Danai Christopoulou

COVER REVEAL @debutiful has the behind-the-scenes info on how the cover for VILE LADY VILLAINS by Danai Christopoulou (@danaiwrites ) was created! The book is set to release on May 12, 2026, from @unionsqandco . The cover features by Andreea Dumuta (@galactixy_illustrations ) with art direction and design by Patrick Sullivan! Head to Debutiful.net to read a short essay fby Christopoulou about the cover. #graphicdesign #novel #book #coverart debutiful

VILE LADY VILLAINS IS OUT ON 2ND APRIL 2026 🗡️ 🩸 ☠️ OR YOU CAN PRE-ORDER THE WORLD-BURNING HORROMANTASY NOW. THIS BOOK BRINGS TOGETHER LITERATURE’S MOST FAMOUS LADY VILLAINS, LADY MACBETH AND KLYTEMNESTRA . . . As every threat brings our vile lady villains closer, turning ill intentions into fiery attraction that no author dare write, they have a choice: remain within the confines of their original tales … Or burn down the world to pen a new story together . . . #newbook #horror #romance #gothic

VILE LADY VILLAINS is coming to Greece!!! 🇬🇷 💛 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. A thousand thank you to @ekdoseis_anubis for giving VILE LADY VILLAINS its perfect Greek home, and to my agent @laurenbieker and my Greek subagent for fighting so hard for this book. Whatever happens next, my heart is full. Even if that means my Mother will now be able to read the book…😱 💙🇬🇷 Το βιβλίο μου για την Κλυτεμνήστρα και τη Λαίδη Μάκμπεθ θα μεταφραστεί στα ελληνικά!!! Μήνες πριν κυκλοφορήσει καν στο UK και στην Αμερική, έχω ήδη την πρώτη μου συμφωνία για μετάφραση—και σημαίνει το σύμπαν οτι θα είναι στην ελληνική γλώσσα. Χίλια ευχαριστώ στις @ekdoseis_anubis που πίστεψαν στις VILE LADY VILLAINS μου, καθώς και στο Γιάννη Μουκάκο της JLM που πάλεψε τόσο πολύ να μου βρει ελληνικό «σπίτι». Σαν Ελληνας που ζει στο εξωτερικό, αυτή η στιγμή είναι απίστευτα σημαντική για μένα, κι ο,τι κι αν γίνει από δω και πέρα, η καρδιά μου είναι γεμάτη. Ακόμα κι αν αυτό σημαίνει ότι τώρα θα μπορεί να διαβάσει η Μητέρα μου το βιβλίο 😱 #vileladyvillains #greekmythology #greekauthor #ekdoseisanubis

My top 5 horror movies as an author existing on social media

Book tour 🗡️ Vile Lady Villains by Danai Christopoulou Welcome to my stop in the Promo Tour for Vile Lady Villains by @danaiwrites hosted by @mtmctours ! This is a queer, gothic horrormantasy that brings together literature's most famous lady villains, Klytemnestra meets Lady Macbeth in a limbo realm where they have to work together to survive and rewrite their stories. Perfect for fans of A Dowry of Blood, Clytemnestra, and Piranesi. Out now in the US from @unionsqandco ! Tropes: 🩸Enemies-to reluctant allies-to lovers 💙Female rage 🩸Good for her 💙Grumpy x grumpier 🩸Daggers to the throat as a love language 💙Only one stable 🩸Stabby sapphics Swipe to read the blurb & don't forget to visit @mtmctours + #VileLadyVillainsMTMC from May 15th - May 21st for more beautiful tour posts! #VileLadyVillains #mtmctours #queerjoy #queerromancebooks

Basically I’ll never be normal no matter what Mother says, but so grateful and in awe that I have more that 5,000 of you willing to join the ride! Thank you to every single one of you who added Vile Lady Villains on Goodreads, who read and reviewed it 💜 I promise, if publishing lets me publish my next book, it will be even more weird — and even more sapphic 😈😈😈

Maybe all you need is a sapphic horrormantasy featuring stabby villains.... 🗡️🖤😏 Welcome to our Promo Tour for Vile Lady Villains by @danaiwrites ! In this queer, gothic horrormantasy that brings together literature's most famous lady villains, Klytemnestra meets Lady Macbeth in a limbo realm where they have to work together to survive and rewrite their stories. Perfect for fans of A Dowry of Blood, Clytemnestra, and Piranesi. Out now in the US from @unionsqandco ! Add it to your TBR if you enjoy: 💙Enemies-to reluctant allies-to lovers 🗡️Female rage 💙Good for her 🗡️Grumpy x grumpier 💙Daggers to the throat as a love language 🗡️Only one stable 💙Stabby sapphics Swipe to read the blurb & make sure to visit #VileLadyVillainsMTMC from May 15th - May 21st to see all the beautiful tour stops from our hosts! #VileLadyVillains #mtmctours #horromantasy #darkromantasy

Welcome to my stop in the Promo Tour for Vile Lady Villains by @danaiwrites hosted by @mtmctours ! I am so excited to start this book! I was gifted an ebook of it and cannot wait so I added it to my June TBR! Since i'm branching out (reading new genres), this will be the first queer, gothic horrormantasy book I'll read that brings together literature's most famous lady villains; Klytemnestra meets Lady Macbeth in a limbo realm where they have to work together to survive and rewrite their stories, how cool is that?? Perfect for fans of A Dowry of Blood, Clytemnestra, and Piranesi. Add it to your TBR if you enjoy: 🩸Enemies-to reluctant allies-to lovers 💙Female rage 🩸Good for her 💙Grumpy x grumpier 🩸Daggers to the throat as a love language 💙Only one stable 🩸Stabby sapphics Read more about it in the comments below/swipe to read the blurb & don't forget to visit @mtmctours + #VileLadyVillainsMTMC from May 15th - May 21st for more beautiful tour posts! Out now in the US from @unionsqandco ! #VileLadyVillains #mtmctours #romantasy #booktok #bookstagram

Sometimes I write the writing advice I need to read

Truly, the most distinct flowers spotted in my yard this May. Careful, some might stab you. 🗡️🗡️ If you’re new here, hi! I’m Danai, a Greek sapphic author, editor, associate literary agent and May flower enthusiast. My book VILE LADY VILLAINS, is a sapphic enemies to lovers horromantasy about Klytemnestra meeting Lady Macbeth in a liminal realm. The book is out now by @michaeljbooks in the UK, by @unionsqandco in the US/CA, and comes out by @ekdoseis_anubis in Greece in June. If you loved A Dowry of Blood, Clytemnestra, Lady Macbeth and Lucy Undying you may enjoy VILE LADY VILLAINS. You can get it wherever books are sold, request it on NetGalley or ãdd it on Goodreads and Storygraph in my 🔗 in bi0. Thank you! ❤️🥀

I’m so honored to be featured on the @bookriot newsletter today! They gave me the opportunity to talk about the books I’ve loved this year and you best believe I took it. Books featured: -Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by @veschwab -The Forest Bleeds by @rachkitchwrites -Lethal Kiss by @taylorlgrothe And if you like books that dabble on the deliciously macabre, that dance with horror and romance both, I hope you’ll also check out Vile Lady Villains!

I was so thrilled to be interviewed by @ashleyhasty on her blog! I yapped about the books I’m reading, about the literary characters I’d love to be friends with (or locked in an elevator with) and about the moment I knew I wanted to be an author. /blog/author-interview-danai-christopoulou