Samantha Silva
@samanthasilva
Novelist, playwright, recovering screenwriter. MR. DICKENS AND HIS CAROL (Flatiron, 2017), LOVE AND FURY (Flatiron, 2021), and SOMETIME THIS CENTURY (HarperCollins, 2026). Also One Story, NYT, and LitHub. Rep’d by @thatemmaparry 📚❤️
Here’s the other cover (I still love). Ell Potter is remarkable reading it. 🙏🏻📚
The reader of Hamnet is the amazing Ell Potter who reads two of my novels! LOVE AND FURY: A Novel of Mary Wollstonecraft and 👇
Could it be you’re in the mood for a time-travel-rom-com set in the Regency that riffs on Pride and Prejudice AND Sense and Sensibility? Asking for a friend. (I’m the friend.) 🫖 🕰️ ✍🏻 📚❤️
@wcboggess.bsky.social was the editor who told me my Dickens novel didn’t work in omniscient POV. The Victorians pulled it off, he said, but it’s rarely done now. That close third POV rewrite is the one that got me an agent and a two-book deal. 🙏🏻 📚
Hey @nytimes.com, look it up! *Not in word list* is no excuse. CARYATID
I first met Sam Neill when he was a guest at my wedding, three weeks before filming Restoration (directed by once-husband Michael Hoffman). I hadn’t met most of the guests—we invited cast and crew—but Sam was one of the loveliest. Always humble, always kind, always human. ❤️
For your delight (if you haven’t had enough today already) my new novel. When I thank men for reading it (I thank everyone), they say « Thank YOU for writing it. It’s delightful! » #MenReadRomance #romcom #booksky
TFW your book’s brand new and friends text you: I’m reading your book! I’m loving it! Am laughing out loud! I’m at the regiment ball! They’re delivering the desk! 🥰🥰🥰 #booksky #romcom #janeausten
Day 15: Writer’s Block? 30-Day Countdown to 📚🚀 SOMETIME THIS CENTURY
Day 14: p. 69 Test-Part II 30-Day Countdown to 📚🚀 SOMETIME THIS CENTURY #booksky
Day 12: Plotters vs Pantsers! 30-Day Countdown to 📚🚀 SOMETIME THIS CENTURY #writingcommunity #booksky @harperperennial.bsky.social
Playing catch-up here. Day 10 of the countdown to 📚🚀 #romcom #booksky #janeausten
Day 9 of the 30-Day Countdown to Launch for SOMETIME THIS CENTURY! #booksky #janeausten #romcom @harperperennial.bsky.social
Day 8 of the 30-Day Countdown to Book Launch SOMETIME THIS CENTURY! Today: Meet Cassie Blake #booksky #romcom @harperperennial.bsky.social
Day 7 of the 30-Day Countdown to Book Launch: Sometime This Century! Today: Annabel’s adventure begins… #Booksky #romcom @harperperennial.bsky.social
Day 6 of the 30-Day Countdown to Book Launch: Sometime This Century! Today: Meet Annabel Blake… @harperperennial.bsky.social #booksky #romcom
Day 5 of the 30-Day Countdown to Book Launch for SOMETIME THIS CENTURY out June 9th! Today: to pseudonym or not to pseudonym? @harperperennial.bsky.social @mariankeyes.bsky.social
Day 4! 30-Day Countdown to Book Launch for Sometime This Century from @harperperennial.bsky.social #booksky #romcom #janeausten
Day 3! Countdown to book launch. 📚❤️#SometimeThisCentury #Harperperennial #booksky
Hey, I wrote a rom-com and I’m trying a thing. A 30-day countdown to book launch. Here are the first two days (since Bluesky’s really my jam)! Hope you’ll follow along! Sometime This Century out June 9th. 🙏🏻📚#harperperennial #booksky #writingcommunity
So…three years post Modern Love, this guy gives me what for and calls me a whore. (The editor warned me the haters would find me.) 🤦🏼♀️ My Spectacular Betrayal www.nytimes.com/2023/05/19/s...
« Sally sold seashells by the seashore and then did 10 upstate. » — my brother Mark Silva. 😂
This one changed me as a writer. Happy Birthday, David Naimon! (You share yours with Mary Wollstonecraft and my son Atticus.) 📚
Found: the cross-dressing we should worry about! external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%...
Picture our best hope for 2028 winning and doing this two days later. No, really. Picture it. Like if we all start visualizing now…
@nytimes.com: “While receiving a McDonald’s food delivery to the Oval Office, the president told reporters …he thought it had depicted him as a doctor. “It’s supposed to be me as a doctor, making people better, and I do make people better,” he said. 🤣🤪😱