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泛依婷 Stefany Valentine @booksbystefany.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Having vertigo in Taiwan means wondering if im experiencing an earthquake or if my inner ear is just being a little shit again 🤷‍♀️

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泛依婷 Stefany Valentine @booksbystefany.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

I wasn't much of a tea person before I moved to Taiwan. Now I'm obsessed!! Green tea and oolong are my favorite and that caffeine rush?!?!? Yowza!!

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泛依婷 Stefany Valentine @booksbystefany.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Its my 3rd week in Taiwan. I just woke up from a dream where my long-distance husband got a boyfriend and honestly, I wasn't mad. I was like "im happy you're exploring this side of yourself" lol

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泛依婷 Stefany Valentine @booksbystefany.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

As an adoptee in reunion, I find myself navigating another dynamic--being the caretaker of an aging mother. I feel like the timing of this reunion has forced me to jump into the deep end without wading in. Now I'm caring for the mother who never got a chance to care for me.

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泛依婷 Stefany Valentine @booksbystefany.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Im dyslexic. Now that I'm in Taiwan learning Mandarin, my brain does that dyslexia buffer thing more often. Like I know I'm looking at words, but I can't read them. So I have to start my brain engine like 3 times before I can start comprehending what I'm seeing.

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泛依婷 Stefany Valentine @booksbystefany.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

The cutest thing just happened. I taught my bio mom that in America, we say "thick" to mean that someone is fat in a complementary way. A couple days later, she still remembers this and says "my legs are thin but yours are...thick". Its just so freaking amazing to have a biological mom💖💖🥰

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泛依婷 Stefany Valentine @booksbystefany.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Hot take but what if AI actually brings back critical thinking? We see a fake video online, feel ashamed that we fell for it, then learn to adapt. Learn to question the content we consume. Learn to navigate nuance. Wouldn't that be an unexpected twist?!

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泛依婷 Stefany Valentine @booksbystefany.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

It's daytime in the US and nighttime in Taiwan. Getting used to the time zone thing is gunna suuuuuck lol

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泛依婷 Stefany Valentine @booksbystefany.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

I feel so defeated as an adoptee every time I see another viral "we adopted an (insert non white race here) baby" video. Yet when ADOPTEES (not adoptERS) speak up about our real experiences, we get told to shut up, we get called ungrateful, and our stories sure as shit don't go viral.

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泛依婷 Stefany Valentine @booksbystefany.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Moving to Taiwan as an adoptee in reunion comes with so many mixed emotions. Like yes, im excited, but i haven't been this exhausted, numb, sad, and unmotivated in a long time.

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泛依婷 Stefany Valentine @booksbystefany.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Im a bit of a compression sock ho. Long car rides? Compression socks✅️ Flights? Compression socks✅️ Walking my pup? Compression socks✅️ Do I have a medical condition that requires me to wear compression socks? Nope. But imma do it anyway lol

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泛依婷 Stefany Valentine @booksbystefany.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Despite genetically not being a likely candidate for a learning disability, I have dyslexia (and dysgraphia). But it wasn't until I realized that adoptees are 3x more likely to develop a learning disability that I really started to unpackage how deeply adoption trauma has impacted me

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泛依婷 Stefany Valentine @booksbystefany.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Exciting translation news for FIRST LOVE LANGUAGE?!?!?!

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泛依婷 Stefany Valentine @booksbystefany.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

So im working on book 3 and my spouse just made me realize that the moral of the story im trying to tell is that we need to love our neighbors. Guys. I'm writing the Bible.

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泛依婷 Stefany Valentine @booksbystefany.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

youtu.be/K9XNaQxBVaY?... I'm so excited that I made this YouTube video, but for some reason the video quality sucks?! Oh well, it's still packed with lots of info on how to survive a book tour and working on the video quality gives me something to focus on for my next video!

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How to SURVIVE your first BOOK TOUR!

YouTube video by Stefany Valentine

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泛依婷 Stefany Valentine @booksbystefany.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

youtu.be/6K_kRl4mKMM?... Im moving to Taiwan next month and I'm documenting everything from my author life to my reunification with my mom! This is the first of many blogs I hope to make! Lmk what you think!

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1 ROAD TRIP • 3 STOPS • NOT ENOUGH TIME

YouTube video by Stefany Valentine

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泛依婷 Stefany Valentine @booksbystefany.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

COVER REVEAL!! Add to GoodReads share.google/cEDZUKmik6VC...

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泛依婷 Stefany Valentine @booksbystefany.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

I love Texas land but I hate Texas crimes. Like fuck the ICE raids, racism, and limited access to education. But the June rainstorms and the wildlife is something I wish everyone could experience💖

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泛依婷 Stefany Valentine @booksbystefany.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

I'm in Publisher's Weekly! www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

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泛依婷 Stefany Valentine @booksbystefany.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Bahahha I just want people to read this book and scream at this character for being so in love and so deeply in the closet bahahahha

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泛依婷 Stefany Valentine @booksbystefany.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Writing closeted queer girlies is my new favorite thing bc it's one way to bypass all the religious trauma and just memory walk all the queer moments that were real to me💖💖

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泛依婷 Stefany Valentine @booksbystefany.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Eekk!! FIRST LOVE LANGUAGEA is in great company! I've been meaning to pick up some of these books too! Happy summer reading yall!

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泛依婷 Stefany Valentine @booksbystefany.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

#BIPOCQTchat Actually, I'd love to support YOU! If you're an adoptee and want to break into traditional publishing, im hosting free monthly webinars for adoptees who wanna build community and raise our voices! Fill out this form: docs.google.com/forms/d/1u0E...

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Adoptee Author Webinar

Per the feedback I received in May, there were some concerns with the adoptee author webinar being a safe space for adoptees only. To ensure that all participants are adoptees, please fill out this fo...

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Sonido Reyes @sonidoreyes.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

SO FREAKING EXCITED to share the #LesbianaRereadChallenge details! I'll be posting my answers here and would love to see yours too! Feel free to join in whatever capacity you can. You can log your progress daily on pagebound if you want the full book club experience here: bit.ly/3FsFMwM (part 1)

A graphic that reads: The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School Re-read party! #LesbianaRereadChallenge. Daily questions and answers based on chapter titles. Treat it like a book club and log your progress on Pagebound! Filter Pagebound posts by % or pages read to avoid spoilers and discuss specific chapters. After party announcement of the preorder campaign for The Golden Boy's Guide to Bipolar!

A graphic that reads: The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School Re-read party! #LesbianaRereadChallenge. June 2-28. Ch 1. Thou Shalt Not Trust a Two-Faced Bitch: When were you the villain in someone else's story?
Ch 2. Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods Before Capitalism: What is the most creatively unhinged thing you've ever done for money?
Ch 3. Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbor's Butt: Most impressive mental gymnastics you've done to deny a gay thought?
ch 4. Honor Thy Liner and Thy Hoops: What is your "fashion armor"?
ch 5. Make Unto Thee Non-Racict Friends: What's your most unhinged high school betrayal?
ch 6. Thou Shalt Procure a Pseudo Suitor: What's the most creative way you ever convinced someone you were straight?

A graphic that reads: The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School Re-read party! #LesbianaRereadChallenge. June 2-28.
ch 7. Thou Shalt Divert Thy Mother's Gaydar: What is the biggest tell you were queer that you and everyone else somehow missed?
ch 8. Thou Shalt mind Thine Own Business. Bitch: What is the weirdest rumor that ever spread about you?
ch 9. Thou Shalt Not Self-Sabotage: How do you tend to sabotage yourself? What's one way you want to give yourself a better chance?
ch 10. Thou Shalt Not Drink and Call: Most embarrassing moment?
ch 11. Thou Shalt Bear False Witness Against Drunken Voicemails: Ever sent a message to the wrong person and made a full recovery? How?
ch 12: Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Brother's Life: Are you the golden child, the scapegoat, or the forgotten middle? What is one upside to your category?

A graphic that reads: The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School Re-read party! #LesbianaRereadChallenge. June 2-28.
ch 13. Thou Shalt Confess Thy Sins--Selectively: Two truths and a lie. Go!
ch 14. Make Unto Thee a Fat Wallet: If you were given enough money to pursue any business venture you wanted, what would you do or create?
ch 15. Thou Shalt Not Adulate False Idols: Have you ever had a "don't meet your heroes" moment?
ch 16. Thou Shalt Not Foster Petty Grudges: Pettiest grudge you ever held?
ch 17. Remember Thy Ancestors. Keep Them Holy: How do you connect with your ancestors?
ch 18. Thou Shalt Not Commit Adulting: What is the biggest scam of adulthood?

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Sonido Reyes @sonidoreyes.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

I'm hosting a re-read party/challenge for The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School starting tomorrow until June 28 to gear up for the release of the spinoff! info here: bsky.app/profile/sono... #BIPOCQTchat

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Talia Tucker @taliatuck.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

My next book, a queer YA "Solo Stan" comes out next week! You can preorder it and tell all your friends to preorder it! #BIPOCQTchat

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泛依婷 Stefany Valentine @booksbystefany.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

#BIPOCQTchat I think of the next generation. What can I do to leave this world better than when I found it? Also, there's room for mixed emotion. Pride, peace ans joy for finally accepting myself for who I am. And rage, remorse, and longing, for what could've been if I hadn't grown up Mormon lol

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泛依婷 Stefany Valentine @booksbystefany.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

#BIPOCQTchat omg I mean everything I write is influenced by my identity. But I always try to think of future generations who have to experience difficult things like queerness in high demand religion, adoption trauma, being mixed race in a world of boxes etc. Its about uplifting minority voices!!

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Talia Tucker @taliatuck.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

"I didn’t have edging a sleep paralysis demon on my senior year bingo card but here we are." Not really a WIP but I'm revising Ghosted rn as we speak 😆 #BIPOCQTchat

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Jessica Lewis @jessicalewisauthor.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

*me scrambling desperately among my thousand WIPs* Line from my rom com (that I’m not editing, shhhh): “No one’s ever looked at me like that. Like I wasn’t an insufferable disaster. Like I wasn’t annoying, a failure, too much. She looked at me like I was someone to be loved.” #BIPOCQTchat

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泛依婷 Stefany Valentine @booksbystefany.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

#BIPOCQTChat Omg I was working on it last night and I shared a snippet on my socials bahahah

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泛依婷 Stefany Valentine @booksbystefany.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

#BIPOCQTchat I'm so proud of the work I've done to deconstruct from my ultra Mormon conservative upbringing🫶🫶

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Sonido Reyes @sonidoreyes.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

1. Hi friends, I’m soni! I’m currently working on a very campy telenovela esque Knives Out meets Crazy Rich Asians but Mexican. I’m very excited lol #BIPOCQTchat

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泛依婷 Stefany Valentine @booksbystefany.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

#bipocqt Happy pride!! Im currently writing my YA sapphic romance between a nieve pageant queen and an apathetic nail tech 🫶🫶💖💖

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泛依婷 Stefany Valentine @booksbystefany.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

My first ever newsletter goes out this Friday! There's still time to sign up! docs.google.com/forms/d/1cjK...

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泛依婷 Stefany Valentine @booksbystefany.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

The human race needs to start acting more like turtles. When one of us is belly up, we need to flip them over.

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泛依婷 Stefany Valentine @booksbystefany.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

I just got a call from "my cousin" but it was an AI voice that sounded like my coworker. Stay safe out there yall. These scams are getting out of hand

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泛依婷 Stefany Valentine @booksbystefany.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

I'm writing a book set in Tokyo. My bro & sis in law are in Tokyo rn. For "research" they have been eating Japanese shaved ice every day and letting me know how it tastes. Honestly I love that for them. And for this book lol

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泛依婷 Stefany Valentine @booksbystefany.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

I feel like no one knows this about me but the real reason why I wanted to become an author is because I could never find my name in a souvenir shop so I figured I'd put my name on a book

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泛依婷 Stefany Valentine @booksbystefany.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

As a mixed person, this has been the best AAPI Heritage Month ever!! I've been told I'm not Asian enough my entire life. But seeing FIRST LOVE LANGUAGE listed as "must read books by AAPI authors" IS SO FORKING VALIDATING💖💖 🥰I🥰am🥰enough🥰

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a man wearing sunglasses and a fur coat says i 'm kenough

ALT: a man wearing sunglasses and a fur coat says i 'm kenough

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Found in TranslaShen (they/them) @theshenners.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

For my fifth interview for Taiwanese American Heritage Week, I talked to @booksbystefany.bsky.social about her debut YA novel, First Love Language, writing from personal experience, the 5 love languages, discovering new sides to yourself while writing, and more. readingasiam.blog/2025/05/15/a...

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Author Interview: Stefany Valentine

Welcome to the fifth interview in the 2025 run of my Taiwanese American Heritage Week series dedicated to featuring Taiwanese authors and their work. Taiwanese American Heritage Week occurs every y…

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泛依婷 Stefany Valentine @booksbystefany.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Adoptee voices matter. Our stories matter. And yet we continue to be a community that is so marginalized, we are often overlooked in conversations about inclusivity. Here are some book recs for those of you who want to learn more 💖💖 diversebookfinder.org/collection/i...

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In Our Own Voices: Adoption Books By BIPOC Authors - Diverse BookFinder

By Kimber Van Heukelom Kimber Van Heukelom is a graduate student in the University of Iowa’s School of Library Information Science where she became interested in BIPOC collection development while wor...

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泛依婷 Stefany Valentine @booksbystefany.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Um not to flex but my good friend @sonorareyes.bsky.social writes the best qbipoc books AND they are accessible for my dyslexia brain. Just chef's kiss 🤌🤌 hehehe💖💖🫶

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泛依婷 Stefany Valentine @booksbystefany.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Omg never enough QBIPOC joy. Like let us be happy. Let us be ourselves. I already lived so much trauma. Let me have the life I didn't have. Give me the live I'm owed hahaha AND GIVE MY QUEER BIPOC ADOPTEE OWN VOICES HEHEHE

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泛依婷 Stefany Valentine @booksbystefany.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

And she's only the coolest person ever or whatever 💖💖💖 nbd hehehe

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泛依婷 Stefany Valentine @booksbystefany.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

#BIPOCQTchat i think about the future generations! I think about how i grew up a closeted mormon girl not realizing it's not hetero to pretend you're a boy just to justify the idea of holding hands with girls🤣🤣 my books are for young Stef🤣🤣

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Sonido Reyes @sonidoreyes.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

WE'RE BACK!! question 1: Introduce yourself! What kind of stuff do you write? Are you working on anything you're dying to tell us about? #BIPOCQTchat

A purple graphic that reads: Introduce yourself! What kind of stuff do you write? Are you working on anything you're dying to tell us about?

A graphic with a brown background that reads: What is #BIPOCQTchat? While our communities are being silenced, this is a space for celebration as resistance. Formerly #QPOCChat, #BIPOCQTchat is for BIPOC writers under the LGBTQ+ umbrella to nerd out with each other and build community

A graphic with a tan background that reads: How to participate? quote skeet each question with your response, and make sure to include the hastag #BIPOCQTchat so people can find your answers and support you!

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