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佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱 @jamscallion.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I went to read the actual charter and it is even more vague and ignorant than you can imagine... And in their little blog, they mentioned the AI guys who were like "omg AI is going to destroy humanity!!!!!!!!!" which tells me they're gullible as shit, in addition to not knowing how AI works.

Authors including Sir Kazuo Ishiguro, Tracy Chevalier and Kester Brewin have backed the initiative.

Recent warnings from inside AI tech companies have heightened concerns about the risks posed for humanity if developments continue at pace without significant guardrails.

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佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱 @jamscallion.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Xiyadie's papercut art was the highlight for me but of course I'm the target audience 🙂‍↕️✌️🌈

Colorful papercut art mounted on a black background depicting two cats watching two men intertwined in the shape of fish on a kitchen counter beside a cleaver.

Its gallery label reads:
Xiyadie 1963
Born and works China

Fish on a Chopping Board c.2001
Dye and pigment on paper

This work depicts a crowded kitchen filled with cooking utensils and ingredients. At the centre of the composition – and to the fascination of two predatory cats on a shelf are two men entangled with each other in the shape of a fish on a chopping board. For the artist, this is a way to express the vulnerability one experiences as a 'tongzhi' (同志). This translates from Chinese as 'comrade' and since the 1990s has been used in the Chinese-speaking world to express gay identity and solidarity.

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佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱 @jamscallion.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#TBT to when I went to the Tate Modern in the pouring rain and saw a bunch of incredible gay Chinese papercut art by Xiyadie and also Marcel Duchamp's urinal.

One of Marcel Duchamp's fountains on display at Tate Modern with reflections of museum goers visible in the glass.

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佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱 @jamscallion.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula.

Book cover for Bunnicula, subtitled "today vegetables... tomorrow the world!" Bunnicula is a black and white rabbit with red eyes and tiny fangs. A menacing shadow rises behind Bunnicula.

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佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱 @jamscallion.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

My once on a blue moon update is that I went to the Kew Gardens and it was absolutely stunning, because ultimately I am just a sucker for a glass building full of plants.

White blossom with tendrils trailing from it, among greenery

A constellation of small white flowers in a sort of geometric adjacent arrangement above a pair of shoes (mine lol)

An overhead view of a verdant conservatory with the rusted white struts in am arch above

Bright yellow flowers in the foreground with a spiral staircase in the background

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佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱 @jamscallion.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

don't worry about book banning guys, penguin is on the case!

Hot dog "we're all trying to find the guy who did this" meme in which Penguin is trying to find the guy who did this (ted cruz) so they can publish his book about supreme court justice Clarence Thomas. loser behavior by all parties.

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佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱 @jamscallion.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Congrats to all these publishing unions on their wins!!! 🎉🤝 They're making the industry a better place. Be sure to follow and show your support as they head to the bargaining table: @hbgworkers.bsky.social @ucpworkersguild.bsky.social @darkhorseunion.bsky.social

Two arms with hands clasped in solidarity. One arm is labeled "Catapult workers, "Hachette workers", and "University of Chicago Press workers," and the other arm is labeled "Dark Horse workers"

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佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱 @jamscallion.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

When I was flyering today and asked a guy holding a Pride x Nordstrom banner if he wanted to keep ICE out of Pride, he was like "no..." 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫 And then I looked around and realized I was surrounded by corporate sponsors... ANYWAY happy pride!!!! 🌈 fuck ice!!

Mr krabs looking absolutely shook and dizzy

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佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱 @jamscallion.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

🎵 im at the ecosocialist meeting, im at the No Data Center art build, im at the combination ecosocialist No Data Center art build 🎵

NO DATA CENTERS poster with an angry possum and flowers

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佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱 @jamscallion.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

#TBT to Clara NOT approving of the little hat I made out of her fur

A disgrungled orange cat wearing a hat made from her fur. She is sitting in a box and looks real pissed

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佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱 @jamscallion.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

If you love comics and/or unions, head's up: Dark Horse is unionizing! 🥳 That makes four publishers unionizing this summer. Be sure to follow @darkhorseunion.bsky.social and sign their petition 🔗 actionnetwork.org/petitions/da...

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佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱 @jamscallion.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Happy book bday to @jesserbest.bsky.social and You Pierce My Soul! I so loved getting to edit this and in my very biased opinion, it absolutely slaps. If sapphic dystopian YA sounds like your cup of tea, check it out! 🔗 bookshop.org/p/books/you-...

An orange tabby poses furiously next to an ARC of You Pierce My Soul.

An orange tabby is moving toward the camera, tongue licking her nose. An ARC of You Pierce My Soul lies on the table, forgotten.

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佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱 @jamscallion.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Updating the graphic again to add @ucpworkersguild.bsky.social which is unionizing too! 🥳 We truly love to see it. Be sure to follow them and send a letter of support 🔗 actionnetwork.org/letters/were...

Two arms with hands clasped in solidarity. One arm is labeled "Catapult workers" and "Hachette workers", the other arm is labeled "University of Chicago Press workers," signifying that hot labor summer has indeed come for publishing

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佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱 @jamscallion.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Updating the graphic for 2026 😤✊ Follow @hbgworkers.bsky.social on here and if you're on IG, follow the Hachette and Catapult union accounts there too!

Two arms with clasped hands. One arm has text that reads Catapult workers, the other arm reads Hachette workers and the clasped hands reads UNIONIZING FOR A HOT LABOR SUMMER IN PUBLISHING

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佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱 @jamscallion.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

sorry, wait this is my favorite actually: my cat niece looking like she is contemplating your downfall, just absolutely seething with fury

an orange tabby cat standing in a doorway, backlit by the morning sun. Her shadow is long and terrible. She looks like she is seething with fury

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佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱 @jamscallion.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

difficult to pick one photo, but this one of my cat niece is pretty good

Orange tabby cat sitting up with a sneer on her face

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佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱 @jamscallion.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Happy GDC! Hope every game worker gets to unionize because my god, the games industry needs it.

Bugs bunny wearing a tuxedo wishing all overworked and underpaid games industry workers a very good luck with unionizing i am rooting for you

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佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱 @jamscallion.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Too chicken to play Scarlet Hollow by myself but deeply enjoyed meeting this perfect little screaming opossum 😭♥️

Photo of a spooky visual novel game being played on a TV screen. A small possum is screaming and text options below read:

"Afraid!"

(Explore) "I friend, I no hurt!"
(Explore) "Aww, what's your name, little guy?"
(Explore) "What are you doing in my drawers?"
(Explore) "Can you move, please? I wanna put my clothes in here."

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佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱 @jamscallion.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

someone please explain to my mom that real winners quit

Da Share Zone meme of a skeleton in a running pose. It reads:
JUST WALK OUT
you can leave!!

work
social thing
movies
home
class
dentist
clothes shoppi
too fancy weed store
cops if your quick
friend ships

if it sucks.... hit da bricks!!!
real winners quit

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佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱 @jamscallion.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

The Publishing for Minnesota fundraiser kicks off tomorrow! 💥 If you know someone who might want a manuscript critique or publishing AMA from a professional kidlit and romance editor, send them my way! 🔗 www.32auctions.com/organization...

Social media graphic with a photo of yours truly holding a teetering stack of books. The text reads:

I DONATED:

50-page manuscript critique + 1-hour publishing AMA

to Publishing for Minnesota's fundraiser auction.

Auction opens Thursday January 29th
www.32auctions.com/publishingforMN

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佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱 @jamscallion.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

To support the Shut Down Moshannon campaign: 🔗 Follow @ ShutDownDetentionCampaign on IG ✍️ Sign the petition: www.change.org/p/shut-down-... ☎️ Call on Clearfield county to end their contract with Moshannon: 814-765-2642 Ext. 505 📬 Send a letter: 212 East Locust St. Clearfield, PA 16830 ✉️ Email ⬇️

Tell the Clearfield County Commissioners to end the ICE contracts at Moshannon.

- Send an email to twinters@clearfieldcountypa.gov, jsobel@clearfieldcountypa.gov, dglass@clearfieldcountypa.gov, cccomm@clearfieldcountypa.gov

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佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱 @jamscallion.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Just took the Discord survey on implementing AI and it's basically like: "Which of these 9 terrible things do you dislike about AI? And how can we convince you to be cool with it?" Survey 🔗 discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

What, if anything, concerns you most about AI? (Select all that apply)

Quality / accuracy of outputs

Al making decisions that affect me

Bias / unfair outcomes

Data being used for training

Privacy

Environmental impact

Power concentrating in the hands of a few companies/individuals

Impact on employment

Lack of authenticity (it's getting harder to tell what's real or human-made)

Discord Research

What would make you more comfortable with Al features in Discord?

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佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱 @jamscallion.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

spotted a very good new year's omen on my walk

Black cat doing a big stretch on someone's doorstep, looking like a long boy

Black cat doing a big stretch. Downward facing dog like

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佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱 @jamscallion.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Anyway, here's Miss Clara reacting to bubbles and showing off her tooth.

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佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱 @jamscallion.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

A final update from Quirk Books Union ✊💔 Devastated that, in the three months since we unionized, management never met the union at the bargaining table -- and now the remaining four union members have all been laid off.

On October 1st, Quirk Books became an imprint of Andrews McMeel Publishing, and as a result, the positions of all the remaining union members have been eliminated. We were scheduled to begin bargaining our contract on October 2nd. We're dismayed that this has happened-we truly love the work we have done and the books we have helped create at Quirk, and the union was our effort to ensure that those books could continue being made sustainably and well.

Given the acquisition of the company and the layoffs, Quirk Books Union will no longer exist. Despite how this is ending, we greatly value the experiences we've had and the knowledge we've gained through the unionization process.

To anyone else thinking of unionizing: Please don't get discouraged! As we've learned, it's a hard fight that doesn't always end well, but we believe that unionization efforts will only serve to make publishing and labor better for all. If you're interested in unionizing, check out the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) @organizeworkers for resources and support!

Thank you all for your support and solidarity! It's meant a lot to every one of us who has been part of this unionization process

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佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱 @jamscallion.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Cozy day in reading Ravishing by @eshanisurya.bsky.social ☕ Put it on your TBR for a gorgeously written novel about identity, the beauty industry, chronic illness, and trauma.

A copy of Ravishing on a throw blanket beside a curled up cat

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佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱 @jamscallion.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

friend who i was in a union with for a hot second (🥲♥️) mailed me a gamechanger magnet and i love it

Orange tabby cat covering her little face while modeling a magnet that reads "congratulations! you've unionized"

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佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱 @jamscallion.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Unclear how the Quirk Books imprint under Andrews McMeel proposes to publish 20-25 books per year when every acquiring editor resigned or was laid off over the summer, shortly after unionizing.

Andrews McMeel Acquires Quirk Books
By Jim Milliot | Oct 07, 2025

In an agreement with Quirk Productions, Inc., Andrews McMeel Universal has acquired all of Quirk Books' titles and IP. Under the deal, Quirk has become an imprint of Andrews McMeel Publishing, and as of October 1, AMP has assumed publication of all of Quirk's frontlist and backlist titles.

Quirk founder and publisher Dave Borgenicht has been named publisher of the Quirk Books imprint at AMP, reporting to AMU president and CEO Kirsty Melville. Sales and distribution of all Quirk titles remain with Penguin Random House Publisher Services. AMP expects to publish 20 to 25 titles annually under the Quirk imprint.

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佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱 @jamscallion.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

please enjoy this relic of the 90s i found in a drawer: a pokemon watch with a flip cover that i'd pasted a picture of my guinea pig on

a faded pokemon watch featuring ash ketchum and a pokeball on the band. the watch cover has a picture of a beige guinea pig pasted on it

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佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱 @jamscallion.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

ICYMI, the cover reveal for @jesserbest.bsky.social's next book, You Pierce My Soul, is here! This upcoming sapphic dystopian YA looks gorgeous, thanks to illustrator @klimtsonian.bsky.social + designer Elissa ✨🌈 Revealed by audiobook legend Natalie Naudus on IG 🔗 www.instagram.com/p/DOv2tByDbU...

Book cover titled You Pierce My Soul by Jessica Mary Best, featuring two teen girls looking at each other longingly over their shoulders. They're in a futuristic greenhouse

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佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱 @jamscallion.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

In honor of #SapphicSeptember, I present for your consideration: Stars, Hide Your Fires by Jessica Mary Best, a sci-fi YA which I would pitch as "queer Knives Out in space" and is just delightful ✨🌈 Check it out here 🔗 bookshop.org/p/books/star...

Book titled Stars, Hide Your Fires on a light green bedspread. The cover shows two teen girls looking yearningly at each other in the reflection of two knives framing a pool of blood

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佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱 @jamscallion.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Anyway, this bit made me lol. Very thankful to my manager (who also got laid off 🥲) and folks in the Philly publishing community who were supportive of our unionizing. But I, too, am petty, and def took note of who in the industry fell on the anti-labor side of things. lithub.com/a-series-of-...

"Then, for the first time in ages, the union at HarperCollins began bargaining for a better contract. Even better, many HarperCollins employees who were too high-level to join the union also vocally supported the effort. (But not all; I'm a petty bitch, so I absolutely took note of all the scuttlebutt about holdouts.)"

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佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱 @jamscallion.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

I've been laid off (anyone hiring a children's book editor? lol 🥲) but I'm cheering for my colleagues still in the union, plus our Quirk authors and books. Hope you'll show them your support too ♥️

Many of you have asked how you can
support us! Thank you so much for asking and for all your encouragement so far.

- For workers who have been laid off: If you know of any job openings, we have a number of passionate and talented publishing workers available for hire. Please keep them in mind!

- For the union: Please follow this account and share our updates! In addition, please show your love for the books we have had the privilege to work on, and the authors we have loved collaborating with. All of us, current union members and workers who were laid off, are rooting for the success of our authors and our books.

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佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱 @jamscallion.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

ICYMI 👇 The latest from Quirk Books Union on IG

AN UPDATE FROM QUIRK BOOKS UNION

On June 19th, Quirk Books Union was voluntarily recognized, thanks to our enthusiastic supermajority support among eligible workers. The following week, seven of our union members were laid off, including all full-time non-supervisory employees in the Sales, Marketing, and Publicity department and our two remaining acquiring editors. We're devastated by this recent development, but it hasn't weakened our resolve.

We look forward to meeting management at the bargaining table.

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佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱 @jamscallion.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Here's a few Quirk books out in August! Please show them some love (preorder, request from the library, etc) 💓 🐝 www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/789598... 🐸 www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/789602... 🐱 www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/779681... 🐣 www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/767109...

I'm Just a Little Guy by Charlie James, illustrated by Paige Tompkins (cover features a frog lounging lackadaisically)

Zoomi & Zoe and the Sibling Situation by Corey Ann Haydu, illustrated by Anne Appert (cover features a kid holding an imaginary friend baby while an older imaginary friend looks furious that this baby interloper is here)

Cat's First Halloween by Natalie Nelson (cover features a cat wearing bat wings and a super adorable baby)

This is My Body by Lindsay King-Miller (cover features cool typography with a rosary looped around it and colorful wasps. The cover is a deep red-orange.)

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佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱 @jamscallion.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Want to support Quirk Books Union? Follow and boost our account (@ QuirkBooksUnion on IG), and support our Quirk authors! 🔗 www.instagram.com/quirkbooksun... Thank you so much for caring 🥲♥️

"but we need the audience to follow the account" meme

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佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱 @jamscallion.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Some personal news: As of Monday, I am no longer a kidlit editor at Quirk Books. I was laid off last week along with the other acquiring editor and every full-time union member on the Sales, Marketing, & Publicity team. Here's me on my last day with ~60% of the books I had the privilege to work on:

A kidlit editor holding a teetering stack of children's books (plus two adult books) and wearing a Newsguild union t-shirt

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佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱 @jamscallion.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Keep thinking of this handsome fellow 💓

Large bullfrog looking satisfied and damp

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佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱 @jamscallion.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

I have an approximate knowledge of many anime shows but have in fact watched very few 🥲🥲🥲 anime-sedai.egoist.dev

Large chart of animes listed by year, and the ones you've watched highlighted in green

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佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱 @jamscallion.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Happy book bday to Alice Chen's Reality Check by Kara Loo and Jennifer Young! 🥳 Want a thrilling beach read? Love reality tv? Into rivals-to-lovers and genreblending romcoms? Get into it! 📚 bookshop.org/p/books/alic...

Romance novel Alice Chen's Reality Check with haw flakes next to the colorful cover depicting two Asian American love interests looking flirty

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佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱 @jamscallion.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

We're manifesting a hot labor summer for publishing 🌞 If you're on IG, you can follow along @ QuirkBooksUnion ✨

Two arms with clasped hands. One arm has text that reads ME, the other arm reads MY COWORKERS and the clasped hands reads UNIONIZING FOR A HOT LABOR SUMMER IN PUBLISHING

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佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱 @jamscallion.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Me and a couple of coworkers made matching "fuck AI" friendship bracelets and I think that's beautiful 🥰

My hand holding a green Quirk Books Union sticker. On my wrist are two friendship bracelets, one of which says "eat the rich" and the other says "fuck AI"

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佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱 @jamscallion.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Gay the Pray Away by Natalie Naudus is out today! 🥳🌈 As a queer Taiwanese American, this book means so much to me, and I hope you'll give it a read. (The sign in this photo is the sign I was given at a rally when gay marriage was legalized in Taiwan in 2019 💖)

Sunlit photo of the book Gay the Pray Away on top of a sign with a rainbow and Chinese words reading ("union does not equal marriage, we don't want one country with two systems!") The book shows two teen girls holding hands against a sunset.

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佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱 @jamscallion.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Happy Indie Bookstore Day! 🥳 If you're looking for books to preorder, might I suggest: 📚 Gay the Pray Away by Natalie Naudus, a gorgeously written sapphic YA romance 📚 Alice Chen's Reality Check by Kara Loo and Jennifer Young, a reality tv romcom with a murder mystery twist

Overhead view of romance novel Alice Chen's Reality Check (which depicts an Asian American heroine and her love interest standing on a beach) and YA novel Gay the Pray Away (which depicts two teen girls holding hands in front of a sunset)

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