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#1 NYT bestselling author of THESE VIOLENT DELIGHTS, FOUL LADY FORTUNE, IMMORTAL LONGINGS rep'd by @LECrockett
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Immortal Longings is now on shelves!
my fifth book and first adult novel, this was a product dreamed up in isolation—following a battle to the death in a low-tech, 90s noir city brimming with life…
welcome to San-Er 🖤
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someone build a multimedia game designed to look exactly like a twitter feed except you’re a modern day detective trying to solve a crime by putting together what all the subtweets are leading back to
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you know, suddenly it makes a lot of sense now why so much YA dystopia only took place in America with no mention of what was happening with the rest of the world
they were all probably just chilling
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a pandemic and senior year of college both tried to fight me in hand-to-hand combat, but I have emerged victorious as a published author
THESE VIOLENT DELIGHTS is now on shelves!!! thank you all for going on this journey with me ❤️
🌹buy links: 🌹
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my first duology is now complete, ready to welcome visitors both returning and new to the glittering, treacherous world of 1920s Shanghai
after THESE VIOLENT DELIGHTS come OUR VIOLENT ENDS… and ours they truly are, I hope you enjoy❤️
🥀 buy links: 🥀
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left: the college freshman who was about to start drafting what would become her debut
right: the graduated author visiting the billboard that has her book plastered across it
(the identical pose was not intentional, I only know how to stand in one way😳)
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I HAVE AN ANNOUNCEMENT!
My adult debut, IMMORTAL LONGINGS, inspired by Shakespeare’s Antony & Cleopatra and the historic Kowloon Walled City, is coming in 2023 with
@SagaSFF
as the first of an epic fantasy trilogy 🖤
For more info👀:
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I was, in fact, eating french fries and sitting in public when my phone lit up with my editor and agent on the line to say I'm a
#1
New York Times bestseller oh MY GOD AAAHHH thank you to everyone who has loved this duology I literally don't know how to compute this😭❤️
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a new semester of class means I have to pick whether I introduce myself as "hi I'm chloe, I'm a senior and I like to write" or "hi I'm chloe, I'm a senior and the New York Times bestselling author of These Violent Delights, currently available for purchase at the school bookst—"
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I see your “there’s only one bed” trope and raise you “there are two bedrooms and two beds separated only by a very thin wall and both characters are incredibly aware of the other on the other side and can’t stop thinking about the near proximity”
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sometimes you give a book 5 stars because it was excellent and you would highly recommend it, and sometimes you give a book 5 stars because it will now haunt you for the rest of your mortal life and pervade your every waking thought
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I can’t believe I’m a 22 year old full time writer living in New York which wattpad user came up with my storyline
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a very lovely elderly man started making conversation with me in the b&n cafe today and it was the most wholesome progression of him asking about my writing dreams and me going "oh actually my book is over there— yeah like, by the cashier, the booktok table, the very large stack"
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after debuting in a climate where the words 'china virus' were flying around 24/7, I'm high key emotional today seeing so much excitement for a series that's ultimately a love letter to shanghai and chinese history, it's hard to imagine a diaspora story doing this but here it is
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wait wait I wanna play too
how it started // how it's going
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nobody speak to me for 48 hours, taylor swift just liked my tiktok
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me: I feel like I could survive in a fantasy book world idk
also me: *gets a papercut* shaking sobbing throwing up
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editing a certain scene in my adult fantasy is me screaming out loud every 5 minutes "OH MY GOD I WROTE EROTICA" and my roommate screaming back "CALM DOWN IT'S NOT EROTICA I'VE READ WORSE ON AO3"
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my heart is going so fast I can't even type!!! THESE VIOLENT DELIGHTS is a New York Times Bestseller!!!! THANK YOU FOR READING AND PICKING UP THIS BOOK I NEED TO LIE DOWN
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today I turn 23 and my book turns one month old so I wanted to take a picture together but I caught myself mid-existential crisis and this actually works better than any of the smiling ones
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friends to lovers this, enemies to lovers that, how about "we're only fake married, touch me and I'll kill you" to "that's my SPOUSE, touch them and I'll kill you"
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“this book needed more romance if it’s a Romeo & Juliet retelling”
who told you R&J was about romance instead of the inherent tension between enemies, eyes meeting across a crowded room saying nothing but everything at once, knowing you are two sides of the same wretched coin
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from online besties to irl roomies-to-be apartment hunting together🥺
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‼️ COVER REVEAL ‼️ PROTAGONIST REVEAL ‼️ PLOT REVEAL ‼️ RELEASE DATE REVEAL ‼️
the time has come… it’s 1931, all the world’s a stage, and Shanghai glimmers at its center 🎭
meet Fortune, national assassin and newly recruited spy:
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"this couple is toxic" to YOU. I know them personally and find a lot of entertainment in watching them slug each other around
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my professor just called on me to explain a concept because he saw me nod,,, sir😭 I didn't understand, I just have a compulsive anxious need to make sure you know I'm listening even tho nothing is going in😭
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"what are you motivated by" ??????? spite and a complete unwillingness to fail at anything ever
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not to be like, a sap on main, but when I was 12ish and finished writing my first book I made a fake book trailer that opened with THE BESTSELLING PHENOMENON ARRIVES just to be funny and now fast forward ten years and it’s actually real text on a box so I might need a moment
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if I wrote contemporary this is what I would try get away with
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“Romeo” being a synonym for “womanizer” in every thesaurus is so deeply unfair like this dude fell DEEPLY in love each time, the whole point of Romeo’s archetype was feeling too much too quickly whereas a womanizer would imply casual and frequent relations, in this essay i will—
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mother I crave violence vs mother who encourages violence
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As a reader, I never want to close out on my favorite worlds, so I guess it’s no surprise I don’t let go easily as a writer either
✨FOUL LADY FORTUNE is coming Fall 2022, after the events of OUR VIOLENT ENDS✨
we can't reveal who the star is yet, but you've already met her...
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with blessings from Shakespeare... please put your hands together... for the official title of 2 Violent 2 Delightful ✨
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my 9 year old sister got a copy of my book and immediately started sending me edits I’m—
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Foul Lady Fortune, the spin-off I wanted to write before the original was even done, is now on shelves everywhere with all the sting and prickle that spies in 1930s Shanghai deserve
a glittering hello to new readers, and a welcome back to familiar ones✨
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I love how often the “how much of your books are based on your real life” question comes up but for legal reasons I cannot tell you about my tumultuous entanglement with a member of the russian mafia
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my readers calling me miss gong is the funniest thing in the world when i'm like two years older than them, keep it up and i'll call you miss twitter user inejseyeball back
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every male character I write always has a single loose strand of hair that just so happens to fall angstily into his eyes when he's annoyed, I know this isn't realistic but let me have this one (1) thing
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when a multi-pov book is reaching the end so the pov changes are coming faster and faster
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whoever remixed this audio is doing heaven’s work on earth
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every time an adult says YA is too violent, my MC kills another person on page for character development
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I've mentioned writing an adult fantasy on twitter and a NA fantasy on tiktok psa it's the same book, I just change how I refer to sexy 23 year olds stabbing each other depending on platform bc I know my audience<3
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I have become my 10 year old sister’s limitless book supplier and I couldn’t be more pleased
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chloe gong implies the existence of chloe drum and chloe tambourine
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✨UK REVEAL + MEET THE CHARACTERS✨
@hodderscape
is here with the exclusive hub on Foul Lady Fortune and its cast, art by
@imedmiart
😘
There's a conspiracy in 1931 Shanghai, and it's up to the city's spies to uncover the truth🕵️
🔍ACCESS THE DOSSIER:
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tomorrow is 6 months until OUR VIOLENT ENDS comes out, so I’m giving away an 👀ARC👀
F + RT + reply w ur fave character from TVD (the reply is important bc sometimes I can’t see all RTs😢)
open int’l, winner tmr 💗and if you want to read, preorders are the best way to support!!
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ever since richard campbell gansey the third said “I wish you could be kissed, Jane. because I would beg just one off you. under all this,” I have never been the same
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icymi: the cover of Foul Lady Fortune, with art by Skeeva 🌺
a spin-off to These Violent Delights and loosely inspired by Shakespeare's 'As You Like It', a foreign conspiracy has emerged in 1931 Shanghai, and two fake-married spies must go undercover to save their country🕵️♂️🕵️♀️
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a concept.....
1920s = roaring twenties
2020s = shrieking twenties
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okay I swear I’ll have all the taylor swift tweets out of my system after this but
These Violent Delights was for the my tears ricochet, exile, illicit affairs audience
Foul Lady Fortune is for the august, this is me trying, hoax audience
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I’ve been staring out my window all month like a forlorn widow wondering when my ARCs would return from battle and the answer is that they show up while I’m sweaty and weak directly from the airport
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I banned my 10 year old sister from reading my book until she’s old enough but she had to make a book trailer for class and decided to make one for me, I’m crying in the club😭😭😭😭😭😭
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the real happiness I get from making fake married characters call each other "my husband" and "my wife" as if I'm not just sitting in front of my screen vividly hallucinating
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I got my thesis back and the feedback says “consider submitting for publication” do we think it would go up on my goodreads if so because that would be kind of powerful
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this one time I was tuned out of class until my professor suddenly said "...and they were rivals... maybe even enemies" and my attention snapped back so fast
she was... she was talking about the U.S. and the Soviet Union
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who is this person on my tiktok commenting “disappointed you had to hop on the fairytale retelling trend” first of all don’t speak to me second of all ah yes can’t wait to read my favorite fairytale, romeo and juliet❤️
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when he’s the heir of the rival gang who already broke your heart four years ago 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩
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I can’t make statements like “ugh I love working on my adult fantasy” to my non-publishing friends because they’ll just be like 😳you love your what now
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I'm going to clear this up once more bc this thread keeps getting reactivated and I'm not going to reply direct when this person only wants to complain
Italy is not the world!!! a Russian character in China is going to be given the name that sounds best in Chinese
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our violent ends and believe me looking at each other on nov 16th like
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why do I write books where I have to learn things, I just wanted to write spy intrigue and now I'm learning the rules to an obscure form of poker played in the 1930s
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readers are like “chloe you don’t know what it’s like waiting for our violent ends😩” ummm of course I do, lorde hasn’t put an album since 2017
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I have 25 days to fall in love with a russian man so that he'll dress up as the roma to my juliette for halloween, why is life as a hustling author so hard
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they're asking for personal messages on our graduation slides and other people are probably going to be thanking their parents,,, the question is do I use mine for promo
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✌️😋✌️ Feb 4th ✌️😋✌️ Our Violent Ends cover reveal ✌️😋✌️
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being gen z just means my friends introduce me as "this is chloe and she's tiktok famous" before "this is chloe and she's a bestselling author" and you know what... valid
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the fact that taylor swift’s long live was never used as a backing track in a dystopian franchise about teenagers saving the world is a travesty
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wait is book twitter doing fancy outfits in general now because I'm here and baby chloe is here
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hands down one of the wildest comments i’ve ever received
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this is utterly surreal but… ✨✨ I’M GOING TO BE A PUBLISHED AUTHOR!!!! ✨ ✨
THESE VIOLENT DELIGHTS will be on bookshelves in Fall 2020, and I am so happy I might spontaneously combust
Congratulations to
@thechloegong
on the sale of her YA fantasy, THESE VIOLENT DELIGHTS!
@LECrockett
@SimonKIDS
#TeamTriada
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how do I signal that I’m wearing converse at graduation because I have a busted ankle and not because I’m a pick me girl (or am I)
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I'VE FINISHED MY THESIS AND READIED IT FOR SUBMISSION
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no man in my books ever knows how to communicate, they just touch their love interest’s face and hope they can read what that means
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putting placeholders into my adult fantasy book 2 outline like
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just left many (MANY) signed copies at the B&N in Union Square!!! These Violent Delights in all its shiny glory is hanging out at the BookTok table🥰
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listening to nothing new as a 22 year old... taylor i'm outside your door i just have a few words
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my author copies have arrived and they’re so violently shiny I’m in love
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taylor swift just liked my tiktok where I’m emo about being incredibly parasocially attached to her and now I’m crying in the airport check in line
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the other day I was giving sage life advice and feeling real proud of myself when “you can’t be both the sickness and the cure” popped into my head thinking I was quoting some philosopher
...I just realised I was quoting cardan...
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since when did starbucks start writing our credit card names onto the drinks instead of asking, I got the fright of my life getting my legal name screamed out I thought my mum had materialized in front of me because I left a cup in the sink
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the fact that I'm doing the readings of the chinese economic history class I almost entirely slept through in sophomore year because I need the info for the worldbuilding of my adult fantasy sequel... my professor was playing the long game
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did it hurt? when you betrayed the love of your life to save them from a blood feud between your families
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"how do you deal with getting tagged in negative reviews" I simply cannot hear them over the sound of my sexy starred trade reviews and my big head
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I can't believe my adult debut is going to be my shortest book, maybe with age I've learned to shut up
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some may ask why the characters in my wip are wearing masks even though there's no active pandemic in the book. the answer is that i simply think its sexy to wear masks when you're killing people❤️ stay hygienic❤️
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I was like “oh excelsior, it means onward and upward” and someone was like it’s nice that you know new york’s state motto
???? i only know it because of richard campbell gansey the third since when did states have mottos
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one half of a fake married couple getting genuinely enraged that someone dared hurt their fake spouse and losing their temper… mmmm delicious
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very curious as to why “is these violent delights based on any of your real experiences” is one of the most common questions i get asked do i just look like the sort of person to throttle my boyfriend
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