📚Bestselling author. DRAGON REALM🐉,SAM WU👻, SPACE BLASTERS🚀w/
@kevtsang
. TWIN CROWNS 👑👑 w/
@doyle_cat
, plus THE REVELRY✨and more. Not on here very often.
Some end of year joy—my baby girl who was born 10 days early and was just 6 pounds and only in 9th percentile for weight is now over 10 pounds and in 25th percentile💪🥰
JKR says women are angry and you know what, I’m angry I keep having to defend trans rights over and over again PLEASE LET TRANS MEN AND WOMEN LIVE IN PEACE so we can all use our collective energy on other things that need attention.
Some personal news!
@kevtsang
and I have a new joint project coming…our second baby girl is due in November and we are so excited for her to join our family💕
The ongoing attention this whole Kate Clanchy thing is getting makes me feel like loads of us are being gaslit.She was not cancelled FFS. She came on Twitter and complained about goodreads (don’t go on goodreads as an author) then lied and said people were misquoting her book
.
@kevtsang
and I dressed up as trains with our friends for Halloween, and it seemed like the perfect opportunity to announce that we have a baby on board! 💕Baby Girl Tsang due to arrive April 2019💕We’re so excited to embark on this new journey!
#nextstopbabytown
Introducing Evie Tsang 😍 She was born the morning of April 30th and is a happy healthy baby.
@kevtsang
and I are so grateful and are wildly in love with her ❤️
It is extra nice to have good news today, as it’s exactly a year since I found out I was having a miscarriage at 11 weeks, after seeing the heartbeat a few weeks prior. So feel a bit funny. I’m very grateful to be pregnant again, but it’s still a loss.And always will be for me💛
33 today. And I’m starting it the way I want the year to go. Woke up early to write some new words. Tidied the flat last night so the day is peaceful and tidy and productive. Going to eat lots of delicious food and think about all the good things still to come💛
Here is the gorgeous cover for ONLY LOVE CAN BREAK YOUR HEART💜 Wonderful
@WalkerBooksYA
made me a cover mock-up to show the sparkly foil stars✨ I hope you guys love it as much as I do!
I keep seeing tweets with advice to debut authors and honestly the best thing to remember is that you are not your book. Be proud of writing it but remember you are a complex, wonderful human and your book is just a book. Judgement of your book is not judgement of you.
Book Looks featuring the glorious red and gold foiled DRAGON MOUNTAIN proof! I can’t believe this is the proof copy and not finished copy because it is SO beautiful😍 Going out to UK booksellers, media, and bloggers this week✨
Books are a great way to create change in the world and increase empathy—in adults, teens, and kids. Here are just a few YA and children’s books by Black authors that I highly recommend. Something in here for every reader.
#BlackLivesMatter
Excited to announce the title of my next YA novel - out this August in the UK with
@WalkerBooksUK
and early 2019 in the US with
@DelacortePress
! It’s a contemporary set in Palm Springs and the title is...
I remember when I first heard that JK Rowling came up with idea for Harry Potter on a train I thought “Ohhh a train! How cool and glamorous!” Now I live in UK and spend half my life on trains and am like OF COURSE SHE WAS ON A TRAIN.
Sharing book deal news is super fun and exciting, and I am extra appreciative because it took me years to get to this stage in my career. I queried 3 books and had over 150 rejections before landing my dream agent and selling my first novel. So don’t give up, and keep writing!
💛Two beach photos, ten years apart💚Thailand 2012 and Maui 2022❤️In between— a move from Hong Kong to London, a wedding, two babies, and over a dozen books published together. Also now we wear more sunscreen and get way less sleep☀️
First breaths to first steps❤️
@kevtsang
took both photos—the first is seconds after our baby was born, the other is last week as she took her first few steps. I’ll never forget the joy I felt when she arrived. And we’ve had so much joy since then. Happy 1st birthday baby girl!
I have to admit that child me would have been over-the-moon to be on a shortlist with JKR (and to actually be a published author tbh) but as she’s recently come out as someone who actively campaigns against trans rights, well, adult me now just hopes our dragons beat her book😏
WHERE LEGENDS ARE BORN. WHERE HEROES ARE MADE🔥Behold the glorious UK cover for DRAGON MOUNTAIN, illustrated by incredible
@peturantonsson
🐉🔥🐲 We can’t wait for the world to meet our dragons and the kids who discover them. You can pre-order now!
Gutted to miss the
@yabookprize
event at Hay this week, but the tiny adorable dictator who currently rules my life decreed I had to stay home and take care of her. So honoured to be on such a brilliant shortlist though!
#YA10
I am SO MAD about that journalist’s casual cruelty in saying that “we” (I assume she means white people) secretly enjoy racist comments about “slitty eyes”. An awful thing to say at any time BUT ESPECIALLY DURING A RISE OF HATE CRIMES AGAINST ASIAN PEOPLE. Like what the hell?!?
👑👑👑THREE EXCLUSIVE ARCS OF TWIN CROWNS👑👑👑For a chance to win both the Rose&Wren UK proofs *AND* the US proof, RT and follow both me and
@doyle_cat
✨ Open internationally, ends on 12/21/21
Spending the afternoon in a sunny spot by the window, snuggling my baby, eating chocolate, and reading an early copy of one of the biggest books of 2022. Bliss. ☀️📚❤️
Absolutely thrilled that DRAGON MOUNTAIN has hit the UK Children’s Chart and is a top 10 bestseller! Our dragons are bestselling dragons! What a dream. Huge thank you to everyone who has bought the book, all the amazing booksellers, and the incredible team at
@simonkids_UK
🐉
Happy book birthday to my 2nd YA novel
#OnlyLoveCanBreakYourHeart
! It’s set in the Palm Springs desert and features moonlit adventures,sunlit moments,picnics in giant dinosaurs,a girl with secrets and a boy who thinks she’s perfect. It’s about love,family,and finding yourself🌵💜
I mean this very sincerely but if you are not a trans man or trans woman why are you obsessed with what transgender people are doing? Let them live! Safely! With healthcare! IT DOES NOT IMPACT CIS PEOPLE. If anything it makes for a safer, more tolerant world for us all.
Today was the kind of day that I dreamed about when I imagined being an author. Wrote all morning. Saw my book on the UK bestseller list.Had lunch with my amazing editors and agent. Signed books in the afternoon. Now I’m settling in for an evening writing session. Feel very lucky
Behold the gorgeous finished copy of ONLY LOVE CAN BREAK YOUR HEART! Look at those sparkly stars✨And that spine 😍 Design by Margaret Hope at
@WalkerBooksUK
Are you ready to go to THE REVELRY?🖤✨💖Thrilled to share the stunning UK cover for THE REVELRY, designed by
@MaiaFjord
and illustrated by Leo Nickolls. I am obsessed with it! Publishing Jan 6th in UK— pre-order links here
#RevelryBook
🖤✨💖
Hooray hooray DRAGON MOUNTAIN is officially published today🎉🐉🎉 Our dragons are soaring into bookshops across the UK, Ireland, and Australia! Can’t wait for you to meet them🐉✨🐉
My baby girl just turned 7 months old— I finally sort of feel like I’m getting the hang of parenthood. And I’m happier (and more exhausted) than I’ve ever been💕
THE QUEENS HAVE ARRIVED😍👑👑😍 Behold the
@Waterstones
special sprayed edge editions of CURSED CROWNS✨✨ Rose is already sold out but if you are quick you can catch Wren before she’s gone!
Cheesy appreciation tweet for
@kevtsang
who has a super intense day job but leads on housework/cooking/taking care of our toddler and a pregnant me,spends his evenings/weekends working on our books, reads all my YA and is my biggest champion. Plus is cheerful *and* handsome😍
When the world continues to be a horror show and you are a writer with bills to pay so are still like “hello can I interest you in a book about dragons? Perhaps a YA romance?”
This was my exciting bookish news that I was waiting to share! The US cover and publication details for ONLY LOVE CAN BREAK YOUR HEART! I'm so excited for US readers to meet Reiko and so thrilled to be published by
@Scholastic
@ireadya
. And isn't the cover stunning?
👑👑 TWIN CROWNS is officially a trilogy!! TWIN CROWNS 3 is coming May 2024🎉🎉🎉 We are so happy we can give Wren and Rose the epic finale they deserve. Title to be revealed but we would love to know what you think it is👀
It’s my first official Mother’s Day as a mom and *my* mom is here so it’s really special.I’m so grateful for my mom& all the mother figures in my life, and that I get to be a mom to my little rainbow baby Evie, who totally has my chubby cheeks💕Everything else is all
@kevtsang
😍
✨Presenting the gorgeous, glorious cover for DRAGON LEGEND✨When destiny calls, heroes take flight🐉The 2nd book in the Dragon Realm series is coming March 2021🐉Huge thank you to incredible illustrator
@peturantonsson
and dream team at
@simonkids_UK
for a truly legendary cover!
So leaving my baby with her grandparents during the day while I do book events at schools this week has been hard but coming back to her at the end of the day is the BEST 😍❤️😍
Mine and
@kevtsang
’s brand: devoted parents and wholesome children’s book authors who write dragon adventure stories and funny books about facing fears.
Also us: clubbing in Hong Kong in 2008 in truly ridiculous outfits
My proof of IRON WIDOW is here and she is stunning😍I am so absurdly excited to read
@XiranJayZhao
’s debut! Thank you
@Rocktheboatnews
! This is one of my most anticipated books of the year🔥
✨This January, your presence is requested at THE REVELRY✨Absolutely thrilled to share the title and U.K. publication date for my next solo YA, published by
@WalkerBooksYA
. Curious about the Revelry? Here is a sneak peek but remember the Revelry rules…
Today I announced a new book and officially became a first time homeowner 🙌 A very good day. All wildly exciting and wonderful and I feel incredibly fortunate, but wow am I exhausted. Time to sleep. Tomorrow is moving day!
What could be better than the special scaled sprayed edge edition of DRAGON MOUNTAIN? Also having a special scaled sprayed edge edition of DRAGON LEGEND, the 2nd book in the series✨These beauties are limited so pre-order your copy from
@Waterstones
now!
I had a bit of a wobble this evening (all is fine, just one of those days!) and took off my glasses to have a small overwhelmed cry and my toddler patted my arm and then said “Mama, put your glasses ON!” which made me laugh and also feel better.
Today is mine and
@kevtsang
’s five year wedding anniversary. He is my partner in every way—in marriage,in parenting,in authoring❤️We had a joyful day celebrating in the sunshine with our daughter and tonight we are finishing a draft of our next book.And then we celebrate more🎉
This is not about censorship or a person being cancelled. It is about a teacher writing a book with problematic depictions of REAL CHILDREN and being called out for it, and being in denial.
🔥Exciting DRAGON MOUNTAIN news!
@Waterstones
is doing a stunning special edition with scaled sprayed edges🔥This gorgeous edition is only available via Waterstones and you can pre-order now!
I'm struggling to finish a draft of a new thing, so my mom gave me this tiny turtle charm to inspire me to keep going, and to remind me that slow progress is better than no progress 🐢
#amwriting
Happy World Book Day! I couldn’t resist dressing my baby up as one of her favorite book characters— the red dragon from That’s Not My Dragon! We love the whole That’s Not My series from
@Usborne
🐲📚❤️
#WorldBookDay
Ahhhh today
@kevtsang
and I found out that DRAGON LEGEND is officially a bestseller!! So grateful for the amazing team at
@simonkids_UK
supporting the series, to the booksellers who championed it, and to all the readers who wanted to continue the adventure with us! 🐉🎉🐉🎉🐉
Oh my days! Huge congratulations to
@kwebberwrites
and
@kevtsang
for making the overall children's top 10 bestseller lists in their first week on sale with Dragon Legend. There were absolute squeals and whoops of delight in team dragons today weren't there
@racheldenden
Took 20 min of convincing my toddler to get in the bath, lots of defiant screaming that she did NOT WANT TO GET IN THE BATH NO NO NO, and now she is refusing to get out and wants to STAY IN THE BATH STAY IN!! Two year olds are equally hilarious and exhausting😅
So excited that the news is out!
@kevtsang
and I have a
@WorldBookDayUK
book out in 2023 and we can’t wait for readers to join us for a brand new DRAGON REALM ADVENTURE! 🐉🔥🐉
With dangerous magical creatures and threats lurking round every corner, our second book for fluent readers is perfect for fans of fantasy adventure books with A Dragon Realm Adventure by
@kwebberwrites
and
@kevtsang
. 🐉✨
It’s officially 2018 which means I have THREE books out this year! First two books in the SAM WU IS NOT AFRAID series (illustrated middle grade) in Feb and July and then my next YA is out in August 🎉
This is a great opportunity! But costs £25 to enter which I know might be a deterrent to some. So I would like to sponsor a writer from a marginalised background who wants to enter. Pitch me your book and I’ll pick my fav and pay their entry fee for
@Mslexia
’s novel competition
This year,
@kdbrundell
is judging our Children's Novel Competition! Entry is open to women worldwide. Submit the first 5,000 words of your completed, unpublished novel for children or YA readers to be in with a chance to win £5000! Click to learn more: