Villains will be available April 11th as a hardcover, an ebook, and yes, an audiobook! If you like to listen to Shakespeare in the car, you can check out the prologue and if you like what you hear, you can pre-order the audiobook .
Happy listening!
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VILLAINS is a Kirkus Starred Book!
Read the whole review here!
–M
VILLAINS Prologue is live!
IWWV Excerpt to Be Posted January 31
Bummed that you can’t enter the giveaway because you’re not in the U. S. or just really keen to read? On January 31 (that’s this coming Tuesday), at 12 noon CST, we’ll be sharing an excerpt from the book, which you’ll be able to read right here on this website! The best way to make sure you don’t miss it is to click that ‘follow’ button on the right-hand side, if you haven’t already.
Hope it’s everything you hoped for.
–M
VILLAINS on NetGalley
Hey friends! Just wanted to let you know that if you’re on NetGalley, If We Were Villains is, too! So if you want to get ahead of the pack, read the book, and write a review, you can request it here:
https://s2.netgalley.com/catalog/book/104988
Happy reading!
–M
Galleys!
Check them out. 
Cover Art
Since we’re on the subject of skulls: Ladies and groundlings, we have cover art!
If this is something you want to see on your shelves, don’t forget you can pre-order If We Were Villains right here.
–M
First pass proof!
This fat stack of paper arrived from the folks at Flatiron Books today. Now’s when we go through the whole MS with a fine-tooth comb, looking for every last little fix and adjusting the formatting where needed. But this is pretty much what the inside of the hardcover will look like, and that’s exciting.
I’ll be hard at work on this for the next week or so. I’ve gone through Act I already this morning and it’s a bit like an out-of-body experience, because it’s been a while since I read through the whole text–long enough that I can almost pretend I didn’t write it, and read it as a reader.
Getting closer all the time.
RBM
My wonderful editor Christine Kopprasch just sent me a photo of If We Were Villains in its newest incarnation as an RBM–no cover art yet, but I am beyond excited to see this. It’s starting to look like a real book!
Announcing my first novel!
So thrilled to share the news that my first novel, If We Were Villains, is going to be published by Flatiron Books–an imprint of Macmillan–sometime in the next year or so.
This book has been my life for almost two years now, and after so much writing, editing, revising, and so many long conversations with my fabulous agent at DCL, I’m both thrilled and humbled to say that this story is coming to life! I’m so lucky to be working with Flatiron Books, and between my wonderful agent and now my equally wonderful editor, I couldn’t have asked to be in better hands. We’ve got a long way to go yet, but I can’t even articulate how exciting it is to be taking the next step down the road to publication.
More soon!
M
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