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My book is out today in the UK! If you like Shakespeare, this book might be for you. If you hate Shakespeare, this book might be for you.
But if you hate Agamemnon… this book is definitely for you!
Danai Christopoulou | VILE LADY VILLAINS out NOW
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Danai Christopoulou | VILE LADY VILLAINS out NOW
@Danaiwrites
VILE LADY VILLAINS (UK: Michael Joseph, US: Union Square & Co) /Rep: @lauren_bieker /Editor: @Khoreomag /Associate Literary Agent @TheTobiasAgency🏳️🌈🇬🇷
- Question for my fellow neurodivergents: do you also feel physically ill when you make a mistake?
- So I posted a TikTok about Cursed the Deer, my YA fantasy based in Greek myth, and someone left me a comment saying "this is 100% Percy Jackson fan-fiction." Putting aside the fact that I've never read Percy Jackson, imagine saying this to a Greek author. With your whole chest.
- This is so interesting to me, as someone who’s never read an English translation of the Odyssey. I’ve only read the ancient Greek text and a modern Greek translation, and to me, Wilson’s translation feels the closest to it. It carries the right rhythm. I’m intrigued to read it!
- Don't scroll. Don't even scroll. Scroll past 600 and you're dead. They are fast. Faster than you can believe. Don't turn your back, don't look away, and don't scroll. Good luck.
- Replying to @DanaiwritesThat's what happens when you leave Greek authors out of the Greek myth retellings conversation. When everything is seen through such a US-centric lens, you don't even realize how insulting this comment is.
- Replying to @ReadWriteRyan96I have absolutely nothing against the PJ books and the author himself is an amazing human being. But I take great offence when I'm being told that writing stories about my own culture is fan-fiction of a book series that was... based on myths of my culture
- Replying to @theneonvulture“Never heard of it, must be a small one” ????? My dude
- To the dude who messaged me on Instagram to be his sugar baby: I am the furthest thing from a sugar baby you’ve ever met. I am a honey crone. I am menacing molasses. I’m spun sugar with a spider center. I’m the old oak tree where babies are left for Fae changelings. Fear me.
- No, you don’t understand, I’m not tired like “I need a nap” I’m tired like “I need to be put in permafrost for 46,000 years and then see if I can wiggle again”
- Publishing is writing a story about your own culture and being told that it’s a pity it doesn’t resemble more the stories written about your own culture from people who are outside of it.
- It’s here: the cover for the UK edition of VILE LADY VILLAINS, coming out April 02 2026 by @MichaelJBooks 🖤
- My fellow cream puff writers, I beseech you: stop using food to describe POC skin. Unless you don't see anything wrong in that, no unchecked bias or whitecentrism or exoticism, and you're also using food to describe your own, mayo-hued with tones of ranch sauce skin. Are you?
