last day to order signed copies of THIS IS ME TRYING (or my other books) from The Ripped Bodice 🫶🏼

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Happy International #TransDayOfVisibility ! 🏳️‍⚧️

Here is a beautiful book stack to celebrate. 💗

Comment with a book by a trans author and/or featuring trans joy. 📚

Two weeks today 👀

'Cis women continued to dominate the industry’s ranks at 71% of all respondents... The small number of respondents identifying as genderfluid, nonbinary, or genderqueer means that publishers need to “take extra care with stories for this community.'

anyway

I guess it's once again time for my regular reminder to awards that just because a book has a teenager as a protagonist doesn't mean it's YA and should go on your Best YA Novel category. Stop contributing to the adultification of YA.

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1. We are only 6 weeks into 2024 and we already have 400+ anti-trans bills. For the last couple of years, I have continually updated a risk assessment map that tells you the risk level of anti-trans legislation in each state.

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✨COVER REVEAL✨ for our sapphic holiday romcom about a messy teen actress fake dating her childhood best friend in their christmas-obsessed hometown 🏳️‍🌈 out 10/1!

huge thank you to mason london for the art & lizzy bromley for the design 🫶🏻

Can't believe this book that I had the idea for well over a decade ago is out in the world. I'm so proud of this book and of the work Liesa Abrams, emily shapiro, Katie Shea Boutillier, and I accomplished together. This book wouldn't exist without them.
thirdplacebooks.com/book/978059364…

My Fair Brady is out in the world today 💜

VALLEY VERIFIED is out!!!🥹

It’s about:
✨Underdog in elite industry
✨Women in the workplace
✨Tackling life & career changes
✨Confronting insecurities

If you’ve ever doubted yourself, I hope this makes you feel a little more seen❤️

📚 available here: linktr.ee/kylazhao

the characters of my next YA romcom, AND THEY WERE ROOMMATES, are all sophomores and freshmen! i would also like to see more of this in bookstores!

not one but TWO bisexual main characters!

TODAY-ONLY DEAL! i've been told that the borrow a boyfriend club is basically a holiday rom-com so january's the perfect time to smash this deal. just search up the title on amazon and the sale will pop up!

PW Flying Start author Page Powars discusses his path to publishing his transgender-led YA debut, ‘The Borrow a Boyfriend Club,’ and centering joy and self-acceptance pwne.ws/3S6XObe

happy STAY WITH MY HEART release day to all those who celebrate 🥂🎶 this book is a love letter to music and the community it brings you 🥹

make sure to go grab a copy at your local bookstore today!!! 🩵

🔗: tashiebhuiyan.com/staywithmyheart.

1 WEEK AWAY! To celebrate Okay, Cupid, we're hosting a BK #AuthorEvent with Mason Deaver on Tuesday, January 9th at 7pm. They will chat about their new trans romcom with @PagePowars.

🎟️Tickets:
therippedbodicela.com/brooklyn-events

Order signed books by January 4th.

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I had THE BEST time chatting anime, queer joy, and The Borrow a Boyfriend Club with Page Powars. Congrats again on the flying start, Page!

Make sure y'all take a look: pw-ne.ws/ffc38

THANK YOU Publishers Weekly FOR NAMING ME AS ONE OF THE MOST PROMISING YA/CHILDRENS DEBUTS!!!! AAAAAAA