what do you mean wolfstar didnt raise harry

Problem: I can’t leave kudos again.

Beginner: This is a second/third/fourth Kudos

Advanced: This is my second/third/fortieth time reading this, I still love it so much. Here are a few new things I noticed. I like the way you personally do x, y, z compared to other authors I’ve read (in this ship/genre/fandom).

Problem: I don’t know what to say :(

Beginner: Just list what you did to read this fic. “I stayed up late reading this”, “I read this on a crowded train”, “this kept me company while sick”. 

Advanced: X,Y,Z parts made me get butterflies, and I had a physical reaction to this part of the story, I squealed outloud when characters did x,y,z. I blushed at this part. I laughed out loud here. Whatever. 

Problem: I’m embarrassed to leave a comment (what if I annoy the author?)

Beginner: Short answer: you won’t EVER annoy the author (unless you’re needlessly mean) But to start, be generic, you don’t have to spill your soul in the comments section. “I liked this” “I enjoyed reading this” “nice fic”.

Advanced: This really meant a lot to me that you wrote this. This is something I feel like I’ve always wanted to read. This fic hit me in all the right places. Etc. 

Problem: I don’t know how to express myself/my experience 

OK! Here are all the details of CALL DOWN THE HAWK as of now, February!

• It will release in hardcover in the US on November 5, 2019.

• It is the first book in a standalone trilogy set in the world of the Raven Cycle. It follows the events of The Raven King and follows the adventures of the Lynch family. You don’t have to have read the Raven Cycle for it to make sense, though I tend to think the world is a better place if you have read TRC anyway, preferably in hardcover ordered from your local independent book merchant. 

• here is a sentence from the book:

• There is a 99 cent story called “Opal” that takes place between TRC and this book if you want to read it in between now and November. 

• There is a free Declan Lynch story that takes place before TRC if you want to read it between now and November. 

• Here’s a Pinterest mood board for the book. You can also see music I listened to while writing it and other images/answers on my #dreamertrilogy tag on Tumblr.

• I don’t yet have info on foreign or audiobook editions.

• I don’t have any info on ARCs or samplers or tour stuff. If you’re a blogger or journo, all those questions should be directed toward whoever you normally talk to at Scholastic.

PRE-ORDERS

US/ international readers: I draw a piece of art/ create an exclusive bookplate for every release, and a signed bookplate will come with every copy of CALL DOWN THE HAWK pre-ordered from Fountain Bookstore. The books themselves will also be signed. 

They ship internationally, but it can be quite expensive.

UK readers: I’m working with Seven Stories again, and every copy pre-ordered from them will come with the signed bookplate. The books themselves won’t be signed. 

Canadian readers: I’m finalizing details for a Canadian shop, too. Australians, if you have an indie you’d like to carry the bookplates, would you ask them to get in touch with me?

And here are other places you can pre-order:

Buy on Amazon

Buy on Indiebound

Buy on Barnes & Noble

Buy on iBooks

Buy on Google Play

Buy on Kobo

According to the interwebs, ‘Hari’ is a Sanskrit name meaning… Lion.

“You awoke into my night You could see the madness in my eyes I’ve lost control, please save me from myself” (insomnia-IAMX)

Realizing You’re Into Your Best Friend 

he’d never really thought about child protective services, muggle or otherwise, cause it’d never been relevant, right? like when he was a miserable kid he just thought that was what it was like being an orphan. but then he sees cases come through the department where parents are murdered and there’s kids sitting in their waiting room with copies of the quibbler and water waiting while an auror sits down with a family tree and tries to find whatever relatives this kid might have in the wizarding world, going back maybe even five generations to find anyone living and vaguely related to this child to drop them off with

and he goes to shit apartments in diagon alley after noise complaints and finds children who are black and blue with hexed, bleeding skin who insist they were just playing with a weasley’s wizard wheeze, no really mr. potter

and he thinks about how merope gaunt stumbled into a muggle orphanage and left them a child who would grow up learning fear was the key to harmony, and becoming a god meant safety

and really, how was the headmaster of a school the person who made the call about where he ended up, how was the system so haphazard that a man who wouldn’t be part of his life for another ten years got to make the biggest decision of his life

harry thinks about his cupboard

and then harry potter sits down with hermione and ron and neville (cause of course neville would want a stake in this) and says, “we need to change the wizarding world again.”