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Award-winning author of THE HENNA WARS, HANI & ISHU, THE DOS & DONUTS OF LOVE. Next: Four Eids and a Funeral | rep: @UwestenderPhD | She/her 🇮🇪🇧🇩🏳️🌈
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IT'S FOUR EIDS AND A FUNERAL DAY
This book is a product of a chaotic trip to Amsterdam, many cups of tea, countless Zoom conversations, 7 years of friendship & an endless supply of morbid humor. We're excited to finally share it with you 💜
Buy now:
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Muting this but if you're looking for some "forced diversity" aka me writing books about characters who look like me, please pre-order my upcoming novel The Dos and Donuts of Love, or grab a copy of my already published books!
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White queer people need to read this and then they need to read it again.
Queers in Palestine released one of the strongest statement I have read.
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If you'd told teen Adiba that one day she'd publish this book about a queer Muslim, Bangladeshi girl falling in love with another girl?? Yeah, she would not have believed you!
BUT IT'S HERE! THE HENNA WARS IS OUT TODAY!
Order your copy here:
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We need to talk about how people keep casting "diverse" actors for white roles in adaptations of books written by white authors, which leads to people wanting to support "representation" while authors of colour who write books with characters of colour get left in the dust.
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Apparently audible are giving free 6 months to members in Israel because of the "tragic events in the middle east" 🥴 time to cancel my audible membership ✌🏼
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This man was handing out "zionism is sexy" stickers and saying that anybody who didn't support Israel is a terrorist, while Palestinian children were being murdered in their thousands. He doesn't get to talk about "compassion." He's complicit in genocide.
Not Noah Schnapp conveniently making an apology video the week Stranger Things return to filming.
You’re not slick. We all know they made you say this. Khia
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Today HANI AND ISHU'S GUIDE TO FAKE DATING is out!!!!
This book has not one, but TWO Bengali girls who get to be messy, complicated, and find their happily ever after with each other.
I'm grateful I get to share their story with the world 💕
Pre-order:
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I have been harrassed both online and offline over YEARS for referring to Gal Gadot as a Zionist & refusing to stand with her. Here's her response to what is happening in Palestine. I am disgusted, not just with her, but with everyone who chose to/still chooses to support her.
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THE DOS AND DONUTS OF LOVE is out today!!!! 🍩🍩🍩
Never thought I'd see a book about a queer fat Bangladeshi girl falling in love on the bookshelves but now here it is 💜
If you've ever wanted a sapphic Great British Bake-Off consider picking up a copy:
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🍩 COVER REVEAL 🍩
When Shireen enters a new televised baking competition, she doesn't expect things to get so messy. I mean, competing with her ex-gf & a new crush? What's a girl to do??
illustration:
@nabihaiderali
design:
@mallorygrigg
Pre-order:
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Not only is JKR a TERF, but her new book is also massively Islamophobic. Add that to her record of repeated racism, fatphobia, and probably more I'm forgetting...why are people insisting they need that new Hogwarts game again?
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A MILLION TO ONE cover reveal!! ⚓
A priceless treasure is onboard the Titanic. Four girls are about to steal it 🔥
Illustrated by
@jackmrhughes
and designed by Corina Lupp!
Out December 13th 2022
Add now on GR:
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Both of these have a bi MC! 🩷💜💙
Honestly, there aren't enough bisexual books with POC
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I'm really glad to see some authors of colour speaking up about their experiences with audiobooks because one thing I *always* get pushback on from readers is that the narrator for The Henna Wars doesn't have an Irish accent, and it frustrates me to no end.
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It's so wild to think that by June of this year I'll have four whole books published 🥺
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#PublishingPaidMe
8k for THE HENNA WARS + 8k for book 2
I'm queer, Muslim, and South Asian.
My books are both sapphic romcoms starring qpoc, set in Ireland.
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@XiranJayZhao
Maybe try changing it up to coloniser Portuguese. I'm sure they'd appreciate that!
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Hi
#ArtMubarak
! 🥰 I'm a Bangladeshi-Irish Muslim author who writes about queer Bengali and Muslim girls who get their happily ever after!
Hani and Ishu:
The Henna Wars:
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Authors of colour are often review bombed on Goodreads, simply for speaking up for themselves and calling out the abusive and often racist behaviours of others in this industry. Most recently, this happened to Rin Chupeco. Goodreads hasn't taken any action in these situations.
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I don't understand people who read YA and then give it a bad rating because it was...too YA??? Like...um...yes?? YA is, in fact, YA.
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I'm so excited that so many people are excited about THE HENNA WARS!
The elevator pitch is: two teens girls with rival henna businesses fall in love!
All pre-order links (hardcover, ebook & audio) are available here:
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How evil do you have to be to refuse humanitarian aid at a time like this? Even if we believe every single lie we're being fed that Israel is bombing because of Hamas, that the hospital was bombed by Hamas...you would *still* be evil to deny aid to Gaza civilians.
US vetoes Security Council resolution that would have called for “humanitarian pauses” to deliver lifesaving aid to millions in Gaza
Favor: 12 (Albania, Brazil, China, Ecuador, France, Gabon, Ghana, Japan, Malta, Mozambique, Switzerland,UAE)
Against: 1 (US)
Abstain: 2 Russia, UK
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This false idea that nobody understands what is happening in Palestine, that we cannot fathom the "complicated history" between Israel and Palestine is routinely used to silence those who use their voice to speak up for Palestine.
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I'm so excited for everyone to board the Titanic with these four amazing girls, on the adventure of a lifetime filled with a high-stakes heist, a sapphic romance, and so much more!
Look out for A MILLION TO ONE Spring '22 ⚓
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I'm so tired of BIPOC, and specifically women and/or femmes of colour, speaking about valid things unapologetically and with clarity, and immediately being called "aggressive," and seen as attacking people.
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Just realised I reached 15k followers here...so how about a giveaway to celebrate? 🥰
Win a signed + personalised hardcover of HANI AND ISHU'S GUIDE TO FAKE DATING!
F + RT to enter
Ends 26th June
Open Internationally!
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The fact that these journalists are putting their lives at risk to report from Gaza, while privileged westerners want to talk about how they can't share anything about Palestine because things are too confusing and complicated.
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✨4 MONTHS UNTIL HANI AND ISHU'S GUIDE TO FAKE DATING ✨
If you want:
🌈 a sapphic romance
💞 fake dating
🇧🇩🇮🇳 queer South Asians
☔ romantic scenes in the rain
✨ and much, much more...
pre-order HANI AND ISHU'S GUIDE TO FAKE DATING:
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I really feel like this pandemic has shown me how many people just don't care about the well-being of others. There are so many people that I will never have respect for again because of their disregard for human life at this time.
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"power of women" and it's celebrating a zionist Islamophobe who supports a genocide and occupation where women continue to be brutally raped. White feminism in a nutshell.
Amy Schumer for Variety's Power of Women, photographed by Victoria Stevens
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🌸INTERNATIONAL GIVEAWAY🌸
I'm giving away a signed + personalised hardback of HANI AND ISHU'S GUIDE TO FAKE DATING!
To enter:
💗 RT this tweet
💙 Follow me
💗 Reply with any emoji 💁🏽♀️
Ends 29th May! 🙌🏽
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Just got the first sales report for HANI AND ISHU'S GUIDE TO FAKE DATING...and yeah, it earned out and sold more than double the copies The Henna Wars had by this time. I'm honestly just kind of...in awe??? Thank you so much to everyone who has been supporting this book and me 🥺
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🌈PRIDE MONTH GIVEAWAY🌈
You can win:
🏳️🌈 Signed UK paperback of HANI AND ISHU'S GUIDE TO FAKE DATING + THE HENNA WARS
🏳️🌈 3 bookmarks
🏳️🌈 2 art prints
🏳️🌈 1 pride button
To enter:
💙 Follow + RT
💗 Reply with an LGBTQ+ book you love
🌈Ends 14th June
🌈 Open internationally
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JK Rowling continues to be a huge ass racist mess but somehow people are using Nagini (a snake named in HINDI) being an East-Asian woman who is a submissive pet to the most evil white man in the universe to complain about the lack of LGBTQ+ rep in Harry Potter.
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✨ birthday giveaway! ✨
It's my birthday so I'm giving away 2 signed and personalised copies of The Henna Wars to celebrate! 🥳🥳
To enter: follow me + ❤️ & rt this tweet
The giveaway will end on the 19th of January, and it's open internationally!
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Ready to learn more about my next sapphic YA novel, RANI CHOUDHURY MUST DIE? 👀
Meet Meghna (right) and Rani (middle and left) ex best friends turned academic rivals turned...partners in STEM?
Add to GR:
Illustration:
@summersnowqueen
(not cover)!
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"Stop cancelling authors!!!"
The cancellation in question:
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✨COVER REVEAL✨
I am so excited to share the STUNNING UK cover for HANI AND ISHU'S GUIDE TO FAKE DATING, out May 27th!!!!
You can pre-order it now:
Illustrator:
@ab_varaham
Designer: Bhavini Jolapara
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💡COVER REVEAL💡
Look at the gorgeous US cover of RANI CHOUDHURY MUST DIE!
Meghna and Rani (ex-best-friends-turned-rivals) realize they're dating the same guy, and team up to beat & expose him at a science competition!
Pre-order:
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DONUT FALL IN LOVE (aka
#donutbook
is coming)!!!
If you love donuts, sapphics, puns, and the Great British Bake-Off, this is the book for you!
Watch out for it in Spring 2023! 🍩🍩🍩
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HANI AND ISHU'S GUIDE TO FAKE DATING is out in just 7!!! Weeks!!!
If you want a book with:
🇧🇩 A bi Bangladeshi-Bengali Muslim MC
🇮🇳 A queer Indian-Bengali MC
😩 Mutual pining
🛏️ The one bed trope
🌧️ Romance in the rain
✨ And more...
Pre-order now:
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Anybody peddling this idea of social media being "angry tweeting" just wants to make excuses for being a coward. Palestinians are using social media to share what's happening to them right now because international news outlets have been full of Israeli propaganda.
4. Social media isn't direct action
Angry tweeting may feel like you're helping, but you're not really. It's noise and a distraction. Those who are quiet may be helping a cause with money or direct help. Those who shout the loudest may only be doing it for clicks. You don't know.
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I always see a lot of people talking about sensitivity readers as a solution every time a book with harmful representation is called out.
I disagree. Sensitivity reads are a band-aid. Not because of the work sensitivity readers do but because of how publishers use them. 🧵
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✨ GIVEAWAY ✨
Win a signed ARC of HANI AND ISHU'S GUIDE TO FAKE DATING!
To enter:
💙 F + RT
💗 Reply with any emoji 🌈
💙 Open int'l (may be some delays due to covid)
💗 Ends April 9th
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Talk to me again about how content warnings don't get weaponised against POC.
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✨ ANNOUNCEMENT ✨
I'm excited to share the title and release date of my next book: HANI AND ISHU'S GUIDE TO FAKE DATING is coming from
@PageStreetKids
May 25, 2021!
Add it on Goodreads:
This beautiful illustration of the two MCs is by
@cherryandsister
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A MILLION TO ONE is out today in the UK and Ireland!!!
If you want a book that's a sapphic heist on the Titanic, this might be for you!!
So excited to be sharing this book with everyone! 🥰
Get your copy here:
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It's here!!! Check out the cover of THE HENNA WARS, along with an excerpt!!
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Nothing shows me the privilege and utter disconnect of global north authors than when the piracy discussion crops up and they all cry "libraries!!!" as if every person in the world has free and easy access to libraries.
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IT'S HERE 🎉🎉
Check out the cover of HANI AND ISHU'S GUIDE TO FAKE DATING, along with an exclusive excerpt of the first chapter!
Illustrated by the very talented
@ab_varaham
Pre-order here:
Want to read the first chapter of HANI AND ISHU'S GUIDE TO FAKE DATING by
@adiba_j
? We're thrilled to reveal the cover and give you a sneak peek of the book, which comes out in May 2021 from
@PageStreetKids
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I've seen white queer people use this very rhetoric as a sledgehammer to "criticise" books by BIPOC, as if they cannot exist and be important and revolutionary if they don't include queer characters. This is a reductive take on many fronts.
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Pride month is almost upon us so here's your reminder to support QPOC books!!! Here are a few 2023 books featuring QPOC that I have loved OR I'm very very excited to read!
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YES LOOK AT ALL THE 2021 FAKE DATING EXCELLENCE!
LATINX FAKE DATING? ✅
SAPPHIC FAKE DATING? ✅
ASIAN FAKE DATING? ✅
SPORTY SAPPHICS FAKE DATING? ✅
QTBIPOC FAKE DATING? ✅
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I am begging - BEGGING - people to do the absolute bare minimum of research when speaking about me and my books.
Ireland =/= Britain/the UK
Bangladesh =/= India
All of this is literally spelled out very very clearly in my books *and* in how I speak about myself.
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Nothing makes me cringe more than seeing people refer to the characters in The Henna Wars and me as "Indian."
I know when people see the term "Bengali," they want to default to Indian Bengali. Most people don't know very much about Bangladesh at all.
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🍩 GIVEAWAY!
THE DOS AND DONUTS OF LOVE is out in just 4 months!
I'm so excited to be sharing this sapphic great british Bake-Off story with everyone soon, so I'm giving away 1 pre-order of the US hardcover!
🍩 To enter: F + RT
🍩 ends 13th Feb
🍩 Open int'l where TBD ships
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I'm seeing A LOT of write writers respond to the guardian article about how children's books are 8 times more likely to feature animal characters than BAME characters...by saying how *they* are going to write characters of colour.
So, I just have to ask, wtf is wrong with you?
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I couldn't be more excited to share the news that THE HENNA WARS is going to be published by
@PageStreetKids
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Genocides wipe out culture. They destroy institutions of education and kill artists and writers so that they may never flourish again. And these same genociders call the oppressed savages, backwards, uneducated while deliberately taking away the tools of enlightenment.
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Announcement time! 🚨
@faridahlikestea
and I wrote a book together! FOUR EIDS AND A FUNERAL is about two snarky muslim teens who fall out of dislike and in love over the course of several eids and a funeral.
Coming in spring 2024!
Add to goodreads:
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Hani from Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating, and Meghna from Rani Choudhury Must Die are both bi!
For pride month, can I ask authors to be loud about their books with bisexual main characters? 👀👀🩷💜💙
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🌸 GIVEAWAY 🌸
You can win:
🌸 2 signed & personalised US paperbacks of The Henna Wars
🌸 An art print illustrated by Paola Garrido
To enter:
🌸 Follow me
🌸 RT + ❤️ this tweet
Giveaway closes on Sunday 28th August, and is open internationally!
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ATLA is literally just about this 12-year-old boy who wants to do fun things like penguin sledding, but he can't because he has to save the world!!! How is that story ever going to translate to "dark and gritty???"
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Thank you so much for all the cover love yesterday!!
Here's a closer look at the UK cover for HANI AND ISHU'S GUIDE TO FAKE DATING! 🥰
👩❤️👩 Fake dating
👭🏽 Sapphic romance
🇧🇩🇮🇳 South Asian queer MCs
✨ And more...
Pre-order HANI AND ISHU now:
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To celebrate THE HENNA WARS earning out and getting my first bit of royalties (6 weeks after publication 😳) I got myself this!! 🥰
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Birthday girl, just had her first ever book launch girl, outfit matches the cupcake girl! 🥰
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It's kind of wild to have written a book where one MC is out to her parents and comes out to her friends, and the other MC makes the conscious choice to not come out to her parents... and then get tagged in reviews invalidating the latter's story for not coming out.
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A MILLION TO ONE IS OUT TODAY! ⚓
If a sapphic heist on the Titanic sounds interesting, this book is for you!
Unfortunately, I still don't have my copies so enjoy my Canva edited photos! I *do* have this amazing cake though!
Get your copy here:
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Um, so The Irish Independent selected me as one of 2021's Ones To Watch and I'm 😳😳😳😳
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In other news, I just found out that Hani and Ishu is going into reprints in the UK...it hasn't even been out for a full week 😭😭😭
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Christy Daughtery thinks POC should "write their own stories" because the struggle of authors of colour is apparently just soooo boring.
This is not even coded racism. It's just shameless racism.
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Took these photos a year ago today to celebrate The Henna Wars being out in the world. Can't believe it's already been a whole year, but happy anniversary to this book, and to all the amazing readers who have supported it 💕
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Happy pride!!! 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
If you're looking for some sapphic books to read this month, consider picking up mine! 👀👀
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Imagine spending your launch day being rude to reviewers who DARED rate your book anything less than 5 stars instead of like...idk?? Enjoying your launch day??
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Anyway, screw the discourse because my US copies of The Dos and Donuts of Love are here ahhh!!!!!
Why are they so beautiful and why is this the happiest I've ever been to hold finished copies of my books?! 😭😭😭
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✨ PRE-ORDER CAMPAIGN COUNTDOWN ✨
If you pre-order HANI AND ISHU'S GUIDE TO FAKE DATING, there are a couple of goodies you can receive, and I'm excited to reveal an amazing illustration today!
🌸 An art print of Hani and Ishu illustrated by
@by_10ia
🌸
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I just want to say that the only person you ever *have* to come out to is yourself. And that's because you deserve to love, accept, and celebrate yourself fully for who you are.
Everybody else, be they family, friends, whatever, is optional.
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What if we had an open world Avatar: The Last Airbender game??
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Eid Mubarak everyone!!!
It's sad but my only motivation for changing into new clothes and putting on some make-up was getting to take photos of myself with both US and UK covers of HANI AND ISHU'S GUIDE TO FAKE DATING 😪
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It's the one year anniversary of Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating!!! 🌸
It feels so strange to think an entire year has gone by since this book first came out into the world. In this one year, so many wonderful things have happened.
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Israel has now bombed hospitals, refugee camps, and schools, and our world leaders are still acting like this is in any way justifiable.
BREAKING: At least 20 killed at school being used as shelter in Gaza, UN says
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I don't want to inundate you all with tweets about my book but...
For my birthday,
@faridahlikestea
commissioned this amazing picture of Nishat and Flávia from The Henna Wars and I can't get over how perfect it is! 😭❤️
The artist is
@caiteedid
! 💜
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Prepare for exactly one million photos of me and my book!!!! 🙌🏽
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the book || the author behind the book
hi writers! please QRT and show me
the book || the author behind the book
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Here's a thread of great books by Asian authors (according to me). Both Adult and YA.
1) Ash by Malinda Lo
Queer Cinderella retelling
Read it when I was a teen and it was one of the first books with f/f I read
Also one of the first books by a QPOC I read. Seriously needed it
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Umm??? THE HENNA WARS is one of
@TIME
's best 100 YA books of all time?!?!
Perhaps no category of literature is more impactful than YA. These are the books introduced to us at a pivotal point in our lives: when our grasp on the world is changing just as we begin to claim a place in it.
Here are the 100 best YA books of all time
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Happy Pride Month!! 🌈
Now might be the perfect time to pick up HANI AND ISHU'S GUIDE TO FAKE DATING. This book has:
👭🏾 Sapphic romance
🇧🇩🇮🇳 Bengali MCs
🇮🇪 Irish setting
☔ Romantic scenes in the rain
🛏️ One bed trope
✨ And more
Pick up your copy:
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I really have no prayers to offer non-Muslims who write about jinns...enjoy what's coming to you 😌
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The way this group of authors just instantly lost every ounce of my respect. Anyway...
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A queer person dying =/= the bury your gays trope
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I am so thrilled to announce that I am now represented by
@UweStenderPhD
at
@triadaus
!!! I am beyond excited to work with him to bring my queer girls of colour out into the world!!
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🌸 GIVEAWAY 🌸
It's one month to HANI AND ISHU'S GUIDE TO FAKE DATING! So I'm giving away a pre-order of Hani and Ishu + a pre-order of ACE OF SPADES by Faridah Àbiké-Íyimidé
To enter:
🌸 Follow me +
@faridahlikestea
🌸 Reply with any emoji 🤷🏽♀️
✨ Open int'l
✨ Ends 4th May
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