It's been one year since the release of WE SHALL BE MONSTERS, my love letter to Frankenstein, mythology, and angry/weird girls. 🪷 As I work on the sequel (brace yourselves), I'm so grateful to my readers who continue to champion me and my books 💜🖤

Honored by this beautiful #blurb from one of the authors I admire most. Thank you, @tracichee.bsky.social ! #Preorder D.J. ROSENBLUM BECOMES THE G.O.A.T. today!

May 23: A middle grade book of connected short stories all taking place in an airport written by East Asian and Southeast Asian authors: You Are Here: Connecting Flights. #AAPIHeritageMonth #AAPIBooks #BookSky

We had the best time talking with @tracichee.bsky.social today! We learned so much about the inspiration behind the realm of Awara and learned some words in the Awaran language she created. What was your favorite part?

Are you joining us this week to talk with @tracichee.bsky.social about her novel A Thousand Steps Into Night? We are so excited to talk to her about how she uses mythology to challenge readers to think critically about their sense of self and community. See you there!

It's hard to believe that we are heading into our last 3 events for this school year! What an amazing trio we have in May -- @vashtiharrison.bsky.social and @lamargiles.bsky.social for elementary and @tracichee.bsky.social for middle & high school. We can't wait! Will we see you there?

This weekend! 🔥Join us at @latimes.com Festival of Books on Sat. 4/26, 11:20am for High Intensity, Even Higher Stakes: Fantastical Worlds and Underworlds in Young Adult Fiction at the YA Stage! 🔥 Signing to follow in Signing Area 9. events.latimes.com/festivalofbo...

Another glorious blurb for A LEGIONNAIRE'S GUIDE TO LOVE AND PEACE, this time from my good friend @tracichee.bsky.social!

KINDLING is one of Kirkus Reviews' Best Books of the 21st Century (So Far)! 🔥 Thank you so much to Kirkus for including Kindling on this list of truly incredible YA titles. What an honor! Find the full list and get some TBR inspiration here: www.kirkusreviews.com/young-adult/...

Did we spend nearly an hour finally taking down our new years balloons, arranging them on the floor with the books, and meticulously aligning every light in our kit to get this picture? Maybe so. But in my defense, I have ARCs!!!!!

How many of these new Would You Read It? videos have your middle schoolers watched? And how long is the holds list for each book? What an amazing bunch!! @barbaradee.bsky.social @cynleitichsmith.bsky.social @tracichee.bsky.social

I hesitate to give interviews about book banning as I feel that other authors have been much more targeted (in super scary ways) than I and are more deserving of sympathy & protection. But I thought, I would try to explain the pain “soft banning” also causes: www.themarysue.com/the-receptio...

Here's the cover of A LEGIONNAIRE'S GUIDE TO LOVE AND PEACE! It was art directed by Regina Flath, designed by Aarushi Menon, and the illustration at the heart of it was done by my sister, Sarah Skrutskie. I love it to pieces. Out on 6/24/25! 💙📚 www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/771397...

KINDLING is a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize! 🔥 I’m so thrilled to be included alongside K.A. Cobell, Safia Elhillo, Carolina Ixta & @kimjohnson.bsky.social. 📚 Congratulations to all the finalists & a huge thank you to LA Times & the judges for this honor! www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

The Children's Literature Legacy Award winner is Carole Boston Weatherford. #alayma

Winner of the 2025 Newbery Medal: The First State of Being by Erin Entrada Kelly #alayma

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Excellence in Nonfiction Award goes to: Rising from the Ashes: Los Angeles 1992 #alaayma #yalsa

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Congratulations to "Everything We Never Had" for winning the Asian/Pacific American Award - Young Adult Literature! #alayma

Hey #BookSky 💙📚, the ebook of my sci-fi thriller is currently on sale, but only for the next 24 hours! If punchy hackers, diabolical warship AIs with god complexes, and conwomen are your flavor, don't miss out on THE SALVATION GAMBIT! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/708770...

When in doubt, make more art. 💪 Half of this month's newsletter is from 2015, on rejection & a book art project called DOUBTS. Half of it is a reflection, ten years later, on what I've since learned about coping with feelings of inadequacy & failure. 🎨 tracichee.substack.com/p/when-in-do...

Happy 2025! If you're thinking about making some writing resolutions this year, I've got some thoughts about both dreams and goals. Check them out at my Substack:

To celebrate KINDLING’s first year in the world, I made a pretty little thing. Huge thanks to the team at Harper for making this book possible and to all the readers who found, loved, and shared it this year. ❤️‍🔥

🔔 Apply for WNDB’s 2025 Native Writing Intensive! The Native Writing Intensive offers an opportunity for reflection, conversation, celebration, & manuscript/career development. Open to Native/First Nation/Indigenous creators! 💻 bit.ly/NativeIntensive2025 ⌛ Applications close February 14th, 2025

New Substack! 🏔️ Last time I wrote about publishing dreams and why they're valuable, even if they're out of your hands: tracichee.substack.com/p/concern-an... And today I'm talking about the importance of writing goals and goal-setting, no matter how small: tracichee.substack.com/p/concern-an...

Such a fabulous list! Publishers never think anthologies are profitable, but they are perfect for the classroom. And instead of old stories and short excerpts of long text, all of these collections are modern and relevant and far more likely to keep the attention of our young readers.

TODAY ONLY: get in the festive spirit with THE CITY OF DUSK for less than 3 bucks! Nothing says holiday cheer like scheming gods, the vengeful dead, and a vigilante with a sword killing men in power ⚔️ tinyurl.com/yju9s8m9

Some more happy news! KINDLING made Booklist's Editors' Choice: Books for Youth, 2024! Thanks to the staff, reviewers, and Allie Stevens for the extra shout-out! Check out the complete list: www.booklistonline.com/Booklist-Edi...

Want to give one of my books to a reader in your life? ⭐ I made you a gift guide for that! Find them at your favorite local retailer or at the links below. 🎁 🔥 KINDLING/🌙 1000 STEPS/🌁 WANF: www.harpercollins.com/blogs/author... 📚 READER TRILOGY: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/1TR/t...

This response from @sbearbergman.bsky.social to @hildur.bsky.social’s post has changed my week— it is so wholesome, and human, and so the energy we all need right now. And Kerstin Langenberger, the naturalist who posted “I am on my way with the necessary equipment”? This woman is the hero we need.

KINDLING is one of Kirkus Reviews’ Best Young Adult Books of 2024! 🔥 It has been such a thrill seeing the end-of-the-year love for this story. Thank you so much to the staff and readers for this recognition! See the full list here: www.kirkusreviews.com/bes.../2024/...

presenting, in collaboration with the inimitable @jayackley.bsky.social, a five minute folk musical documentary, about the time Idaho Fish and Game parachuted 76 beavers out of a plane. www.youtube.com/watch?v=adDE...

Just a few more days left for one of the quirkiest items I've ever offered for a giveaway ⤵️

On this date in 1941, Pearl Harbor was attacked by the imperial forces of Japan. The loss of life and destruction was horrific, and it pulled the U.S. into the war. For Japanese Americans, it was a terrifying time. Overnight, we became the “enemy within” because we were of Japanese descent. /1