Got an email address and 5 minutes?Nominate THIEFTESS for the YA Dragon Award! Ch. 52 of THIEFTESS now live on Patreon!Get Thieftess In Print Now! “We are Black Roses. We know how to cry.”—Alethea on Stationhead, circa 2024 Dearest Squad, Right around the time I started writing this chapter, my favorite Korean indie rock band The Rose announced an…
Got an email address and 5 minutes?Nominate THIEFTESS for the YA Dragon Award!* Ch. 51 of THIEFTESS now live on Patreon!* Get Thieftess In Print Now! Who did you love before?Who did they love before you?—Better Than Ezra, “In the Blood” Dearest Squad, I promise to write this essay in the vaguest way possible so as not to spoil…
Nominate THIEFTESS for the MG/YA Dragon Award! All you need is an email address and the title & author of the book (Best YA/MG – Thieftess, Alethea Kontis) – make sure you check the box at the top and enter the very long number at the bottom. That’s it! No fancy sign in required. Then, when it’s tine for…
Ch. 50 of THIEFTESS now live on Patreon!Get Thieftess In Print Now! Dearest Squad, YES. Before a passel of y’all @ me, my spelling of “dwarf”, “dwarfs,” and “dwarfen” in all the Tales of Arilland was a CONSCIOUS CHOICE. Is is not incorrect. Don’t believe me? Look it up. (And if you even think about asking any kind of…
Dearest Squad, In 2016, I released Tales of Arilland and Trixter…and right around Trix & the Faerie Queen I began to realize that I couldn’t keep doing what I was doing as long as Harcourt had the rights to the first 3 books. And if I kept writing about Arilland—thus encouraging new readers to pick up Enchanted—I would never…
Dearest Squad, As soon as Saturday freed that dragon in Hero, I knew Thursday was going to be the one to have to deal with it. I just didn’t realize it would take me so long to get there. Hero released on October 1, 2013. I started writing the dragon chapters of Thieftess on April 1, 2026. What would…
Dearest Squad, “Always write when you’re in love.” My mother said this to me once upon a time and, like many such things she’s said to me over the years (“Everything happens for a reason,” “Go write me a new fairy tale”), it stuck with me. Keep in mind—this is my mother we’re talking about. Mom Kontis. OG Mama…
“Become wounded or wise.” —Sadhguru Dearest Squad, I started following Sadhguru on Instagram in 2020. I am always on the lookout for guidance from my gurus. The things he had to say really resonated with me…and not just because I was in the middle of realizing just how Buddhist and Hindu I’ve been my entire life without having the…
Dearest Squad, Yeah. I had to write this chapter. Sorry-not-sorry. I was crying so hard when started writing, and it was at the end of a chapter that was already over 3000 words. ALL these last chapters have clocked in at around 3000 words. [Edit: this essay was written before I broke them all up for…
Got an email address and 5 minutes?Nominate THIEFTESS for…
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Nominate THIEFTESS for the MG/YA Dragon Award! All you…
