Thank you!!!💜💜💜

I'm thrilled and honored to share that The Lustrous Dark is a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection!!!!🖤✨🖤✨🖤✨

This sticker is dedicated to little Loretta who always rode her bike to the library and came home with plastic bags bulging with books hanging from the handlebars!💜🥹😭

Check out this jaw-dropping cover for The Lustrous Dark by @writerlyme.bsky.social

Inspired by North African folklore, this haunting story is beautiful inside & out!

Perfect for readers hungry for:

✨ Ancient Magic
✨ Bone-chilling monsters
✨ Haunted forests
✨ Toxic mothers
✨ Political revolutions

Hey if you’re wanting to support autistic voices/curl up with an autistic hero who’s mad as fuck about the state of the world (and uh gonna bang a hot conwoman about it) this sale’s going till the end of the month! All ebook platforms✨

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Thank you, Mackenzie!💜

I’m so excited to help reveal the cover for Loretta Chefchaouni’s GORGEOUS debut novel, The Lustrous Dark!! Get ready to fight the patriarchy and dive into this lush, mystical fairy tale world on May 19! ✨preorder now✨

Cover artist: Tom Roberts
Publisher: Peachtree Teen

COVER REVEAL!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm so excited to share the cover of The Lustrous Dark with you! It's everything I could have asked for! Tom Roberts perfectly captured the dark fairytale and epic fantasy vibes of the book!

Available for pre-order and on Goodreads!

Thank you so much for all of your support!💜💜💜

Revealing The Lustrous Dark by Loretta Chefchaouni - Reactor A sweeping YA fantasy inspired by a Moroccan folktale, arriving May 2026

We are thrilled to help reveal the cover for The Lustrous Dark by Loretta Chefchaouni!

A lush YA fantasy inspired by Moroccan folklore, The Lustrous Dark is for fans of haunted forests, sweet romance, and stories that are "beautiful and a little gross."

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Word garden inspiration:

Let Children Laugh Forever! 💙💚

The Lustrous Dark The Lustrous Dark is the first in a YA fantasy duology …

Hi, Christina! The Lustrous Dark, my YA fantasy with horror elements comes out with Peachtree Teen next summer! A Morrocan Snow White with a dash of Tim Burton (think seven ghouls) about a midwife's apprentice who rises up to reclaim the power stolen from women!
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The Lustrous Dark The Lustrous Dark is the first in a YA fantasy duology …

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Convincing you to add THE LUSTROUS DARK to Goodreads with a single snippet:

THE LUSTROUS DARK is a YA fantasy retelling of a Moroccan folktale that combines the lush world of This Woven Kingdom with the mother trauma of Snow White and a dash of Tim Burton (think seven ghouls)!

#booksky #2026debuts

IT'S PM OFFICIAL!!!!!!! ✨🖤✨🖤✨🖤✨🖤✨🖤✨
I'm so excited for all the things to come over the next year, and very thankful to those who are here to share it with me and the ones who played a part in helping me get this far! 😭🫶🏼

#2026debuts #booksky #booksbooksbooks #readreadread #YAfantasy

This is not a humble brag i promise! But i blew past my optimistic goal of 40 books sold before my book came out, and so now i have a new goal of 100 books sold before the end of the summer!🙏🏾

Thank you so much! 💜

Thank you!!! 💜

This lovely character art of my MC, Shay, was made by the very talented @nadya.ez on IG!

My book combining the lush mythology of This Woven Kingdom with the mother trauma of Snow White is being published! I’m thrilled to work with Ashley Hearn at Peachtree Teen who gets all the layers of The Lustrous Dark and has the vision to grow this story into its final form!!

Coming soon: new projects from @shihopate.bsky.social @umurrayhusted.bsky.social @writerlyme.bsky.social + more buff.ly/88cTNyN

If you're in the Seattle area, you can come see me at my first ever author events on Thursday April 17th to celebrate my friends' book releases and discuss Muslim books! You might even hear a sneaky peeky preview about my secret newsy news!! 🤫🤫🤫

Get ready to board The Celestial with me in 2026!
NIGHTMARE ON THE CELESTIAL is a YA fantasy perfect for fans of HOTEL MAGNIFIQUE and CARAVAL. This sweeping fantasy has romance, magic, mystery, a loveably chaotic found family, and a darker side to the luxurious entertainment aboard.

Congratulations!!! 🎉 🎉 🎉

Adorable! 🥰😍

What is your cat's favorite toy? And why is it a shoelace?

Congratulations! 🎉🎉🎉

Shift change.

THIS BOOK! What a beautiful, profound, and masterfully crafted read!! It took my breath away every time I picked it up to read it and the last 20% of the story was !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #booksky #thekeepersofrecordsofrevolution #fledgling

A silhouette of a fat statue advancing at us holding a sword dripping three red drips, with moon phases behind her and a giant crescent moon behind her head like a nimbus. Text reads: It took only a moment, a hand braced on the arm of his chair, a thrust of the ornate, slender thing. "I'M NOT YOURS ANYMORE," SHE TOLD HIM (crossed out to read 2024) THROUGH HER TEETH.

BYE 2024