LEGENDBORN X THIS PLACE IS STILL BEAUTIFUL

Little Red Riding Hood but…
🌸her mother is in a coma
🍂the sentient forest is her only hope
🦊dangerous kitsune dwell in the woods
🐺but her wolf is much closer to home

#YA #Retelling #Asian #WOC #CI #predv

#preDV #F #A #BVM #WOC

Trapped in a magical slave trade, Jaara must use her gift to feel the world to find something for the king, but when she also strikes a deal with his rival, she's unsure which ruler to trust, especially with the king's favorite watching her every move.

How does an interracial Regency couple make a statement to all of society that they’re here to stay? By throwing a ball honoring their Scottish and Indian heritage, of course. Hopefully scheming family members and pesky feelings stay out of it…
#HR #SouthAsian #WOC #preDV #OWN

With her father’s husband-picking abilities not to be trusted, an Anglo-Indian woman must take fate into her own hands and propose to a Scottish earl, desperate for his own wife. An agreement is one thing, but can a marriage stay platonic?
#HR #SouthAsian #WOC #preDV #OWN

As an international security specialist, I work with military cops all day

That’s why my FMC investigates when US military workers turn up dead in Bahraini

Olivia Zheng risks everything to fight against patriarchy, racism, and for the life she wants

#PreDV #Mys #Thriller #WF #Asian #WOC

Aspirational investigator and spitfire Olivia Zheng finds a drowned body in Bahrain 🕵🏻‍♀️

When she lies to get to a crime scene, she's thrown into:

🔪crushing waves of patriarchy and racism
🇺🇸 military culture
💵 & a corruption scheme that could end it all

#PreDV #Mys #Thriller #WF #Asian #WOC

Iranian-American life with Shadi's intense parents means being afraid to shave her legs while listening to Paula Abdul, prom car chases, and hearing hijab arguments. Shadi stops letting either culture define her and finds what being Iranian and American means on her own terms.
#preDV #MEM #WOC #MENA

9-year-old Iranian American Zayda abhors structure because it kills her creativity. An F in English is the norm until she finds an after-school play group where the rules help the play work. Can she can bring up her grade while learning how shared creativity can add to her own? #preDV #WOC #MENA #CB

9-year-old Zayda, an Iranian American with BIG ideas, is told she is "too much." Her F in English where she abhors structure threatens her place in after-school play group perfect for her Zayda-ness. Can she learn that making room for others' gifts is a gift to herself too? #preDV #CB #MENA #WOC

💖 SHE’S THE MAN, BUT E-SPORTS 🎮

Cam lies about her gender to finagle her way onto a pro e-sports team, but captain Jacob thinks she’s a liability. To earn her spot, she must prove her skills, survive a social-media firestorm, and resist falling for the infuriatingly hot captain.

#PreDV #NA #R #WOC

I called Bahrain home until the war started in February

SHE LIES ALONG THE PEARLING PATH (96k words) is my novel about a beautiful country of kind people…and some hypothetical murders

FMC Olivia Zheng does all the things I wish I still could 🕵🏻‍♀️

#PreDV #Mys #Thriller #WF #Asian #WOC

If you like:

Championing women’s rights 💁🏻‍♀️
Solving murders 🩸
Exposing corruption 🕵🏻‍♀️
Fighting racism 🥊
& Bringing down the patriarchy 🚹

You should read this book 📖📚

#PreDV #Mys #Thriller #WF #Asian #WOC

(52/61) “All night the millennial ice, all night the dread, / all night the saving eminence that won’t wake up // and the darker eminence that will.” —Quan Barry, “Galilee” (Water Puppets) @upittpress.bsky.social #61WomenPoets #WOC #61Books61Days #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets

Cam dominates League of Champions under a gender-neutral gamertag. When a pro team mistakes her for a guy, she keeps the lie going—but infuriatingly hot captain Jacob thinks she doesn’t deserve to be there.

💘 enemies-to-lovers
🕹️ woman in e-sports
💥 chaos goblin protag
🏆 underdog

#PreDV #NA #R #WOC

#PreDV

Murder+Atmosphere: CITY OF VEILS/Zoë Ferraris + THE GOLDEN SCALES/Parker Bilal
Political view: THE EYES ARE THE BEST PART/Monika Kim

→ SHE LIES ALONG THE PEARLING PATH critically looks at US military culture overseas + the sacrifices of #WOC in law enforcement

#Mys #Thriller #WF #Asian

💖 SHE’S THE MAN, BUT E-SPORTS 🎮

When a pro e-sports team recruits Cam thinking she’s a guy, she keeps the lie going to chase her dream—but to stay, she must prove her skill, weather a social media firestorm, and resist the infuriatingly hot captain she can’t afford to fall for. #PreDV #NA #R #WOC

I HOPE THIS DOESN’T FIND YOU X GHOSTBUSTERS

Elizabeth Bennet, teenage monster hunter…
🩵 just wants to keep her family business afloat
🥀must work with Fitz Darcy to hunt down a poltergeist
👻might be murdered by the ghost before there’s time for a kiss

#YA #Retelling #Asian #WOC #CI #predv

LEGENDBORN X THIS PLACE IS STILL BEAUTIFUL

This Little Red Riding Hood…
🌸journeys into the woods to heal her mother
🍂is plagued with the monstrous forest rooted in her head
🦊loves the kitsune boy who could ruin her.
🐺cannot imagine who the real wolf is.

#predv #YA #Retelling #Asian #WOC #CI

A diverse take on regency romance where an Anglo-Indian woman, escaping her father’s devious plans, makes a pact to elope with a Scottish man, who must marry to keep his Earldom from falling into the wrong hands.
#HR #Asian #WOC #preDV #OWN

I HOPE THIS DOESN’T REACH YOU X GHOSTBUSTERS

✨Elizabeth Basaki, teenage monster hunter
🥀Fitz Darcy, haunted by his father’s death
👻the poltergeist in Pemberley who brings them together

#predv #YA #Retelling #Asian #WOC #CI