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Hi Reddit! My debut, THE BOOK EATERS, came out via Tor (usa) and Harper Voyager (uk) back in august 2022. It's the third book I've written, but the first one I've managed to get published. It is a standalone, not a series, and sold as contemporary fantasy—but be warned, there is little to no magic in it.
So far, bad reviews say it's a violent clusterf*ck, while positive reviews say it's super weird (in a good way). I put to you that both of those things are true 😅 Another bewildered reviewer described it as a fairytale stapled to a thriller, and I lowkey love that.
In all seriousness, I would class THE BOOK EATERS as a modern gothic fairytale. Partly, it explores a warped society of humanoid people who eat books, and some who eat minds. The rest of it follows a (book eater) single mom MC in her highly personal quest to save her (mind eater) monstrous son.
For folks who are unsure if they'll like it, I recommend reading the first couple of chapters (free on the internet, see links below) and evaluating based off that.
Addendum: I plan to reply to the thread until it's archived, or folks stop responding. Or reddit closes it, lol. My reasoning is that a lot of people won't have had a chance to hear about the book yet, let alone read it, so the thread will remain as a resource that folks can access for the next few months.
BIO THINGS:
I'm a biracial autistic sff writer who was born in Texas, grew up in Hong Kong, and now live in the UK. I love New Weird spec fic, 19th century lit, science fantasy genre benders, and have a Gene Wolfe tattoo, although I don't write anything like him.
I like running, wildswimming, hiking, gaming (video/table top/board) and of course, reading, but I am not a very useful kind of person in the capitalist sense. I have spent most of my adult life unemployed / FT carer for my kids, who have special needs, and until the book deal came through, we lived at or below the poverty line.
I found querying and submission to be brutal, but actual publishing to be brilliant and life-changing. Definitely feel free to ask about that side of it—the publishing industry has become my special interest, and I collect SO MUCH info.
LINK THINGS:
There's currently a free giveaway on goodreads, for print copies of TBE (north america only, due to GR restrictions.) You can find that here: https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/352988-the-book-eaters
Wanna try before buy? Chapter One is free to read here: https://www.tor.com/2022/07/12/excerpts-the-book-eaters-by-sunyi-dean-chapter-one/
And Chapter Two is free to read here: https://www.torforgeblog.com/2022/06/05/excerpt-the-book-eaters-by-sunyi-dean/
Curious enough to eat it? Here's a location-targeted buy-link! https://smarturl.it/book-eaters
You may recognize me as “Auntie Ruby” from Ms Marvel, or as the voice of Symmetra from Overwatch, and Rampart from Apex Legends. My book, I Am Fun Size, features tons of (sometimes heartening, sometimes cringeworthy) stories from my life. ASK ME ANYTHING! @sweeetanj on the socials! PROOF: https://i.redd.it/cac3ety595q91.jpg
I’m Robin Furth, and I’ve been traveling with Stephen King through his multiverse for more than twenty years. My reference book—STEPHEN KING’S THE DARK TOWER: THE COMPLETE CONCORDANCE—was originally written for Steve King’s personal use and has since been translated into five languages. I am the co-author of the bestselling DARK TOWER comics and worked as a consultant for both the 2017 DARK TOWER movie, directed by Nikolaj Arcel, and Amazon’s 2019 DARK TOWER tv pilot, created by the show runner Glen Mazzara. My latest fabulous adventure was traveling to Empis with Charlie Reade and his dog, Radar. If you want to read more about my work, take a look at my website: www.robinfurth.com. I really hope you’ll join me on September 20, 2022, at 1pm ET. Hail Empis!
I’m Isabel Greenberg, and I’m the author of three graphic novels : The Encyclopedia of Early Earth, The One Hundred Nights of Hero and Glass Town. I also illustrate and write childrens picture books. You can find out more about my work on my website isabelgreenberg.co.uk or on my Instagram @isabel_greenberg. I’ll be answering questions on all of my work but most specifically my second book, The One Hundred Nights of Hero, which is about myths and folktales and love and the power of storytelling!
Heyo! I'm Wesley Chu. I'm a former SAG actor, stuntman, a banking exec, and currently the NYT Bestselling & Astounding Award author of twelve books. I studied wushu/kung fu, hiked Kilimanjaro, and probably would be a lot further in my writing career if it weren't for the Outlands in World of Warcraft and Civilization. My new book is The Art of Prophecy, which is my love letter to the wuxia movies and one of the ways I connected with my culture and homeland when I first immigrated to Nebraska from Taiwan back in the 80s.
I'll be dropping in throughout the day to answer any questions thrown my way! I will answer them with stupid honesty.
You can order The Art of Prophecy here! https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/652712/the-art-of-prophecy-by-wesley-chu/
Here's the GR link to AoP: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58409712-the-art-of-prophecy
Here are my deets! website: www.wesleychu.com twitter: https://twitter.com/wes_chu FB: https://www.facebook.com/wesleyhchu Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wesleychu1/
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BONUS FREE BOOK ALERT!: Del Rey and Hero Forge have teamed up to bring the world of The Art of Prophecy by Wesley Chu to life! One lucky winner will receive a hardcover copy of the book and a color-printed miniature figure of the magical martial arts mentor, Taishi. All you have to do is ask a question and click on the link below to win! The question is honestly optional, but hit me up anyway!. https://sites.prh.com/art-of-prophecy-hero-forge?fbclid=IwAR3_9ufelC6jSqRr79eeVpxkkbg61CTNLo006j_H8UqZrRTUorXCy2gX3d8
I'm the author of award winning & Eisner nominated books like The Many Deaths of Laila Starr, Blue in Green and These Savage Shores. I also write comics over at DC and Marvel on books like Detective Comics, Swamp Thing and Venom. Six years ago I used to be a chemical engineer. Now I make up stories for a living. My parents are only slightly disappointed.
You can follow me talking about work and comics over on twitter @therightram
Hi all! I’m Bethanne Patrick. host of the newly-launched Missing Pages podcast, which has topped the Books/Arts podcast charts and has been called a “Must Listen” by The Guardian and The Washington Post. Jodi Picoult is very excited to see it launch.
If you’re a fan of true crime and/or BookTok, Missing Pages is the podcast for you. Each week, I delve into the strangest and most compelling scandals and fiascos in the book world. These are stories of deception, impersonation, and shady accounting that reveal some secrets the book world would like to keep buried, including…
• The handsome, charming, and rich author who lied about everything.
• The memoirist who didn’t exist.
• The teenage prodigy — and plagiarist.
Join me live from 12pm (noon) until 2pm ET today (August 16) for this AMA! Here is a Timezone converter to help you find the time when the AMA is happening in your country.
A little about me: I’ve spent more than two decades championing books in venues like The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, and NPR. (Check your shelves: chances are you own a book or three with my blurb on the cover.) I’m on the board of the PEN Faulkner Award and the National Book Critics Circle. As @TheBookMaven on Twitter, I started the popular #fridayreads hashtag. Counterpoint will publish my memoir, Life B, in May 2023.
I can’t wait to answer your questions about anything and everything in the book world including…
• Literary controversies, scandals, and fiascos.
• What it’s like to review major releases and interview big-name authors.
• Building a career in books outside the big publishing houses.
• Freelance life.
• Finding an agent & selling a book.
• Working with an editor.
Proof: https://twitter.com/TheBookMaven/status/1558806672566525953
You can follow/listen to the Missing Pages podcast on your favorite podcast app.
2:00 p.m. Eastern 8/16: That's it for this AMA! Thanks so much for taking part, and many thanks to those who asked me. . . anything! Find my new podcast Missing Pages right here, and huge thanks to The Podglomerate because Missing Pages IS a Podglomerate Original, the first (but I doubt the last) of its kind. Read on! You can always find me u/TheBookMaven here and on Twitter. In gratitude, Bethanne
Reddit! My new book UPGRADE was published July 12. I also wrote DARK MATTER, SUMMER FROST, RECURSION, and a bunch of other books. Sometimes I write scripts too. Here’s your moment. Ask me anything!
Hey r/books! As a fellow redditor (longtime lurker, occasional poster) I’m excited to hang out and talk about writing, finishing a series for the first time, books, food, you ask, I’ll tell.
My series tells the story of Sambuciña ‘Buc’ Alhurra, an autodidact streetrat who is part Sherlock Holmes, part Arya Stark and ALL herself. Buc’s too smart for her own good with a razor-sharp blade hidden up her sleeve and an even sharper tongue. She and her swordsman partner-in-crime-solving, Eld, are the first private investigators in a world controlled by trading companies and empires and Gods caught in an endless war. Determined to upend their corrupt society, Buc and Eld find themselves facing off against pirate queens, mages, uncharted seas and eventually the aforementioned Gods themselves.
It's adventure fantasy with heart and there’s a lot of comparisons to Scott Lynch’s Lies of Locke Lamora meets Pirates of the Caribbean vibes. I’ll take that. The series began with The Sin in the Steel, put Buc and Eld through the ringer in The Justice in Revenge, and has Buc with her back against the wall rallying her ragtag group of found family for a final stand in The Memory in the Blood.
In a prior life, I served six years in the United States Army Infantry (PA National Guard) as an NCO, including a combat tour in Eastern Afghanistan. You’ll find that experience influences my writing quite a bit. I think folks dig my action scenes, but I’m far more interested in the beat that comes AFTER the action. What impact it has on the characters, on the plot, and the consequences of violence. The series is also known for its worldbuilding and magic systems (plural). Ultimately though, it comes back to the character and we see everything through Buc’s eyes and hear it through her (rather profane) voice.
Hi, I'm Darren Shan, author of Cirque Du Freak, The Demonata, Zom-B, and lots of other books. Archibald Lox and the Legion of the Lost, which is the final book in my Archibald Lox series, goes on sale TODAY, and I couldn't think of a better way of celebrating than by coming on here to connect with you guys and answer any questions you'd like to send my way! But while I'm mainly here to see off Archie, I'm more than happy to discuss anything that I've written, so feel free to ask me about ANY of my books, or my writing process, or the Cirque Du Freak movie and the chances of a reboot, or... well... ANYTHING!! This is, after all, an AMA, and I don't do these very often, so yeah... let rip, and I'll do my best to answer as swiftly and comprehensively as I can! It kicks off at 2pm Eastern Time (7pm UK time) and will run for a couple of hours or thereabouts. Let's have fun!!!
I've spent the last decade of my life working on one piece of fiction: the silkpunk epic fantasy series, The Dandelion Dynasty (published in the US by Saga Press of Simon & Schuster and in the UK by Head of Zeus). This series began as a fantasy reimagining of the legends around the rise of the Han Dynasty using the pacing and structure of the Iliad, and then morphed into a fantasy history of how to (re)build a constitution for a modern, post-colonial nation-state in the face of internal strife and external threats. Along the way, there are flying, fire-breathing, oversized hippos, sentient, scaled, magical narwhals, engineers who craft “silkmotic” machines worthy of Heron of Alexandria and Zhuge Liang, a “war” between restaurants fit for reality TV, a hundred and one different ways to write and make books, and more discussions about taxes and litigation than you’ll find even in Dickens. The last book, Speaking Bones, just came out on June 21, 2022.
Before becoming a full-time writer, I went through multiple careers as a corporate lawyer, programmer, and litigation consultant. I enjoy fixing old handheld games consoles. Oh, I also wrote some short stories (The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, The Hidden Girl and Other Stories), a few of which are being turned into a TV show.
I’ll be here to answer questions all day, starting at 1:00 PM EDT.
My web site, newsletter, Twitter, and Instagram.
I’m Brandon Sanderson, a bestselling fantasy author. Best known for The Stormlight Archive, Mistborn, and for finishing Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time, I’m now also known for having the highest-funded campaign in Kickstarter’s history for four books I wrote during the quarantine. If you want to stay up to date with me, you should check out my YouTube channel (where you can watch me give my answers to the questions below) and my Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Ask me any questions you like, but I’m less likely to answer questions with massive spoilers for the books. I’ll be taking questions today only.
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EDIT: I'm off the livestream and have had some dinner. The transcription of some questions is still coming, as...well, I talk a lot. Those answers will be posted soon, or you can see them on the VOD of my answers on the YouTube channel.
Apologies for the stream-of-consciousness wall-of-text answers. This was a new thing for us, finding a way for me to be able to give answers for people while also getting piles of pages signed. I hope you can make sense of the sometimes rambling answers I give. They might flow better if you watch them be spoken.
Thanks, all, for the wonderful AMA. And as I said, some answers are still coming (and I might pop in and write out a few others that I didn't get to.)
--Brandon
Hi, I’m Alex Gino! My first novel, MELISSA, was a winner of the Children’s Stonewall Award, the Lambda Literary Award, and the Children’s Choice Book Award. I’m also the author of RICK, YOU DON’T KNOW EVERYTHING, JILLY P!, and my newest book, ALICE AUSTEN LIVED HERE. I love glitter, ice cream, gardening, awe-ful puns, and stories that reflect the diversity and complexity of being alive.
Hi there, I'm Sam J. Miller, author of the new short story collection Boys, Beasts & Men.
My stories are about sex and monsters and resistance and Stonewall and the Russian Revolution and King Kong and HIV/AIDS and I am excited to chat with yall - so ASK ME ANYTHIIIIIIIIING...
(More about me: my horror short "57 Reasons for the Slate Quarry Suicides" won the Shirley Jackson Award in 2014, and my debut novel The Art of Starving won a Nebula Award. I also wrote a sci-fi novel called Blackfish City that has been translated into a bunch of languages.
I live in New York City and I have worked as a bookseller, a union organizer, a punk rock guitarist, an artist's model, a grocery bagger, and I am the last in a long line of butchers. Joan Rivers made fun of me from the stage once, and I was detained by the Secret Service for filming the police trying to sweep homeless people out of public space during the RNC in 2004.
I love old-school video games and punk rock and disco and divas and cartoons, especially Avatar: The Last Airbender. AND STEPHEN KING and Poppy Z Brite and Octavia Butler AND AND AND ...)
Hi there - I’m Andy Dunn, cofounder and former CEO of Bonobos. Excited to be doing my first AMA with you! This May, I published a memoir called Burn Rate: Launching a Startup and Losing My Mind. Here is the tabloid-ready summary: In 2016, on the precipice of selling Bonobos, the startup I’d been building for the previous nine years, I flew into a manic spiral and was hospitalized for a week in the psych ward at Bellevue in New York. When I was discharged, I was met by NYPD officers, who took me to jail, where I was charged with felony and misdemeanor assault. In my book, I decided to share the unvarnished story, and all the steps to getting healthy, in hopes of normalizing disclosure of mental illness in the workplace. If you’d like to connect, please check out https://www.burnratebook.com/ and follow me on LinkedIn, Twitter, Medium, and Instagram.
I've been a writer since 1993 and besides Murderbot, my work also includes the fantasy series The Books of the Raksura, the novels The Death of the Necromancer and City of Bones, a Star Wars novel and the Return to Dominaria Magic Story for Magic: the Gathering, plus a lot more. My books have been published in 22 languages so far, and the Murderbot Diaries have won four Hugo and two Nebula Awards and have made the New York Times Bestseller list multiple times.
You can find a complete list of my work on my website: https://www.marthawells.com/
I'm on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/marthawells1
And you can see what I'm reading on GoodReads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/87305.Martha_Wells
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Thank you so much for joining me today! It was so great to connect with you all. If you'd like to stay in touch, please sign up for my newsletter at www.SusanCain.net, and please follow me on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. If you'd like to read more on Bittersweet, please go here: https://susancain.net/book/bittersweet/. Until next time!
Warmest, Susan Cain
I’m Olivie Blake, author of The Atlas Six, its forthcoming sequel The Atlas Paradox, and other adult SFF titles. I also wrote Clara and the Devil, the webtoon I created with artist Little Chmura, and the forthcoming YA rom-com My Mechanical Romance as Alexene Farol Follmuth. I’m a new mom to a chaos goblin who always kinda smells like maple syrup and my big three are Aquarius, Sagittarius, and Virgo. Really into books. Sort of okay at combat sports. Mostly an indoor cat. Find me at olivieblake.com or @OlivieBlake. Ask me anything, I dare you.
Hello it’s Gregory David Roberts. I’m an author, artist and composer. Best known for the international best-selling novel Shantaram. A TV series Shantaram based on the book and its sequel The Mountain Shadow, is currently in production by Apple TV , Paramount TV and Anonymous Content, starring one of my fav actors Charlie Hunnam as the lead. I recently released my first non-fiction book, The Spiritual Path. In 2020, I released my debut album Love&Faith. Taking a break from the studio today to answer your questions. I’m super excited to reconnect with the readers of Shantaram. J
I’m looking forward to answering your questions from 1 PM ET today so feel free to Ask Me Anything. Blessings from Jamaica!
I’m a writer. I write movies, TV shows, comics, and for our discussion today: my most recent novel TOGETHER WE WILL GO. My prior work includes (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0833089) the Clint Eastwood movie Changeling, through to Babylon5, Sense8, The Twilight Zone, World War Z, and Thor (both the movie and the comic), and my recent memoir Becoming Superman. I’m looking forward to talking about [Together We Will Go] and open to sidebar discussions as well. (https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Together-We-Will-Go/J-Michael-Straczynski/9781982142599), in which a struggling writer and a busload of disheartened souls find beauty and reckon with death in a story about endings and beginnings, about the journey we all share on the road we ride together, and - most of all - about what it means to live.
I write spec sci-fi thrillers like 'The Paradox Hotel' and 'The Warehouse.' I also wrote a Star Wars story. I have a background in publishing but also fight train and make ice cream so whatevs ask me anything. Online at www.robwhart.com, twitter: @robwhart, insta: @robwhart1.
My latest book The Paradox Hotel is out now and you can get it wherever books are sold. Learn more about The Paradox Hotel here.
I'm Malinda Lo, author of several young adult novels including the New York Times-bestselling Last Night at the Telegraph Club, which won the National Book Award, the Stonewall Book Award, and the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature. Set in 1950s San Francisco, Last Night at the Telegraph Club is about a seventeen-year-old Chinese American girl named Lily, who wants to be a rocket scientist and also is beginning to realize she's a lesbian. She and her friend, Kath, start to visit the Telegraph Club, a lesbian bar in North Beach, where they discover an underground community and first love.
Last Night at the Telegraph Club, like all my YA novels, are about queer girls. My first novel, Ash, which was published in 2009, is a Sapphic retelling of Cinderella. I've also written a fantasy novel (Huntress), a science fiction thriller duology (Adaptation and Inheritance), and a psychological thriller (A Line in the Dark), so I love jumping genres. My next novel, A Scatter of Light, is a contemporary YA coming-of-age novel, as well as a companion to Last Night at the Telegraph Club, and it comes out in fall 2022.
ETA: Thank you so much for all the thoughtful questions! I really appreciate your taking the time to post and read!
And I should add: you can find me on twitter, instagram, or at my website. I also invite you to subscribe to my newsletter, Lo & Behold, for biweekly news roundups and essays on writing. Cheers!
I am a poet, novelist, songwriter and photographer, Michigan born and raised. My novels are DOOR NUMBER THREE THE GIFT, THE IMPOSSIBLE BIRD (TOR.) Ask me anything about my new novel 51.I can promise you this: No one is ready.
51 reads like an expose’—the shocking testimony of the survivors of the notorious hidden base in the Nevada desert is collected by Winston Koop, a dangerous undercover U.S. agent whose chief duty is plumber. The one who’s seals the leaks. Permanently.
So rather than an expose’ we have an erasure.Suppression. Denial.
51 is a novel about old friends shipwrecked by alcoholism. Their chance meeting lets them honestly confront their struggle with sobriety. Truth: the only antidote to the drunk's hazy roller coaster of denial.(Denial again.) Lies.Secrets.Suppression.Coverup.Stealth. One more time.
51 is a collection of confessions aimed at both revealing and concealing the secrets and crimes at the heart of the larger conspiracy both men are swept up in. Who can be trusted? Your government? Your oldest friend? Your lover? 51 is a tell-all that starts as a most unforgettable character tale and ends in a demolition of reality as we once knew it. Is it Sci-Fi? Fantasy? Tabloid Journalism? True Confessions? A shocking expose of Government Coverup?Or is it, perhaps, something far stranger? A string of clues to a mystery that only the reader can solve. An intervention in a world run by denial.
Like any Patrick O’Leary novel, 51 is a strange and thoroughly entertaining story of unconsidered possibilities that will continue to blow your mind with delayed detonations days after you’ve read it.Buckle up.
Jasper Fforde spent twenty years in the film business before debuting on the New York Time Bestseller list with 'The Eyre Affair' in 2001. His 17th novel, 'Shades of Grey2: Red Side Story', will be published in the UK in 2022.
Fforde's writing is an eclectic mix of genres, which might be described as a joyful blend of Comedy-SF-thriller-Crime-Satire. He freely admits that he fascinated not just by books themselves, but by the way we read and what we read, and his reinvigoration of tired genres have won him many enthusiastic supporters across the world.
Amongst Fforde's output are police procedurals featuring nursery rhyme characters, a series for Young Adults about Magic and Dragons set in a shabby world of failing magical powers,'Shades of Grey' (2011) a post-apocalyptic dystopia where social hierarchy is based on the colours you can see, 'Early Riser' (2018), a thriller set in a world in which humans have always hibernated, and 'The Constant Rabbit' (2020), an allegory about racism and xenophobia in the UK.
Fforde was born in England but has recently decided to adopt the nationality of where he lives when he heard that: 'When you truly love Wales, you are Welsh'.