Plain Bad Heroines

emily m. danforth is the author of the highly-acclaimed young adult novel The Miseducation of Cameron Post. She has an MFA in fiction from the University of Montana and a PhD in English from the University of NebraskäLincoln. She lives with her wife and two terrible dogs in Rhode Island. This is her first adult novel.

'Brimming from start to finish with sly humour and gothic mischief, Plain Bad Heroines is a brilliant piece of exuberant storytelling by a terrifically talented author' SARAH WATERS

'Full of Victorian sapphic romance, metafictional horror, biting misandrist humor, Hollywood intrigue, and multiple timeliness-all replete with evocative illustrations that are icing on a deviously delicious cake' O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE

'A gloriously over-the-top queer romp' I PAPER, top picks for 2021

'Big and messy - and immensely enjoyable' I PAPER

'Spooky, sexy and immensely entertaining' CLAIRE HENNESSY,THE IRISH TIMES

'I can tell you that it is a ride very much worth taking. One full of the Gothic and the glamour, brimming with historically bad heroines and women with warped predilections, but there is one thing I have failed to mention so far: the yellowjackets. Their buzzing echoes eerily throughout the pages of Plain Bad Heroines, the consequences of their repeated stings are devastating and reverberate across the centuries' DIVA MAGAZINE

'Plain Bad Heroines is immersive, addictive, frustrating and highly entertaining featuring a brilliant cast of extremely eccentric, yet very intriguing, characters. A tale made for the big screen I would think!' SWIRL AND THREAD

'Immensely enjoyable' SCOTSMAN

'A labyrinthine tale in every way, slowly unfolding horror after horror with a sense of creeping dread and inevitability invading every page' Palatinate