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author of A MILKY WAY HOME | lambda fellow ‘24 | audio in color r3 grantee. queer taiwanese. they/any/他
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hsinju 🚀 @hsinjuchen.com · Feb 1
hello! lí-hó! i'm hsinju, and i write stuff:
🧋 A Milky Way Home (2023), a standalone Clover Hill Romance
📡 "Island Burnt by History" in Awakenings: A Cute Mutants Anthology (2022), ed. by SJ Whitby
🌈 [redacted] & [redacted] in Emerge: 2024 Lambda Fellows Anthology (forthcoming), ed. by monét cooper
Arrow graphics for A MILKY WAY HOME (left) on an asexual flag gradient background and "Island Burnt by History" in AWAKENINGS (right) on a transgender flag gradient background. The arrow text for A MILKY WAY HOME from the top in clockwise direction: ace4ace, the best boba, found family, bi MC of Chinese descent, sad boi x ice queen, transmasc Taiwanese MC, music, cute dog, lots of food. The arrow text for "Island Burnt by History" from the top in clockwise direction: mutants, Taiwanese trans man MC, Taiwanese lesbian SC, aromantic Black German SC, fat sapphic Taiwanese SC, grad school shenanigans, set in Taiwan, heist. The background of the two arrow graphics is a starry night sky that is faintly purple with tree silhouettes on the bottom.
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charliejane.bsky.social
Today is my birthday! It kinda snuck up on me tbh.

If you wanna do something nice for me, please RSVP for my upcoming tour: www.charliejaneanders.com/events

Or pre-order my weird heartfelt book: buttondown.com/charliejane/...

Thank you <3
Everything You Need to Know About My Next Novel!
Photo: Daderot/Wikimedia It’s almost six months before my next novel comes out on Aug. 19. Lessons in Magic and Disaster is my first novel for adults in...
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July 23, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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elainehsiehchou.bsky.social
WHERE ARE YOU REALLY FROM received a starred review from Kirkus Reviews! ⭐

"Chou is gifted at storytelling with a surrealistic bent ... Sharp storytelling that bends and blurs genre expectations."

Out August 19 from @penguinpress.bsky.social

www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
WHERE ARE YOU REALLY FROM | Kirkus Reviews
A clutch of stories that starkly question assumptions about our identities.
www.kirkusreviews.com
June 5, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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alexanderchee.bsky.social
My friend Patrick G. Lee is seeking funding to finish his amazing feature-length documentary of queer trans life in Seoul. I've been talking about it with him for years, it is exciting to see it so close to done. Please consider a pledge. seedandspark.com/fund/kqt#story
UNTITLED KOREAN QUEER TRANS PROJECT - Film and Storytelling | Seed&Spark
By creating a portrait of a thriving, chosen family of LGBTQ nightlife performers in Korea for diaspora audiences across the globe, UNTITLED KQT PROJECT reclaims queerness as empowering, unifying, and culturally resonant – on both sides of the Pacific.
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June 3, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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clh2oars.bsky.social
Releasing a book on my birthday, as one does ✨

Aromantic fantasy novel set in my Quebec inspired setting, with a very unusual found family (FLOCK IS A METAPHOR) and compulsory romance as the villain.

buy.bookfunnel.com/prdyz5509q

♠️🌈📚 #AspecAuthors #QueerAdultSFF
An arrow trope image where several elements point to a central cover. The cover features a masc person and a child stand in a city street with their back to the viewer. The child is pointing towards a flock of birds swooping through the sky. The entire cover is in tones of blue, and it is clearly set in winter. The surrounding information includes: the evil scientist who betrayed ols community, fixing what’s broken / aftermath story, three arospec leads with messy relationships to romance, the chaos of a six cats household, may contain Baker Thief characters, the gender feels of choosing a body for yourself, fantasy city and spring traditions inspired by Quebec City
May 30, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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charliejane.bsky.social
Locus Magazine is an essential part of the science fiction & fantasy book world. Their reviews are beyond insightful, their interviews are thought-provoking, they track everything going on in the biz.

They're raising $$ and are still only at half their goal with 3 days left:

igg.me/at/locusmag2...
Locus Mag: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror 2025
Celebrating and uplifting authors, artists, and story -- the guide to the world's imagination | Check out 'Locus Mag: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror 2025' on Indiegogo.
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May 28, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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aijiang.bsky.social
my story “Shadows Below Seaway Trains” is now out in the latest issue of @apexmag.bsky.social 👀🙇🏻‍♀️🤍🚂🌊

www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...
Apex Magazine Issue 149 cover “Shadows Below Seaway Trains” story screenshot
April 1, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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charliejane.bsky.social
Amazing news! The first two chapters of my upcoming novel Lessons in Magic and Disaster are up at Uncanny Magazine:

www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...

They form a complete self contained story about how Jamie teaches her mother magic and runs into a problem that she needs to solve.

📚🌟🧚‍♂️
The Prodigal Mother (excerpt from Lessons in Magic and Disaster) - Uncanny Magazine
1. Jamie has never known what to say to her mother. And now—when it matters most of all, when she’s on a rescue mission—she knows even less. What the hell was she thinking? Somehow Jamie had imagined ...
www.uncannymagazine.com
April 1, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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mattielubchansky.com
my new book SIMPLICITY is about a timid trans academic in the near future treks into the wilds of upstate new york to study a cult and winds up with way more than he bargained for. it’s is out 7/29. preorder it from your local! simplicitybook.xyz
SIMPLICITY is on sale 7.29.25!!!
February 24, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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kodyisover.com
おっす! I'm Kody, and being trans is interwoven in every aspect of my life and work. I make KEEPING TIME, a longform webcomic about two (cis) guys who, after years of estrangement reunite, start a band, and - for better or worse - fall in love.

🎸 keepingtimecomic.com

#TransDayOfVisibility
Photo of a Japanese dude smiling. His hair is fluffy, aspiring to Takahashi Ran's level of casual floof A comic panel that's a worm's eye view comic panel of someone on a skateboard in a south Chicago neighborhood in winter. We can see the bottom of their board and their shoes, and slush on the street. The caption reads, "Then." Part of a comic page from the webcomic KEEPING TIME. Panel 1: A close up of Stef, the bassist, his eyes closed beneath his baseball cap. Stark, evenly spaced together lines of music denote the even strumming of his bass guitar. Panel 2: Denver plays a chord far up the neck of his Gibson Les Paul, frowning slightly. The lines symbolizing his music swing wildly from high to low. Panel 3: Finally, the drummer, is grinning as he plays the drums, his music lines broken up in a staccato pattern. Beneath all his scruffy beard stubble, his giant grin is wide enough to make up for how neither of his bandmates weren't smiling at all. A panel from the webcomic KEEPING TIME. In the foreground, a blond punk with a neck tattoo lifts the lid of a dumpster, while two figures stand behind him. He says, "Oh. I mean, I dropped in on the pizza place next door for a slice, too."
March 31, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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trreadathon.bsky.social
If you’re seeking 🏳️‍⚧️ books by Asian and Asian-American authors to read during this year’s readathon and beyond, we’ve got some suggestions to get you started. This list features books by trans+ authors and/or books starring trans characters. For more suggestions, check out our StoryGraph.
Trans Rights Readathon Bonus Prompts: Asian Author. (Disambiguation: We have a separate prompt and set of slides specific to SWA---Southwest Asian---authors and stories.) Book Recs 1/2: In Limbo by Deb J.J. Lee. Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki. She of the Mountains by Vivek Shraya. Trans/Rad/Fem but Talia Bhatt. We Have Always Been Here by Samra Habib. Blue Skinned Gods by JJ Sindu. For Today I Am a Boy by Kim Fu. Magical Boy (multiple volumes) by The Kao. Females by Andrea Long Chu. Ash’s Cabin by Jen Wang. How We Began by L.M. Juniper. Lunar Boy by Jacinta & Jessica Wibowo. Book Recs 2/2: Stone Fruit by Lee Lai. She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan. Horse Barbie by Geena Rocero. Wicked as You Wish by Rin Chupeco. The Genesis of Misery by Neon Yang. A Milky Way Home by Hsinju Chen. He/She/They by Schuyler Bailar. The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea by Maggie Tokuda-Hall. Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor by Xiran Jay Zhao. If You Still Recognize Me by Cynthia So. The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw. Apsara Engine by Bishakh Som. Join us March 21st-31st, 2025, as we read trans books, fundraise for your local organizations, and show some love for this community. For more info, visit our website at transrightsreadathon.carrd.co
March 8, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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charliejane.bsky.social
ICYMI my upcoming novel LESSONS IN MAGIC AND DISASTER is on Netgalley! Come get some!!!!

www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

🪄 a PhD student teaches her heartbroken mom magic
✊ we get flashbacks to the mom's past queer activism
📙 a novel from 1747 has clues to a buried scandal
Lessons in Magic and Disaster
NetGalley helps publishers and authors promote digital review copies to book advocates and industry professionals. Publishers make digital review copies and audiobooks available for the NetGalley comm...
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March 12, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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neonhemlock.bsky.social
🎉 so hype for @thesuiway.bsky.social’s THE DRAGONFLY GAMBIT nebula nom! celebrating with 50% off all our ebooks for the rest of the month. use code ALLEMPIRESMUSTFALL at neonhemlock.com 🎉
book cover for THE DRAGONFLY GAMBIT on top of a pretty swirly nebula. nominated for best novella / nebula awards. 50% off all ebooks. use code ALLEMPIRESMUSTFALL at neonhemlock.com until the end of the month.
March 13, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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summervillain.bsky.social
Probably foolish but I waited til the end of the Mar 7-14 Amazon boycott to login to pull my book out of Kindle Unlmited. So.... if you want to read it there, grab it NOW, coz come Monday it’s GONE. It’s a sporty, flirty romance between a woman and a nonbinary person www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...
Spoken For (Clover Hill Romance Book 11)
Amazon.com: Spoken For (Clover Hill Romance Book 11) eBook : Welles, A. Lee: Kindle Store
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March 15, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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zipitelle.bsky.social
Today, What Wakes the Bells, my debut novel, is unleashed upon the world!

I’M A PUBLISHED AUTHOR!!
Today, What Wakes the Bells, my debut novel, is unleashed upon the world! It’s wild I can say that. Especially since this book has been mine for a long time. I got the idea in 2019, wrote the first draft in 2020, sold it to F&F in 2022, and now it’s not really mine anymore. It’s a book I wish I had for myself as a teen but it also helped me figure out who I am as an adult. What Wakes the Bells won’t be for everyone, but for some it will be everything. And that’s enough for me.
March 11, 2025 at 3:39 PM
hsinjuchen.com
spot me in the video 🤭🥰
(it was incredible to meet dr. little badger & listen to her talk about craft, etc.!! 🥹)
March 13, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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codydo.bsky.social
Here’s what’s next: an aroace picture book! LOVE LOOKS LIKE LOLA is one of the first (if not THE first) aspec picture book so I am incredibly proud this is happening. I can’t wait to share it with y’all.
The Publishers Marketplace announcement for my next project, a picture book called LOVE LOOKS LIKE LOLA, which features an aroace central character.
March 7, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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caroderobertis.bsky.social
An *incredible* honor to receive this award 1) curated by indie booksellers (!) and 2) named for the late great Octavia E. Butler (!!). To receive this for such a trans & genderqueer & feminist novel, as our communities fight for survival, means more than I can say. Thank you. Gracias. Venceremos 💜🏳️‍⚧️
March 7, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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clh2oars.bsky.social
And here is the progress bar fully filled up !!

COMMON BONDS 2 is OFFICIALLY FUNDED!! We still have until March 10 to hit our stretch goals, but no matter what, this is going to be a reality!

Thank you all so much for the hype and backings, and also for making this happen to day so I can sleep XD
A graphic with Common Bonds 2 colours and elements (orange leaves, blue wool) and a progress bar that has five sections, marked with numbers from 500 to 0. The leaves fill it completely and there is a big FUNDED across it
February 27, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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clericofthevoid.bsky.social
Okay so I can’t do #stuffyourkindleday technically, BUT I can make Name Her Holy ✨free✨ on itch.io today 👀

Pspspsps c’mon and get your disaster lesbians! Sale is only good for today!

aubreyennis.itch.io/name-her-holy

#sapphicstuffyourkindle #booksky 🌈📚
Book cover art for Name Her Holy by Aubrey Ennis. The cover has two women standing against a starry twilight background with a pale sun. At the forefront Kye stands facing forward, one hand held up with a cold flame and billowing black smoke. She is wearing dark purple robes with a high color and gold accents. She has dark wavy brown hair that comes to her chin, tan skin covered in light scars, and pale gray eyes. Behind her Jude stands in profile, a head taller than Kye. She is in leather armor stamped with meadow floral designs, holding a golden sword etched with light oak leaves. Jude is white, has long auburn hair in a braid with an undercut at the sides. She has a long scar across her nose and freckles on her cheeks. The sun rises behind her. A border of flowers and stars creates an arch above them with a deep purple background. Tropes listed around the cover are: sapphic space fantasy, get in loser we’re going to fight god, trans sword lesbian, chronically ill chosen one, literal sun/moon sword/sheild lesbians, super slooow burn
February 26, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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makana-yama.bsky.social
another intro post! I’m Makana, a hapa haole māhū lesbian from Maui! I write sci-fi about AAPI lesbians being messy in space. my adult cyberpunk lesbian space heist debut HAMMAJANG LUCK is out NOW in the UK and North America!!! shoots! 🤙
trope graphic for Hammajang Luck. the cover in the center shows a person with brown skin and brown hair in a red hoodie sitting on a pile of junk. behind them is a futuristic cityscape with gold clouds. the background of the graphic is the same cityscape with a teal sky and gold clouds. the tropes read “found family,” “crimes and heists,” “Ocean’s 8 meets Blade Runner,” “childhood friends to enemies to lovers,” “nonbinary MC,” and “lesbian cast.”
February 2, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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clh2oars.bsky.social
We're getting close to the $10,000 mark!

💚 Aromantic MCs
🍁 In science-fiction and fantasy stories
💚 focused on platonic relationships

Submissions will open this summer if we fund the anthology!

(All boosts *incredibly* helpful <3)

www.kickstarter.com/projects/cla...

🌈🚀💫 💙📚
An arrow points to Common Bonds 1’s cover, with the text “since this one got described as “the comfiest blanket”. It is followed by “we thought we’d knit you another one!”. The first cover is linked to a second one, for Common Bonds 2, through a thread of blue wool. At the bottom of the image is a prompt to back it now on Kickstarter.
February 24, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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clh2oars.bsky.social
💚 Our Kickstarter for COMMON BONDS 2 has just launched! 💚

Very excited to be running back this awesome anthology of aromantic SFF and building a second one. Get your #AroWeek discounts ✨

www.kickstarter.com/projects/cla...

#AspecAuthors 🌈📚 💙📚 🌈💫🚀
The cover for Common Bonds 2 (two friends knitting a sweater in the middle of autumnal leaves) next to the text “A brand new anthology of aromantic SFF centering platonic relationships, back it now on Kickstarter!” The image is decorated with loops of blue wools and autumnal leaves that match the cover. A top banner in Kickstarter colours says "Just launched - Kickstarter"
February 16, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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littlebadger.bsky.social
Y’all … I lost my old TikTok account (with 5000 book friends) because of phone number unluckiness. After a day of chatting, support says I need to start over ;-; Heres my braaand new account. I mostly post hobby stuff like gaming - please consider following :D www.tiktok.com/@alittlebadger
Little Badger's Creator Profile
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February 18, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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chenchenwrites.bsky.social
History says we forgave the executioner.

—Sharif
Social Skills Training by Solmaz Sharif Studies suggest How may I help you officer? is the single most disarming thing to say and not What's the problem? Studies suggest it’s best the help reply My pleasure and not No problem. Studies suggest it’s best not to mention problem in front of power even to say there is none. Gloria Steinem says women lose power as they age and yet the loudest voice in my head is my mother. Studies show the mother we have in mind isn’t the mother that exists. Mine says: What the fuck are you crying for? Studies show the baby monkey will pick the fake monkey with fake fur over the furless wire monkey with milk, without contest. Studies show to negate something is to think it anyway. I’m not sad. I’m not sad. Studies recommend regular expressions of gratitude and internal check-ins. Enough, the wire mother says. [ran out of space. poem also here: https://tinyurl.com/sharifpoem]
February 8, 2025 at 5:29 PM