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Anna Tan

@annatsp.com

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Anna writes books, edits words, compiles anthologies, drinks tea, and fails at marketing. 🇲🇾 https://linktr.ee/annatsp

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Anna Tan @annatsp.com · Jun 16

📢 HONOUR is now out!
This is a FREE digital-only novelette that's exclusive for my newsletter subscribers so head over to annatsp.com/mailing-list to grab your copy now!

🎨The cover art and design for Honour is by @bydhiyanah.bsky.social . Find out more about their work here: bydhiyanah.carrd.co

Download my new ebook: HONOUR
Available for FREE on my website
annatsp.com/mailing-list

HONOUR
When Garett Regis Baya, Raja Muda of Bayangan, surrenders to Sultan Simson to save the remnants of his kingdom, he expects to be executed on the spot. Instead, he is taken captive to Maha, the capital city of Terang.

Made a servant in the Mahan Palace, Garett has to make peace with his current situation, while struggling to protect his fellow captives. How can he bear everything without losing himself or compromising on his principles?

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Anna Tan @annatsp.com · 50m

Been thinking about reviving my #fridayflash posts, and discovered the book of Chinese sayings I bought years ago. I suppose that's one way to restart it 😅

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Marc de Faoite @marcdefaoite.bsky.social · 21h

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Anna Tan @annatsp.com · 21h

UP NEXT!!

Preorder Milestones now: play.google.com/store/books/...

Book launch: Milestones
George Town Literary Festival
Sunday, 30 November
10 - 11 AM
UAB Salon, Gat Lebuh China

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Allister Thompson @allistert.bsky.social · 6d

Take it from a longtime editor/author/musician: no legitimate publisher/agent/book club/record label will ask you for money to work with you. Anyone who does is scamming and won’t do anything for you.

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Anna Tan @annatsp.com · 12d

Anna Tan @annatsp.com · 13d

Thank you!!!

Anna Tan @annatsp.com · 13d

❤️❤️❤️

So excited about this!

(If you're wondering, it's the Tea Novel woots!)

Watchful Wizard Publishing @watchfulwizardp.bsky.social · 13d

We just had an amazing meeting with our newest author Anna Tan! You can follow her on x @natzers and on blue sky @annatsp.com

Her cozy fantasy will be an incredible book for anyone who loves deep characters and unique plots!

#readerscommunity #authors #books

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Anna Tan @annatsp.com · 13d

FLYING TO KUCHING TOMORROW!
See you at the Sarawak Book Fair!
Don't be put off by scary BM title, @jhameia.bsky.social and I will probably be speaking in English and/or bahasa rojak lol

Sarawak Book Fair
Industri Penerbitan 101: Sisi gelap yang tidak dicetak
Tuesday, 30 September 2025
2pm - 5pm
Pentas Utama, Sarawak Book Fair 2025
The Hills Shopping Mall, Kuching

Anna Tan @annatsp.com · 14d

Writing the cover letter to send the thing was harder than the rest of the process 😅😅

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Anna Tan @annatsp.com · 14d

Sent the thing! Lol

Anna Tan @annatsp.com · 14d

SEND THE THING ANNA

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Anna Tan @annatsp.com · 14d

SEND THE THING ANNA

Anna Tan @annatsp.com · 26d

Artist talk! (About book covers & illustrations)

Anna Tan @annatsp.com · 27d

Plastic City Theatre Troupe

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Anna Tan @annatsp.com · 27d

A reading!

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Anna Tan @annatsp.com · 27d

Photo dump: a launch!

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Anna Tan @annatsp.com · Sep 9

MY WRITING DISTRACTION IS DONE.

You can see it at @hinbusdepot from now until 21 Sept.

PLEASE GO SEE IT because it ate up all my writing time, HOW DARE!!!!

Take this as a mystical preview (cos I was too lazy and hungry to retake a better photo) so that you can see it in its full glory in person!

Picture of an exhibition board. The top row spells out MILESTONES.

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Anna Tan @annatsp.com · Sep 8

The worst part of taking the weekend off to be sick is the reluctance to start doing anything. Lol. Can I take another sick day??

Anna Tan @annatsp.com · Sep 5

It's Friday night and I've been sneezing all day. Not sure if I want to continue working or just stay in bed and read.

(I don't work mornings so I do the night shift lol. It's also a public holiday!!!)

Anna Tan @annatsp.com · Aug 31

My parents: You're the writer, how is [word] supposed to be pronounced?

Me: I dunno, I don't have to say it. I just know how to spell it.

Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · Aug 31

former kids who read too many books and didnt know how to pronounce the words you learned gang say hey

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Anna Tan @annatsp.com · Aug 30

It feels like things should be in a holding pattern but I have too many things to do.

I should rush things out now so I can stop when it stops.

Anna Tan @annatsp.com · Aug 30

FRIENDS AND FOLLOWERS!

We're hoping to gather early funding to support printing our Milestones anthology. Support us by preordering a copy, whether in ebook or in print (Malaysia only).

For a limited time, you can also grab a bundle of all our NutMag zines for the past ten years!

Persatuan Penulis Malaysia / Malaysian Writers Society @mywriters.bsky.social · Aug 29

Every 5 years, MYWriters Penang publishes a special anthology edition of NutMag to mark the occasion. In 2020, that was Home Groan. This year, it's Milestones! Happy ten-year anniversary, NutMag!

Preorder here! tinyurl.com/PreorderMilestones

Milestones Anthology Preorder Form | Cognito Forms

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Anna Tan @annatsp.com · Aug 29

Haha, I crossed the 11pm mark, which is usually roach season so I think I'll forgo the maggi

Anna Tan @annatsp.com · Aug 29

If I eat supper will that give me the energy to keep going?

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Anna Tan @annatsp.com · Aug 28

Braced.

Looking like a rapid decline.

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Stephen Cox But Spookier @stephencoxauthor.bsky.social · Aug 25

Giveaway The Crooked Medium's Guide to Murder

Repost this!

"A spooky tale where little is as it seems. Forgery, false accusations, secret identities. Are old crimes coming home to roost? To solve a baffling murder, Mrs Ashton must look both sides of the grave"

#booksky #reading #Victorian #books

Outside, trees background. Stephen Cox vaguely manic looking with grey hair and beard with a fan of three paper copies of The Crooked Medium's Guide to murder. A rich dark blue background, and a touch of mist. The text appears in gold in a gold rectangular frame, the font is old fashioned implying C19th century. The frame has three rondels or cameos each containing a picture. Top right is a golden bee brooch with the body and one wing streaked with red blood. Middle left is foxgloves, spires of small bell flowers in pink, white and purple. Bottom right is a dark brown medicine bottle, with a pale label. The word LAUDANUM is just visible.
There are pink highlights on some of the letters.
Taken together it is bold, mysterious, and Victorian.

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