Cover of JEONG IS JEONG written by Jessica Yoon, illustrated by Michelle Lee. A young Korean American girl smiles and raises her arms looking up at images of her family and folk art of a tiger and magpie coming out of a book

It’s a ✨COVER REVEAL✨ for Jeong Is Jeong, releasing 2/3/26 from @randomhousekids.bsky.social Pre-order link in bio!

“What is Jeong?” a little girl asks her grandma, and so begins a lyrical journey of discovery, kindness, and understanding in this ode to Korean American language and culture.

Gorgeous!

The cover of Bramble's edition of The Poet Empress by Shen Tao

So excited to share the beautiful cover of my debut fantasy, #ThePoetEmpress, which I am absolutely floored by! 🥰 It's comes out from Bramble 01.20.26 next year!

(Credits to artist Kelly Chong & designer Esther S. Kim!)

bit.ly/ThePoetEmpress

Thinking about what to do at 9 am at #AWP25? Come join us!

@thatkevinchong.bsky.social
#awp #asianamericanwriters #aapiwriters #writers #writingcommunity

"Worry comes with the territory. But if you set out on your path, it’ll become worth it. The journey is half the fun, especially if taken with a sense of discovery and adventure. The alternative is to do nothing. To sit in terror and become bitter."

AWP25: Thursday morning!! Come join us!

STRANGE PILGRIMS: ASIAN AMERICANS ON WRITING ABOUT ASIA

With the uber-talented Kevin Chong, Christine Ma-Kellams, David Mura, and Karen Tei Yamashita

@thatkevinchong.bsky.social
#awp #awp25 #asianamericanwriters #aapiwriters #writers #writingcommunity

Finally saw a copy of Taipei at Daybreak in the wild! This was at the NTU Eslite. I'm told it's the last one in Eslite in all of Taiwan. If you want them to stock more in brick-and-mortar stores in Taiwan, it may help to order online from Eslite!

www.eslite.com/product/1001...

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We used to spend an hour+ getting to the Bronx Zoo, where our son would focus almost entirely on sticks and pebbles!

Loads of #literary #magazines are coming to Bluesky, here is a great list to follow! PLEASE SHARE TO HELP THEM LEAVE TWITTER!

#litmags #writer #writingcommunity

go.bsky.app/7cWNC2j

Are the Big Guys Always Bad Guys? (Full) Courtney Maum debates the viral “The Big Five Publishers Have Killed Literary Fiction” Substack article.

writerschronicle.org/TWC/TWC/2025...

Inside our new issue: Aaron Gilbreath’s practical reflections on earning a living outside of literature; Nicole Graev Lipson’s essay on the sidelining of books on motherhood and a call for their valuation; and news of an audiovisual poetry archive at the University of Arizona. at.pw.org/MarApr2025

Katherine Rundell · Why children’s books? Children’s books, to a great extent because they are written for those who cannot participate in the market, can offer...

‘Those who write for children have the chance to point them towards beauty that they do not yet know exists: towards versions of joy that they have not yet imagined possible.’

Katherine Rundell on the challenges and opportunities of children’s literature: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

25 books out in paperback this February! It’s difficult, perhaps, not to feel that this past month has felt longer than a typical January, its natural disasters, sudden shifts, and political upheavals making this month seem as thoug…

From Colm Tóibín to Sheila Heti, these 25 paperbacks are coming in February.

@michellelernerauth.bsky.social is one of my dearest writer friends. Her debut novel, RING is about loss, grief, suicide, and hope. It’s riveting–and also insightful, beautiful, and full of empathy.

You can get it at Bookshop, B&N, Amazon. tinyurl.com/5ty2puej or tinyurl.com/zwwmm7wn0

This afternoon!!! Don't miss it: @michellelernerauth.bsky.social is brilliant, empathetic, and insightful, and this is going to be a treat!

I'd love to be added to the queer starter pack!

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The writing is GORGEOUS, and one of its last chapters inspired a shift in the last section of my novel!

Rosa Kwon Easton and Hyeseung Song in conversation about Rosa’s debut novel, WHITE MULBERRY.

Inspired by Easton’s grandmother, WHITE MULBERRY is a rich and moving story of a Korean woman who moves to Japan in the 1930s to pursue her dream of living an independent life.

So worth a read! #booksky

Love this! And I'd love to be added!

RING is out now!! It's a deeply insightful portrait of grief--but also a pageturner. Incredibly perceptive, full of empathy, and emotionally compelling.

You can get it here: www.tinyurl.com/RingonBookshop or www.tinyurl.com/RingforKindle

What to read next based on your favorite film of the year (redux). Now that we’ve closed the book on 2024, it’s time to assess its cultural products. Let’s start with movies. This week the Golden Globes distributed their brassy trophies, and the …

What should you read next? Let your favorite movies choose.

Anyone have a debut book coming out this spring? Tell me about it — it’d be nice to hear about something nice! Your first book only happens once, friend!

If you're interested in more on the topic,
@michaelluo.bsky.social 's book, STRANGERS IN THE LAND, is out in April and can be preordered now. bookshop.org/p/books/stra...

Alice Munro’s Passive Voice The celebrated writer’s partner sexually abused her daughter Andrea. The abuse transformed Munro’s fiction, but she left it to Andrea to confront the true story.

Trying to imagine the loneliness of working at a bookstore named for your mom after she went back to your abuser—and then becoming her assistant, all while your sister works on her biography that won’t mention your abuse.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Could be a good start to the year!