trope graphic for the obake code. the cover shows Malia, a brown skinned woman with long locs dip-dyed green and dressed in a white top, black baggy pants, and black boots, stands with her arm raised looking overhead. above her are futuristic cityscape style towers, with pink and purple lighted windows and glowing neon signs. a futuristic flying car zooms by overhead. there is a white Hawaiian-style tattoo badge to the left, depicting scythes, a bow, geometric shapes, and axes. the text reads THE OBAKE CODE, with "code" in glowing neon. the cover is set on a background of a green vaporous nebula. the tropes read "2 heists 2 lesbians!" "-hacker voice, I'm in" "cyborg prize fights" "evil butch mafiosos!" "questionable physics!" "set three years after Hammajang Luck" "a standalone sequel in the heist lesbians universe" "street racing!" "starring Malia, our favorite cringe hacker." the release date is February 17th, 2026 and preorders are open now

howzit 🤙 I'm Makana, and I'm a hapa haole māhū lesbian who writes books about AAPI lesbians getting into situations in space. my next novel is THE OBAKE CODE, which is a standalone sequel set 3 years after HAMMAJANG LUCK

there's heists! there's hacking! there's lesbians! what more could you want!!!

In the center, two hands with matching friendship bracelets do a pinky promise. The photo is ripped down the center and retaped back together, and the hand on the left has been scribbled over in pen. Above the photo, there's a purple border. Black letters read: Readers said and bigger white letters below that read: "Such a novel spin on haunting and toxic obsessive relationships, on queerness and rage and loneliness". Below the photo, black letters read: One way or another, she's going to get her back" underlined with a pen scribble. In big letters, it says "Daggers in Their Smiles" and below that, in smaller letters, Young Adult Found Footage Paranormal Horror

Everyone is haunted by something. For Jessa, that something is Ivy—her ex-best friend and first love. And she’ll do anything to get Ivy back in her life, even when very real ghosts have other plans for them #PosterPitQ #YA #H

Thank you! 🥰

Thanks, they're very toxic 🥰

Thank you! 💜

A mood board with alternating purple and black/white photos. 1. Purple jellyfish on a black background 2. An Afro-latino teen boy in a black turtleneck leaning against a wall. 3. Stalks of lavender 4. A white girl with goth style looking to the lower right hand corner. 5. A neon purple sign that reads find what you love and let it kill you 6. A white girl wearing makeup and a preppy style, smiling at camera 7. The shadow of two hands forming a heart in purple light 8. A black and white hotel hallway 9. Purple candles melting wax

When ex-best-friends Jessa and Ivy take a summer job at a haunted hotel, they’re at each other’s throats, with mutual friend Teddy stuck in the middle. But if they can’t escape their complicated history, the ghost will claim one of them forever #BluePit 📖 #YA #P #H #Q #LGBT #ND

Love your mood board!!!

Ooh this seems fun!

Omg stunning!!! 😍

Super cool! Always gonna root for more autistic MCs 💜

Your moodboard is stunning, and I love your concept!

This aesthetic!!!! Stunning!

I'd love to read this! It sounds amazing 😍

Ooh this sounds amazing!!!

I love the moodboard!

omg thank you!!!

Thank you!

Thanks!

Thank you!

A mood board with alternating purple and black/white photos. 1. Purple jellyfish on a black background 2. An Afro-latino teen boy in a black turtleneck leaning against a wall. 3. Stalks of lavender 4. A white girl with goth style looking to the lower right hand corner. 5. A neon purple sign that reads find what you love and let it kill you 6. A white girl wearing makeup and a preppy style, smiling at camera 7. The shadow of two hands forming a heart in purple light 8. A black and white hotel hallway 9. Purple candles melting wax

GUIDE TO THE DARK x RULES FOR VANISHING

Best friends to enemies to ??? sapphic relationship
Found footage-style narration
Haunted hotel in Flagstaff, AZ
Secret society (out to harm or help?)
A ghost out for blood
#BluePit 📖 #YA #P #H #Q #LGBT #ND

A mood board with alternating purple and black/white photos. 1. Purple jellyfish on a black background 2. An Afro-latino teen boy in a black turtleneck leaning against a wall. 3. Stalks of lavender 4. A white girl with goth style looking to the lower right hand corner. 5. A neon purple sign that reads find what you love and let it kill you 6. A white girl wearing makeup and a preppy style, smiling at camera 7. The shadow of two hands forming a heart in purple light 8. A black and white hotel hallway 9. Purple candles melting wax

Three teens. Two weeks in a haunted hotel. One ghost out for blood. And more secrets than they can count buried in their past—ones coming back to haunt them. If they can’t unravel their twisted relationships, they won’t make it out alive #BluePit 📖 #YA #P #H #Q #LGBT #ND

I'm planning to participate in #Bluepit on Monday! Looking forward to it, and good luck to everyone participating 💜

Thank you! 🥰

Thank you! 🥰

🥳 Surprise! 🥳

I'm super excited to be one of the contributors to this amazing anthology! I really appreciate the work this organization does to make Classics more accessible to all 🥰

I went through the same progression! I was like "I can't handle multiple socmed apps" and then another wave of migration started over here again 😅

Black background with three lit red candles on the left side. White gothic text reads "An Agent's Guide to" and red text that looks like it's dripping reads "Daggers in Their Smiles." Beneath, smaller white lettering in gothic font reads "YA Found Footage-Style Horror"

Black background bracketed by images of stacked skulls in red lighting. White text reads "Pitch" in large letters, and in smaller letters, "Jessa and Ivy used to be best friends---and now they hate each other. But when they, along with their friend Teddy, take summer jobs at a haunted hotel, they can't keep themselves from falling back into old habits that could prove just as deadly as the ghost out for their blood."

Black background bracketed by images of stacked skulls in red lighting. White text reads in large letters "Comps" and below in smaller text reads "Rules for Vanishing by Kate Alice Marshall" and "A Guide to the Dark" by Meriam Metoui. Larger text reads "Audience" and smaller text reads "Queer teens, fans of Wendy Heard and Kate Alice Marshall, autistic and ADHD teens, teen girls, people struggling with codependency

Black background. On the right, there's a vertical hotel sign in neon red. Larger white text reads "First Lines" and below in smaller text reads, "Everyone's haunted by something--their mistakes, their parents' mistakes, that one time they played Sardines at Casey Cook's birthday party (don't ask), the specter of communism--but very few people are haunted by actual, real live ghosts. Well, not live ghosts. That defeats the point of a ghost, doesn't it?"

Daggers in Their Smiles, coming to an agent inbox near you!

Medusa Anthology! It's finally here!

My Medusa copies came!!! 🐍

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📢 CALL FOR BETA READERS 📢

I'm looking for betas for my YA found footage horror! It'll be 45-55k and I'll send it out in early August. It's got

👻 toxic codependent girlies
👻 queer and ND rep
👻 a haunted hotel in the Southwest

If you're interested, lmk in the comments!