📣 Pre-Order Sale 📣
Barnes & Noble is holding a pre-order sale, and I have lots of recommendations.
Barnes & Noble Pre-Order Sale
Barnes & Noble is currently holding a pre-order sale. Premium & Rewards Members get 25% off all upcoming releases (pre-orders) from Tuesday, June 23rd through Friday, June 26th. The sale includes audiobooks and eBooks. Just use the code PREORDER25. You can read more about the sale here.
You can also pre-order Milkiverse, my upcoming adult book, here (BUT NO PRESSURE).
The last time B&N had a pre-order sale, I bought (in addition to many other books) Meet Me at Midnight, a YA speculative romance book by Brianna Bourne, who was nice enough to blurb The Lost Souls of Benzaiten. This one is coming out soon, in about a week.
I have an entire list of books I have my eye on, but some other books I want to pre-order and devour are:
The MASH Up by Laura Marie Meyers: an adult novel about a grown woman who makes a wish and ends up in a M.A.S.H. game; anyone remember M.A.S.H.?
Everything to the Sea by Alicia Upano (who was born and raised in Hawaiʻi): an adult novel about two people in Hawaiʻi experiencing a tsunami
Hijacked by Goats by Ann Braden: a middle-grade novel about a girl struggling with OCD
The Continuation of Summer Dillon by Sarah Everett: a middle-grade novel about an android girl
American Hagwon by Min Jin Lee (author of Pachinko): an adult novel about a family upended by the 1997 Asian financial crisis
The Wild Zone by Rick Riordan and Annabelle Oh: a middle-grade novel taking place in the world of Percy Jackson
Everything’s Not Lost by Frederick Joseph: a young-adult novel about a Black girl struggling with bipolar disorder and grief
Love, Like Apples by Jeff Zentner (who very kindly blurbed The Yomigaeri Tunnel): an adult novel following a man through the 1970s into the present
Something Bright and Beautiful by Cathryn Free: a young-adult novel in the vein of Sarah Dessen (who just released a book earlier this year, by the way: Change of Plans)
The Lost Life of Sylvia Song by Ann Liang (who also very kindly blurbed The Yomigaeri Tunnel): a young-adult speculative novel about grief and love
And, of course, We Run the Night by Peace Mbengei, a Soho Teen book that I got to blurb.
My publisher, Soho Press, posted about this pre-order sale and included Milkiverse in the lineup:
They also did a cover reveal with an adorable graphic.
I love Soho so much.
Quick Roundup
Thank you so much to Tina Parmar and Penguin Random House International Sales for including The Yomigaeri Tunnel in their July picks for Secondary Education, a curated list designed to capture middle and high school students’ attention. As always, I highly recommend checking out the whole list.
New Short Pieces
Micromance, which published “The Thaw Experiment” in their Substack earlier, also published “The Fruit Loop” for their Women’s Fiction Wednesday feature.
“The Ego Auditorium” is included in Space & Time 151: Light the Beacons, which is available for purchase as an eBook or in standard print, large print, or dyslexia-friendly print. I am cringing to ask, but you can also vote for a favorite story and poem from each issue of Space & Time here, if you want to participate. (Sorry. Cringe, cringe, cringe.)
“Good as Gold” is on pages 43-48 of the Summer 2026 issue of A Coup of Owls. A Coup of Owls has very kindly included a content warning for religious trauma, so if this affects you in any way, please skip this story.
Sage Cigarettes Magazine published “Late Bloomer” (pages 17-19) and “The Beetle Whisperer” (pages 20-22) in Vol. 3, Issue 3, titled Depths. I loved this magazine already, but the inclusion of a beetle illustration in the latter story just solidified it.
Okay, to be honest, this was mostly a way to:
Tell you about the B&N pre-order sale
Remind you that Milkiverse is a real book coming in February 2027
Give you a long list of books I want to read
Fun fact: I almost forgot to link Milkiverse in this newsletter because I got too carried away with the other books.
Show off Soho’s cover reveal
Talk about the beetle illustration in Sage Cigarettes Magazine
I’m therefore ending this newsletter here, before I get too carried away. Happy summer. :)