Things to do in the San Fernando Valley, LA area, Oct. 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.
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