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‘Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil’ Author V.E. Schwab on ‘Invisible Life of Addie LaRue,’ ‘Vicious’ Movies and ‘Reckoning’ With Publishing Industry in Her New ‘Messy, Villainous’ Queer Vampire Story


V.E. Schwab took the literary world by storm in October 2020 with the pandemic release of her fantasy novel "The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue."

Schwab took the literary world by storm in October 2020 with the pandemic release of her fantasy novel “ The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue.” But the smash-hit bestseller about an immortal woman doomed to be instantly forgotten by everyone she meets was far from her first title. “Bones” is a century-sweeping novel that follows three women, Alice, Charlotte and Sabine, who each become vampires (though that specific moniker is only used once in the entire book) and deal with the blood-sucking sentence and their resulting desires and passions in very different ways. Read on below for more from Variety ‘s conversation with Schwab, including an update on where her book-to-screen adaptations of her novels “Addie LaRue,” the “Vicious” trilogy, the “Darker Shade of Magic” series, and now “Bones.”

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