I’m thrilled to be partnering with Bookshop this month for a paperback discount! You can find the book–and my storefront–here. But that’s not all–keep your eyes peeled for a special, Shakespearean reading list (curated by me) later this week.
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Ides of March Goodreads Giveaway
Great news: in honor of the Ides of March, we’ve partnered with Goodreads to host a giveaway of 100 US ebooks of If We Were Villains. You can enter here through March 25th.
May the Bard be with you.
M
October eBook Sale!
If We Were Villains is a Kindle Daily Deal this month, which means you can buy the eBook for just $2.99!
Click here to buy! It might just be the perfect read for Halloween.
–M
Shakespeare’s Birth/Deathday
If you’re looking for the perfect gift to celebrate the Bard’s birth/deathday, here are a few ideas. All three of these are now on sale, and you can find them here!
Happy reading.
3 Days Left in eBook Sale
Don’t forget, the If We Were Villains eBook is just $3.99 from US retailers–but only until March 5th! Get one before they’re gone so you’ve got something to take on Spring Break!
–M
Attic on Eighth Review
Rory and Eliza from The Attic on Eighth gave Villains its most inventive review to date. Read it here, and keep an eye on their page for the next few days for a few more features.
–M
Radio Interview 6/10
Almost forgot! Today I’ll be on WPKN 89.5 at 1pm ET to talk Villains with Second Saturday. Tune in or listen here (and if you want to make it extra fun, do a shot every time I say “um.”)
–M
IWWV Pub Day!
Today is a big day. If We Were Villains is out in the wild, and I’m in New York, celebrating with all the beautiful people who made this book happen. I’ll have much more to share after launch party tonight, but in the meantime there are a few things to check out:
- Goodreads Giveaway (that’s right, Macmillan is hosting another one)
- Goodreads feature
- Kirkus thrillers
- Backstage excerpt (Backstage magazine ran a piece of Villains which includes a new excerpt)
And if you want to see what I’m up to over the course of the (very short) IWWV book tour, you can track that tag on Instagram!
Last but not least, you can buy the book right off the shelf today. How cool is that?
Happy reading.
–M
Tomorrow 💀
Just a reminder. It’s almost here.
An Open Letter from One Bookseller to Another
You are the unsung hero of publishing. You are the last link between writers and readers. You matter more than you know. And you never get enough credit, so the first thing I really want to say with this letter is thank you—for every box you’ve unpacked, every book you’ve stacked, and every time you’ve been berated for explaining the difference between a bookstore and a Starbucks.
I used to be a bookseller. The year after I graduated college I worked four jobs in order to keep myself fed and caffeinated while I was writing a novel, If We Were Villains (which comes out on April 11th, two weeks from today). Bookselling was easily the best of the four jobs, because in between the unboxing and the book-stacking and the umpteenth explanation of why we don’t sell Amazon gift cards, I got to be on the front lines of fiction. That’s why any bookseller I’ve ever known started selling books to begin with. From the first day until the last, you get a little rush every time you persuade someone looking for a good read that one of your favorites might end up being one of their favorites, too.
Believe it or not, being an author is actually a lot like being a bookseller. Case in point, I’m about to try to sell you a book.
If We Were Villains is a book about books and the people who love them too much. It’s about art and passion and poetry and all those things that made me a reader. It’s also about ambition and danger and drama and all those things that made me want to write. It’s about being young and reckless and finding out the hard way what consequences really are. It’s about Shakespeare. It’s about death. It’s about academia. Most of all, it’s about words.
I love words. Chances are, you and I have that much in common. If we didn’t, I wouldn’t be writing this letter, and you probably wouldn’t be reading it. I hope you’ll read If We Were Villains and fall in love with the words inside. And if you do, I hope you’ll do a fellow bookseller a favor and push it into the hands of every customer who’s looking for something good.
On slow days at the bookstore, I used to wander through the fiction section and linger in the Rs, staring at the imaginary space between Rice and Riordan and saying to myself, “Someday your name is going to go right there.” For me, If We Were Villains is a daydream come true. But now, dear bookseller, I need your help to keep it alive. All I can offer in return is a chance to read this thing I wrote, and my eternal gratitude.
Once again, thank you, for everything you do.
Wishing you peaceful lunch breaks, hot coffee, and nice customers,