Thank you for reading! 🖤

Starting off Pride month with another #BIPOCQTchat tomorrow! 5pm pacific time

20% off select AAPI titles at @bookshop.org!! 😍

They Bloom at Night is there! It takes place in a small shrimping community in the South, where I grew up. Vietnamese immigrants settled there and became shrimpers. TBAN is about how survival becomes a piece of folklore.

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Funding No convention is put on for free, and ConCurrent is no exception. Luckily, our costs are low because of our single-day program. Below is a breakdown of what we'll need to get this off the ground.

To make this run, however, we need funding to the tune of 5000 USD. A full breakdown of costs can be found at concurrentseattle.weebly.com/funding.html. This is where you come in! Please help us make ConCurrent a real thing and declare unequivocally that genAI has no place in the arts. 3/7

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There’s no way to ease into this news, so here it is. Today, I am announcing ConCurrent Seattle, a one-day SFFH con intended to be an alternative program to WorldCon, scheduled for Thursday, August 14, 2025, at the ACT Theatre in downtown Seattle at 700 Union Street, across from the Sheraton. 1/7

Obligatory hey I have a spooky book out full of ocean horrors and the queers who fear them 🦑😱

They Bloom at Night is like Annihilation meets Speak.

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Otherworldly forces From the May 2025 issue of Notes from the Horn Book.

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If you enjoy playing Dredge, BOY should you have a look at THEY BLOOM AT NIGHT by @nvtran.bsky.social .

Just finished it and really enjoyed!

They Bloom at Night by Trang Thanh Tran

Page from They Bloom at Night by Trang Thanh Tran containing one of my favorite parts of the book.

I'm very happy to say that I just finished reading #TheyBloomAtNight by @nvtran.bsky.social and it was one of the most beautiful stories I have ever read.

Thank you so much for reading 😭

Author Trang Thanh Tran

The cover for the book SHE IS A HAUNTING, which depicts a Vietnamese-American girl with tear running down her cheek and flowers growing out of her mouth

Day 3, Book 3: SHE IS A HAUNTING, a dazzling, terrifying YA horror novel by Vietnamese-American author Trang Thanh Tran (@nvtran.bsky.social). Jade's Ba is mid-restoration on a French colonial in Vietnam when she visits--but the house, with colonialism steeped in its foundation, is ravenous.

I’m kind of obsessed with this stunning edition

Hope you enjoy it! 🦑🌊

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BOOK DRIVE FOR INCARCERATED YOUTH No Borders is partnering with a local librarian to bring requested books to youths ages 12-18 who are incarcerated at Crossroads Juvenile Center in Brooklyn. To help, you can: • Buy books from our Bookshop.org registry • Donate funds to The Rolling Library • Donate gently used paperback young adult novels, manga, and comics wishlist: tinyurl.com/2025bookdrive donate funds: tinyurl.com/tridonate contact: nobordersbooks@proton.me

last year @nobordersbooks.bsky.social sent 600+ books to Rikers; this year our book drive is for teens who are incarcerated in Brooklyn. please purchase a book if you can—most of these are requested titles, and a $7 Goosebumps book would mean A LOT to a kid in detention bookshop.org/wishlists/70...

Goods acquired on indie bookstore day @maveybooks.bsky.social 🖤🖤🖤

HAPPY INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORE DAY!! How are you celebrating?! What are you going to get today?

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Happy (Upcoming) Lesbian Visibility Day 2025! Saturday is Lesbian Visibility Day, and we're celebrating with lesbian fiction! For even more recs, check out last year's post. Middle Grade Pasta Girls by Taylor Tracy (September 9, 2025) Hot-headed and energetic Romea Marino is starting ninth grade with a full plate. Between confusing social dynamics of high school and juggling extracurriculars, Ro can only find peace in the reliable comfort of her kitchen, where she’s able to follow in her dad’s culinary footsteps, whipping up Italian-fusion recipes.

Happy (Upcoming) Lesbian Visibility Day 2025!

Saturday is Lesbian Visibility Day, and we're celebrating with lesbian fiction! For even more recs, check out last year's post. Middle Grade Pasta Girls by Taylor Tracy (September 9, 2025) Hot-headed and energetic Romea Marino is starting ninth grade…

Sinners is an excellent movie. Highly recommend seeing it!!!

Thank you for this!

I cannot move again with so many copies 💀

Any educators working with teens want a book? I will mail to you! SIAH is a gothic horror about a bi girl fighting a hungry haunted house that wants to keep her family & TBAN is about a enby teen searching for monsters at the end of the world.

Book cover that reads THEY BLOOM AT NIGHT by Trang Thanh Tran. Shows a Vietnamese woman under water with red tendrils around her. One of her eyes has scales around it and is larger and more fish-like than the other.

Read for the #transrightsreadathon, this book was like OUR WIVES UNDER THE SEA meets HELL FOLLOWED WITH US. The prose is salty, frightening, and beautiful like the waters it explores while the body horror asks what it means to be human.

@nvtran.bsky.social writes horror you don't want to miss.

Two of my absolute favorite books! Thank you for reading 🖤

Illustration of Noon from They Bloom At Night underwater, surrounded by monstrous fish. They're a Vietnamese teenager with black hair with white roots, wearing a shirt and shorts and a key around the neck. Noon is turning fishy, with fins and scales and textures on the skin. The background is dark green water, with a bright red surface. Noon and the fish have bright red lighting from the top and cool cyan light from the bottom. signed layaroseart.com in the corner.

Noon from They Bloom At Night by @nvtran.bsky.social !! fantastic YA horror I read recently

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Some of my favourite recommendations for the Trans Rights Readathon! @kmenright.bsky.social @haileypiperfights.bsky.social @briewoodfiction.bsky.social @unheimlichmanvr.bsky.social @nvtran.bsky.social @hauntpublishing.bsky.social 🏳️‍⚧️ ❤️💙📚 #TransRights

Thank you for including They Bloom at Night!

Hope you enjoy! 🖤🦑

A graphic for THEY BLOOM AT NIGHT by Trang Thanh Tran.

I finished my first book of the #TransRightsReadathon last night! THEY BLOOM AT NIGHT by @nvtran.bsky.social is a powerful story about family, queerness, bodily autonomy, and, well, body horror. Five stars, twelve out of ten, etc.

AHHH I WANT IT