dog collar scene you will always be famous (iykyk) 🌶️ 📖 HOLD ME LIKE A GRUDGE, out 03/31/26 with Berkley/PRH. preorders are available wherever you love to shop for books / my bio + you can now request an arc on netgalley and edelweiss! it means a lot to a debut like myself!

HOLD ME LIKE A GRUDGE is now available to request on netgalley!! ❤️‍🔥 sports romance ✨ enemies to idiots to (forbidden) lovers ❤️‍🔥 nuclear grade yearning ✨ grumpy x sunshine ❤️‍🔥 love letter to queer history and revolution ✨ soft love, big secrets, scorching spice #booksky #queerbooksky #romancebooks

GRUDGE preorders are currently 25% off at b&n! preorders really help debut authors such as myself out by signalling interest and it will also guarantee you Hottest Person status! 🔗 www.barnesandnoble.com/w/hold-me-li... #booksky

WELCOME. SHE’S HERE. thrilled to reveal the cover of my debut novel, a queer sports romance where a sizzling rivalry between two professional wrestlers grows increasingly heated ❤️‍🔥 HOLD ME LIKE A GRUDGE will be yours on 3/31/26 & is now available for preorder (🔗 in bio!) #booksky #queerbooksky

Exclusive Cover Reveal: Hold Me Like a Grudge by Celine Ong Today on the site, I'm thrilled to be revealing the cover for Hold Me Like a Grudge by Celine Ong, a bi m/m sports romance releasing March 31, 2026 from Berkley! Here's the story: When a fierce rivalry between two professional wrestlers…

tropes in HOLD ME LIKE A GRUDGE except it gets more unhinged as the author completely loses the plot. bon appétit 💋 💌 out spring 2026 with @berkleyromance.bsky.social !! #booksky #queerbooksky

It’s #AromanticAwarenessWeek and I just so happen to have an aromantic YA romcom out next year! It’s also got an ace MC (actually two), so if you like queerplatonic love stories and cringey puns, you can add it on Goodreads! www.goodreads.com/book/show/22... #AroWeek #AspecAuthors #ASAW

new year new cry log, turned in edits for grudge, and uh. pissing on cybertrucks #booksky

author devastated to find out the scene they’ve just dreamt of in vivid detail doesn’t immediately appear on google docs and they have to now write it themselves

noah kahan playing against oliver stark in the celebrity NBA now this is the irl high school musical AU

*inhales* the discomfort when forced to make eye contact and masking and hyperfixating and rewatching comfort media a hundred times for familiar reassurance and not understanding why humans act the way they do or how to interact with them murderbot is so autistic coded in this essay i— #booksky

lunar new year truly brings out my two wolves: my self hatred vs my delusional god complex

are you a lawyer? are you a doctor? are you a finance bro? no auntie i'm being paid to write about bisexual rivals secretly kissing, fighting capitalism, and making queer history

jumping up and down screaming pointing that’s my agent!!! the best partner one could ever dream of 🥹

authors of #booksky, explain your story badly: local pro wrestler believes he’s just an ally and tries to no homo his way through the world’s most homoerotically charged fights with his rival but surely that doesn’t mean anything haha unless

local author doesn’t even remember which year their own books take place head empty running purely on vibes only

this is THE post of all time

brennan lee mulligan is to queer people what ryan reynolds is to white men

i’d like to believe hope will always exist because /you/ exist. because /we/ exist. and we will rise up with dirt caked on our face, throwing bricks & sticks & earth from chipped nails. digging our claws & teeth in, refusing to be erased from history.

sometimes i hyperfocus so hard on writing or reading that i lowkey forget i’m a person? then someone calls my name and i’m like

"average person cries 30 times a year" factoid actually just statistical error. average person cries maybe 5 times per year. authors, who hunch over a laptop & fight the gdocs demons every day, is an outlier and should not have been counted

Authors and/or bookish people, if you have spare ARCs, author copies, or kidlit books in general, we will need them. Please fill out the form so I can coordinate gathering and delivering the books. tinyurl.com/LAFireBookDo...

perhaps the most unhinged thing i did last year was track the number of times i cried as though i could scientifically figure out if i was okay lmao. the answer is: no