeating life proves to be more difficult than expected. How does one resume their life after a time loop, anyway?
Assisted by an ex-girlfriend who wants to make their friendship work, and a grumpy neighbor who spends his days building Rube Goldberg machines, Amie sets out to track down who kiIIed (and kiIIed and kiIIed and kiIIed) Savannah Harlow.

Katie reading Out of the Loop, with a pen in her mouth. Text: Signed copies when you preorder from WORD Bookstores. All copies of the Not a Detective Mysteries ordered with OOTL will also be signed :)

Katie reading Out of the Loop and smiling. Text: Preorder perks, two Charlotte Illes short stories (digital and audio) and one entry to win an annotated copy of Charlotte Illes is Not a Detective (U.S. only)

Katie 🌀@katiefliesaway· Dec 13

hi @rianjohnson.bsky.social would you be interested in an advance copy of my post-time loop mystery that Publisher’s Weekly called “A well-crafted whodunit”? Excited for WUDM, I’m watching this weekend!!

Cultured. You're a very busy director. Where and when do you actually get the time to read?
Anytime I can. When I am not in the thick of production or post-production, my recharging place is to pick up books again and read. Before I wrote Wake Up Dead Man, I was very much trying to delve into mystery writers that I hadn't read before.
MY REQUIRED READING: RIAN JOHNSON

Katie 🌀@katiefliesaway· Nov 24

hi Sam I went talent scouting for you at the Hey Riddle Riddle show and there are certainly three of them!!

Three people onstage in front of a red curtain. One wears a red curly wig and an Annie dress and is shrugging comically. Another is wearing a red 80s wig and cat makeup. The third is wearing a baseball cap and a Phantom of the Opera mask.

Katie 🌀@katiefliesaway· Oct 20

not sure why the Louvre heist team didn’t hit me up…

Katie 🌀@katiefliesaway· Oct 15

irdk if highlighted quote posts work for promoting anything other than romance but!

$Out of the Loop Day 2 A.L. If time loops were a common shared experience by a large enough fraction of Earth's population, there would probably be more maxims about them. “What happens in the loop stays in the loop,” perhaps. “Every change in the loop happens for a reason: you.” Put that on a plank of wood in a beach house bathroom. “Loop me once, shame on you. Loop me twice ... well, let's hope it doesn't come to that.” Another time loop maxim: “Life after a time loop is like riding a bike.” For Amie, a very mediocre bicyclist, this could be interpreted as "very shaky and potentially dangerous for herself and everyone in her vicinity." But it also meant that twenty-eight years of living a life that chronologists would call "normal" meant that she had deep-rooted instincts that two years in a time loop couldn't wipe out.$

Katie 🌀@katiefliesaway· Oct 12

Katie 🌀@katiefliesaway· Sep 18

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She spent two years in a time loop. Now she’s ready to solve a murder. And maybe grab a bagel.

The Seven Year Slip meets Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers in this wholly original time loop mystery.

For the past two years, Amie Teller has been stuck in a time loop. Each day, she wakes up and it’s September 17th. Same day, same weather, same people, same conversations. Until, one day, it’s September 18th, and Amie is free.

Before she can celebrate, Amie learns her neighbor was murdered the day before—the day Amie has lived hundreds of times. Amie knows she has to help; nobody knows yesterday like she does. But acclimating to her new non-repeating life proves to be more difficult than expected. How does one resume their life after a time loop, anyway?

Assisted by an ex-girlfriend who wants to make their friendship work, and a grumpy neighbor who spends his days building Rube Goldberg machines, Amie sets out to track down who killed (and killed and killed and killed) Savannah Harlow.

Excerpt from Out of the Loop:

"It doesn't necessarily have to be the direct result of your inter-ference," David mused, standing and crossing the apartment. "Not to talk like a stereotypical 'Guy Who Builds Rube Goldberg
Machines'—"
"I don't think that's a common stereotype."

Katie 🌀@katiefliesaway· Sep 17

🌀 COVER REVEAL 🌀 Happy September 17th; may it be the only one you experience this year. OUT OF THE LOOP is available for preorder (and on NetGalley!) Incredible cover design by @michelvrana.com www.katiefliesaway.com/out-of-the-l...

Katie 🌀@katiefliesaway· Jul 31

so honored that CIINAT is 1 of 5 finalists for the @lambdaliterary.org award for LGBTQ+ Mystery!! Queer people are still queer even when they’re not experiencing romance! Some just aren’t into that, or are too busy crawling through air ducts while trying to solve mysteries!! tinyurl.com/3zpn8mrj