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Olivie Blake
Olivie Blake
	Blake in 2024
Born	Alexene Farol Follmuth; January 31, 1989 (age 35); San Francisco Bay Area
Pen name	Olivie Blake
Occupation	Author
Genre	Fantasy
Notable works	The Atlas Six
Website
	olivieblake.com

Alexene Farol Follmuth, known by her pen name Olivie Blake, is an American writer who primarily writes fantasy novels, and is best known for The Atlas Six (2020), a New York Times best seller.^[1]^[2]

Personal life

Prior to being a full time writer, Blake obtained a master's degree in Urban Planning and worked at a public defender's office while attending law school.^[3]

Blake was born in the Bay Area,^[4] is of half-Filipino descent, ^[5] and currently lives in Los Angeles with her husband, son, and dog.^[6]

Career

Blake put her pen name through a name generator originally to anonymously write fan fiction.^[3] She self-published six novels prior to being picked up by a traditional publisher.^[7]

Blake's most notable work is her only series, The Atlas Series, a fantasy trilogy that follows six medeians who are invited to the Alexandrian Society,^[8] five of whom are promised initiation, at the cost of one's elimination.

In 2020, The Atlas Six was self-published via Kindle by Blake; however, it was later republished by Tor Books in 2022 with revisions after going viral on TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter.^[7] Late 2021, Amazon Studios announced they will be collaborating with Brightstar Productions and Blake to produce the novel into a television series.^[9]^[2]

Tor Books also republished Blake's Alone With You in the Ether, One for My Enemy, and Masters of Death.^[10]

Blake published her first YA novel, My Mechanical Romance, in 2022 via Holiday House, under her real name, Alexene Farol Follmuth.^[11] My Mechanical Romance revolves around women in STEM, and was inspired by the author's husband, who is a high school physics teacher.^[8]

Blake uses her pen name for adult literature and her real name for young adult literature.^[12]

Works

Series

The Atlas Series

The Atlas Six (2020)^[13]
The Atlas Paradox (2022)^[14]
The Atlas Complex (2024)

Stand-alones^[15]

Masters of Death (2018)
Lovely Tangled Vices (2018)
One For My Enemy (2019)
La Petite Mort (2019)
Alone With You in the Ether (2020)

Writing as Alexene Farol Follmuth^[16]

My Mechanical Romance (2022)
Twelfth Knight (2024)

Collections

The Answer You Are Looking For Is Yes (An Anthology)^[17]

Pars Fortuna (2019)
The Magician's Assistant (2020)
Stone's Throw (2020)
Love in the Time of Dystopia (2020)
Grow Your Own Optimist (2020)
Toxic (2021)

Fairytale Collections^[18]

Fairytales of the Macabre (2017)
Midsummer Night Dreams (2018)
The Lovers Grim (2019)

Awards and achievements


Year	Work	Award	Category	Result	Ref
2022	The Atlas Six	Goodreads Choice Awards	Fantasy	Nominated	^[19]
		New York Times Best Seller	Hardcover Fiction	#3	^[1]
		Vulture Best Fantasy Novels	Fantasy	#10	^[20]