hey folks on @sffbipoc I'd love to hear people's intros & what you're working on!

my latest is THE WATER OUTLAWS, #wuxia epic #fantasy & genderspun #WaterMargin -- v #Chinese, v #feminist, v #queer :)

Tor got me a kickass culture expert too, their notes were amazing, like that "polishing mirrors" an old-timey Chinese euphemism for lesbian sex 😂 AND THEY GOT MY CHINESE PUNS

(more here for the interested: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250180421/thewateroutlaws ) #EpicFantasy #lgbtq

what about y'all? #sff #BIPOC

The Water Outlaws

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@slhuang @sffbipoc I am so looking forward to The Water Outlaws -- and omg, I hadn't seen the cover before, and it is just gorgeous!

I'm a kidlit editor and scallion pancake enthusiast (lol). Right now I'm working on a fantasy novel set in a magic college. It's queer, hopeful, and influenced by the time I spent in Taiwan as a kid, along with all the magic school books I read growing up.

@jamteayang oh thank you so much. and OMG YES SCALLION PANCAKES

I adore the idea of a queer hopeful Taiwanese magic school! My niblings are just at the age where I'm buying more kidlit now and I want this!

@slhuang @sffbipoc Congratulations on 'The Water Outlaws'. I am pulled in by the idea of 'unseemly femininity' and would like to read it!

I am working on an illustrated anthology of stories from a future world where extended reality technologies allow people to share bodily sensations, talk to ecosystems, and store versions of themselves for 800,000 years - among other things.
I'm co-writing the narratives with a fellow writer and we're working with a visual designer for the illustrations.

@goosegirl oh, thank you!

and oooo that book sounds so fascinating! Please tell us about it when it comes out!

@slhuang @sffbipoc I read Water Margin when I was in uni because I’m also a huge fan of the Suikoden video games (which were inspired by Water Margin). I don’t remember where you first announced you were writing The Water Outlaws (probably twt), but I’ll put in a preorder as soon as my 13th month pay comes in!

@slhuang @sffbipoc This cover is absolutely stunning!! Queer feminist fantasy? Adding this to my TBR right now!

I'm an assistant in children's editorial and I write short stories that are a varying mix of feminist, queer, fantastical, and/or terrifying. Currently trying to finish two short stories –– one about a bad ghost boyfriend haunting a boarding school and another about a boy who accidentally performs necromancy using a spell off Reddit.

@v_gnesis aaaa thanks! and wow that sounds so fun I want to read the Reddit one *right now*

@slhuang @sffbipoc working on my first xianxia story, along with a crossover involving the Legend of White Snake and the Little Mermaid.

Once I get some time around the holidays, I want to finally work on that xianxia series that's a mashup of Sword & Fairy and Final Fantasy.

@CodenameMinaLi oh I LOVE IT! I don't know S&F or FF that well but LotWS/LM sounds like the perfect mashup!
@slhuang admittedly I was inspired by you doing the same thing with LotWS/Red Riding Hood/Hou Yi and figured I'd try it out myself!
@CodenameMinaLi oh my gosh, I'm honored. Go for it!!

@sffbipoc @slhuang The Water Outlaws sounds *so good*! Can't wait to read  

My next book MOTHER SEA is fabulist & feminist, with a scientist trying to save both her home & her unborn child. It's about communal identity & communal grief, climate change x post-colonialism on a remote Indian ocean island. 💪🏽🖤🦎🌊

#clifi #literary #speculative #bipoc #lgbtq #MentalHealth #PostColonialism #ClimateChange

More coherent stuff here: https://www.thebookseller.com/rights/rights/wilson-moves-to-fairlight-books-with-her-vital-third-novel

Wilson moves to Fairlight Books with her 'vital' third novel

Fairlight Books has netted Mother Sea, the "lyrical" third novel from Lorraine Wilson. 

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@raine_clouds Oh wow that sounds great, and such important themes (esp right now)
@slhuang thank you 🖤 Yeah this one means a lot to me on a deeply personal level, so I'm excited and also slightly terrified to have it out in the world 😬 😬
@raine_clouds oh I know that feeling... rooting for you, I hope it all goes well!!

@slhuang @sffbipoc Oh I cannot wait to read yours!! sounds epic.

My debut SHANGHAI IMMORTAL is my take on #xianxia #fantasy with #chinese deities cavorting in jazz age Shanghai. Coming out June 2023. (Please add to your Goodreads! https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62230164-shanghai-immortal)

#sff #bipoc

Shanghai Immortal (Shanghai Immortal, #1)

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@aychao Dang that sounds awesome!! Wow our pub dates are close, maybe our publishers will put us together for publicity, that'd be rad!
@slhuang I’d love that!!!! Will do some hint hint nudge nudge with my publisher. ☺️

@slhuang @sffbipoc hey! I don’t think you’ll remember me from the futurescapes workshop for synopsis!

But I am querying my Latinx Poppy War X Gods of Jade and Shadow novel with a few agent requests in the works!

For NaNo I’m writing a story where three people of different magic systems work together after their colonizers return hoping to take back the resource rich archipelago!

I have a middle grade idea still cooking that I can’t get out of my head that will be worked on next!

@Ayojavy Oh my gosh, I absolutely remember you!! AND your synopsis! I hope it's going well, I'd love to see that in the world!
@slhuang it’s going pretty well. The last month or so has been good for me querying wise. Query tuning has been helpful in the long run! Super excited for The Water Outlaws and what might be the best cover of all time!!
@slhuang so excited for this! focusing on poetry these days but want to get back to my short story collection retelling chinese folklore soon~

@slhuang @sffbipoc I’m so excited for The Water Margin! 🤩

For #NaNoWriMo, I’m working on a #DarkFantasy #novel I’m comping as Mexican Gothic meets Snowpiercer. Two characters have died so far. 💀 It’s going overall well, despite doubting I’ll hit 50k!

I also #AmQuerying another dark fantasy novel featuring Cthulhu-like monsters, the sentient teeth of one such monster, and ideologically opposed magic systems. I have a decent amount of requests so fingers crossed!

@sffbipoc @slhuang congratulations on “The Water Outlaws”. Sounds really interesting. 😊

ATM I’m starting the 4th and final book of my #sciencefantasy series #TempestBlades, while the 3rd book is with my publisher @TangentGeoff of Artemesia Publishing, for edits. The 3rd book will be released in June 2023. And this time I hope to have the following book ready right away instead of waiting a year. The 4th will be a #FinalFantasy esque epic if it was scored by #Epica 😂

@WingedLion Oh, sweet! That sounds epic indeed, congrats!
@slhuang thank you! It's been quite a journey,
@slhuang I'm working on a #sapphic dread-filled #shortstory ! ALSO HAVE I SCREAMED YET ABOUT HOW EXCITED I AM ABOUT THE WATER OUTLAWS!!?? I'm practically vibrating!!!

@larkmorganlu oh my gosh Lark 😊 ❤️ 💖 you are too kind!

also I am SO here for sapphic dread

@slhuang @sffbipoc this looks amazing, I can't wait to read it! I loved BURNING ROSES.
@slhuang OMG I need this in my life 😍 I love the original Water Margin, and this sounds like a really fun take 😄
@TarkabarkaHolgy oh my goodness, thank you so much!!
@slhuang @sffbipoc currently working on book 9 of my A Thousand Li series, a xianxia fantasy work. Lots of sword fighting, random elementary discussion on daoism and enlightenment.
@taorwong_author YASSSSS I love ALL of those things!!

@slhuang can't wait for yours either. I remember reading a literal translation of the original Water Margin as a kid (it was all that we had) and having a headache parsing stuff. Still had a lot of fun with it, but it was a struggle.

And so much cannibalism. Soo much.

@taorwong_author oh my gosh, thank you!

And oof, that translation sounds awful. And LONG

@slhuang @sffbipoc I’m currently struggling through writing book 3 in my post-apocalyptic utopian/dystopian love story triptych (hinge together but capable of standing alone, not quite a series.)

The ARC for my book 2 (PRESET) is coming out on Monday from Blackstone, so I’ll be anxious over that too. The cover is pretty though.

@Sarinadahlanauthor oh that is GORGEOUS!! all the luck with book 3
@slhuang Thanks so much! Anxiety is about to kick off in high gear.
@Sarinadahlanauthor @slhuang @sffbipoc I need to get me one of those arcs if I can!
@Princejvstin Was this to both of us? Idk about @Sarinadahlanauthor's buttttt I can DM you some infos on mine ;)
@slhuang @Sarinadahlanauthor Well it was to both of you, because I loved RESET, and you know I love your work, and HAVE read The Water Margin :)
@slhuang @Sarinadahlanauthor I've shot you an email :)
@Princejvstin @slhuang I’ll get you an ARC, Paul! I’d love for you to read it 😊 I don’t have your email but please message me an address for a physical or an email address for a PDF and I’ll get Blackstone to send you one.

@slhuang HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!

To @sffbipoc, I'm an acquiring editor at a small SFF press, Tachyon. I just put a SF novel into production and editing two more fantasy books this year, and I'm querying an isekai fantasy romance novel that has all the queer radical politics I want to explore. I should get writing my faux-Ancient China fantasy romance next with immortals and spirit-seers.

@jhameia JAYMEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!! oh my gosh it's been forever. And this sounds AWESOME!!
@slhuang Thanks!! Next year Tachyon will be releasing a xianxia-inspired contemporary fantasy romance and I AM SO STOKED!!!!!

@jhameia yessssssssssssss

Feel free to reach out to us if you'd like to connect on any publicity stuff that your author & I could reinforce each other on! Happy to connect my publicist with theirs :)

@slhuang Will definitely be in touch! Bitter Medicine's out in March and I think you and Mia would get on like a house on fire.
@jhameia oh my gosh, this is Mia's book? YESSSS!!!!!!!!
@jhameia Oh, wasn't that wonderful story about murderous lesbian crustacean mermaids in New Suns your work too?
@slhuang Welcome to the Shop! I've been very much looking forward to The Water Outlaws ever since I fell in love with its premise and cover.
@gu4n oh thank you so much!! 😊
@slhuang @sffbipoc Your sounds cool! I’m working on a long urban fantasy series set in Savannah Georgia with two fierce women supernatural private investigators. It’s a fun project!