Villain Themed Anthology BECAUSE YOU LOVE TO HATE ME Will Pair Authors with Booktubers

A new villain central anthology, Because You Love To Hate Me will pair up popular YA authors with influential booktubers!

Reading is not just reading anymore. Most people spend just as much time looking on Youtube or Goodreads for new books or watching book reviews as they do actually reading. I know I certainly do. Which is why this news from Bloomsbury Children’s is so exciting. They will be joining together 13 well-known authors and 13 popular booktubers for a villain themed anthology, Because You Love To Hate Me, set to release July 2017.

This list of authors includes some of the most well known names in YA. Including Victoria Schwab, Marissa Meyer and Nicola Yoon. The whole anthology will be edited by writer/Youtube star Ameriie.

“Readers today are more interactive with authors and one another than ever before,” Ameriie says in the press release. “The booktube community on YouTube has exploded in the last two years, energizing hundreds of thousands of readers around the world, the majority of whom read YA.”

Because You Love To Hate Me will pair up one author with one booktuber to write stories from the point of view of famous villains. However these stories can’t be your typical ‘I did bad things but I have a good heart’ plot. They must be stories of vengeance, rage, pain, heartbreak or sorrow. These stories will be dark, but sometimes dark is fun.

The authors include:

  • Renée Ahdieh, author of The Wrath and The Dawn series
  • Ameriie, of Books Beauty Ameriie
  • Soman Chainani, author of The School for Good and Evil series
  • Susan Dennard, author of Something Strange and Deadly Series
  • Sarah Enni, creator of First Draft podcast
  • Marissa Meyer, author of The Lunar Chronicles
  • Cindy Pon, author of Kingdom of Xia series
  • Victoria Schwab, author of Shades of Magic series
  • Samantha Shannon, author of The Bone Season series
  • Adam Silvera, author of More Happy Than Not
  • Andrew Smith, author of the Winger series
  • April Genevieve Tucholke, author of Wink, Poppy, Midnight
  • Nicola Yoon, author of Everything, Everything
 The booktubers include:

July 2017 can not come fast enough in my opinion, because this anthology sounds like way to much fun, reminding us all just how good it feels to be bad.

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