Kester Grant's Blog

Do you swoon for Enjolras?

Do you believe Eponine deserved so much more?

Welcome to The Court of Miracles

In the dark days following a failed French Revolution, in the violent jungle of an alternate 1828 Paris, young cat-burglar Eponine (Nina) Thenardier goes head to head with merciless royalty, and the lords of the city’s criminal underworld to save the life of her adopted sister Cosette (Ettie).

Her vow will take her from the city’s dark underbelly, through a dawning revolution, to the very heart of the glittering court of Louis XVII, where she must make an impossible choice between guild, blood, betrayal and war.

For fans of the gritty criminal underworlds of Six Of Crows, The Lies Of Locke Lamora, fierce alternate histories like The Gilded Wolves, And I Darken and classical retellings like The Graveyard Book.

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When Researching & worldbuiling a gazillion animals for #monkeybook got out of hand, moved over to old school handwriting

The latest addition to our bestiary, ❤️❤️Mei Changsu. ❤️❤️She and her siblings were rescues/fostered. #catsofinstagram

Mori going for a swim, we suspect he’s ¾ seal #dogsofinstagram

I LOVE my goodreads pre-reviews so much!!! Over 1k peeps have added #ACOURTOFMIRACLES on greads, feeling so emotional!

the main cast of A COURT OF MIRACLES - my fantasy LES MIS x JUNGLE BOOK retelling out in Fall next year

I LOVE this questions so very much. mostly because i’m a die hard Enjolras fan-girl. it’s not a spoiler that Enjolras is a main character and his obsessive-revolutioning-patria-loving features heavily throughout the entire series (its a trilogy), and he is probably my favourite characters to write. the retelling focuses on eponine & cosette’s generation, so aside from the two girls, the main characters are montparnasse, enjolras and the dauphin of france. les amis also appear throughout with grantaire getting the most airtime of les amis (aside from enjolras of course). we tweaked character names to keep things feeling fresh, so cosette is ettie, eponine is nina, and enjolras goes by his surname of st juste. (my capslock button just jammed so no caps lolz).

Series of Pitch Wars advice Vlogs! 

Will be uploading daily!

Kit and Tomi are TEAM CLAWS and want to see ALL YOUR YA PITCH WARS SUBMISSIONS!

Meet Team Claws: http://www.tomiadeyemi.com/blog/teamclaws-pitch-wars-wishlist

co-Mentor Tomi Adeyemi’s take on why you should all enter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPE8C5eGhKs

MORE PITCHWARS ADVICE AT: http://kgtellsstories.tumblr.com/tagged/pitchwars

Kit “Kester” Grant is a British-Mauritian writer of color, and debut author of A Court of Miracles, Fall 2018, Knopf, Random House, a Young Adult fantasy reimagining of the Jungle Book and Les Miserables, and the first of a trilogy.

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My delicious ferocious darlings, Winter Pitch Wars 2017 is upon us! 

*Pitch Wars is an annual writing competition where writers apply to have 2 months of mentoring from established authors/editors and ends in a showcase where the biggest agents in the biz stop by and request your shiny werdz - It is how I got my amazing agent Josh Adams last year, and my multiple book deals only a few weeks later - if you’ve got an unagented book - ENTER.*

I am co-mentoring this year with Tomi Adeyemi, we’re looking for YA Fantasy, here’s a VERY detailed wish-list complete with video showing how awkward we are. 

If you need to know the details and deadlines for Pitch Wars, they’re here 

I’m also doing a vlog series of Pitch Wars advice, I’ll be posting new video’s every day… 

Still need reasons to enter? Here’s Tomi’s thoughts on the matter.

Want to see which shiny agents are participating? Here’s a lovely list: page 1 and Page 2

AND YES MY AMAZING AGENT IS PARTICIPATING! SO IS TOMI’S GET HYPPPPEEEDDDD

AND MAY THE ODDS BE EVERY IN YOUR FAVOR

tastefullyoffensive:

Rescued bat stuffs her face with banana. [full video]