#eliza and her monsters

[exeuntstormtroopers]

Hey hey did you love Eliza and Her Monsters? Great news, there's going to be a companion novel!

Here's the Publisher's Marketplace announcement:

"Author of ELIZA AND HER MONSTERS Francesca Zappia's EVIE AND HER NIGHTMARES, about a teenage girl who copes with the death of her best friend by losing herself in the fantastical world of a massively popular MMORPG and a relationship with her best friend's brother, but the further she pushes herself away from reality, the harder it will come back to bite."

No release date or other info yet; I'll post it when I have it!

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

[winchester-1895]

I don't want to be the girl who freezes when confronted with new friends, or on the outside world, or the smallest shred of intimacy. I don't want to be alone in a room all the time. I don't want to feel alone in a room all the time, even when there are other people around.

- Francesca Zappia, Eliza and Her Monsters

[julie-schwieters-supremacy]

you're an Eliza and her monsters fan????? omg

omg yesssss i love the book and her smmmm

i literally have not found one person who is omll

[beyondthedustjacket]

‘If you had to choose, which would it be — dying in a year or living forever?’ ‘Neither. A year is too short and forever is too long.’

Eliza and Her Monsters by Francesca Zappia

[crixaflamma-the-second]

What's your favorite book? (Or like the top five)

HOW DO I PICK THEY'RE ALL SO GOOD

But my top five (in no particular order) are Radio Silence (Alice Oseman), Eliza and her Monsters (Francesca Zappia), Drifters (Kevin Emerson), House of Hades (Rick Riordan), and Neverseen (Shannon Messenger)

[themelodyofspring]

JOMP Book Photo Challenge

May 12, 2023 - Should Win An Award

Truth is the worst monster, because it never really goes away.

[quinniehb]

amity fanart! first finished drawing in 3+ years <3 ps, francsca zappia if u see this ilysm

[rei-the-head-shaker]

23.12.2023

The sadness of watching a post-it you attached at the start of 2019 falls off the wall...

[ I tried to re-attach it, but it fell off once again. I guess it is a sign to finally let go... ]

[entity9silvergen]

2 years since I wrote this!

[exeuntstormtroopers]

What was writing Eliza and Her Monsters like? The process, the inspiration, or how it felt, etc etc

The inspiration was interesting, because I didn't come up with the initial kernel of idea. I'd wanted to write a book about fandom for a long time, but it was actually my agent and her assistant who came up with the "girl draws monstrous sea as a webcomic and it has a fandom" idea. I was under contract for another contemporary book, but what I really like writing is sci-fi/fantasy/supernatural/horror/etc, so they were looking for a way to incorporate those loves of mine into a contemporary book. Everything that came after that initial kernel was pretty much all my ideas, of course with some nudges and help from agent/assistant/editor.

What I remember of actually writing it was very difficult. The story came to me easily, but actually putting it down was tough because I was putting so much of myself into Eliza the character, and because I had to write the book as if Monstrous Sea, this story I love that I've been working so hard on my whole life, was some super-important, mega-popular franchise. I felt like a huge fraud. I was worried people would think I had a huge ego, or I was really self-important.

That being said, I do think I managed to get a lot of truths out in that book, and I still stand by them. I like what I got to say about fandom and creating things, although I think I have even more thoughts about it now than I did then. I also really did love the parts where I got to just talk about Monstrous Sea.

No joke, anyone wants to ask me in-depth questions about the Monstrous Sea world or characters, I will absolutely get into it right now, right this second.

[owl68]

On page 300, once again reminded of how obsessed I was when I read Katzenjammer. This is heart wrenching

(Francesca Zappia is awesome!!!)

[idontknowwhathehellishappening]

[beyondthedustjacket]

You found me in a constellation.

Eliza and Her Monsters by Francesca Zappia

[books-to-add-to-your-tbr]

Title: Eliza and Her Monsters

Author: Francesca Zappia

Series or standalone: standalone

Publication year: 2017

Genres: fiction, contemporary, romance, mental health

Blurb: In the real world, Eliza Mirk is shy, weird, and friendless. Online, she's LadyConstellation, the anonymous creator of the wildly-popular webcomic Monstrous Sea. Eliza can't imagine enjoying the real world as much as she loves the online one, and she has no desire to try...then Wallace Warland, Monstrous Sea's biggest fanfiction writer, transfers to her school. Wallace thinks Eliza is just another fan, and as he draws her out of her shell, she begins to wonder if a life offline might be worthwhile...but when Eliza's secret is accidentally shared with the world, everything she's built - her story, her relationship with Wallace, and even her sanity - begins to fall apart.

[wtf-tfw]

honky tonk badonky donk (stank colon edition)