Having vertigo in Taiwan means wondering if im experiencing an earthquake or if my inner ear is just being a little shit again 🤷‍♀️

I wasn't much of a tea person before I moved to Taiwan. Now I'm obsessed!! Green tea and oolong are my favorite and that caffeine rush?!?!? Yowza!!

Its my 3rd week in Taiwan. I just woke up from a dream where my long-distance husband got a boyfriend and honestly, I wasn't mad. I was like "im happy you're exploring this side of yourself" lol

As an adoptee in reunion, I find myself navigating another dynamic--being the caretaker of an aging mother. I feel like the timing of this reunion has forced me to jump into the deep end without wading in. Now I'm caring for the mother who never got a chance to care for me.

Im dyslexic. Now that I'm in Taiwan learning Mandarin, my brain does that dyslexia buffer thing more often. Like I know I'm looking at words, but I can't read them. So I have to start my brain engine like 3 times before I can start comprehending what I'm seeing.

The cutest thing just happened. I taught my bio mom that in America, we say "thick" to mean that someone is fat in a complementary way. A couple days later, she still remembers this and says "my legs are thin but yours are...thick". Its just so freaking amazing to have a biological mom💖💖🥰

Hot take but what if AI actually brings back critical thinking? We see a fake video online, feel ashamed that we fell for it, then learn to adapt. Learn to question the content we consume. Learn to navigate nuance. Wouldn't that be an unexpected twist?!

It's daytime in the US and nighttime in Taiwan. Getting used to the time zone thing is gunna suuuuuck lol

I feel so defeated as an adoptee every time I see another viral "we adopted an (insert non white race here) baby" video. Yet when ADOPTEES (not adoptERS) speak up about our real experiences, we get told to shut up, we get called ungrateful, and our stories sure as shit don't go viral.

Moving to Taiwan as an adoptee in reunion comes with so many mixed emotions. Like yes, im excited, but i haven't been this exhausted, numb, sad, and unmotivated in a long time.

Im a bit of a compression sock ho. Long car rides? Compression socks✅️ Flights? Compression socks✅️ Walking my pup? Compression socks✅️ Do I have a medical condition that requires me to wear compression socks? Nope. But imma do it anyway lol

Despite genetically not being a likely candidate for a learning disability, I have dyslexia (and dysgraphia). But it wasn't until I realized that adoptees are 3x more likely to develop a learning disability that I really started to unpackage how deeply adoption trauma has impacted me

Exciting translation news for FIRST LOVE LANGUAGE?!?!?!

So im working on book 3 and my spouse just made me realize that the moral of the story im trying to tell is that we need to love our neighbors. Guys. I'm writing the Bible.

youtu.be/K9XNaQxBVaY?... I'm so excited that I made this YouTube video, but for some reason the video quality sucks?! Oh well, it's still packed with lots of info on how to survive a book tour and working on the video quality gives me something to focus on for my next video!

youtu.be/6K_kRl4mKMM?... Im moving to Taiwan next month and I'm documenting everything from my author life to my reunification with my mom! This is the first of many blogs I hope to make! Lmk what you think!

COVER REVEAL!! Add to GoodReads share.google/cEDZUKmik6VC...

I love Texas land but I hate Texas crimes. Like fuck the ICE raids, racism, and limited access to education. But the June rainstorms and the wildlife is something I wish everyone could experience💖

I'm in Publisher's Weekly! www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Proud dog mama lol

Bahahha I just want people to read this book and scream at this character for being so in love and so deeply in the closet bahahahha

Writing closeted queer girlies is my new favorite thing bc it's one way to bypass all the religious trauma and just memory walk all the queer moments that were real to me💖💖

Eekk!! FIRST LOVE LANGUAGEA is in great company! I've been meaning to pick up some of these books too! Happy summer reading yall!

#BIPOCQTchat Actually, I'd love to support YOU! If you're an adoptee and want to break into traditional publishing, im hosting free monthly webinars for adoptees who wanna build community and raise our voices! Fill out this form: docs.google.com/forms/d/1u0E...

SO FREAKING EXCITED to share the #LesbianaRereadChallenge details! I'll be posting my answers here and would love to see yours too! Feel free to join in whatever capacity you can. You can log your progress daily on pagebound if you want the full book club experience here: bit.ly/3FsFMwM (part 1)

I'm hosting a re-read party/challenge for The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School starting tomorrow until June 28 to gear up for the release of the spinoff! info here: bsky.app/profile/sono... #BIPOCQTchat

My next book, a queer YA "Solo Stan" comes out next week! You can preorder it and tell all your friends to preorder it! #BIPOCQTchat

#BIPOCQTchat I think of the next generation. What can I do to leave this world better than when I found it? Also, there's room for mixed emotion. Pride, peace ans joy for finally accepting myself for who I am. And rage, remorse, and longing, for what could've been if I hadn't grown up Mormon lol

#BIPOCQTchat omg I mean everything I write is influenced by my identity. But I always try to think of future generations who have to experience difficult things like queerness in high demand religion, adoption trauma, being mixed race in a world of boxes etc. Its about uplifting minority voices!!

"I didn’t have edging a sleep paralysis demon on my senior year bingo card but here we are." Not really a WIP but I'm revising Ghosted rn as we speak 😆 #BIPOCQTchat

*me scrambling desperately among my thousand WIPs* Line from my rom com (that I’m not editing, shhhh): “No one’s ever looked at me like that. Like I wasn’t an insufferable disaster. Like I wasn’t annoying, a failure, too much. She looked at me like I was someone to be loved.” #BIPOCQTchat

#BIPOCQTChat Omg I was working on it last night and I shared a snippet on my socials bahahah

#BIPOCQTchat I'm so proud of the work I've done to deconstruct from my ultra Mormon conservative upbringing🫶🫶

1. Hi friends, I’m soni! I’m currently working on a very campy telenovela esque Knives Out meets Crazy Rich Asians but Mexican. I’m very excited lol #BIPOCQTchat

#bipocqt Happy pride!! Im currently writing my YA sapphic romance between a nieve pageant queen and an apathetic nail tech 🫶🫶💖💖

My first ever newsletter goes out this Friday! There's still time to sign up! docs.google.com/forms/d/1cjK...

The human race needs to start acting more like turtles. When one of us is belly up, we need to flip them over.

I just got a call from "my cousin" but it was an AI voice that sounded like my coworker. Stay safe out there yall. These scams are getting out of hand

I'm writing a book set in Tokyo. My bro & sis in law are in Tokyo rn. For "research" they have been eating Japanese shaved ice every day and letting me know how it tastes. Honestly I love that for them. And for this book lol

I feel like no one knows this about me but the real reason why I wanted to become an author is because I could never find my name in a souvenir shop so I figured I'd put my name on a book

As a mixed person, this has been the best AAPI Heritage Month ever!! I've been told I'm not Asian enough my entire life. But seeing FIRST LOVE LANGUAGE listed as "must read books by AAPI authors" IS SO FORKING VALIDATING💖💖 🥰I🥰am🥰enough🥰

For my fifth interview for Taiwanese American Heritage Week, I talked to @booksbystefany.bsky.social about her debut YA novel, First Love Language, writing from personal experience, the 5 love languages, discovering new sides to yourself while writing, and more. readingasiam.blog/2025/05/15/a...

I'm in People Magazine again!! But this time, I'm with my author friends! people.com/ya-romance-l...

Adoptee voices matter. Our stories matter. And yet we continue to be a community that is so marginalized, we are often overlooked in conversations about inclusivity. Here are some book recs for those of you who want to learn more 💖💖 diversebookfinder.org/collection/i...

Um not to flex but my good friend @sonorareyes.bsky.social writes the best qbipoc books AND they are accessible for my dyslexia brain. Just chef's kiss 🤌🤌 hehehe💖💖🫶

Omg never enough QBIPOC joy. Like let us be happy. Let us be ourselves. I already lived so much trauma. Let me have the life I didn't have. Give me the live I'm owed hahaha AND GIVE MY QUEER BIPOC ADOPTEE OWN VOICES HEHEHE

#BIPOCQTchat AN AUTHOR COMMUNE WITH GOATS AND SHIT hehehehe

And she's only the coolest person ever or whatever 💖💖💖 nbd hehehe

#BIPOCQTchat i think about the future generations! I think about how i grew up a closeted mormon girl not realizing it's not hetero to pretend you're a boy just to justify the idea of holding hands with girls🤣🤣 my books are for young Stef🤣🤣

WE'RE BACK!! question 1: Introduce yourself! What kind of stuff do you write? Are you working on anything you're dying to tell us about? #BIPOCQTchat