Thank you!!! 🩵

I HAVE A LITERARY AGENT!!! 🎉

I’m so excited to announce that I’m now represented by Alex Land at MWLA for literary works!!!

I’m so lucky and honored to have Alex champion my books starring queer Filipino American women like ourselves who just want to love and be loved

#writingcommunity #amagented

Writers please tap in!

I wanna go back into sharing musings in a newsletter type of thing, but I wanna protect some stuff like writing snippets behind a paywall

I used to have a Substack, but I’m not huge fan of the platform. I’ve also considered Patreon and Kofi

Thoughts?

#writers #authors

I remember my ex not liking the first chapter of a first draft I wrote once and complaining about the female MC not having any agency in it

I was like “bitch this is a coming-of-age story, that’s the whole POINT”

Every time I look at publishing industry stuff I think about how it’s basically Sunnyside Daycare from Toy Story 3

A photo of an ARC of THE ASHFIRE KING against the backdrop of my bookshelves, which are filled with copies of THE STARDUST THIEF

*inhales* MY SEQUEL IS BOOK-SHAPED!! ✨

Or well, mostly book-shaped! These are advance reader copies, which I wasn’t expecting to get! These copies are missing some of the polish of the final book, but it is a story in full & I am overjoyed to have it in this form 🥰

ASHFIRE is out April 15, 2025!

Can I get 100 subscribers before 2025 👀

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“Joelle why does every single one of your main characters have a nickname?” have you ever met a Filipino

I can never take a wasian guy seriously, I asked one for his Instagram and he gave me “Connor McGregor” (he was not in fact Conor McGregor nor was his name even Connor or McGregor)

Thank you!!! 🎉🎉🎉

Screenshot of a blank certificate for a NaNoWriMo winner saying “Congratulations!” in yellow arched letters. The certificate has a jaguar or leopard lounging on a tree branch with the words “WINNER” across its body

Screenshot from the NaNoWriMo website that says “You unlocked a badge.” There is a badge of a Viking helmet on a purple hexagon with light purple bursts. Underneath in yellow letters it says “Wrote 50,000 Words in November”. In white letters it says “You earned this badge by writing 50,000 words. You are an official NaNo WriMo winner!”

Humble brag moment cuz I decided to do #NaNoWriMo last-minute this year and I won 11 days in 🎉

The sun should not be setting around 3:43pm, I hate the end of daylight savings

Very specific book ask: I’m looking for fictional books that have scenes where the characters work with an intimacy coordinator/director/etc. I know there was one in YOU HAD ME AT HOLA so anything along those lines helps

I’ll also take advice from irl intimacy coordinators too!

#books #writers

Very specific book ask: I’m looking for fictional books that have scenes where the characters work with an intimacy coordinator/director/etc. I know there was one in YOU HAD ME AT HOLA so anything along those lines helps

I’ll also take advice from irl intimacy coordinators too!

#books #writers

Several hundred pro-palestinian Jews now arrested by NYPD.

Those being led away can still be heard chanting "Not in our name!" and asking for ceasefire.

via Jewish Voice for Peace

Some of these beauty and skincare brand CEOs and executives putting things out there like 🤨 gonna blacklist you before you blacklist me

I think a lot of people were expecting the road to genocide would be a sharp turn that they could boldly object to rather than simply a continuation of the policies and ideas they already sign off on.

Authors, if you think Scholastic's "separate but equal" book fair plan is, perhaps, a BAD idea, please consider signing this open letter to them about it:

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Why did I just find out Gemma Chan is NOT wasian

Like I barely use that. Why is that my algorithm. I repost bodega cats and pokemon memes on it

The amount of pro-Is Not Real posts on my for you page of threads is WILD but not surprising for some reason

Indigenous People’s Day is a good time to stand with Palestine.

This is a must read if you're confused about who the Palestinians are.

TL;DR: We are the Indigenous people of the holy land, recognized even by our colonizers as the descendants of the ancient Hebrews. The recognition of this fact changed for political reasons.

Funny how when my ex broke up with me, I couldn’t get a haircut but I got a lighter balayage instead since I needed my hair long and touched up for my sister’s upcoming wedding

But once it was the new year you know that shit got chopped off (and the color was refreshed)

Ooooh thank you, I’ll check it out!

Anyone have any favorite DECAF coffee they like to make at home? I just got gifted an iced coffee maker and while I love an iced coffee every now and then, I think it’s safer to have decaf if I wanna use this regularly 😅

Also me posting this at 1am is actually not due to me drinking any caffeinated drinks tbh, ya girl is just having a bout of insomnia 🫶🏼

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This is the iced coffee maker btw! I love that it comes with a tumbler, I’m definitely gonna use that for almost all my drinks tbh

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Anyone have any favorite DECAF coffee they like to make at home? I just got gifted an iced coffee maker and while I love an iced coffee every now and then, I think it’s safer to have decaf if I wanna use this regularly 😅