V. E. Schwab

V. E. Schwab is a British-American author.
Until 2021,Change — V. E. Schwab on Instagram she wrote adult novels under V. E. Schwab and young adult and middle-grade novels under Victoria Schwab.V. E. Schwab/Victoria Schwab — V. E. Schwab on Tumblr Now, all of her books are published under "V. E. Schwab."
Schwab's pronouns are she/they.:File:IG Pronouns.pngThis article, and the rest of the wiki, uses she/her for consistency.
==Personal life==
Schwab originally studied Astrophysics before changing her major six times until she settled on Communication Design for her undergrad. She also has a Master in Medieval Art History,"I originally went to school for Astrophysics. I changed my major 6 times. Graduated with an undergrad in Communication Design. Went on to get a Masters in Medieval Art History. Learned more from the things I didn't major in." and a Minor in Creative Writing."I have a Minor in Creative Writing that helped me not at all."
On May 1, 2018, Schwab held the sixth annual J.R.R. Tolkien Lecture on Fantasy Literature in Pembroke College, Oxford. Her speech was titled "In Search of Doors.""Video and Photos for Victoria (V.E.) Schwab's Tolkien Lecture" — The J.R.R. Tolkien Lecture on Fantasy Literature
==Bibliography==
===Adult books===
====Villains series====
* Vicious (2013)
** Warm Up (2013)
** Extraordinary (2021)
* Vengeful (2018)
* Victorious"In my heart of hearts (and my original plan) the Villains series has 3 volumes: VICIOUS, VENGEFUL, and VICTORIOUS.""Once the first book in Threads is drafted, I can turn my attention to the third book in the Villains series, Victorious. "30 min Q+A!" — V. E. Schwab on Instagram
====Shades of Magic trilogy====
* A Darker Shade of Magic (2015)
* A Gathering of Shadows (2016)
* A Conjuring of Light (2017)
====Threads of Power trilogy====
* The Fragile Threads of Power (2023)
* Untitled #2
* Untitled #3
====Shades of Magic: The Steel Prince====
A comic series illustrated by Andrea Olimpieri, Budi Setiawan, and Enrica Eren Angiolini.
* Shades of Magic: The Steel Prince (2019)
* Shades of Magic: Night of Knives (2019)
* Shades of Magic: The Rebel Army (2020)
====Standalone novels====
* The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (2020)
* Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil (2025)"Love Is HungryI am ecstatic that @AP has announced my upcoming novel with @torbooks, #BuryOurBonesInTheMidnightSoil! This fierce story hits shelves in June 2025 with a special surprise...ALL first editions will be signed"
* Black Tabs"Black Tabs" on GoodreadsV.E. Schwab signs $1M deal with Tor Books — EW"BLACK TABS is the standalone female Blade Runner"
* "Muse" (nickname; graphic novel)The Visible Life of V.E. Schwab — January 2023
===Young Adult books===
====The Archived trilogy====
* The Archived (2013)
* The Unbound (2014)
** Leave the Window Open (2015)
** The Dark Vault (2018, bind-up)
* The Returned (publication unknown):File:IG The Returned and Black Tabs.png, 2021"I didn't ask for this series to go unfinished. I didn't ask for the publisher to not buy the third book. It took years for me to emotionally recover and move on. But now that I have, I'm not all that eager to go back."Thread on THE RETURNED — V. E. Schwab on Twitter, 2017"I do still plan on releasing [THE RETURNED]. But no, it's not ready. Publishing is complicated, and I will probably wait until the rights for THE ARCHIVED and THE UNBOUND revert to me so I can release all three together.""The Returned will be released in one format or another when it's ready.""And because I just got an actual flurry of asks about TA3–I made a promise and I will keep it; THE RETURNED will be made available, in one format or another, whether through a publisher or online, when it's ready.""On the third book in the ARCHIVED series" — V. E. Schwab on Tumblr, 2014
====Monsters of Verity duology====
* This Savage Song (2016)
* Our Dark Duet (2017)
====Standalone novels====
* The Near Witch (2011/2019, reissue)
** The Ash-Born Boy (2012/2019, reissue)
* Gallant (2022)
===Middle Grade books===
====Everyday Angel trilogy====
* New Beginnings (2014)
* Second Chances (2014)
* Last Wishes (2014)
====City of Ghosts series====
* City of Ghosts (2018)
* Tunnel of Bones (2019)
* Bridge of Souls (2021)
====Standalone novels====
* Spirit Animals: Broken Ground (2015)
===Other works===
* "The World on Fire" (2010) — Parts 1-5, Finale
* Because You Love to Hate Me: 13 Tales of Villainy: "Death Knell" (2017)
* (Don't) Call Me Crazy: "Black Hole" (2018)
* Vampires Never Get Old: "First Kill" (2020)
* Fantastic Worlds: Impossible Places: "A Royal Affair" (2021) — set in the Shades of Magic world
* Three secret book projectsContracted books — V. E. Schwab on Twitter
* First Kill TV series (writer, creator, executive producer)"Emma Roberts To Produce YA Vampire Series 'First Kill' At Netflix" — Deadline
* The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue movie (screenwriter)"V.E. Schwab's Novel 'Invisible Life of Addie LaRue' Getting Film Adaptation at eOne (EXCLUSIVE)" — Variety
==Unidentified teasers==
List of teasers Schwab shared which can be from any of her upcoming books and, thus, do not necessarily belong to the Shades of Magic series.
===Teaser #1===
This isn't the beginning, but it's a place to start.
==Trivia==
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* Her favorite scenes to write are fight scenes."Favorite types of scenes to write?" — "Fight scenes." She also loves describing fashion,"Is there any object or thing (doesn't have to be physical) that you especially enjoy describing in your writing?" — "FASHION." and creates her fictional languages "from the ground up, structurally, grammatically, phonetically.""I built each language from the ground up, structurally, grammatically, phonetically."
** Schwab focuses on movement when writing her fight scenes and less on exact details. She thinks of her fight scenes as dances and choreographs them.
* Before Schwab sold The Near Witch, she had written only one other book: The Shadow Mile which was never published,"One, a very strange book called The Shadow Mile.""And that first novel, which was called THE SHADOW MILE, is my only trunked book to date. It got an agent, but after going to acquisitions 4 times, never sold." but set the foundation for the City of Ghosts series."The seed that became CITY OF GHOSTS first came from a book that never saw shelves."
** She also worked on a sequel to The Near Witch called The Dark Remains before eventually shelving it."Only one—the unpublished sequel to The Near Witch, called The Dark Remains, about the children who were buried, and what they became.""Right after The Near Witch, I wrote a draft of a sequel, set ten years later and following Wren and the other children as they realize that they're time in the woods changed them."
* Her fans are officially called "Schwablins"—a term coined by the Titan Publishing Group."SCHWABLINS, according to my UK publisher :p" In turn, Schwab herself would be the "Schwablin Queen.""The brilliant folks at Titan have named my readers for me: SCHWABLINS. Making me the SCHWABLIN QUEEN."
* One of her favorite Shades of Magic: The Steel Prince panels are the ones of the Antari drawing a blood mark as it gave her "Sandman style chills.""This will forever be one of my favorite panels in THE STEEL PRINCE. It’s one of the very first I saw, and it gave me Sandman style chills."
* She possesses a Kell Maresh body pillow."OMG I GOT A KELL BODY PILLOW.""The Kell body pillow my friend Becky gave me"
* Some dream projects of hers are a book about Julie d'Aubigny, a super queer vampire book, and a mercenary society book."#FourDreamProjects1. A book about Julie d'Aubigny.2. A super queer vampire book.3. A mercenary society book.4. A month off."
* Her favorite font is Cochin"What's your favourite font?" — "Cochin." and she writes all her drafts in it."I use Cochin for all my books while drafting :)"
* Schwab used to be a pantser, but now meticulously outlines her stories; she calls her outlines, her "story skeletons."
** She also writes everything out of order,"To clarify: I write everything out of order. BUT I outline it first. So I have a skeleton, and then I put muscle and skin on each of the joints, and then the rest, depending on my mood." writing almost every line separately before puzzling together the pieces later on"When I tell people I write out of order, they don't seem to realise I mean almost every line. I open a blank doc, dump in 20-30 lines, then assemble them into a page." as she treats every sequence as its own little arc."Not really, bc I write out of order. I treat every sequence as its own set piece, complete with small arc, so I get a sense of satisfaction." Because of that, she can never tell how close she is to the end."I'm sure it doesn't help that I write everything out of order, so even if I WERE closer to the end, I wouldn't know it."
* She wholeheartedly believes in happy endings—though she should also thinks they should be earned."TITAN COMICS THE STEEL PRINCE: 10 MINUTES WITH V.E. SCHWAB" — Book Riot
* Schwab has multiple cat ears which were given to her by fans."People ask me where I get my cat-ear headbands, but the truth is, every single pair has been a gift from a reader. That's what makes them so special."Thread on the cat ears — V. E. Schwab on Twitter As of December 2019, she owns more than 30 pairs."How many pairs of cat ears do you currently own?" — "30+"
* She is willing to sell her soul to have one of her books turned into an anime."I don't know which deity I have to sell my soul to in order to see one of my books as an anime, but I would like the universe to know I'm willing." She also thinks that, out of all her books, This Savage Song would make the best anime."Which series/world do you think would make the best Anime?" — "Honestly? This Savage Song."
* She does not have a favorite book among her own.
* Schwab's favorite anime is Cowboy Bepop. Vicious is her love letter to it."Believe it or not, no. VICIOUS was in many more ways a love letter to the dynamics in Cowboy Bebop.""If you ever doubted VICIOUS was based on Cowboy Bebop—this is LITERALLY A THING VICTOR DOES IN VENGEFUL."
** Cowboy Bepop, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, and Avatar: The Last Airbender are the stories that have influenced her the most.
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* Her favorite food items are cheddar and dark chocolate."What are your favourite foods? :)" — "Sharp cheddar and very dark chocolate."
* Schwab's favorite tea variety is black English Breakfast in the morning. While in the evening, her favorite is darjeeling, jasmine, or mint green tea."Give us tea recs to cry into as we read your books, V" — "Harney & Sons. Tetley. Eteaket. I prefer a strong black breakfast tea for AM, a darjeeling for afternoon, a mint tea for evening.""What's your favorite type of tea?" — "Darjeeling and good English Breakfast." She despises Earl Grey Tea which she calls an "impostor""Favorite kind of tea?" — "English Breakfast in the AM, jasmine or mint green in the evening. But I'll try almost anything so long as it's not that VILE EARL GREY.""Resist the vile temptation of the impostor tea [Earl Grey]." or "Satan's drink.""Q: What are a few of your favorite things?A: Black breakfast tea (not Earl Grey, that is Satan's drink, it tastes like my grandmother's old clothes steeped in warm water), very dark chocolate, cake, animals (especially if I can pet them), whisky, steep hills." She also does not like its smell."I can't stand the smell of earl grey tea"
* She is a competitive épée fencer."I was--and still am--a competitive épée fencer!""And Related Subjects: Discovering a Passion for Fencing" — Tor
* Schwab is both a cat and a dog person."I am both a dog and a cat person."
* Her favorite place is Edinburgh, and her favorite quote is "I know nothing with any certainty but the sight of stars still makes me dream" by Vincent van Gogh."What's your favourite place and what's your favourite quote" — "Edinburgh, and 'I know nothing with any certainty but the sight of stars still makes me dream.'"
* She has a bracelet on which "WWNGD"—"What Would Neil Gaiman Do"—is engraved."For those who don't know, 10 years ago I bought myself a bracelet that said WWNGD — What Would Neil Gaiman Do — as a reminder to make good art."
* The title of her old Tumblr blog—"Victorialand"—is a reference to her childhood when she told her parents she "was living in Victorialand, [...] a magical, if somewhat morbid place.""I'm an only child, and growing up, whenever I made up stories to entertain myself, especially if I made up stories in which I was a character–and usually got what I wanted–my family would say I was living in Victorialand. Victorialand is a magical, if somewhat morbid place."
* Her grandfather and great-uncles founded Schwab's Pharmacy."my grandfather owned Schwab's Pharmacy with his three brothers."Thread on Schwab's Pharmacy — V. E. Schwab on Twitter
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==Adaptations==
Information on possible future adaptations of Schwab's works that are unrelated to the Shades of Magic series. For information on the potential A Darker Shade of Magic movie, see here.
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