Danai Christopoulou | Pre-order VILE LADY VILLAINS

Thank you Eva! I basically found a bookshop here in Sweden that carries English books and thought I could try them

This is super useful, thank you! Do you offer a digital arc when you email? Or nah?

Existential fortitude, for starters, but a basic email template would also be useful 😅

How does one go about contacting bookshops to see if they’re willing to carry one’s book?

Assume one can’t physically go there at the moment, it would be an email most likely.

Assume one is me.

You should read Issue 14, but there's no rest for the wicked. Submissions for Issue 15 open soon. translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/

Also, imma be that person and ask if you've listened to A Million Points of Light and can rate and review it, I will love you forever, from afar, not creepily.

Please, my internet blessings upon you etc

Laura’s book Awakened set against a dark blue background. The cover is light grey and features a creepy raven with a blue eye bearing the Tower of London on its back

it’s #WorldBookDay and #WomenInHorror month, so i’m obliged to remind you all that my horror dystopia novel, Awakened, a somewhat Frankenstine meets The Yellow Wallpaper gothic tale, is out and available for your reading pleasure!🐦‍⬛

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Fifteen African Authors Make the 2025 Locus Recommended Reading List - They Need Your Votes! The 2025 Locus Recommended Reading List is out. Compiled annually by Locus Magazine's reviewers, editors, columnists, and outside critics this year across more than 1,000 titles. It is one of the mos...

Fifteen African Authors Make the 2025 Locus Recommended Reading List – They Need Your Votes! brittlepaper.com/2026/02/fift... via @brittlepaper.bsky.social

PeeudoPod is currently open to submissions for ANTHOLOGY or COLLECTION (not magazines or other periodicals) reprints PUBLISHED OR DUE TO BE PUBLISHED in 2026

We’ve just rejected multiple subs that don’t meet these guidelines.

Please read submissions guidelines!

She was! She mentioned it in her letters, several times 🤣

Ha, I thought it was funny back then. The dedication it took her to write letters, pen on paper, month after month!

Even if you have to be critical towards Aquarius.

Anyway, you can’t please everyone and there’s absolutely no way to predict how people will react to your work.

All you can do is be true to yourself and write your words your way, for as long as your publisher or your magazine or the powers that be will let you.

Back when I was writing for Glamour magazine, we used to get letters from readers. Most of them were super nice, but there was this one lady who kept sending angry letters trying to get me fired because she didn’t like how critical I was being in my astrological predictions towards Aquarius.

Oh no I’m so sorry Wendy 😔

Lucky Spell, Danai’s tuxedo cat, is perched on too of a pile of Danai’s books (the Medusa anthology Danai has contributed to and Danai’s debut novel Vile Lady Villains) so that she can comfortably look outside the window

Success as an author has many definitions. For example, here is a pile of my books that my cat is using as her favorite new viewing platform to look outside the window, and that to me is what success looks like. Making a little chonky cat happy.

86 New Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Books Arriving in March It's almost spring, and there are plenty of enticing new genre titles on the way.

*literally 85 new books*
Comments: Ewww! Fantasy! Ewwwww romance! Ewwwww romantasy!

Anyway, 85 new books!
gizmodo.com/march-2026-n...

Aaaaa congratulations!

Silk & Sinew: A Collection of Folk Horror From the Asian Diaspora A Collection of Folk Horror From the Asian Diaspora

Call it the Stoker Ballot Bump? We just had an order for 1,000 copies of Silk & Sinew come through the distributor yesterday. Congrats to @garnetonwinter.bsky.social and all of the authors on the continued success of this title.

bookshop.org/p/books/silk...

In publishing, agents get told all the time from publishers that they "don't know how to break this book out" and they aren't going to like it, but I know the answer to this perplexing issue...
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It's money.

Villain-curious 🤣

Solidarity!

I’m sorry 😔

In the third grade or so, I got a score card that was all 10s (out of 10) and one 9, and when I showed it to Mother she said: “I’m not mad. I’m disappointed. Because I know you can do better.”

Anyway, that was excellent psychological preparation for what publishing your debut novel can feel like.

Happy pub day!

A birth announcement for a book! Including the book cover, the size of the book (14 by 12) and weight of book (567 grams). There are faint, blue starts surrounding the book which is displayed against a light blue, watercolour background.

A.D. Sui (caucasian person with short, brown hair) is wearing a grey top coat and jeans, pointing to The Iron Garden Sutra on a bookstore bookshelf and smiling.

and we're live, folks!

THE IRON GARDEN SUTRA is now out everywhere books are sold! if you pre-ordered a copy, you should be receiving it soon (or already have) and if not, it's not too late to purchase the yellowest book in all of history!

A New Wharton Study on AI Warns of a Growing Problem: Cognitive Surrender Casual users should pay special attention

This is a mental war that we have to win. It's not about being a luddite, it's about destroying or retaining the ability to think. It's about how insidious this becomes in a situation where generative AI is adopted and then subverted intentionally.

www.thealgorithmicbridge.com/p/a-new-whar...

More and more lately, whenever I come across a take I consider wild and wrong (whether about the world in general or my work in particular), I’ve started saying out loud in my best Big Lebowski voice:

“Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man.”

Most of the time, it works.

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