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#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Today is #PreDV, the pitch practice event before #DVpit! Post your pitch drafts with #preDV from 8AM-8PM ET Post as many pitches or revisions as you need feedback on! Provide feedback for other participants on their pitches & make new friends! more info at dvpit.carrd.co #writersky

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September 29, 2025 from 8AM-8PM ET
Practice your #DVpit pitches using #preDV!
Give fellow #DVpit hopefuls feedback on their pitches.
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Robin Wasley @robinwasley.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

SHE’S AN AWARD WINNER!! Dead Things Are Closer Than They Appear is the 2025 Mass Book Award winner for YA/MG. I wrote a weird genre mashy story about a Korean American adoptee with no special skills who just happened to be there when a magical zombie apocalypse hit. And now, it’s an award winner 🥹

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Robin Wasley @robinwasley.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Ah yes, my annual PSA: Hello. I am Asian. This AANHPI Heritage Month, if you're in the mood for a voicey action-packed YA fantasy full of humor, horror, and romance...DEAD THINGS ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR is available wherever books are sold (now in paperback)!

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Robin Wasley @robinwasley.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

DEAD THINGS ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR has been longlisted for the 2025 Mass Book Awards! I’m so honored to be among these brilliant books! 📚📚📚

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Robin Wasley @robinwasley.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

📚HAPPY PAPERBACK DAY TO DEAD THINGS ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR📚 It’s been over a year and it’s still wild that something I wrote has multiple formats and has (and will be) read by people other than me. Thank you to all past and future readers for picking up this story 🥹💜

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Robin Wasley @robinwasley.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Me: Wait…when are my paperbacks coming out again? (Checks date) Oh. It’s tomorrow. Maybe I should check the mailroom (Checks mailroom) ANYWAY the DEAD THINGS ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR paperback is out tomorrow, April 22nd!! 💀

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Robin Wasley @robinwasley.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

🎉It’s my birthday 🎉 🌸AND the first day of spring!!!🌸 I think we should all do something nice for ourselves to celebrate. I will be doing absolutely nothing today. For you, DEAD THINGS ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR is right there… 💜

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Robin Wasley @robinwasley.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

📚DEAD THINGS ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR is on YALSA's Best Fiction for Young Adults list for 2025📚 Librarians have given so much love to this book. As a kid who spent countless hours among the shelves of my own library, I can't express how much that means to me.

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Robin Wasley @robinwasley.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

🎉Happy 1st Anniversary to DEAD THINGS ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR🎉 It has officially been one year since I released this book into the wild, hoping for the best and expecting the worst 😂 Today: One Year Ago:

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Robin Wasley @robinwasley.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Did you know the paperback for Dead Things Are Closer Than They Appear is out April 22nd? NOW YOU DO. And it’s time for the ⭐️B&N PREORDER SALE⭐️ From 2/5 -2/7, use the code PREORDER25 for 25% off your paperback (with William C. Morris Finalist sticker ☺️)!!

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Robin Wasley @robinwasley.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

New promo: My book has holographic foil and a sticker 😊

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Kat Cho @katchowrites.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Wanted to do something positive today, so I made a starter pack of Diverse Kidlit creators and industry professionals! #diversekidlit #starterpack #diversifyyourshelves #weneeddiversebooks go.bsky.app/Ma4TCD7

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Robin Wasley @robinwasley.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Thank you so much for this honor!!

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Robin Wasley @robinwasley.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

The usual New Year’s tteok mandu guk (+ highlight album)! Something authors always say: Celebrate your wins. So. I present my 2024 Highlights. ⭐️Publishing my first novel after decades trying ⭐️Being a JLG Gold Standard Selection ⭐️Being a William C. Morris Award finalist? Still weird.

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Sondra Eklund @sonderbooks.com · 06/10/2024

Dead Things Are Closer Than They Appear, by Robin Wasley, is, no surprise, a zombie book. What is a surprise is the tender way it looks at community and friendship and forgiveness and working together through anything. www.sonderbooks.com/Teens/dead_t...

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Steph Lau (she/her) @stephlaubooks.com · 11/03/2024

Finished @robinwasley.bsky.social's zombie apocalypse novel, Dead Things Are Closer Than They Appear, and I LOVED IT. It was deeply funny and also resonant, and exactly the weird I needed right now. 📚👍🏻

A cover of the book, Dead Things Are Closer Than They Appear, by Robin Wasley. A cover with a boy and girl reaching for one another and creepy skulls and bones and leaves. So shiiiiiiny: metallic bits on black bg.

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Simon & Schuster Ed/Library @ssedlib.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Congratulations to debut author Robin Wasley, editor Alyza Liu, and Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers! #AwardFinalist #BookSky

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Colleen Mondor @chasingray.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

DEAD THINGS ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR by Robin Wasley. A small town on an old magic boundary, bad rich guy who wants more power, zombies, mercenaries, teens who rise up ala RED DAWN to save the day & more. Great action, great characters, weirdly relevant. www.simonandschuster.com/books/Dead-T...

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Cybils Awards @cybilsawards.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

DEAD THINGS ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR by @robinwasley.bsky.social Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Young Adult Speculative Fiction nominee #cybils2024 📚👍🏼 1/3

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Robin Wasley @robinwasley.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

It has been awhile 😂 But I’ve come to say that DEAD THINGS ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR is a William C. Morris Award finalist. I had actually planned to write a whole post today, in the last month of my debut year, to talk about what DTACTTA means to me.

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Nikki T. Grant @nikkitgrant.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

With the holiday season coming up, I would like to humbly request help to #clearthelist. I have an ongoing wishlist for my classroom and I would love any donations I can get to support my students. www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/... #Edusky🍎 #EDUsky

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a cartoon of a cat with a unicorn tail and the words pusheenicorn 's holiday tips

Alt: a cartoon of a cat with a unicorn tail and the words pusheenicorn 's holiday tips listing to gift your presence, be generous, light up the room, and slay

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Robin Wasley @robinwasley.bsky.social · 13/02/2024

🎉🎉Annnnd Dead Things Are Closer Than They Appear is OUT TODAY🎉🎉 After writing this for a decade, losing the entire thing when my laptop got stolen, quitting, writing it all over again from scratch, then getting hundreds (literally hundreds) of rejections on it…I’m here now.

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Robin Wasley @robinwasley.bsky.social · 13/02/2024

📚Obligatory author photo with stacks of my own book📚 I'm not sure what to say on Pub Day Eve. This has been 20 years in the making. Thanks to everyone who read and believed in and supported this book and thanks to everyone who will 💜

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Robin Wasley @robinwasley.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

IN ONE WEEK…Dead Things Are Closer Than They Appear will be out. To mark the occasion, I’m taking another selfie in which I’m totally fine about it* *I’m screaming internally. Dead Things Are Closer Than They Appear. Feb 13, 2024. bit.ly/3Ctbdla

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Robin Wasley @robinwasley.bsky.social · 02/01/2024

🚨DEAD THINGS ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR IS ON NETGALLEY🚨 Also on Edelweiss but I’ve been on there for months 😂 GO RIGHT NOW! REQUEST IT & REVIEW! AND ADD ON GOODREADS! AND PREORDER! Or just one of those things, I’m not picky 😂

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Robin Wasley @robinwasley.bsky.social · 01/01/2024

It is ✨2024 ✨ and officially my debut year... I present the rare photo that doesn't feature some kind of food. Dead Things Are Closer Than They Appear comes out this year... DEAD THINGS ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR COMES OUT IN SIX WEEKS. I'm excited!* *I am literally terrified.

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Robin Wasley @robinwasley.bsky.social · 20/11/2023

2nd trade review--this one from Publishers Weekly! Dead Things Are Closer Than They Appear is out 2/13/24. If you like voicey fantasy with humor, romance, unlikely heroes & misfit ensembles, bitch cats, & magical zombie apocalypses, preorder here 😊: bit.ly/3Ctbdla

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Robin Wasley @robinwasley.bsky.social · 17/11/2023

⭐️MY FIRST KIRKUS REVIEW⭐️ And it's a STAR? This book is extremely close to my heart. So thrilled that this REALLY WEIRD BOOK is making its way out into the world and finding people who love it.

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Robin Wasley @robinwasley.bsky.social · 17/11/2023

Um…apparently DEAD THINGS ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR has been chosen as a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection!!??!!? THANK YOU JLG for getting my book into the hands of librarians who will get it into the hands of the readers who need it most. Preorder: bit.ly/3Ctbdla

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Robin Wasley @robinwasley.bsky.social · 13/11/2023

✨GOODREADS GIVEAWAY✨ So this is happening lol! You have 14 days—go get your copy of DEAD THINGS ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR!! Going on now until Nov 27th www.goodreads.com/book/show/17...

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Robin Wasley @robinwasley.bsky.social · 09/10/2023

To celebrate finishing 2nd pass pages on Dead Things Are Closer Than They Appear, I’m doing my first ARC Giveaway on Instagram! Closing in on 4 months out and I’m not panicking or anything… Link to Instagram post: www.instagram.com/p/CyLelyxLX1...

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Robin Wasley @robinwasley.bsky.social · 10/09/2023

Just bullying my nieces in the family group chat

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Robin Wasley @robinwasley.bsky.social · 10/09/2023

When you get a shipping notice for a mystery package from a printer in NJ that's going to an old address and you almost ignore it, but instead you re-route it just in case…JUST IN CASE IT TURNS OUT TO BE A GIANT BOX OF YOUR ARCS. You can preorder 🥺 bit.ly/3Ctbdla

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Robin Wasley @robinwasley.bsky.social · 07/09/2023

🥺 My book is on Edelweiss 🥺You can request it 🥺 If you want 🥺 Just letting you know 🥺

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Robin Wasley @robinwasley.bsky.social · 06/09/2023

New apartment, new baked goods! Wheel croissant (turned out more like a croffin) Sweet corn custard tart 😋🥐🌽🥧

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Robin Wasley @robinwasley.bsky.social · 06/09/2023

Because I’m new here… If you like voicey fantasy with humor, drama, romance, unlikely heroes & misfit ensembles, bitch cats, magic & a little bit of zombie apocalypse, presenting DEAD THINGS ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR!! Also HOLOGRAPHIC. FOIL. bit.ly/3Ctbdla

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attractive girls consume literature @grahseeya.bsky.social · 06/09/2023

etc, etc Preorder links in my bio, use code PREORDER25

Graphic of strips alternating the covers of THE BREAKUP VACATION & THE MISDIRECTION OF FAULT LINES, with "B&N PREORDER SALE" superimposed over it in bold white lettering

Screenshot of a TikTok of a woman pointing to the bags under her eyes and the headline: yes, tired eyes are trending. My added caption over it reads: "just buy the books so I don't have to keep making Canva graphics"

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Taj McCoy (she/her) @tajmccoy.bsky.social · 06/09/2023

Get ready to expand that #tbr! 📚 Don’t miss @barnesandnoble’s 25% off pre-order sale happening now! If you’re a B&N Rewards and Premium member, you can get 25% off your pre-order of The Good Ones Are Taken until September 8th! Use promo code: PREORDER25 www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-good-o...

Cover for THE GOOD ONES ARE TAKEN surrounded by a swirl of golden glitter over a white shiplap background with a Barnes & Noble banner sign across the top and a gold banner on the side that reads “B&N premium and rewards members get 25% off preorders from 9/6-9/8!” Along the bottom is preorder code: PREORDER25.

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Robin Wasley @robinwasley.bsky.social · 06/09/2023

Y’all it’s my first one of these!! B&N preorder sale! Use the code PREORDER25 for 25% off 9/6 - 9/8. If you like voicey fantasy with humor, romance, unlikely heroes & misfit ensembles, bitch cats, & a magical zombie apocalypse, preorder DEAD THINGS ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR bit.ly/3P5y6kI

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