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Danai Christopoulou | Pre-order VILE LADY VILLAINS
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VILE LADY VILLAINS (UK: Penguin Michael Joseph, April 2026/ US: Union Square & Co, May 2026) ✨Rep: Lauren Bieker✨Editor: khōréō ✨Assistant Lit. Agent: Tobias Literary Agency✨she/they🏳️‍🌈🇬🇷
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It’s here: the cover for the UK edition of VILE LADY VILLAINS, coming out April 02 2026 by Penguin Michael Joseph🖤
The cover for Danai’s debut novel, VILE VILLAINS illustrated by Audrey Benjaminsen
November 14, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Okay. One last teaser until the Friday cover reveal of VILE LADY VILLAINS. 😈🗡️
November 12, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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Convincing you to read my novel by the first sentence! Show me yours if you want

VILE LADY VILLAINS, cover reveal this Friday
November 11, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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What’s your beverage situation today?
A picture of Danai’s desk where two mugs (one shaped like a skull, the other featuring a print or Danai’s PM announcement for Vile Lady Villains) sit side by side. A water bottle can be seen further back, along with a selenite lamp
November 10, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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It’s that time of the year again! If you’re voting for the Hugos, the Nebulas or any other SFF awards, I hope you will consider my two very Greek, very angry offerings. Both free to read!
Short story: translunartravelerslounge.com/2025/02/15/1...
Non-fiction essay: www.khoreomag.com/non-fiction/...
With the Acropolis as the background, text reads: Danai Christopoulou awards eligibility 2025 Short story: “12 Things No One Will Tell You About Being a Demigod” Translunar Travelers Lounge Non-fiction essay: “These marbles were never white” khōréō A screenshot of 12 Things No One Will Tell You About Being a Demigod, a short story by Danai Christopoulou Screenshot of “These Marbles Were Never White” a non-fiction essay by Danai Christopoulou
November 9, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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You would think, judging by the look on her face, that I was the one who kept her up all night not the other way around
A close up of Buffy, Danai’s white calico cat, looking mighty annoyed
November 7, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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May I offer thee a teaser of the VILE LADY VILLAINS cover? 😈😇
Tune in on November 14 for the reveal! And let me tell you, I have gazed upon the final cover and it’s so sapphic and stabby and perfect 🤩
An image of green foliage and red roses, torn in the middle to reveal a teaser from Danai’s book, VILE LADY VILLAINS. Text reads: COVER REVEAL SAVE THE DATE NOVEMBER 14
November 6, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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SAVE THE DATE: NOVEMBER 14!

A cover reveal most vile and villainous will take place… 😇😈💅🏻🗡️
November 2, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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If you liked these gorgeous book covers, you might like enjoy looking at the VILE LADY VILLAINS book cover… soon 😈 Subscribe to my newsletter to get the reveal first!
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October 23, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Open the schools, I beg
October 17, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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In today’s edition of “the coolest authors are being incredibly kind to VILE LADY VILLAINS” 🥺🥺 Thank you so much to @elysejohnbooks.bsky.social and @foxesandroses.bsky.social for your time, thoughtfulness and camaraderie!
Praise for Danai’s book, VILE LADY VILLAINS: "A richly intertextual narrative about writing your own story rather than the one that is written for you, Vile Lady Villains reimagines the powerful women of literature and myth. Christopoulou brings two iconic characters together for an adventure that will delight, inspire, and surprise. Teeming with queer tension and sparking with anger and joy in equal measure, this is a rare and exciting work of feminist literature." --Elyse John, author of Orphia and Eurydicius Praise for VILE LADY VILLAINS: "Vile Lady Villains is a powerful love letter to all the vilified women in literature and a charming romp through a liminal world with an unforgettable sapphic couple at its heart. Danai is a compelling Greek voice." --Eugenia Triantafyllou, Hugo-nominated author of Loneliness Universe
October 17, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Buffy has a message for the world. Please listen. 🙏
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www.waterstones.com/book/9780241...
October 16, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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One of my favorite pages
from VILE LADY VILLAINS

02 April 2026 (UK), 12 May 2026 (US)
October 12, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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In which @mstevensonbooks.bsky.social had incredibly kind words for VILE LADY VILLAINS! One of the most bizarre, brilliant experiences of this whole thing so far has been getting amazing authors to somehow agree to read my book, and many of them seeming to enjoy it
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Go buy Behooved if you haven’t!
Early praise for Danai’s book: "I was enthralled from the first lush sentence to the final page. Blending familiar stories into new and wondrous forms, Vile Lady Villains is a powerful sapphic love story—and also an action-packed romp that theater nerds will find an utter delight. With spellbinding prose and deftly written, deeply compelling characters, this is a love letter to the classics that finally gives two of literature’s most notorious queens the stories they deserve." -M. Stevenson, author of Behooved
October 9, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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🥀🖤6 months until VILE LADY VILLAINS comes out in the UK (just over 7 months in the US) 🖤🥀

To celebrate this exciting but also nerve wracking milestone, I’m sharing some sneak peeks from the first pages of the book. Want more? Give me a page number and I will give you a line
October 2, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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October better behave, Buffy says
Buffy, Danai’s white calico cat, is loafing on the bed while staring at the camera, annoyed look on her face
October 1, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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More praise for VILE LADY VILLAINS, this time from THE Louisa Morgan 🥹 💛
I’ve been a big fan of Louisa’s iconic A Secret History of Witches, and beyond excited for her latest The Faerie Morgana
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September 23, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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VILE LADY VILLAINS is coming to Greece!!! 🇬🇷
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I am ecstatic to have secured my first translation deal 6 months before my book even comes out in the UK or the US—and I’m even more ecstatic that it will be in my native language.
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A screenshot of the Publishers Marketplace announcement of the VILE LADY VILLAINS Greek translation rights being acquired by Ekdoseis Anubis in Greece
September 19, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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Things I text my author friends at 2am
A screenshot from a chat. Text reads: “We will be scared and insecure and seeing all the things that can go wrong in every step of the way, won’t we” “But hey we keep going”
September 15, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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What peak performance looks like
Danai’s tuxedo cat, Lucky Spell, has made a nest for herself out of grass and leaves at the foot of a tree. She looks super cozy.
September 14, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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The first author blurbs for VILE LADY VILLAINS have come in 🥹🥹
Thank you so much to @schwartzwords.bsky.social and to Lauren Dedroog for your kind words and camaraderie!
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Please go check out Leanne’s and Lauren’s books and order them if you haven’t already!
September 13, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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My administrative assistant taking care of the mundane tasks (lying on the keyboard) so that I can focus on what really matters (looking at her)
Lucky Spell, Danai’s tuxedo cat, loafing on a red pillow in front of Danai’s computer screens, looking determined
September 9, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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For legal reasons this is a joke… but it’s TRUE you can preorder VILE LADY VILLAINS with 25% off at Barnes & Noble today only!

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September 5, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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VILE LADY VILLAINS is on @barnesandnoble.com for the very first time! And you can preorder it for 25% off! And I have zero chill and will use exclamation marks because truly this is a graphic I never thought I’d get to make 😭 #barnesandnoblepreordersale

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A graphic about the Barnes & Noble 25% preorder sale, featuring Danai’s book, Vile Lady Villains (temporary cover)
September 3, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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Don’t you just love it when cats
Buffy Cottonbottom, Danai’s white calico cat, is standing on her beige cat tower looking dignified and ridiculously beautiful
September 1, 2025 at 12:08 PM