self-doubt and days of drudgery. All the works by people you and I admire sit atop a foundation of failures.
So whatever your project, whatever your struggle, whatever your dream, keep toiling, because the
world needs your skyscraper.
Per aspera, ad astra!
—Pierce Brown
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
PIERCE BROWN is the New York Times bestselling author of Red Rising, Golden Son, and Morning Star. While trying to make it as a writer, Brown worked as a manager of social media at a start-up tech company, toiled as a peon on the Disney lot at ABC Studios, did his
time as an NBC page, and gave sleep deprivation a new meaning during his stint as an aide
on a U.S. Senate campaign. He lives in Los Angeles, where he is at work on his next novel.