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Leanne Schwartz

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A PRAYER FOR VENGEANCE (Sept 19th), TO A DARKER SHORE (2024) rep: Lee O’Brien

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🌙✨”Weren’t Stregna’s templars always saying something about giving breath to truth?”🌙✨ As autistic poet Milo learns when he accidentally wakes sacred statue Gia, reciting and reading aloud are their own kind of magic—one reason I’m so excited to share this amazing sample of chapter one from A Prayer for Vengeance’s audiobook!! Read so beautifully by Natalie Duke, it’s available everywhere now, from Tantor Audio!! #aprayerforvengeance #audiobook #newaudiobook #newaudiobookrelease #tantoraudio #natalieduke #yaromance #fantasyromancebooks #yafantasy #yabooks #yafiction #booktok #youngadult #youngadultfantasy #youngadultromance #fatrep #fatrepresentation #autismrep #autismrepresentation #autistic #fatrepbooks #autisticrepresentation #autisticrep #autisticbook #autisticbooks #autisticauthor#CapCut created by Leanne Schwartz with Kate Bush's Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) [2018 Remaster]

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🌙✨”Weren’t Stregna’s templars always saying something about giving breath to truth?”🌙✨

As autistic poet Milo learns when he accidentally wakes sacred statue Gia, reciting and reading aloud are their own kind of magic—one reason I’m so excited to share this amazing sample of chapter one from A Prayer for Vengeance’s audiobook!! Read so beautifully by Natalie Duke, it’s available everywhere now, from Tantor Audio!!

#aprayerforvengeance #audiobook #newaudiobook #newaudiobookrelease #tantoraudio #natalieduke #yaromance #fantasyromancebooks #yafantasy #yabooks #yafiction #booktok #youngadult #youngadultfantasy #youngadultromance #fatrep #fatrepresentation #autismrep #autismrepresentation #autistic #fatrepbooks #autisticrepresentation #autisticrep #autisticbook #autisticbooks #autisticauthor #CapCut

🌙✨Today Milo’s prayer wakes Gia’s vengeance, and their book is out in the world!! A PRAYER FOR VENGEANCE is available now💖 It's a dream come true to be published, but even more for it to be with this book, centering and celebrating a fat heroine and an autistic hero. I tried to sum up Prayer (A murderous statue! A religious scholar struggling with his faith! Cats!) and there’s a summary if you swipe, but I decided here I’d simply like to share this longer blurb from Lille Lainoff: "Yes, A Prayer for Vengeance is on its face a story of a warrior girl and poet boy. But it is also a story of history: those who write it, those who manipulate it, and those who wield the swords and pens to change it. With intricate world-building, two main characters so fully-realized they feel like living, breathing people, and one of the best premises I've read in years, Schwartz's debut novel is compelling, dynamic... and, perhaps most important, puts the swords and pens into the hands of characters who reflect readers’ longing to see themselves represented in fantasy not as sidekicks, or villains, but heroes.” Thank you, Lillie, for expressing so beautifully what I hoped Prayer might mean to readers. And eternal thanks to my brilliant editor Tamara Grasty and everyone at Page Street for seeing the importance in that, and making Prayer into such a stunning book (seriously I can’t wait for everyone to see its shining cover and stamped moon and stars in person!!). Endless gratitude to my wonderful agent Lee O’Brien and everyone at LGLM for guiding me through this whole new stage of the writing journey. Finally, thank you to my Pitch Wars mentors and classmates, all my writing friends and family for being there through so many manuscripts and revisions, all the authors who blurbed, all the reviewers and booksellers and librarians who have welcomed Gia onto their pages and shelves, and all the readers who now pick it up! Especially if you see yourself at all in Milo and Gia, I hope you also see that just like them you were never alone. Someone was with you all along, and together we are all more powerful than even a daydreaming poet could ever imagine.✨ Buy links/swag gift form in 📸bio!💖 #aprayerforvengeance #bookrelease #releaseday #newbook #newrelease #newreleasebook #yaromance #fantasyromancebooks #yafantasy #yabooks #yafiction #booktok #youngadult #youngadultfantasy #youngadultromance #fatrep #fatrepresentation #autismrep #autismrepresentation #autistic #fatrepbooks #autisticrepresentation #autisticrep #autisticbook #autisticbooks #autisticauthor created by Leanne Schwartz with Ingrid Michaelson's Turn To Stone

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🌙✨Today Milo’s prayer wakes Gia’s vengeance, and their book is out in the world!! A PRAYER FOR VENGEANCE is available now💖

It's a dream come true to be published, but even more for it to be with this book, centering and celebrating a fat heroine and an autistic hero.

I tried to sum up Prayer (A murderous statue! A religious scholar struggling with his faith! Cats!) and there’s a summary if you swipe, but I decided here I’d simply like to share this longer blurb from Lille Lainoff:

"Yes, A Prayer for Vengeance is on its face a story of a warrior girl and poet boy. But it is also a story of history: those who write it, those who manipulate it, and those who wield the swords and pens to change it. With intricate world-building, two main characters so fully-realized they feel like living, breathing people, and one of the best premises I've read in years, Schwartz's debut novel is compelling, dynamic... and, perhaps most important, puts the swords and pens into the hands of characters who reflect readers’ longing to see themselves represented in fantasy not as sidekicks, or villains, but heroes.”

Thank you, Lillie, for expressing so beautifully what I hoped Prayer might mean to readers.

And eternal thanks to my brilliant editor Tamara Grasty and everyone at Page Street for seeing the importance in that, and making Prayer into such a stunning book (seriously I can’t wait for everyone to see its shining cover and stamped moon and stars in person!!).

Endless gratitude to my wonderful agent Lee O’Brien and everyone at LGLM for guiding me through this whole new stage of the writing journey.

Finally, thank you to my Pitch Wars mentors and classmates, all my writing friends and family for being there through so many manuscripts and revisions, all the authors who blurbed, all the reviewers and booksellers and librarians who have welcomed Gia onto their pages and shelves, and all the readers who now pick it up! Especially if you see yourself at all in Milo and Gia, I hope you also see that just like them you were never alone. Someone was with you all along, and together we are all more powerful than even a daydreaming poet could ever imagine.✨

Buy links/swag gift form in 📸bio!💖

#aprayerforvengeance #bookrelease #releaseday #newbook #newrelease #newreleasebook #yaromance #fantasyromancebooks #yafantasy #yabooks #yafiction #booktok #youngadult #youngadultfantasy #youngadultromance #fatrep #fatrepresentation #autismrep #autismrepresentation #autistic #fatrepbooks #autisticrepresentation #autisticrep #autisticbook #autisticbooks #autisticauthor

created by Leanne Schwartz with Gabrielle Aplin's Light up the Dark

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🌙✨Only ONE WEEK until Prayer is out in the world, and I’m thrilled to share this final blurb from the incredibly talented and incredibly sweet (how does she write such vicious plot twists?!) Alexandra Overy, author of These Feathered Flames, This Cursed Crown, and whose second book in her Gingerbread Witch middle grade series, The Unsleeping Witch, is out TODAY!!💖💖💖 🌙“A beautiful and evocative story of sacrifice that will stick with you long after the final page. You'll fall in love with Milo's heart and Gia's vengeance― and even more so with the force they create together.” ―Alexandra Overy, author of These Feathered Flames and This Cursed Crown✨ 🌙A PRAYER FOR VENGEANCE: An orphan out to find the truth within a warped religion turns his poetry into prayer―a prayer that awakens a cursed girl hungry for revenge. ✨Centuries after a miracle vanquished Tresttato’s monsters and turned the soldiers fighting them to stone, Milo lovingly tends to the statues of those who protected the city. Raised with devout templars and scholars, autistic temple ward Milo wants nothing more than to be accepted into their ranks. When his prayers admiring her heroic sacrifice accidentally free Gia from stone, she wakes with a fury to kill the man Milo owes his life to, Primo Sanct Ennio. ✨Gia claims that the immortal holy leader Milo lives to serve is the same man who betrayed her and transformed her into a statue―and what Milo always believed was a miracle was actually a curse that Gia will stop at nothing to break. Even if she has to kill his followers to do it. Even if she must kill the boy who woke her. #aprayerforvengeance #yaromance #fantasyromancebooks #yafantasy #yabooks #yafiction #booktok #youngadult #youngadultfantasy #youngadultromance #fatrep #fatrepresentation #autismrep #autismrepresentation #autistic #fatrepbooks #autisticrepresentation #autisticrep #autisticbook #autisticbooks #autisticauthor created by Leanne Schwartz with Ingrid Michaelson's Turn To Stone

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🌙✨Only ONE WEEK until Prayer is out in the world, and I’m thrilled to share this final blurb from the incredibly talented and incredibly sweet (how does she write such vicious plot twists?!) Alexandra Overy, author of These Feathered Flames, This Cursed Crown, and whose second book in her Gingerbread Witch middle grade series, The Unsleeping Witch, is out TODAY!!💖💖💖

🌙“A beautiful and evocative story of sacrifice that will stick with you long after the final page. You'll fall in love with Milo's heart and Gia's vengeance― and even more so with the force they create together.”

―Alexandra Overy,
author of These Feathered Flames and This Cursed Crown✨

🌙A PRAYER FOR VENGEANCE:
An orphan out to find the truth within a warped religion turns his poetry into prayer―a prayer that awakens a cursed girl hungry for revenge.

✨Centuries after a miracle vanquished Tresttato’s monsters and turned the soldiers fighting them to stone, Milo lovingly tends to the statues of those who protected the city. Raised with devout templars and scholars, autistic temple ward Milo wants nothing more than to be accepted into their ranks. When his prayers admiring her heroic sacrifice accidentally free Gia from stone, she wakes with a fury to kill the man Milo owes his life to, Primo Sanct Ennio.

✨Gia claims that the immortal holy leader Milo lives to serve is the same man who betrayed her and transformed her into a statue―and what Milo always believed was a miracle was actually a curse that Gia will stop at nothing to break. Even if she has to kill his followers to do it. Even if she must kill the boy who woke her.

#aprayerforvengeance #yaromance #fantasyromancebooks #yafantasy #yabooks #yafiction #booktok #youngadult #youngadultfantasy #youngadultromance #fatrep #fatrepresentation #autismrep #autismrepresentation #autistic #fatrepbooks #autisticrepresentation #autisticrep #autisticbook #autisticbooks #autisticauthor

🌙✨So very honored to share this blurb from Amparo Ortiz, whose Last Sunrise in Eterna is an absolute delight and whose Blazewrath Games kept me guessing (and yelling) all the way through!! And I can’t help including the longer version here: 🌙“A Prayer for Vengeance seamlessly provides a layered exploration of power. Whether it's through language, tradition, gender roles, neurodivergence, or the perils of an unquestioned sense of duty, Leanne Schwartz gifts readers with a fast-paced look at autonomy set in a world with gryphons and chimeras. Revenge is certainly sweet, but Gia and Milo's journey to rewriting their history―and falling in love―is this debut novel's greatest delight.” ―Amparo Ortiz, author of Last Sunrise in Eterna✨ 🌙A PRAYER FOR VENGEANCE: ✨An orphan out to find the truth within a warped religion turns his poetry into prayer―a prayer that awakens a cursed girl hungry for revenge. ✨Centuries after a miracle vanquished Tresttato’s monsters and turned the soldiers fighting them to stone, Milo lovingly tends to the statues of those who protected the city. Raised with devout templars and scholars, autistic temple ward Milo wants nothing more than to be accepted into their ranks. When his prayers admiring her heroic sacrifice accidentally free Gia from stone, she wakes with a fury to kill the man Milo owes his life to, Primo Sanct Ennio. ✨Gia claims that the immortal holy leader Milo lives to serve is the same man who betrayed her and transformed her into a statue―and what Milo always believed was a miracle was actually a curse that Gia will stop at nothing to break. Even if she has to kill his followers to do it. Even if she must kill the boy who woke her. #aprayerforvengeance #yaromance #fantasyromancebooks #yafantasy #yabooks #yafiction #booktok #youngadult #youngadultfantasy #youngadultromance #fatrep #fatrepresentation #autismrep #autismrepresentation #autistic #fatrepbooks #autisticrepresentation #autisticrep #autisticbook #autisticbooks #autisticauthor #amparoortiz #lastsunriseineterna created by Leanne Schwartz with Fleurie & Tommee Profitt's Turns You into Stone

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🌙✨So very honored to share this blurb from Amparo Ortiz, whose Last Sunrise in Eterna is an absolute delight and whose Blazewrath Games kept me guessing (and yelling) all the way through!! And I can’t help including the longer version here:

🌙“A Prayer for Vengeance seamlessly provides a layered exploration of power. Whether it's through language, tradition, gender roles, neurodivergence, or the perils of an unquestioned sense of duty, Leanne Schwartz gifts readers with a fast-paced look at autonomy set in a world with gryphons and chimeras. Revenge is certainly sweet, but Gia and Milo's journey to rewriting their history―and falling in love―is this debut novel's greatest delight.”

―Amparo Ortiz,
author of Last Sunrise in Eterna✨

🌙A PRAYER FOR VENGEANCE:
✨An orphan out to find the truth within a warped religion turns his poetry into prayer―a prayer that awakens a cursed girl hungry for revenge.

✨Centuries after a miracle vanquished Tresttato’s monsters and turned the soldiers fighting them to stone, Milo lovingly tends to the statues of those who protected the city. Raised with devout templars and scholars, autistic temple ward Milo wants nothing more than to be accepted into their ranks. When his prayers admiring her heroic sacrifice accidentally free Gia from stone, she wakes with a fury to kill the man Milo owes his life to, Primo Sanct Ennio.

✨Gia claims that the immortal holy leader Milo lives to serve is the same man who betrayed her and transformed her into a statue―and what Milo always believed was a miracle was actually a curse that Gia will stop at nothing to break. Even if she has to kill his followers to do it. Even if she must kill the boy who woke her.

#aprayerforvengeance #yaromance #fantasyromancebooks #yafantasy #yabooks #yafiction #booktok #youngadult #youngadultfantasy #youngadultromance #fatrep #fatrepresentation #autismrep #autismrepresentation #autistic #fatrepbooks #autisticrepresentation #autisticrep #autisticbook #autisticbooks #autisticauthor #amparoortiz #lastsunriseineterna

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