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SHE’S AN AWARD WINNER!! Dead Things Are Closer Than They Appear is the 2025 Mass Book Award winner for YA/MG.
I wrote a weird genre mashy story about a Korean American adoptee with no special skills who just happened to be there when a magical zombie apocalypse hit. And now, it’s an award winner 🥹
I’m so glad!
21.07.2025 22:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I’m so glad!!
03.05.2025 12:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Ahhh yay!!!
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Ah yes, my annual PSA: Hello. I am Asian.
This AANHPI Heritage Month, if you're in the mood for a voicey action-packed YA fantasy full of humor, horror, and romance...DEAD THINGS ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR is available wherever books are sold (now in paperback)!
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01.05.2025 17:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
DEAD THINGS ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR has been longlisted for the 2025 Mass Book Awards! I’m so honored to be among these brilliant books! 📚📚📚
01.05.2025 17:48 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 0
📚HAPPY PAPERBACK DAY TO DEAD THINGS ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR📚
It’s been over a year and it’s still wild that something I wrote has multiple formats and has (and will be) read by people other than me. Thank you to all past and future readers for picking up this story 🥹💜
✨MORE ABOUT DTACTTA✨
A painfully average teen’s life is upended by a magical apocalypse In this voicey action-packed fantasy full of humor, horror, and romance.
🌟A William C. Morris Award finalist
💛A JLG Gold Standard selection
✨A YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults selection
Me: Wait…when are my paperbacks coming out again? (Checks date) Oh. It’s tomorrow. Maybe I should check the mailroom (Checks mailroom)
ANYWAY the DEAD THINGS ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR paperback is out tomorrow, April 22nd!! 💀
Ahhhh congrats!!! 🎉🎉🎉
04.04.2025 20:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Thank youuuuuuu
20.03.2025 16:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Gates!!! 💜
20.03.2025 15:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Ahh thanks Steph!
20.03.2025 15:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thanks Pam!
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🎉It’s my birthday 🎉
🌸AND the first day of spring!!!🌸 I think we should all do something nice for ourselves to celebrate. I will be doing absolutely nothing today. For you, DEAD THINGS ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR is right there… 💜
I’m so glad!!
06.03.2025 20:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thank you to the selection committee and thank you to all the amazing librarians who have supported DTACTTA, who continue to work so tirelessly to get books into the hands of the readers who need them most. I am so honored to be among these incredible titles! 💜
15.02.2025 13:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
📚DEAD THINGS ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR is on YALSA's Best Fiction for Young Adults list for 2025📚
Librarians have given so much love to this book. As a kid who spent countless hours among the shelves of my own library, I can't express how much that means to me.
Anyway. Please keep supporting stories by marginalized authors. We need them now more than ever 💜 We write and read to connect with people. Right now, and in the years to come, when every day is stressful and scary, we need to keep doing that in every way.
13.02.2025 13:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0l'll never be able to express how much I appreciate everyone who read DTACTTA, who bought copies/ checked it out from their libraries, left reviews, posted about it, wrote to tell me it meant something to them, and recommended it to the young people in their lives.
13.02.2025 13:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
🎉Happy 1st Anniversary to DEAD THINGS ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR🎉 It has officially been one year since I released this book into the wild, hoping for the best and expecting the worst 😂
Today: One Year Ago:
If you're in the mood for a voicey fantasy with humor, romance, unlikely heroes & misfit ensembles, a bitch cat, & a magical zombie apocalypse...go get it 📚
05.02.2025 11:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Did you know the paperback for Dead Things Are Closer Than They Appear is out April 22nd? NOW YOU DO. And it’s time for the ⭐️B&N PREORDER SALE⭐️
From 2/5 -2/7, use the code PREORDER25 for 25% off your paperback (with William C. Morris Finalist sticker ☺️)!!
She’s all dressed up 😊
03.02.2025 21:35 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0😊😊😊😊
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28.01.2025 14:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thank you 💜💜💜
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