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@penguinrandom author of MAY THE BEST PLAYER WIN, VALLEY VERIFIED, THE FRAUD SQUAD—on sale at link ⬇️ | Ftd. in Vogue, Forbes, GMA, CBS, NBC, Tatler✨ Agent: CAA
San Francisco, CA
Joined September 2020
A book that I worked on for 4 (!) years comes out today😭 This is a family-friendly version of ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ 👑♟️A tale about not letting other people’s opinion nor your own doubts hold you back Now out wherever books are sold: I hope you enjoy💗
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super late to sharing this, but Lunar New Year feels like the perfect time to post my first-ever Chinese interview! Huge thanks to @nuyousingapore for the profile—now my non-English-speaking relatives can get a glimpse of what I’ve been up to😜
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Behind the scenes of writing my historical fiction novel set in 1940s San Francisco Chinatown：
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Very honored to be profiled in @ChessAndBridge and share about MAY THE BEST PLAYER WIN with the UK audience!!😊💛
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Received the sweetest email from a reader today, who said MAY THE BEST PLAYER WIN is the first English novel she’s read outside of school!! 😭💛
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Once in a blue moon, I wear all black 🖤🎩🌚
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I love when friends send me photos of themselves with my books!!☺️
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@ChessBase wrote a lovely review of MAY THE BEST PLAYER WIN!!! ☺️💗💗 I grew up getting all my chess news from Chessbase, so it’s such a full-circle moment to see my book and myself on their platform🥹 Full review:
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I’m speechless😭😭 @USChess made MAY THE BEST PLAYER WIN the cover story for their children’s magazine. How is this real??? I’m so grateful to the US Chess Federation for sharing my book with kids around the country. This is beyond anything I could have ever imagined.🥹
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My second book just turned 1️⃣!! Happy birthday to VALLEY VERIFIED, the joy it has brought me, and all the people it has introduced me to💗🎉☺️ This book is like a time capsule. I’ve come a long way from the Kyla in 2021 who wrote this book during a time of immense self-doubt🥹
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This day two years ago, my first book THE FRAUD SQUAD came out… :) The start of my journey as a published author, now getting ready to release my 4th book!
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✨Latest newsletter is OUT! I share about drafting a new novel in 3 weeks + my new year resolutions on becoming more cultured… 👀 Link in the image below 👇 🔗
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I’m beyond honored to have my book ‘May the Best Player Win’ be nominated by @chesscom for ✨Book of the Year✨!!! :)
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This is the cutest thing I have ever seen!! A reader did a school project on my book ‘May the Best Player Win’ AND made a puppet of my main character?!!😭💗💗 It’s truly moments like this that make me so grateful I get to write stories :’)
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This is the cutest thing I have ever seen!! A reader did a school project on my book ‘May the Best Player Win’ AND made a puppet of my main character?!!😭💗💗 It’s truly moments like this that make me so grateful I get to write stories :’)
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