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indie bestselling author of DEAR WENDY ( @FeiwelFriends )! wellesley linguistics alum. she/her/她. rep: @marchsoloway . BUY DW:
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DEAR WENDY is out now!!! read the book that alice oseman called "the platonic love story of my dreams," that publishers weekly called "a raw and emotionally resonant debut," and that my sister called "boring" 💜💚
buy:
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i’m sure barely any of you following me care about american girl dolls, but i just found out the 2012 girl of the year coaches the 2024 girl of the year in gymnastics 🥺
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i’ve been feeling a lot of emotions over the past day but this kind of sums it up
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why did blue’s clues acknowledge my identity’s existence before wellesley college health services
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is it not common knowledge that chinese people don't change our last names when we get married? because i have seen TOO MANY works of fiction where an immigrant mom from mainland china is "mrs" something. no she fucking isn't!!
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I’M GOING TO BE PUBLISHED!!!!!
very happy to announce that my debut novel is coming out in 2024!! DEAR WENDY is a love letter to friendship, wellesley college, and the aromantic and asexual communities, and i can't wait for you to meet sophie and jo!
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as an asexual aromantic chinese american, i have been infantilized by the media for my whole life. that’s why, this pride month, i’m partnering with gerber baby products,
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did anyone else not learn to do makeup as a teenager because you had a not like other girls complex, but now you’re in your twenties and have no idea how to even apply lipstick correctly and it’s starting to be a bit of a problem in your personal and professional life
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nobody asked, but here's a thread of things that i have made in my dorm kitchen as a chinese american college student. hopefully this can give a few of you some ideas if you're looking for decently healthy student-friendly meals that aren't just boring white people food!
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uh maybe someone has pointed this out already, but every single author on the young adult nytimes best seller list this week is white. like every single one
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COVER REVEAL!!!!! art by betsy cola, design by julia bianchi!
dear wendy is about two aroace college students who hate each other’s online love advice personas but are actually friends in real life (oops). out 4/16/24!! and you can preorder now!!! see the replies!!!
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fellow authors, i am BEGGING you to black out or blur out your addresses when you do unboxings, please do not post where you live for literally anyone to see 💀
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I GOT AN AGENT!!!!!
this isn't clickbait! i do a lot of those tweets but this is for real; i'm now repped by
@marchsoloway
at
@andreabrownlit
! very very excited to work with jennifer on my aroace college YA book ft. two chronically online teenagers and all their messy friends <3
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i don’t want to get into discourse, but literally block me if you think asexuality is something white people use to “feel oppressed,” or if you think it’s made up, or if you think it doesn’t deserve representation, bc you sure as hell won’t want to read any of my books
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sometimes i worry i'll misrepresent a place by setting a book in a US state i haven't lived in. then i remember how many white authors have set books in asia despite never setting foot there and not knowing any asians. so maybe it's fine if i set a book in connecticut or whatever
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today i saw a YA debut novel priced at $24 for the hardcover,,, publishing can you please explain yourself
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i can't speak for chinese people in hong kong or taiwan or any of southeast asia, but in mainland china, your name is your name for your whole life. of my parents and their friends, NONE of the women ever changed their last names, even after immigrating
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even the ones married to white men kept their chinese last names!!! like!! it's just completely not a thing to change your last name when you get married
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i say this as someone who both creates and consumes romance: we need to let go of the idea that the ultimate goal is romance, both for the sake of aromantic people but also for allos! a thread:
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this was how i found out the justice department is suing penguin random house
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i’m obsessed with how many YA books macmillan has published or will publish that have a taylor swift song title or lyric as their title
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if someone is 2nd, 3rd, etc generation, then yeah maybe they'd change their last name. but that first generation is not going to have two parents with the same last name (unless they happen to by birth because we only have like 200 last names to go around)
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very excited to be working on ✨absolutely nothing✨ for nanowrimo!! this wip has so many things
🧍🏻♀️ nothing
🙅🏻♀️ it doesn’t exist
💀 i’m actually not drafting anything this month lol
so excited to see what comes out of this!!! (hopefully, a well-rested november 😳)
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has EVERYONE been watching 9-1-1 this whole time??? this is embarrassing but i thought it was just one of those random dramas that retired white americans put on in the evening and i’ve paid it no attention whatsoever
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it’s not lost on me that my college friends, who don’t even write and just listen to a lot of my ramblings, know more about the publishing industry than some querying authors because of how information about publishing is so difficult to find
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if you really think about it, every time i add a new scene to my book, i'm just writing fanfiction of my first draft
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DEAR WENDY IS AN INDIE BESTSELLER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!
thank you so so so much to my publishing team and to indie booksellers across the country and to all the readers who bought dear wendy from an independent bookstore, i seriously cannot believe this!!!
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hey guess what the dear wendy cover got a facelift!!!!!!! (jo’s shirt is just a solid color now because legal said we shouldn’t make it seem like we’re advertising wellesley 😭)
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last night i finished reading ACE OF SPADES and i am genuinely convinced it is the best YA thriller that has ever been published??? i picked up this book at the perfect time. no complaints. everybody should read this and really, REALLY think about it
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normalize going through the same character arc as the protagonist of the book you wrote
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it’s not every day you’re perceived by one of your favorite authors 😳 thank you SO SO MUCH to
@AliceOseman
for this absolutely lovely review/blurb for dear wendy!!! and this is super wild but it’s just about 3 months until release!! what is my life!!
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my college application essay was about being an aroace girl who likes romance novels. who's gonna tell 17 year old me that she's going to write a romance book AND an aroace book in the next two years??
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I FINISHED MY SENIOR THESIS!!!!!!!!!!!! IT'S DONE!!!!!! I'M FREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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doesn’t matter how many times i see writers talk about it, i always feel so overwhelmingly happy when the writer of a romance says that it was inspired to some degree by their real life romance
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yes the barnes and noble preorder sale has begun. yes my book is eligible. however!
@wizardbisan
has called for a global strike in support of palestine this week. instead of a preorder shopping spree, might i suggest signing the
#kidlit4ceasefire
letter?
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happy international asexuality day!! today’s a great day to preorder DEAR WENDY, a novel about aroace college students giving anonymous love advice and somehow having beef over it 😳 out in just 10 days!!
preorder:
upcoming events:
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happy pride month! support queer authors of color! support a-spec authors! and have a good day
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book news!!!!!! so excited to share this with y'all <3 this project has been 2 minutes in the making
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i just turned in my first round of revisions to my editor, and a year ago i had just signed with my agent, so yeah i’m feeling a little emotional lol
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i am never going to be 20 and working on my debut novel again.
because i’m 21! lol i still have to work on dear wendy but not today!!! i turned in my edits last night!!! happy birthday to me!!!
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happy ace week to all the aces who forget it’s happening until they see a bunch of tweets about it from people who actually remember important dates!!!
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i watched this movie today and i can proudly say i enjoyed every moment of male objectification and targeting of white people, and actually we should make more of these, i demand a sequel
#JoyRide
is embarrassing. Incredibly unpleasant. Like most modern adult "comedies" it's raunchy simply to be raunchy, forgetting there has to be humor attached, and there's none of that. Objectifies men, targets white people. All shock value, "look at me" attitude.
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a side effect of writing contemporary fiction set at the place i currently am is that everywhere i go, i think about ways this can fit into a story. my main motivation to go out and do things is the potential for book material
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i finally figured out why i think the bachelor and bachelorette always being from previous seasons of the shows is funny, and it’s because it’s fundamentally the same as when a romance author writes a book starring a side character from another book
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sometimes i worry my book will have 0 fans, other days i get recognized in my dorm's common room as "ann zhao, the writer???" by a group of first years
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today i picked up a package from the mail center, and the student worker, seeing that the package had the barnes and noble logo on it, said "this must be a textbook!"
i did not have the heart to explain that actually, it's a romance novel where they're hooking up by page 25 <3
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full jacket for dear wendy!!!!!! can't believe she's already been sent off to the printers 🥲 they grow up so fast!! HUGE HUGE thank you to my amazing cover designer julia bianchi and cover artist
@betsy_cola
for creating this beauty i can't stop staring at it
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i don't want to BeReal, i want to BeGivenASixFigureDealAtAuction
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nobody warned me that even on the whirlwind day that was my book coming out, full of so many friends gathering together to support my debut, after so many congratulations on all my social media, at the end of the day, i would still have to do a duolingo lesson
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okay but did YOUR college newspaper let you announce your book deal via an april fools satire edition review where you absolutely lambast the whole book
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my book is up for request on netgalley!! if you feel like reading about two aroace college students taking their amateur instagram love advice so so seriously, and you can’t wait until april 16, you can request now!! (l*nk in replies)
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@philosophicanna
lfksjdlfkdsjlfk the way i believed that ~quirky~ branding from uchicago wholeheartedly
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@aaronhaceves
this is so true but also when you said AOC i did in fact picture the congresswoman
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thread for
#amquerying
authors of kidlit (YA and under) who want to look up agent deals but don't have money for publishers marketplace!
(this also works to look up editors but i will speak about agents from here on out)
this does NOT work for adult books, sadly
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sometimes you’ve just got to make a tiktok about a book that’s not coming out until next year because you love it so much
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i got my finished copies of my book in the mail 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 and it’s exactly one month before the release date too 💜
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very excited to announce that i am now represented by NOBODY! so happy to continue my writing journey with *someone out there*, who has the perfect vision for my silly little book about gay club presidents with impostor syndrome.
(help i have so many queries out)
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happy international asexuality day!! here’s a gratuitous asexual book rec post
- DEAR WENDY by ann zhao! no idea who that is but you can add her book on goodreads at
that’s it! thanks for tuning in
just kidding, here’s a thread of books i did not write:
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run don’t walk to get dear wendy from the
@BNBuzz
preorder sale!!! now is your chance to get the ebook for a little less or the hardcover with basically free shipping!!! sorry to be one of the 1000 posts you’ve seen about the sale today but you must respect the hustle
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most debut authors are looking forward to seeing their book in stores and being able to sign them and all that, but personally, i am most looking forward to copy edits. i want to see my book’s style sheet. i want to know what style manual feiwel & friends follows. give it to me
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it has been brought to my attention that i have finally made it in a buzzfeed article
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uh. dear wendy went from 346,504 to 474 in b&n's sales rankings between wednesday and today???
thank you so so much to everyone who preordered during the sale!! being within the top 500 of THE ENTIRE STORE is just UNFATHOMABLE to me, i honestly can't believe it. what the hell
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hey, sorry, we put your boyfriend in a publishers marketplace deal memo. yeah he's trapped in there now. he sold in a nice deal for world rights. yeah sorry we couldn't get more for him, the industry's just so hard to break into these days. i'm so sorry
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in my linguistics class today, we watched a documentary on invented languages, and there was this gay couple who invented a language expressed by squeezing each other’s hands in various patterns. and if that isn’t the gayest thing i’ve ever heard
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caught an orange banner on my book’s amazon listing for the first time!!!!!! omg!!!!! this is a very specific category but i’ll take it lol??
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DEAR WENDY, a YA contemporary novel about two aroace college students giving love advice online (and having way too much beef about it), releases on april 16!!
preorder:
preorder campaign form:
events:
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obsessed with this 1812 lesbian being told by a time traveler from 2023 that she deserves to marry for love and then immediately afterwards being told she’d be killed by a mcdonald’s sprite
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the college-student-writerly urge to spend all your classes, homework time, and free time thinking about your book, only to sit down in front of google docs and not be able to get out a single sentence that makes any sense
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make a pot of plain white congee and refrigerate the rest. for the rest of the week you can microwave a bowl and have a meal in 2 mins. i like to add some or all of the following toppings:
- pork floss
- chili bamboo
- century egg
- ginger
- scallion
- fermented tofu
- furikake
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i have finally read a talia hibbert book, and let me just say: i get it. i get the hype. oh my god that book was so much fun. please i am begging you all to pick up highly suspicious and unfairly cite when it comes out next month because holy shit i love it so much
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nbc sitcoms really are the epitome of "i lost my focus and had a consensual workplace relationship"
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✨✨manifesting an offer of rep before june so i don’t have to do pitmad ✨✨
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i literally bring this up like every month but i genuinely think that college-age writers should band together and make an anthology where all the characters are 18-22
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my sister is now using my deadline against me. like i’ll go to her room and she’ll say “ann go away, go work on dear wendy” and you know what? she’s right. but she doesn’t need to say it like that
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cannot think of a better way to celebrate getting my copy of PORTRAIT OF A THIEF than showing it around the davis museum’s stolen chinese artwork (that i definitely do not want to pull a heist to repatriate, not at all, what are you talking about)!
#portraitartchallenge
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dear wendy is going to poland!!! this is my first foreign rights deal and i’m so glad polish readers will have access to my book, also it’s just so cool having my book translated 😭 thank you very very much to my foreign rights agent taryn for helping make this happen!!
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let’s not forget that
#ThisIsWhatAsexualLooksLike
was created by a black woman. yasmin benoit has practically made herself the face of asexuality and yet some people still think it’s a “white people thing”? what happened to intersectionality?
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@katiedimartin
you can't think you're a beth, you need to be told you're a beth and accept that reality
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y’all my best friend from high school drove 6 hours to surprise me at my book event tonight 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
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i'm sure i'm not the first person to point this out, but once jimmy carter dies, the oldest living person to have been president of the united states will be joe biden
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y’all!!!! dear wendy is currently on the 1st page of most requested LGBTQIA+ books and the 2nd page (of MANY PAGES) of most requested teens & YA books 😭 thank you so much for your enthusiasm
(it’s also up on edelweiss… booksellers and librarians you know what to do)
my book is up for request on netgalley!! if you feel like reading about two aroace college students taking their amateur instagram love advice so so seriously, and you can’t wait until april 16, you can request now!! (l*nk in replies)
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i constantly forget not all writers are in their teens / early 20s and then someone will casually mention their spouse or kids?? like oops i don't even know what beer tastes like yet
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in honor of having just watched my friend submit her senior thesis, i would like to say that nothing is more sacred than the bond between an undergrad student and the foundational researcher of their thesis topic that they cited 50 different times
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suddenly i have 14 queries out for my second book????
(college YA feat. two aroace students who give love advice on instagram and bash each other in the comments)
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gorgeous gorgeous girls want to delete all social media and hide forever.
gorgeous gorgeous girls also experience validation from interactions with strangers and have learned to please people by entertaining them.
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i mean i’m even a little unhappy my book is at $19.99 because what normal teenager can afford that, but $24??? that’s adult hardcover price
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i am having a very good day. why, you may ask? well, you see, i am now in possession of a gorgeous gorgeous finished copy of LOVELESS by
@AliceOseman
!!!!!!!! US and canada folks, get yourself a copy as soon as it comes out, this book is literally my entire personality
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the unfortunate thing is that people who believe this really show why we need to see more positive and accurate a-spec rep in media, especially bipoc a-spec rep, because that’s the best way we can debunk these harmful misconceptions
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feeling emo this saturday afternoon knowing there now exist so many books that my 15-year-old self needed. it's amazing how much can change in half a decade!! and i cannot wait to help be a part of that change!!
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hehe dear wendy’s first trade review is a star!!!!! thank you very much for liking my book publishers weekly 🤧 if any of y’all spot a jan 29 print edition floating around please snap a pic of page 66 for me
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