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Veronica Roth @veronicarothbooks.com · 01/10/2026

⭐️ Starred reviews for THE SIXTH FACTION! I have too many feelings right now.

"(Roth's) writing is more mature and emotionally layered, giving Beatrice, Four, and the faction system greater depth while maintaining the action, romantic tension, and urgency that made the original series so compelling.
Familiar yet genuinely unpredictable, this exciting series opener should satisfy longtime Divergent fans while inviting a new generation to choose their faction."

- Booklist Starred Review for
THE SIXTH FACTION

"This exciting work revisits beloved characters, offering a new understanding of them and of what happens when we stand up and ask questions. Returning fans and those new to this world will appreciate the witty banter, slow-burn romance, and heartache stemming from betrayal and complicated familial love.'
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"Both entertaining and well-written; demands and holds readers' attention."

- Kirkus Starred Review for
THE SIXTH FACTION

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Veronica Roth @veronicarothbooks.com · 11/09/2026

I have set up the heating pad for the pup and really, this is a gift to both of us.

a small, fuzzy gray and white dog lying on top of a cushion that has a heating pad on it. She has the bleary eyes of an elderly dog but she is obviously still a baby. All her legs are bundled together.

the picture of the same cushions, same heating pad, same pup, but I'm just looking at the back of her (extremely relaxed) fuzzy head.

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Veronica Roth @veronicarothbooks.com · 09/09/2026

It’s back! and I have three books coming out in the next eight months! www.barnesandnoble.com/collections/...

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Veronica Roth @veronicarothbooks.com · 27/08/2026

Going on tour for THE SIXTH FACTION in October in the US! Event links are all here: linktr.ee/TSFTour

A big event graphic, so a lot of text:

TUESDAY, 10/6 | FRANKLIN, IN
The Historic Artcraft Theatre
Wild Geese Bookshop

WEDNESDAY, 10/7 | NEW YORK, NY
Kaufman Music Center
The Strand

THURSDAY, 10/8 - FRIDAY, 10/9 | NEW YORK, NY
New York Comic Con

SATURDAY, 10/10 | FAIRFAX, VA
Barnes & Noble Fairfax

TUESDAY, 10/13 | KANSAS CITY, MO
Unity Temple
Rainy Day Books

WEDNESDAY, 10/14 | HOUSTON, TX
British International School of Houston
Blue Willow Bookshop

THURSDAY, 10/15 | TORONTO, ON
Glenn Gould Theatre
Indigo Books & Music Inc.

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Veronica Roth @veronicarothbooks.com · 19/08/2026

I am 38 and this is my next Comic Con outfit

a selfie of me, a 38-year-old woman in an Animorphs t-shirt

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Veronica Roth @veronicarothbooks.com · 06/08/2026

15 years as of tomorrow. If you’re going to get married, I very much recommend finding someone you’re excited to meet fifteen different versions of because you know they’re all going to be awesome.

A woman and man (me and my husband) sitting on a bench, looking at each other

Me and my husband sitting on a bench again, and this time I’m looking at him and smiling and he’s looking at the camera and smiling

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Veronica Roth @veronicarothbooks.com · 29/07/2026

In which I pitch Animorphs, a series I have not read since I was ten years old but is apparently burned into my brain

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Veronica Roth @veronicarothbooks.com · 21/07/2026

for the past several years I have been quietly writing novels while distracting you with novellas, and this year/early next year they are all coming out in a row! Here's the timeline:

A graphic with a few book covers (or placeholder covers on it), but the relevant info is...

NEW SERIES TIMELINE: Seek the Traitor's Son, May 2026;
book 2 of The Burning Empire series, Spring 2027.
The Sixth Faction, October 2026;
book 2 of The Sixth Faction duology, February 2027.

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Veronica Roth @veronicarothbooks.com · 21/06/2026

went to the Rosalía concert last night and I think I'm obsessed with her now

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Veronica Roth @veronicarothbooks.com · 21/05/2026

great news! thank you to everyone who read/bought/chatted/came to events!

a graphic declaring that Seek the Traitor's Son (pictured below) is an instant USA Today bestseller

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Veronica Roth @veronicarothbooks.com · 01/05/2026

I can't post my wall of graphics on bluesky but I have tour conversation partners! Come join us. Honestly can't wait to talk to all of these people. veronicarothbooks.com/tour for more info!

a blue graphic reading: Seek the Traitor's Son Tour, conversation partner edition. With this text under it:

5/12 - NYC
Sarah MacLean & Zoraida Cordova
moderated by Maris Kreizman

5/13 - Greenville, SC
Beth Revis

5/14 - Vero Beach, FL
H.M. Wolfe

5/15 - Dallas, TX
Ilona Andrews

5/16 - St. Louis, MO
Kassie King

5/17 - Chicago, IL
Greta Johnsen

5/19 - San Diego, CA
Moses Ose Utomi

5/20 - Portland, OR
Kendare Blake

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Veronica Roth @veronicarothbooks.com · 28/04/2026

without downloading anything new, where are you, mentally?

Squirrel in the snowy wind, looking disgruntled and bothered in the extrem

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Veronica Roth @veronicarothbooks.com · 16/04/2026

you don’t have to be so harsh, blue sky

A screenshot of a bright red bluesky loading error that says “FORBIDDEN”

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Veronica Roth @veronicarothbooks.com · 08/04/2026

lol WHAT is AP doing with this image can't say i hate it but it did stick out

a weirdly...tunnel-blurred? image of donald trump? above the headline "how trump moved from threats to a ceasefire with Iran"

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Veronica Roth @veronicarothbooks.com · 06/04/2026

Driving home from the in laws' last night* *I was not the one driving

a picture of a Midwest sunset that looks like a really beautiful blue-green-yellow-orange gradient, with streaks of light in the (very dark) foreground from passing cars

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Veronica Roth @veronicarothbooks.com · 02/04/2026

Great news! Seek the Traitor's Son is a May 2026 Indie Next pick! A giant thank you to booksellers for supporting this book! I am thrilled, if you couldn't tell by all these exclamation points! ❤️

a colorful orange and pink graphic with "thank you, booksellers!" at the top next to the official Indie Next Booksellers Recommend seal, and the cover of Seek the Traitor's Son by yours truly (dark blue, girl coming out of the water to grip some glowy threads, etc.) beneath it

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Veronica Roth @veronicarothbooks.com · 22/03/2026

Visiting my parents in the warmth.

A cluster of small purple flowers dangling from a lattice, greenery all around

A yellow flowering tree (cassia) from beneath, against a blue sky

A distant kite flying over a beach umbrella

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Veronica Roth @veronicarothbooks.com · 16/03/2026

Seek the Traitor's Son has gotten TWO starred reviews, from Kirkus and Library Journal, and I feel very proud/honored/delighted by this.

a graphic that reads: "a thrilling ride of a romantic dystopian novel. Complex characters, surprise twists, and high action will bring together old fans and new readers." from library journal, starred review

a graphic that reads: "a standout genre-bending adventure with a tender romantic streak." from kirkus, starred review

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Veronica Roth @veronicarothbooks.com · 03/03/2026

Husband let the dog out, went outside with her to keep her company. She didn't do anything. Came back in. She immediately pooped in the shower. Kinda hard to be mad at this face though. (Poop censored.)

An image of a walk-in shower. Poop is censored in red scribbles on the right. On the left, just a sliver of sheepish-looking fluffy dog behind the shower door.

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Veronica Roth @veronicarothbooks.com · 17/02/2026

I am way too proud of this (the game is here: colormatching.vercel.app)

a screenshot from a "color memory" test wherein I picked a greenish beigey color from memory with 9.95 accuracy (which is very high)

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Veronica Roth @veronicarothbooks.com · 08/02/2026

Nobody warned me she’d get so much cuter as she got older

A fluffy dog ALMOST asleep on a yellow blanket (eyes just slightly open)

Fluffy dog fully asleep on a yellow blanket

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Veronica Roth @veronicarothbooks.com · 28/01/2026

Going on tour for Seek the Traitor's Son in May! Come say hi! veronicarothbooks.com/tour

A bunch of text!

Veronica Roth on Tour, with some dates:

May 12 | New York, NY
6:00 PM
BARNES & NOBLE UNION SQUARE

May 13 | Greenville, SC
7:00 PM
M. JUDSON BOOKSELLERS @
RADIO ROOM

May 14 | Vero Beach, FL
6:00 PM
VERO BEACH BOOKS

May 15 | Dallas, TX
6:30 PM
HALF PRICE BOOKS

May 16 | St. Louis, MO
7:00 PM
THE NOVEL NEIGHBOR @
ST. LOUIS COUNTY LIBRARY
(CLARK FAMILY BRANCH)

May 17 | Chicago, IL
Details to come
CHICAGO HUMANITIES FESTIVAL

May 19 | San Diego, CA
7:00 PM
MYSTERIOUS GALAXY

May 20 | Portland, OR
7:00 PM
POWELL'S BOOKS (CEDAR HILL CROSSING)

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Veronica Roth @veronicarothbooks.com · 21/12/2025

I just want you guys to know that my dog is sweet and perfect and has never done anything wrong in her entire life

a photo of a very relaxed, fluffy gray and white dog partially immersed in a couch cushion

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Veronica Roth @veronicarothbooks.com · 10/12/2025

I AM TRIUMPHANT. SHE IS FINISHED.

a screenshot of a scrivener document wherein my draft target is listed as 120,000 words and my draft word count is 133,047. My session target is listed as 3,000 words and my actual word count for the day is 8,216, which is nuts and now my hands hurt

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Veronica Roth @veronicarothbooks.com · 09/12/2025

Is it a rug sample or is it a tiny oasis of softness placed there specifically for this dog?

a fuzzy gray and white dog is curled up on an orange rug sample on a hardwood floor. It is just large enough to accommodate her tiny body.

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Veronica Roth @veronicarothbooks.com · 08/12/2025

Me totally running out of gas today coincided with me reaching THIS PART of the book which is...cruel of my brain. So cruel.

a drawing of freytag's pyramid (with exposition, inciting incident, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution as the parts of a story) with climax circled in red and arrows pointing to it (added by me)

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Veronica Roth @veronicarothbooks.com · 04/12/2025

if, in this holiday season, you find yourself reflecting on the experience of going home to your family and discovering for the first or the millionth time that you see the world in fundamentally different and irreconcilable ways, perhaps upsettingly so, i have a book recommendation for you.

the cover of To Clutch A Razor by Veronica Roth, which features two Dymitrs, one of whom is haloed and holding a book

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Veronica Roth @veronicarothbooks.com · 03/12/2025

oddly reassured (? not the right word but you get it) by this quote from Lilly Wachowski about the right's claiming of The Matrix, given some of the Divergent misinterpretations I've encountered over the last fifteen years variety.com/2025/film/ne...

screenshot of this text: "she said she's unsurprised the right has latched on to the film since 'right-wing ideology appropriates absolutely everything.' She added, 'They appropriate left-wing points of view and they mutate them for their own propaganda, for their own to obfuscate what the real message is. This is what fascism does. And so, of course, that's going to happen."

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Veronica Roth @veronicarothbooks.com · 24/11/2025

it's called THE DEEP TUNNEL it's designed to reduce flooding

a picture of a big reservoir with stone walls, located just outside Chicago

a picture of a huge dark tunnel with three construction workers walking through it

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Veronica Roth @veronicarothbooks.com · 11/11/2025

Convincing you to read my novel(la) with the first sentence (okay, paragraph and a half.) This is from TO CLUTCH A RAZOR.

photo of a book open to its first chapter. Text reads: "Baba Jaga tugs the curtain back from the window with
a gnarled hand. The reflection of the sun on the river is
sharp as a knife. It cuts at her and she lets the curtain fall
again.
Centuries of life have taught her there are certain pat-
terns. Not just in other people's behavior, but in her own.
She falls into them without meaning to, and her body
knows it before she does, remembering its old shapes."

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Veronica Roth @veronicarothbooks.com · 10/11/2025

I looked up "ghouls" and what do you know

an artistic landscape of a horde of ghouls seething over a skull-studded landscape, with a block of text beneath it that reads:

"The ghouls of the Flesh-eater Courts believe themselves to be noble warriors from a bygone age. To them, rags of flesh are gleaming pennants, clutched bones serve as master-worked swords and heaps of spoiled meat form fresh and well-prepared feasts fit for royalty. Unfortunately for the Mortal Realms, this delusion cuts both ways – they see all others as invaders and usurpers who threaten their kingdoms."

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Veronica Roth @veronicarothbooks.com · 07/11/2025

happy n7 day to all who celebrate Remember, press F to stop mingling

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Veronica Roth @veronicarothbooks.com · 06/11/2025

👀 👀 here's the (gorgeous) cover for my next book, Seek the Traitor's Son! Quick pitch: It's about the daughter of a bounty hunter the Knight sworn to protect her ...and the prophecy that ruins both of their lives. 5/12/26! Art: @pablohurtado.bsky.social Cover design: @katieklim.bsky.social

the cover for Seek the Traitor's Son by Veronica Roth, which features deep blue art of a woman emerging from a pool, arms overhead to tug on some golden threads.

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Veronica Roth @veronicarothbooks.com · 25/10/2025

are you telling me this person isn't fifteen

still from the Rainmaker TV show featuring A Literal Child in a suit who is supposed to have graduated from law school

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Veronica Roth @veronicarothbooks.com · 19/10/2025

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.

Dexter from Dexter's Laboratory smirking from his place half-hidden behind the staircase

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Veronica Roth @veronicarothbooks.com · 12/10/2025

When people ask me what I think about using AI in writing I’m going to send them this screenshot

A screenshot of a post that reads David Simon, creator of *The Wire*, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro, NPR

And then a screenshot of a conversation that goes like this:

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Veronica Roth @veronicarothbooks.com · 08/10/2025

way to make a gal feel old, spam texter

a screenshot of a text message that says "your AARP membership just expired! Activate again and get back your benefits and other rewards for zero cost today!" with a link

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Veronica Roth @veronicarothbooks.com · 06/10/2025

Without downloading anything new, where are you mentally?

A painting by David Shrigley of a red fox looking bummed and the text “I hear everything and most of it is nonsense.”

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Veronica Roth @veronicarothbooks.com · 16/09/2025

TO CLUTCH A RAZOR is out today! A funeral heist at the worst family gathering ever? Why not. Add in some monsters from Slavic folklore (and beyond)? Even better. 📚💙 Get it at your local indie or wherever you get books— here’s a link! bookshop.org/p/books/to-c...

A picture of two books on a shelf, one is To Clutch a Razor and the other is When Among Crows. The former has an illustrated man holding a book with his double behind him, the latter has that same man holding a flower

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