This one goes out to my enemies. To the haters and clout-chasers. To the fair-weather friends, and those who never bothered to pretend. To everyone who told me “You can’t. You won’t. Don’t even try.”
I couldn’t have done it without you. ❤️
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( • . •)
/ > > i have returned, my dark master
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( • . •)
/ >🙃 here is the head of thine enemy
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( • - •)
/ >🙃 no i didn't get your text
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( • - •)
/ >🙃 shit
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( • - •)
/ >🙃 well what am i supposed to do with it then
A trans reader came to a DARKDAWN launch with a copy of NEVERNIGHT I’d signed back in 2016. Had me cross out their deadname, replace it with their chosen name, then looked me in the eye and said “I wouldn’t be here if not for this book.”
Moment like that changes your life
Dunno who needs to hear this, but I was 35 years old before I wrote my first novel.
I was 42 the first time I hit the NYT bestseller list.
So don't panic if you haven't figured out what you're good at yet 🖤
Not sure who needs to hear this. But here goes.
Ten years ago, I was working a dead end job, writing a book in secret and feeling stupid for even bothering, querying agents with no real hope of getting published and shooting a million to one in the dark.
J.R.R Tolkien died in 1973. Reverse that number, you get 3791.
3 rings for the elven kings under the sky
7 for the dwarf lords in their halls of stone
9 for mortal men, doomed to die
1 for the dark lord on his dark throne
😮
PSA: I have decided there will be 7 more days in February, so we can all get the shit we were supposed to have done by the end of month actually done.
We will be stealing these days from August, because honestly who gives a FUCK about August.
Thank you for your attention.
I’ve said it before, but anyone working in YA today owes Stephenie Meyer a massive debt. The Twilight books (and HP) brought an entire generation of people back/into reading, and many of them stayed
(Still on my boy Damon tho, just sayin)
Get an agent, you'll be happy
Get a bookdeal, you'll be happy
Get a NYT bestseller, you'll be happy
Get a movie/tv show, you'll be happy
Buy a castle next to Rowling, you'll be happy
Goals are fine, but writers, find happy in your WORDS. Because what you do is amazing
Writing smut scenes is always kinda weird
Getting copyeditor's notes on your smut is definitely weird
Listening to an audiobook narrator read your smut aloud is suuuper weird
But knowing your mum will read your smut is the weirdest
Do not tolerate people who stand in the way of your dream.
Do not let anyone tell you that you are wasting your time.
Do not sleep.
Do not flinch.
Do not take no for an answer.
This is your annual reminder that there's a storm at Saturn's pole that's bigger than the diameter of the earth and shaped like a fucking hexagon and we have no idea why
My wife and I never baby talk to our son. After his sitter went missing, we learned not to incur his ire.
My son is 3 and can carry on a full conversation with Elder Ones beyond the edge of time and sanity. My daughter is 2 and already knows the song that will unmake the world.
My wife and I never baby talk to our kids. We use full sentences and a wide vocabulary including complex words.
My son is 3 and can carry a full conversation. Adults at family gatherings are shocked at his social aptitude. My daughter isn’t even 2 and she uses 4-syllable words.
The below image was used as cover art for a foreign digital edition of EMPIRE OF THE VAMPIRE. It’s very cool. It’s also created by a Generative Large Language Model (GLLM), commonly referred to as AI. (1/?)
There are many ways to show that the character in the book or movie you’re making is gay
Precisely none of them involve the special features section of the DVD
Me: “Hi, I am an internationally bestselling, multi-award winning science-fiction/fantasy novelist with m—“
Anyone: “Oh yeah? Spell ‘bureaucracy’ without a dictionary for me, motherfucker.”
Me: “...”
Anyone: “Okay, how about ‘received’ then, big man?”
Me: “I’ll go away now.”
To everyone out there who has ever recommended one of my books to a friend, written a review, posted a vid, created art, or pushed it into a stranger's face and demand they read it, thank you.
You do more than you'll ever understand, and I couldn't do this without you.🖤🤘🏻
If you're calling Mia a "cunt" in your review and intend it as anything other than a compliment, congratulations, you have officially missed the entire point of the Nevernight Chronicle
😘
Kinda weird watching people lose their minds about a movie award show when the president of the free world is awaiting trial for obstruction/abuse of power and my country is still on fire
First author copy of DARKDAWN arrived today. The feeling of finally holding a thing you put years of your life into in the palm of your hand never gets any less surreal 😃⚔️☠️
#stabtember
#stabstabstab
I’ve recently learned that some people pronounce it “nootella” even though it’s made from nuts and there’s pictures of nuts right there on the fucking jar and every day we stray further from god’s light
I’ve just spent ten weeks traveling overseas and met thousands of incredible readers and had an amazing DARKDAWN launch and worked on my next book for a month in a beautiful mysterious city and I’m fully cognizant of how lucky I am but GODDAMN IT IS GOOD TO BE HOME
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Dear writers,
Never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never throw anything away
Dross can become gold with time and perspective
That moment of crushing panic you feel when you open your manuscript to discover all the work you've done this week is missing . . .
. . . only to realize you opened an old version of the doc and everything is okay now, oh thank you baby robot jesus, it's okay now oh god
DeVos announced a new “virtual assistant” — named “Aidan” — that will help answer students’ questions about federal financial aid.
(Aidan also appears to be an owl)
You ever have that thing where you look at a word you know is right but it just looks wrong? Like, have they always spelled "know" like that? That can't be right, can it? "Know"? That's not a fucking word
Instead of trying to convince you how great my book is, I thought I could share some of the stick I get for it while just pointing out it’s really cheap rn.
I get at least one of these emails a month.
PS: Nevernight is not YA
PPS: it’s really cheap rn
This equation is simple, people. You can have one of two worlds:
1. A world where regular people can make a living making art
2. A world where art becomes the sole province of people so rich that they don't need income from it
If you want 1, pay for art
If you want 2, steal it
Books (and authors) with low sales get especially hurt by piracy.
I understand the money and location/country argument. I really do. But just consider before you hit download: "Do I want more books by this author?" If the answer is yes, then look for other ways to read the book.
Listen, if you're waiting for the author you love to finish the series you love, that's awesome. The author appreciates that you love them. But there are millions of awesome things you could do while you wait, and telling the author to hurry up is precisely none of them 🖤
Just once in a drama, I want the expert to say "I can have that finished in four hours" and the person giving orders to snap back "Make it two" and the expert to say "No, listen motherfucker, I have a doctorate of Getting Shit Done from Fuck You University and I said FOUR."
Thank you for teaching a teenage kid that it was ok to be different, that with great power comes great responsibility, that we all have it within us to be heroes. You honestly changed my life.
Excelsior, Mr Stan Lee. You'll be missed 🖤
It's a strange feeling, coming back to a manuscript you haven't touched in six months and seeing things you don't remember writing and saying to yourself "that's actually pretty good" 😂
PSA
Nevernight is not a YA novel
Nevernight is not a YA novel
Nevernight is not a YA novel
Nevernight is not a YA novel
Nevernight is not a YA novel
Nevernight is not a YA novel
Nevernight is not a YA novel
Nevernight is not a YA novel
Nevernight is not a YA novel
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You know you've made it when people are pirating a book that you haven't actually finished writing yet
Someone wanna click the link and tell me how it ends?
#HappyWorldBookDay
to the books who love us back... but also the ones who stab us through the heart and leave us for dead. Looking at you
@misterkristoff
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Before I drank coffee I used to think anyone who tweeted about how much they loved coffee was just a wanker, but now I drink coffee, fuck I love coffee
IT HAS ALREADY BEEN DONE
IT WAS DONE SO WELL IT WON A FUCKING ACADEMY AWARD
THERE ARE A MILLION NEW AND ORIGINAL IDEAS OUT THERE
MAKE ONE OF THOSE
YOU
LAZY
FUCKS
Well . . .
The MC is a bitch and SUCH a Mary Sue
She smokes, drinks and swears
It has footnotes
Also a bj
And many. Sentence fragments.
I like weird metaphors
She doesn't even get to the assassin school til page 100 what the fuck
Achievement unlocked: Trilogy complete 🙂⚔️☠️
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It was a ride, droogs, and I’m sad it’s over. Thanks for coming along. Thanks for the fanart, the tattoos, the letters, the poetry, the funkos, the other amazing gifts.…
“I am a daughter of the dark between the stars. I am the thought that wakes the bastards of this world sweating in the nevernight. I am the vengeance of every orphaned daughter, every murdered mother, every bastard son.
I am the war you cannot win.”
Never apologize for your ambition. Never apologize for deciding “this is not enough”.
At the heart of every great artist is the need for something MORE