Louis with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2009. She graduated from Washington University in St. Schwab went to an all-girls Southern preparatory school. Schwab was born on Jin California and grew up in Nashville, Tennessee. She is the creator of the supernatural teen drama series First Kill (TV series), based on her short story of the same name originally published in the 2020 anthology Vampires Never Get Old: Tales With Fresh Bite. She publishes children's and young adult fiction books published under the name Victoria Schwab.

She is known for the 2013 novel Vicious, the Shades of Magic series, and The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, which was nominated for the 2020 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel. E.) Schwab (born July 7, 1987) is an American writer. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, the Shades of Magic series and the Villains duology. Louis ( BFA)įantasy, science fiction, young adult, adult and middle grade fantasy Note that all UK first printings of the collector’s edition will be signed, so do jump on a preorder if you’re planning to get a copy.Washington University in St. Thus begins the extraordinary life of Addie LaRue, and a dazzling adventure that will play out across centuries and continents, across history and art, as a young woman learns how far she will go to leave her mark on the world.īut everything changes when, after nearly 300 years, Addie stumbles across a young man in a hidden bookstore and he remembers her name. The UK edition also includes new endpapers, two coloured text (black and blue), and gorgeous silver sprayed page edges featuring silver stencilled forget-me-not flowers.įrance, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever-and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets. Barnes & Noble have an exclusive edition with an alternate cover. The US edition also includes a ‘ hidden cover‘ design stamped and debossed under the dust jacket, along with an exclusive note from the author.

Both of the collector’s editions include a new cover design (well, a design with a new color scheme at least), six new pieces of fan art to illustrate Addie’s story, and a gold ribbon bookmark. UK designs have the constellation more subtly included as gold circles, and also includes a forget-me-not floral motif. US cover designs are very heavily typographic and include of Addie’s star constellation against a plain background. The collector’s editions are different in the US and the UK. Two 2021 Special Collector’s Editions (also called the ‘Autumn’ edition in the UK) are being released on 5 October 2021, to celebrate the first anniversary of the book’s publication (the cynical reader might think that starting to release ‘anniversary’ editions after only one year is a bit of a publisher cash grab, but then again, no-one has to buy them…) The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is a standalone fantasy/magical realism novel by V.

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