#theendgames

Look what I just found at a #London @Waterstones #bookstore! 😄😄😄 - #theendgames #selfie (at Waterstones) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt8L2lUHkRn/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1gm2aup9gqxr0

Incredibly grateful to @whimsicalnerd for this #handmade notebook featuring the epigraph from my book, #TheEndGames. Thank you, Paige! #everythingnotsavedwillbelost

The Turkish editions of #TheEndGames arrived this weekend, complete with a @johngreenwritesbooks blurb! I can’t tell you how excited and happy I was: I’ve been waiting for them since signing the foreign rights contract in 2013, and I still find it amazing that someone translated what I wrote into another language. Apparently the book is selling well in Turkey, which is gratifying. But more than that, it means so much to me that readers are still discovering this book, which I finished half a decade ago and which is really just an action-driven love letter to brotherhood, and to my little brother @patrick.martin94 in particular. Getting these books also meant the world to me for one last reason. There’s this feeling, this surreal and joyful feeling as an author, when you open the first box of your books. After a trio of deeply discouraging publishing setbacks, I realized I no longer felt any joy while writing. I haven’t written a word since a book contract was cancelled in the spring. And I’ve found these last few months that I don’t feel any urge at all anymore to write another novel. So this may have been (except for the Turkish editions of MR. FAHRENHEIT) the last time I ever open a new box of my books. Maybe I’ll write another novel. Maybe I won’t. If I had to bet, I’d say I probably won’t. But I wrote this one, and despite its flaws I love it, and I’m so grateful to know that halfway around the world, more people are loving it, too.

This picture -- from when @johngreenwritesbooks chose my debut novel as his current fave in PEOPLE Magazine -- just showed up in my Facebook Memories. Hard to believe it was four years ago. At the time, John was my hero and fairy godbrother; soon he would be my colleague and friend. But wow, what a special day that was. #johngreen #theendgames

Instagrammer @ohbeei's latest #TheEndGames fan #art (and captions) got me like 😭😭😭

I was so hoping for a snow day from the library but alas not enough has accumulated. It will probably dump a ton while at work and the drive home will be a nightmare. Just thinking positive! • • • Day 14 of #marchbookstagram • Red Books • • #thegirlwhocircumnavigatedfairylandinashipofherownmaking #deathless #thescorpioraces #abhorsen #theendgames #fiction #redbooks #books #bookish #booklove #bookstagram #bookblogger

Super dupes in love with this new THE END GAMES #fanart from @steal_the_sky. She's so frikkin' talented. #theendgames

Who likes a lot of pop culture references in their books? T. Michael Martin's The End Games has a ton of video games ones and even though I don't play I still understood them. • • • Day 12 of #fallthebooks • Book About Video Games • • #theendgames #tmichaelmartin #books #bookstagram #bookish #booklove #bookblogger