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Filled with diabolical whimsy & Red Bull. Binge the Hollow Boys Series ⬇️
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Newsletter saw it first🤠Andy and Ezra are coming home soon✨💚 Give me a few weeks to get through the holiday’s and I’ll have a date and a pre-order for you guys✨
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Phobos.
One of two moons born to orbit Mars.
Son of Ares and Aphrodite. Birthed from the first bleeding of war and fallen feathers of doves. A DNA helix twisted with remarkable violence and undefinable beauty. He is the face of fear, a shadow that falls before total darkness.
Feared, yet extraordinarily beautiful.
For all the terror he harbors, all the darkness breathed into his name, he is still a moon. A born celestial body that people admire from afar. A man born to induce fear, who spends his entire existence chasing his light.
And oh… what terrible, terror-filled things Ezra Caldwell would do for his lovely, little star.
06 Nov 2026
Spellbound in the Valley Prep, writing and coloring. I love days like this. ✨🖤
If you’ll be at spellbound I am being limited copies of the Italian editions of The Hollow Boys! They will be first come first serve🖤
Also I have a bold opinion. I like cava more than chipotle. IM SORRY I CANNOT HELP IT.
Are you coming to spellbound next weekend? Any fun weekend plans?
#darkromancebooks #booktok #darkromance #montyjay #thehollowboys
17 Oct 2026
I wrote about Mary Tsingou in my common place journal yesterday, and then continued writing about her and now it’ll be in my newsletter this Sunday.
Sneak peak 👉
This is why, Mary’s Tsingou’s story has lodged itself so stubbornly in my brain, not because she’s the first woman to go through this, but because of her contributions to Chaos theory.
The idea that something seemingly insignificant, a minute difference in the initial conditions of a complex system, can eventually produce consequences so enormous that the outcome becomes impossible to predict.
Women are the small beginning and they are the extraordinary consequence.
A girl is taught to read when the world would rather she remain ignorant. She grows up and writes something that changes the way another girl understands herself. That girl becomes a scientist. A doctor. An artist. A revolutionary. She teaches someone else to question what they’ve been told, and somewhere down the line, the world becomes something it would never have been without that first, seemingly insignificant act.
The initial conditions have changed and now the future can no longer unfold in the same way.
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(PS: my break is officially over and I am so back. This book is about to consume and wreck you) #darkromancebooks #booktok #darkromance #morallygrey #montyjay
15 Oct 2026
Although Dante is buried in Ravenna, seeing his cenotaph in Florence was one of my favorite moments here.
The Divine Comedy inspired so much of the Hollow Boys, everyone’s descent into their respective darkness, what they found there, and who they became when they finally emerged from it. But more than anything, my love for inferno found its way into my Phoenix and her fire god.
“Can you burn for me?” was also, Can you remain with me? Can you suffer with me? Can you change with me? Can you pass through the fire and still come out on the other side with me? I wanted to ask what happens when two people the world has already labeled monsters find salvation, perhaps even paradise, in loving one another. Can love survive the weight of our sins? Can it exist alongside all that pain and still become something redemptive? That’s all I ever dreamed of writing about.
No matter how dark the Hollow Boys became, I always wanted hope buried somewhere beneath it. Human beings are painfully, beautifully resilient, and I think I needed that reminder as much as I wanted to give it to the people reading these books. No matter how far the descent, something greater can still exist on the other side of hell.
Seeing Dante’s cenotaph made me cry. It made me miss Sage and Rook, Silas and Coraline, Alistair and Briar, Lyra and Thatcher. It made me love them more somehow. And strangely, standing there made their children, and the stories that belong to them, make more sense to me, too.
It all felt so full circle (pun intended), standing there, years after writing the hollow boys, halfway across the world, knowing that books brought me to Florence in the first place just to stand in front of a monument of a poet that was one of many that fueled my love for books to begin with.đź–¤
30 Sep 2026
And I call this…balance✨💋
Happy Thursday!!! I love ya.
What’s something fun you’ve done recently?
#darkromancebooks #booktok #darkromance #montyjay #morallygrey
17 Sep 2026
Some of my favorite things from this summer that I wanted to share with you guys cause I love yađź’‹
(Caution no one move, I’m writing something! Which I know you’re saying “you’re an author, dumbass that’s literally your job.” And to that I would say “touché, pussycat.” BUT WHO CARES CAUSE STELLA HAS THE GROOVE BACK.)
20 Aug 2026
No one say anything about the cake. I made the cake. I know the cake is a little fucked but maybe the cake is the friends we made along the way okay?
40k of you on instagram. HELLO WHAT?!? I know I should be more cool about this, but it’s Leo Season, and I love looking for things to celebrate.
Thank you for being here in my little corner of the world. I’m so happy that you are here✨💋
Also I just know after posting this I’m gonna go back to 39k and ya know what? I’m alright with that.
PS: it is not my birthday, yet anyway. My birthday is the 13th🤣❤️
06 Aug 2026
When I was a freshman in high school, my English teacher assigned us to write an ending to a short story called, The Lady, or the Tiger? We could write from anyone’s perspective, the princess, the man in the arena, the king, an audience member.
I chose the tiger.
I wrote about a tiger torn from his mate and cubs, carried somewhere he could never understand. I wrote until his pain turned to anger and he became a feared opponent in the arena. I then ended my story with another cliffhanger.
After class, my teacher stopped me. She looked at me and said, “I think you have a real talent for this.”
It was the first time anyone had ever told me I was a good writer.
I don’t know if she’ll ever see this, but I hope she knows that those few words reached farther than either of us could have imagined.
Writing is the greatest love of my life. It is my entire personality, my home and the thing that has shaped my world. It has carried me farther than I ever dreamed it could.
There are never enough thank-yous for a moment like this.
To my brilliant agent and dear friend, @valentinegrinstead . To my publisher and editor at @evermorebooksuk , thank you for making today unforgettable. To my friends who have loved me through every draft and deadline.
And to every single reader who has ever picked up one of my books, you gave my stories a home outside of me. There is no greater gift you could’ve ever give me. This was the dream and you have helped me reach it.
The Lies We Steal & The Truths We Burn are officially out now in the UK✨
My heart is so unbelievably full.
With all my love,
MJ ✨
30 Jul 2026
Happy publication day to @author.montyjay đź’śđź’—
Signed copies now available at @maincharacterbooks!! ✨
#montyjay #darkromance #hollowboys #romancereads
30 Jul 2026
🇬🇧 UK readers… it’s time for a cover reveal. 🖤
I’m so excited to reveal the gorgeous UK covers and @theworksstores exclusive special editions for the Hollow Boys series. Complete with stunning sprayed edges, these are editions you’ll want on your shelves. ✨
Get your TBRs ready… as we’ve got you covered all the way through to October. 🖤
đź–¤ The Lies We Steal & The Truths We Burn
Available from 30th July in @theworksstores across the UK. Store availability may vary, with full availability expected from w/c 10th of August.
đź–¤ The Blood We Crave: Part One & The Blood We Crave: Part Two
Available from 17th September.
đź–¤ The Oath We Give
Available from 8th October.
Which Hollow Boy are you claiming first?
27 Jul 2026
Hiiiiii! First off, I missed you guys! I know I took some time away from the internet, and while it was good for me mentally, I missed you guys very much.
Update of WOS: There is still no date set for its release, which I know isn’t the news anyone wants. If you preordered on Amazon, refunds and notifications for those will be sent soon from the zon.
I sat and tried to figure out what to say to you guys for a while but ultimately I just went for the truth, which is that I haven’t been writing.
Not for lack of trying or that I don’t want to, because I think anyone who knows me knows how much I love to write. However, since the release of Wrath of an Exile, I’ve struggled putting words on paper. Everything feels forced and nothing feels right. Things in my personal life have affected my ability to create and while the desire to WANT to create is still very much there, it has been difficult. Unfortunately Whisper of a Shadow reflects many of those difficulties, and the book isn’t anything close to what I know it could be. Andy and Ezra deserve more and so do you.
For the time being, I’m taking a step back from The River Styx Heathens. While, of course, I plan on and promise you that I will finish out that series, I am pressing pause on it for now. Simply because I’d like to try writing outside of Ponderosa Springs in hopes that it will get the words flowing for me again, so that I can come back to a series I love very much and give it my absolute best.
Truthfully, I just want to give you guys books you deserve. I want to write what I’m passionate about and right now the passion for RSH isn’t there. And I wish I had a reason for that, but I don’t. I have an idea for a book that I’m going to try and see to fruition. I’ve started the early phases of it and it’s been incredibly cool, dark, and a little out of my comfort zone. It’s something I think you guys will love and that I will love writing.
Thank you for your understanding and my hope is, little reader, that you will follow me on this next journey. As always, I love you.
24 Jul 2026
We’re working, we swear 🌴🤿🧜‍♀️🧜‍♂️
18 May 2026
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