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Nora Sakavic

Nora Sakavic is a self-published novelist known for dark, queer sports fiction, especially the All for the Game series, including The Foxhole Court, The Raven King, The King's Men, The Sunshine Court, and The Golden Raven. Her work has built a substantial online readership, with more than 320,000 Goodreads ratings across the series and related books. ((https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6896843.Nora_Sakavic))

传记与作者历程

Publicly available biographies of Nora Sakavic emphasize sensibility more than résumé. She presents herself as an army brat, a Japanophile, and a former Starbucks barista, and describes her work as dark urban fantasy and young adult fiction shaped by stubborn optimism and hard-won endings. That self-portrait helps explain the emotional weather of her books: abrasive, intimate, and deeply invested in what people become after violence rather than before it. In biographical terms, she has remained notably private, letting the fiction do most of the explanatory work while cultivating a persona built on intensity, humor, and a clear distrust of easy consolation. ((https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/elysium-nora-sakavic/1131088974))

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名言

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Sagittarius & ex-Starbucks barista
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Army brat & Japanophile
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Optimist through sheer determination
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Writer of dark urban fantasy and young adult fiction
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Orange, foxes, alcohol, hatred, and hope—these are a few of my favorite things
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You gotta work for your happy ending around here
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My name is Jean Moreau. My place is at Evermore. I belong to the Moriyamas
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I do not care what they think of me. I can't. It only matters that I play
-The Golden Raven

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"Nora Sakavic’s sports-themed All for the Game series has become an unlikely hit for an author who does zero self-promotion"

Publishers Weekly

"Nora Sakavic the queen behind the foxhole court drops this, the first thing she has published since 2014 -- 2019 is saved"

jami

"It's amazing that Nora Sakavic got me to care about care for these characters so completely that you couldn't tear me away"

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"The way Nora Sakavic builds the world ... demonstrates a skill in storytelling that I haven't seen in a while"

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"WE ARE SO LUCKY TO LIVE IN A WORLD WHERE NORA SAKAVIC WANTED TO WRITE MORE ALL FOR THE GAME BOOKS!!!!!!!"

Jenna

"Nora Sakavic: queen of bittersweet endings and exploring the power in a name"

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"Nora Sakavic writes in a way that is at once blunt, chock-full of information and fast-paced"

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"Nora Sakavic never disappoints"

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