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VILE LADY VILLAINS (UK: Penguin Michael Joseph, April 2026/ US: Union Square & Co, May 2026) ✨Rep: Lauren Bieker✨Editor: khōréō ✨Assistant Lit. Agent: Tobias Literary Agency✨she/they🏳️‍🌈🇬🇷 lnk.bio/danaiwrites

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Danai Christopoulou | Pre-order VILE LADY VILLAINS @danaiwrites.bsky.social · Jun 12

VILE LADY VILLAINS is coming to the US and Canada!
🥀🖤🗡️
I can’t begin to tell you how deeply grateful and excited I am that my sapphic, Gothic, Greek myth meets Shakespeare horromantasy will be published in the US and Canada by the fantastic team over at Union Square & Co!

A screenshot of Publishers Marketplace featuring the sale of Danai’s book, Vile Lady Villains, to Union Square & Co for publication in summer 2026. The screenshot is adorned with character art of the book’s MCs, done by Marina Charalambides

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Danai Christopoulou | Pre-order VILE LADY VILLAINS @danaiwrites.bsky.social · 12h

…😅😅😅

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Amalie/AR Frederiksen @arfrederiksen.bsky.social · 12h

I just finished @danaiwrites.bsky.social's VILE LADY VILLAINS (out next year) and *chomps down on pillow and makes unintelligible noises*.

Thanks. That was all for today. Remember to drink water and prioritize your sleep and don't walk through doors with bloodied handles and broken keys.

Or do...

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Danai Christopoulou | Pre-order VILE LADY VILLAINS @danaiwrites.bsky.social · 1d

Happy book birthday!

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Kristina Ten @kristinaten.bsky.social · 1d

Today is pub day for Tell Me Yours, I’ll Tell You Mine! However much writing can be a solitary act, putting a book out definitely isn’t. Thanks to Stillhouse Press and all of Tell Me Yours’ many champions.

My first book is out now. I hope you like it.

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P. H. Low (THESE DEATHLESS SHORES) @ph-low.com · 1d

this YA horror antho is out today ~ incl. my literally hostile architecture novellette and 12 other amazing stories featuring disabled protagonists!

(it's also @bookshop.org anti-prime day! free shipping!)

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These Bodies Ain’t Broken

Check out These Bodies Ain’t Broken - A monstrous transformation within your own body. A sacrificial imprisonment. A fight to the death against an ancient evil. These stories showca...

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Danai Christopoulou | Pre-order VILE LADY VILLAINS @danaiwrites.bsky.social · 2d

Oooh that’s interesting! We only do supervised free range nowadays to keep predators away but I’d never thought of a whistle before!

Danai Christopoulou | Pre-order VILE LADY VILLAINS @danaiwrites.bsky.social · 2d

The smell is truly so strong!

Danai Christopoulou | Pre-order VILE LADY VILLAINS @danaiwrites.bsky.social · 2d

Things I could have spent the rest of my life not knowing, if I didn’t have pet chickens:

Dehydrated mealworms have a strong, very nutty and sweet smell, like roasted caramel of horrors.

You’re welcome.

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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · 3d

This year we should be supporting our fellow artists and writers as much as possible. Help us continue to give independent creativity a space to be celebrated by reading Locus Magazine! linktr.ee/locusmagazine

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Amanda Rutter @alrutter.bsky.social · 3d

Oh yes!! So deserved. Coming out in the UK from @solarisbooks.bsky.social later this month ❤️❤️❤️

Lambda Literary @lambdaliterary.org · 4d

🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction: Metal From Heaven by August Clarke! 🎉🎉🎉 @sapphomancer.bsky.social @erewhonbooks.bsky.social @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social
#Lammys2025 #LammyAwards

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Eden Royce @edenroyce.bsky.social · 4d

My debut novel ROOT MAGIC is a great intro for both kids & adults to Hoodoo and Gullah Geechee culture, full of historical events, folklore, & rootwork.

If you're looking for a book about making a way when there’s no way, I hope you'll get a copy!

www.harpercollins.com/products/roo...

#booksky 📚

The cover of ROOT MAGIC on a light and dark green background, strewn with foliage. Young Black twins (boy and girl) stand back to back in the middle of a marsh of blue, yellow and green mist lined with trees and reeds. She is holding a book, and her doll is peeking out of the pocket of her blue dress. He is wearing dark blue overalls and holding a bottle of magic potion and had a mojo bag around his neck.

Text reads: "A must-read, sure to leave readers wishing for more after the final page." -Booklist (starred review)
Root Magic A Walter Award Honor Book Eden Royce
"Black Girl Magic has never been more powerful" - Ronald L. Smith, author of Hoodoo

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OTHERSIDE - Kickstarter is LIVE! @othersidespec.bsky.social · 4d

We're $301 from our reprints stretch goal! If we hit that, every issue will include a reprint of a queer story no longer available online. Help us archive queer stories and support queer creators in a time of censorship!

Learn more about our plans here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

OTHERSIDE 2026: A New Magazine of Queer SFF!

A new queer-led literary magazine devoted to speculative fiction, poetry, and art by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists.

www.kickstarter.com

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Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 4d

Wonderful to see THE HACIENDA on this Goodreads round up of Ten Years of Horror Hits!

You can grab all of @isabelcanas.bsky.social 's standalone horror novels from Solaris in the UK. THE POSSESSION OF ALBA DÍAZ is out next week!

Preorder geni.us/palbad
Buy THE HACIENDA geni.us/OmXinM

Ten Years of Horror Hits to Read This October

Halloween is, of course, the traditional season for scary stories. But for those of us weirdly dedicated to the genre, it’s a year-round endeavor....

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Danai Christopoulou | Pre-order VILE LADY VILLAINS @danaiwrites.bsky.social · 6d

Aww thank you!

“…that bloody nightmare of a woman prowls behind me like a trapped she-lion, promising to carve me a new spine with her claws if I don’t fix this now.”

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Danai Christopoulou | Pre-order VILE LADY VILLAINS @danaiwrites.bsky.social · 6d

Yeey I’m so happy to hear!

“Now all I gaze upon is darkness; the darkness of the ink bottle’s bottom, and I the fool who drowns in it.”

Danai Christopoulou | Pre-order VILE LADY VILLAINS @danaiwrites.bsky.social · 6d

“‘Beautiful queen!’
‘Bloodthirsty queen!’
‘Stuck in-between!’”

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AJ Van Belle/Alexandra Vivelo @ajvanbelle.bsky.social · 6d

Or preorder and get to read ALL the pages 👀👀👀

Danai Christopoulou | Pre-order VILE LADY VILLAINS @danaiwrites.bsky.social · 6d

🥀🖤6 months until VILE LADY VILLAINS comes out in the UK (just over 7 months in the US) 🖤🥀

To celebrate this exciting but also nerve wracking milestone, I’m sharing some sneak peeks from the first pages of the book. Want more? Give me a page number and I will give you a line

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Danai Christopoulou | Pre-order VILE LADY VILLAINS @danaiwrites.bsky.social · 6d

“Her shoulders move frantically up and down, like a bird trapped in a cage that’s too small, trying in vain to make more space for its ribs and lungs.”

Danai Christopoulou | Pre-order VILE LADY VILLAINS @danaiwrites.bsky.social · 6d

I can’t believe it!

Danai Christopoulou | Pre-order VILE LADY VILLAINS @danaiwrites.bsky.social · 6d

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Danai Christopoulou | Pre-order VILE LADY VILLAINS @danaiwrites.bsky.social · 7d

I don’t owe anyone androgyny. I can look however I want, and identify however I want. And so do you 💜

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Danai Christopoulou | Pre-order VILE LADY VILLAINS @danaiwrites.bsky.social · 7d

October better behave, Buffy says

Buffy, Danai’s white calico cat, is loafing on the bed while staring at the camera, annoyed look on her face

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 7d

"In a world where climate change wreaks havoc on the planet, history is salvaged by memory hunters."

@bookjockeyalex.bsky.social reviews Mia Tsai's dystopian science-fantasy The Memory Hunters:

reactormag.com/book-review-...

Records and Romance in The Memory Hunters by Mia Tsai - Reactor

Science fiction and fantasy, dystopian and romance, slice-of-life and adventure blend in Mia Tsai's sophomore novel.

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Haven Spec Magazine @havenspec.bsky.social · 7d

Haven Spec Magazine is now open to submissions by authors of historically marginalized backgrounds only!

We want to read more works by Black writers, Indigenous writers, disabled writers, gay and lesbian and trans writers, and other folks whose voices must be heard!

www.havenspec.com/submit/

Haven Spec Magazine, Submission Page

Fiction and Poetry for the 21st Century!

www.havenspec.com

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Apex Magazine (is funding for 2026!) 🎉 @apexmag.bsky.social · 7d

HAPPY KICKSTARTER DAY!! 🎉🎉🎉

Kick(start) the first day of Spooky Month with us and come check out the cool stuff we've got planned for you!! 🎃✨

👽 www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

two skeletons are shaking hands in a cemetery .

Alt: spooky scary skeletons silly symphony dance

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