Exciting news! I’ve sold another contemporary fantasy book to Penguin Random House! I’m working with the same team for my debut Gumiho duology on my new fantasy, Gods & Comics ! If you want to learn more or order Gods & Comics , Go HERE ! Grace, a Korean American girl, is dealing with losing her grandmother by anonymously writing and publishing a webcomic based on the myths and legends her grandmother used to tell her about the Korean gods. With the youthful and attractive s

I'm publishing another book in the K-Verse! So excited to bring you Moonster's story in 2025! In the glittering world of K-Pop and...

This is an updated version of a post that originally appeared in the September 2021 edition of my newsletter Readiculous Musings. You can...

I was finally able to announce my next Young Adult book and it’s a K-pop rom-com! I am really fond of this new project because it...

This is an updated version of a post that originally appeared in the June 2019 edition of my newsletter Readiculous Musings. You can subscribe for it HERE . It is the one month anniversary of WICKED FOX coming out. So, I think I am feeling a bit nostalgic and I am thinking a lot about what has brought me to this point. And one of the biggest factors was having a good community around me. Now I know that this phrase can be vague, especially to people just joining the writing

Hi all! If you follow me on social media then you probably saw me shouting from the rooftops about my cover reveal for WICKED FOX. If...

This post originally appeared in the September 2018 edition of my newsletter Readiculous Musings. You can subscribe for it  HERE . (I’m stealing and updating from an old post I wrote about finding my voice and my ownvoices stories) This summer I had an awesome August full of things that give me such joy and hope as an Asian reader and creator! I grew up without seeing myself in mainstream media and I never knew how it affected my perception of myself until I went away to coll

So, I am stealing an idea from my writer BFF, Claribel Ortega and posting some of my content a month after it appears in my newsletter. It won’t be everything, just stuff that I think might be interesting to people and probably anything that is a record of my journey in publishing! So here we go! This post originally appeared in the July 2018 edition of my newsletter Readiculous Musings. You can subscribe for it HERE . Things are pretty hard these days. And it’s a time where

So, I was inspired by my own revisions to write out a quick post based on my methods and path toward shiny happy manuscript town. To be honest, I still live in revision land which I describe as a a town sitting on a giant cliff (good for screaming into the void), a cave of despair, and a fountain of wine. So, without further ado, my main revision steps: ‣ “mulling” period/Absorb the critique – I usually take 1-3 days to just mull over the notes. (This time frame changes with

You guys, I’m going to be published! Okay, it’s been a MINUTE since I posted and I’m so sorry about that, but it’s for a GOOD reason. I...

I present to you my story of how I got my agent (Warning: This post is LONG and full of GIFs): I started my professional writing journey when I had a weird dream (yea, I know, one of those people). I told my cousin about it because she’s a writer and I said, “Do you think that could be a book you would write?” She said, “No, but you could write it.” And I felt like that was a ridiculous idea. So I wrote it. It was the worst book ever. But it rekindled a love of writing that