Maggie Eckersley

Cover reveal for my debut contemporary romance, Back in the Saddle, coming 3 July with Avon Books UK! 🐎🩺🩷

eARCs available to request on NetGalley and up for preorder now!

I'm thrilled to announce that my contemporary debut, BACK IN THE SADDLE, is publishing on July 3, 2025 with Avon Books UK, an imprint of HarperCollins 🐎✨🩷

Available to pre-order now wherever you get your books!

Meet Dr Caroline O'Kelly - FMC from my upcoming debut ✨🐎

We meet her at a really low point in her life - her marriage broken down, she's burnt out in her career and, at 31, unsure of how the rest of her life's going to look like.

I can't wait for you to meet her! 🩺🫶🏻🩷

Coming this year ✨

Debut novel coming out this year! More details to follow ✨

News before the end of the month? 👀 #booksky

This was absolutely excellent. What a start to 2025 reading streak.

Cooper was one of the dreamiest LIs in a long while.

I cried so much at the end but loved every minute.

Highly, highly recommend. So charming, original, funny and warm.

Mr Yoon 😭🩷🫶🏻

*taps mic*

I FINISHED EDITS! 😭

I stopped being proud of this book last year. It felt like a story I was almost able to tell, but not quite. Like it had legs but didn't know how to run. These neck-breaking edits made me fall back in love with my OG characters.

Saturday snippet 👀 now I'm off to my editing cave. We're at 65k. Ambitious goal is to finish by Monday 🫣

Editing task: "let's extend this 🥵 scene by half a page or a full page."

Me: *challenge accepted*

Ends up with an almost 3k chapter and much LONGER scene than asked for.

Why do I have no chill lol

Me to my husband, about my edits: "I hit midpoint! Hopefully things will get smoother now and there won't be so many new scenes."

My husband: "What do you mean? It's your book. You decide if you put in new scenes."

"Don't be silly. My characters decide these things."

I realised I my characters push each other against the walls a lot when things heat up. I guess we all have our own "thing"...

Would you read a book with these vibes?

If the answer is "hell yes!" or "YES!", then stay tuned for exciting news coming soon ✨

This year, I signed with an agent & got vague publishing news.

But you know what I'm most proud of?

Writing a book out of my comfort zone and finding exactly where I want to go creatively 🩷

And not giving up. That's probably the most important one.

It's the one I told you where he's a real baddie - I just... Didn't expect the extent 😂🙈

The Coven by Harper L. Woods. I honestly did not see THAT coming!

Bought book 2 immediately lol.

Love this 🔥🔥

It was so good 🫶🏻 but yes, prep tissues!

I got an absolute pleasure of alpha reading/CP this book and it's just wonderful - you'll in for such a treat one day soon hopefully 🥺🫶🏻🔥

Finished WHO COULD STAY by
@kellylbeck.bsky.social and damn it, did I cry 😭

Gorgeous 🥺

New book baby 🥺

I'll have to abandon you soon, darling. But I'll be back 🥺

Set a very chill deadline of November 1 for this one 🤠

Here we go again...

Mine's a romantasy 🤷🏼‍♀️ because of the way the time travel comes about & the general gist of it

I'm wondering if I should watch it! I take it I should? 👀

Struggling to be on all SM apps while pre-exam revision is ramping up.

Will be back with news hopefully soon 👀🤞🏻

In the meantime, enjoying reading & spending less time on my phone in general.

Currently reading & loving:
The Ex Vows by Jessica Joyce
&
Who Could Stay by @kellylbeck.bsky.social 🩷

They're SO GOOD! At least the first two. But yes, waiting for the next one is horrible 🙈

And before someone asks why I hired a dev editor when I have an agent - I fully expected to query this book in 2025 & booked it before signing with an agent. But it worked out perfectly, super happy 🩷

a man with long hair and a beard is saying " thank you eternally " ALT: a man with long hair and a beard is saying " thank you eternally "

I'm going to give another shout out to @rebeccaacarter.bsky.social because I sent off HUS to my agent and I'm so proud of this book now - which wasn't the case before Becca working on dev edits for it. She pushed me to make this story the best version of itself and just really grateful 🥺🫶🏻

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The new episodes of Outlander are KILLING me. So bloody amazing - after a fresh rewatch and rather stilted part 1 of this season, ep 9 & 10 are keeping me at the edge of my seat 🔥

He'd get million stars from me 😂 I feel like a begger waiting for crumbs of him in every chapter lol