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Author of BLACK SALT QUEEN (June 2025, @bindery_books) | Writing wrathful girls in imagined worlds | πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸ‡΅πŸ‡­ in πŸ‡«πŸ‡· | she/her | rep: @ChelseaBigBang

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Joined February 2012
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Ahh it's happening! I'm going to be a published author! Can't wait to share the book of my heart with the world πŸ₯°
The girls are fighting! Congratulations to @sam_bansil on her forthcoming debut novel, a gorgeous gorgeous GORGEOUS Filipino fantasy, out next summer!
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Samantha Bansil 🐝 retweeted
7.02.24 - i'm officially a published author✨ i wrote MASQUERADE as a student during the pandemic. i was stuck in a tiny dorm room, writing all day. for so long, this story was mine alone. but today, my Medieval West African retelling is out in the world. i hope you enjoy.
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Breaking my Twitter hiatus to say I have a super hot villain/love interest in my Filipino-inspired fantasy coming out next year and I'd lowkey LOSE MY MIND if Manny Jacinto played him
Can someone please cast him as a dark villain in a romantasy adaptation, because I don’t have it in me to sit through Star Wars just for this
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Samantha Bansil 🐝 retweeted
bid to win 30 mins to talk publishing with meeeee! I've got time and so do a lot of other people in @litagtsofchange's 2024 auction givebutter.com/c/MsVK8X/auct…
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More prompts please πŸŒ·πŸŒ™
Hey authors you should introduce yourselves with this moodboard prompt πŸ«€βœ¨οΈ
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What do you mean I can't get paid to write, look hot, and get 9h of sleep every night?
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Basically it's Draft Girl Summer which means time to get back on Twitter and wail into the void
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My brand 😩 5 things you find in my books / 5 writers πŸ₯˜ food descriptions πŸ‘— dress descriptions 🏰 pretty settings πŸ’” complicated relationships 🌢 a healthy dose of spice @/raft for those who wishπŸš£β€β™€οΈ @CaseyColaine @shay_zykova @OOSangoyomi @amandaghelms @AMKvita
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I'm so excited for this 😍
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I can't wait for this to destroy me 😭πŸ”₯
delighted to announce that MASQUERADE, my medieval West African retelling of Hades and a villainous Persephone, will be published in 2024 by @forgereads/@macmillanusa! (art: @vxctorvale)
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Felt this poem viscerally. "Remember how you'd write and write, like if you didn't write you would just die. Like if anyone ever read what you wrote, you would just die." From Letters to a Young Brown Girl by Barbara Jane Reyes
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Dropped everything and ran to Canva πŸ‡΅πŸ‡­πŸŒ©οΈπŸ‘‘ #WIPtree
What if we made family trees for our WIPs of the books/shows/games/music that either inspired it or relate to it? And we tagged them as #WIPtree? And what if I already made one for Vesuvius? What then?
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Every few months I get the urge to start a food & travel vlog channel for which I do not the bandwidth. Next time this happens someone please scold me and tell me to write my books
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Hi friends πŸ‚ For #FinishUrBookFall I hope to finish: 🌩 Revising my adult Filipino fantasy ✨ Draft 1 of my historical fantasy set in Paris (so far 22k/?)
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It's #finishurbookfall and so far I spent more time making this aesthetic than writing but that's okay I'll be switching back to my Filipino fantasy revisions soon. In the meantime, I'm basking in the sweet, sultry vibes of my Paris historical fantasy WIP πŸ’‹
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