I know we poke fun a lot at men writing women (and often with GOOD reason) but I’d just like to take a moment to look at women writing men:
Muscles for days. It doesn’t matter if he’s sixteen and is a band kid whose hobby is skipping PE, if he’s a love interest, that boy has a six pack for some reason. Every man is lean but muscular and always have that perfect V. Six packs are free and you can see them through every and any tshirt.
Always tall. Like, we can never honor a 5"5 King. Every dude is like 6 feet plus. Even when the woman is tall, the guy is always taller.
He’s always so much bigger and his hands always dwarf hers. Like, every man has hands the size of dinner plates.
Penises are always like 8(+) inches. He’s always the biggest she’s ever had and he is a Sex God, where he was a virgin or a vampire with a love life that dates back into the 1500s. He will make her cum 26 times, often with words alone.
He’s the most poetic fucker you’ve ever met, even if he’s never read a book or watched a romance in his life. He’s going to spout out how she is the last star in a galaxy of loneliness that lights the sole path to his salvation. He’s gonna freelance that shit like it’s nothing.
He will automatically never find anyone else attractive ever again, even platonically and if he does, he will compare them to the love interest in a way that makes her better. “Joanne had nice eyes. Not like Kelly’s eyes though, which were emeralds polished to a shine that made him think of summer and the fondest of childhood memories in the forest under a sky of jade leaves. Joanne’s were, like, ordinary blue or brown or something.”
He always smells like things that you don’t even know had a smell. “He smelled like sunlight and cloudless blue skies, of cool winter frost and magic sex musk”
He’s a douchebag to everyone but the love interest. She makes him a better man. (Ah, the good old “I can fix him” mentality in motion)
He can eat cupcakes, pizza and beer for breakfast every day of his life and he will never have an extra ounce of flesh anywhere.
He will randomly quote Shakespeare or Charles Dickens or, I dunno, Julius Caesar
He always thinks her vagina tastes like rose petals and peaches and strawberry milkshakes
He is constantly witty and charming and every women who seems him thirsts for him and his six pack and 12 inch schlong but only Kelly will ever catch his eyes and he has never loved anyone as much as he loves her. All other women can catch fire including his mom and he probably wouldn’t notice if it meant one last kiss from Kelly.
Am I the only one who doesn’t love the new Crescent City cover? I feel like the first is so much more artistically rendered and steers away from the whole “main character on front” vibe. I know there IS a woman on the front, but I feel like the art and design comes forward first and the woman is less prominent whereas the second book it’s obviously Hunt and he’s the most forefront of the design.
I don’t know. I’m just less enamored with it after how much I adored the cover art of the first book. I do really like the color scheme though.
Happy ACOSF release day! I’m so happy to finally reveal my dust jacket design as part of the ‘A Court of Silver Flames’ box that’s in partnership with Illumicrate. This dust jacket (as well as all previous books from 1 to 4) will be gold foiled, spot uv coated and finished with velvet lamination. I am also releasing a limited signed edition bundle which will include x5 hand-signed dust jackets (ACOTAR books 1-5) and x5 gold foiled double-sided bookmarks based on the dust jacket art. There will only be 100 copies of this bundle!
The public preorder date for my edition is 20 Feb, 2021 at 18:00 GMT, however I would recommend joining my Patreon for early access to preorders in order to avoid disappointment in case it sells out beforehand!
Note: the dust jackets from my edition and Illumicrate’s box are 100% the same. It is coming from the same manufacturer and batch. The other contents of our bundles are what’s different.
Aelin Ashryver Galathynius; the Fire-breathing queen.
This is a remake of one of the first fanart pieces I posted here. I wanted to see how much I’d grown in a year of working on my digital painting skills :D
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