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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.
Got o dvpit.carrd.co for more info

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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

Massachusetts Center for the Book is a nonprofit dedicated to inspiring a love of reading, honoring the rich literary culture of the Commonwealth, promoting unrestricted access to books and libraries, and fostering literacy and learning through collaborative programming across Massachusetts.

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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

✨MORE ABOUT DTACTTA✨ A painfully average teen’s life is upended by a magical apocalypse In this voicey action-packed fantasy full of humor, horror, and romance. 🌟A William C. Morris Award finalist 💛A JLG Gold Standard selection ✨A YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults selection

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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

Thank you to the selection committee and thank you to all the amazing librarians who have supported DTACTTA, who continue to work so tirelessly to get books into the hands of the readers who need them most. I am so honored to be among these incredible titles! 💜

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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

Anyway. Please keep supporting stories by marginalized authors. We need them now more than ever 💜 We write and read to connect with people. Right now, and in the years to come, when every day is stressful and scary, we need to keep doing that in every way.

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

l'll never be able to express how much I appreciate everyone who read DTACTTA, who bought copies/ checked it out from their libraries, left reviews, posted about it, wrote to tell me it meant something to them, and recommended it to the young people in their lives.

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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

If you're in the mood for a voicey fantasy with humor, romance, unlikely heroes & misfit ensembles, a bitch cat, & a magical zombie apocalypse...go get it 📚

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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 · 06/01/2025

Ahhh I’m so glad you enjoyed!!

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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

But the biggest highlight? The people who’ve posted and written to say my story meant something to them/their teen/their students. If you ask any author, you’ll find that this tops everything else. This is what we’ll remember. Readers will always be the best part 💜

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

⭐️Hearing Eunice Wong bring DTACTTA to life in the audiobook ⭐️Receiving blurbs from authors I greatly admire ⭐️Saying “I KNOW THAT PERSON” for tons of amazing books this year and blurbing 2 of them 💕

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

⭐️Bookish Signs creating a gorgeous special edition ⭐️Doing virtual panels/blog interviews and being Kelly Andrews’ conversation partner in a real bookstore, with real readers, LIKE A REAL AUTHOR. ⭐️Selling foreign rights to Poland and Turkey (the Polish edition is out and BEAUTIFUL)

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

⭐️Receiving starred reviews from Kirkus and Shelf Awareness ⭐️Receiving my fave review from Locus Magazine because apparently I am “the real deal.” AM I? ⭐️Visiting indies around Boston and getting to sign copies ⭐️Seeing my book as a STAFF PICK at Belmont Books

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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 · 14/12/2024

Oh wow this is amazing to hear!

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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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