Tia Williams Books in Order

If you want the book most readers start with: Seven Days in June
If you love fashion, work drama, and sharp humor: The Accidental Diva → The Perfect Find
If you want romance with a little magic: A Love Song for Ricki Wilde
If you want teen stories first: It Chicks → Sixteen Candles → Audre & Bash Are Just Friends
If you want the newest release: The Missed Connection

Tia Williams was born in Fairfax, Virginia, and grew up in suburban Northern Virginia. As a kid, she loved books, wrote her first one at seven, and has pointed to The Westing Game as an early spark for her writing life. She studied English at the University of Virginia, graduated in 1997, and soon moved to Brooklyn, a city that would become a steady presence in both her life and her fiction.

Then she built a career around words.

Williams spent years in magazines and beauty media, working at titles that included Elle, Glamour, Lucky, Teen People, and Essence. In 2004 she launched Shake Your Beauty, an early beauty blog, and published her debut novel, The Accidental Diva, in the same year. She also co-wrote Iman's The Beauty of Color and wrote the YA novels It Chicks and Sixteen Candles. Those early books already show what she'd keep doing so well, mixing style, work, friendship, romance, and the small humiliations that make characters feel real.

New York is all over her work.

You can see that clearly in The Perfect Find, a comeback romance about forty-year-old fashion editor Jenna Jones trying to rebuild her life after a public fall. Readers often come to Williams for the wit, chemistry, and fashion-world detail, but they stay for the emotional mess underneath it all. She writes people who are trying to look composed while their lives are clearly not cooperating. The novel later became a film, which brought one of her most popular stories to an even bigger audience.

Seven Days in June pushed her into a new level of visibility. The novel, about two writers reconnecting after a teenage love story and fifteen years apart, became an instant New York Times bestseller and a Reese's Book Club pick. It blends heat and humor with motherhood, old wounds, and chronic pain, and that combination says a lot about Williams as a writer. She likes a sweeping love story, but she doesn't sand down the harder parts of life to make it happen.

She kept stretching after that. A Love Song for Ricki Wilde brings Harlem, art, family pressure, and a touch of magic into a romance that still feels rooted in everyday longing. Audre & Bash Are Just Friends returns to the world of Seven Days in June through Eva Mercy's teenage daughter and turns one messy summer into a bright, funny YA love story. Her 2026 novel, The Missed Connection, starts with a chance meeting on a flight and follows the chaos that comes from trying to find the right person after the moment has passed.

Across her books, Williams writes about creative people, ambitious women, second chances, family knots, and love that arrives at inconvenient times. Her settings can be glamorous, but the emotions are usually close to the bone. She has a real feel for characters who want romance, yes, but also want a life that belongs to them.

She now lives in New York with her husband, daughter, son, and, by her own account, several half-written manuscripts. That feels about right. Tia Williams writes about people in motion, and she still seems happily in the middle of it.