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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!

I’m so glad!!

Ahhh yay!!!

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)!

Massachusetts Center for the Book is a nonprofit dedicated to inspiring a love of reading, honoring the rich literary culture of the Commonwealth, promoting unrestricted access to books and libraries, and fostering literacy and learning through collaborative programming across Massachusetts.

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! 📚📚📚

📚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!!! 🎉🎉🎉

Thank youuuuuuu

Gates!!! 💜

Ahh thanks Steph!

Thanks Pam!

🎉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!!

Thank 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! 💜

📚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.

l'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.

🎉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 📚

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 😊

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Thank you 💜💜💜