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Danielle Paige (Dorothy Must Die) and Jennifer Niven (All the Bright Places) are giving away a copy of A Prayer for Vengeance over on Instagram💖💖💖

Any friends in the area I very much hope you’ll come out for my first event this week, Wednesday at Casita Books!!

Alexandra and Clara’s books are brilliant and so entertaining, just as the discussion will be!!

This sale is going through tomorrow!! And I’m just saying, To a Darker Shore is super fun like okay yes they do go to hell but it’s FUN (there’s so! much!! yearning!!!), it’s the book of my heart❤️‍🔥

I’ll be in LA next week for a mini book tour, and am SO excited to be chatting at Casita Books on Wednesday with Alexandra Overy and Clara Kumagai!! If you’re in the area please join us!!

September 19th is the day for dormant things to wake and blood to flow🌙✨

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🌙✨final copies unboxing💖😻

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It means so much to get to share this blurb from the inimitable Lyndall Clipstone, author of the eerie and enchanting LAKESEDGE and FORESTFALL and the upcoming UNHOLY TERRORS, books full of monsters and longing and THE most gorgeous prose.🖤🖤🖤

just a reminder that my debut book launch is in one month and I’d love to see you/give you special book swag with your signed copy💖

Only four weeks until debut and it’s time for blurbs!! The queen of stabby girls and wounded boys had incredibly kind words for A PRAYER FOR VENGEANCE💖💖💖

One last book box cover for A PRAYER FOR VENGEANCE and this one’s been worth the wait!!!! This cover has everything—righteous fury, religious ecstasy, nimbuses, swords, moon phases, reverent love interests on their knees—

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Here’s a look at September’s cover reveal! Swipe to see more.

🌙✨got my first final copy of A Prayer for Vengeance!!

💖it’s PINK AND SHINY

👀with some final surprises too

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I AM DECEASED The Calico Queen has done another cover cosplay and their Alesta is EVERYTHING😭😭😭😍😍😍😈😈😈🖤🖤🖤🔥🔥🔥

🔥😈COVER REVEAL😈🔥

THRILLED to share the cover of TO A DARKER SHORE, my YA romantic fantasy about an autistic inventor going to hell to avenge her best friend sacrificed in her place—only to find him alive but monstrously transformed.

🔥By one of my favorite artists, Flora Kirk🔥

🌙And if you can believe it not just one but two book boxes chose to include A PRAYER FOR VENGEANCE in their September boxes!! I adore Fox & Wit and the stunning alternative cover (to be revealed) they’ve created for Prayer. A book box was a “someday for some book” dream of mine and I’m just so overwhelmed with gratitude✨

🌙Friends I’m SO THRILLED to share that my debut A PRAYER FOR VENGEANCE is Fae Crate’s September selection. They’ve created an absolutely gorgeous alternative cover and this theme card (that will be included in the box sans writing on it) that looks like if Prayer were a Disney or Miyazaki film?? And the book box will include so many other bookish treats.✨

🌙✨TWO MONTHS until Milo’s prayer wakes Gia’s vengeance🌙✨

and so… (details on info in pic in comments!)

Thank you so much for having me on your blog! Everyone can now check out how Return to Oz's forlorn Emerald City statues burrowed into my subconscious💖

TBR: Leanne Schwartz About the Author: Leanna Schwartz What would you like readers to know about you? As a former high school English and drama teacher, I love stories of all kinds, including in books and on the stage, and I’ve wanted to bring more fat and autistic rep to young adult shelves for a long time. Like many...

Join us for Prayer's launch!!🌙✨

Publisher's Weekly also had such lovely things to say about Prayer!!✨

⭐️It’s a STAR from Kirkus!!⭐️

Elated that Kirkus loves my debut young adult fantasy A Prayer for Vengeance, about an autistic poet who awakens a murderous statue and their race against false histories, an immortal tyrant, and hungry monsters at the gates.

This is something I barely dared to dream of for one of my books someday. And I love thinking how happy Milo would be knowing his book got a star✨

🌙✨in their beneficence the sancts are offering ten copies of A PRAYER FOR VENGEANCE on Goodreads✨🌙

🌙✨Beyond thrilled to share that A PRAYER FOR VENGEANCE will be the YA title for Fox & Wit's September book box🎉
This subscription service does such amazing work highlighting q***r and diverse fantasy, and will be offering an exclusive dust jacket with an alternative cover👀 as well as some other fun things!! Check out their page to see how to sign up for one of these beauties✨

🌙A PRAYER FOR VENGEANCE✨

An orphan out to find the truth within a warped religion turns his poetry into prayer―a prayer that awakens a cursed girl hungry for revenge.

Centuries after a miracle vanquished Tresttato’s monsters and turned the soldiers fighting them to stone, Milo lovingly tends to the statues of those who protected the city. Raised with devout templars and scholars, autistic temple ward Milo wants nothing more than to be accepted into their ranks. When his prayers admiring her heroic sacrifice accidentally free Gia from stone, she wakes with a fury to kill the man Milo owes his life to, Primo Sanct Ennio.

Gia claims that the immortal holy leader Milo lives to serve is the same man who betrayed her and transformed her into a statue―and what Milo always believed was a miracle was actually a curse that Gia will stop at nothing to break. Even if she has to kill his followers to do it. Even if she must kill the boy who woke her.