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Christina Hyun @christinahyun.bsky.social · May 10

It’s been a whirlwind past month! Happy to share I’m now repped by Mark Gottlieb of Trident Media Group and am on sub!

#writingcommunity #amwriting

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Christina Hyun @christinahyun.bsky.social · Aug 27

Happiest of book launch weeks to the VERY talented author @pennyzang.bsky.social
🥳📖🙌🏼❣️

#thrillers #crimefic #darkacademia #pennyzang #writingcommunity #dollpartsthenovel

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Christina Hyun @christinahyun.bsky.social · Jul 1

My current July/August TBR.
📖👩🏻‍💻📱☀️🦋

#tbr #summerreads #writingcommunity #amreading #thrillers #suspense #literary #scifi #timetravel #comedy #historicalfiction #historicalfictionbooks #romanticfiction #bookrecs #books #bookish #read #novels

Christina Hyun @christinahyun.bsky.social · Jun 27

That’s a very legitimate take on the non-fic book list.

Christina Hyun @christinahyun.bsky.social · Jun 27

Drafting a new novel all summer is my writing plan. 😊 So yeah I can only do so much on sm interactions while also working.

Christina Hyun @christinahyun.bsky.social · Jun 23

“Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism…”
——
If you’ve never read this 1946 article by George Orwell, and you get complaints you as a writer shouldn’t be “political”…

#amwriting #writingcommunity

Why I Write | The Orwell Foundation

"What I have most wanted to do throughout the past ten years is to make political writing into an art. My starting point is always a feeling of partisanship, a sense of injustice."

www.orwellfoundation.com

Christina Hyun @christinahyun.bsky.social · Jun 11

On a solo writing retreat and this Airbnb I’m at has a ramen/Doritos/mini Takis vending machine on the back porch.

#writingcommunity #amwriting #upmarket #suspense #satire #fiction #wip #write #authorcommunity #firstdraft

Christina Hyun @christinahyun.bsky.social · Jun 3

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Christina Hyun @christinahyun.bsky.social · Jun 3

Whenever a video starts with, “This is genius!”, I turn it off. I’ve reached my limit for being underwhelmed for the rest of my life.

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Christina Hyun @christinahyun.bsky.social · May 30

I’ve done nothing today except pleasure read and fry apples in butter and brown sugar. Taking a real (AKA full) day off. 🙂

CR 📖: “Bicentennial Summer” by indy author @chrispoorewrites.bsky.social

#amreading #writingcommunity #booksky #historicalfiction #ya #comingofage #retrofiction #bookrec

Christina Hyun @christinahyun.bsky.social · May 26

He and his writing are hard to forget about!

Christina Hyun @christinahyun.bsky.social · May 26

So good, right? 😊

Christina Hyun @christinahyun.bsky.social · May 18

I like it. :) Thanks for the input.

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Christina Hyun @christinahyun.bsky.social · May 17

This is definitely on my to read list.

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Christina Hyun @christinahyun.bsky.social · May 17

Yeah me too.

Christina Hyun @christinahyun.bsky.social · May 17

While doing my early morning walks the past two weeks, I listened to the tell-all audiobook of “Kitchen Confidential” by Anthony Bourdain. It was SO good narrated by him. Nvr read or heard it before. I miss his show and perspectives on people all over the 🌎.
#booksky #cooking #bookrecs #restaurants

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Christina Hyun @christinahyun.bsky.social · May 12

Reading makes me braver as a writer—seeing to what extremes other writers have pushed envelopes, bucked systems, taken up space as they should have, and wrote knowing there would be consequences from so many that will always pick what is self-preserving over what’s true. #writingcommunity #amwriting

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Christina Hyun @christinahyun.bsky.social · May 12

My TBR. And I’ll listen to “Gone Girl” while walking bc I’m curious to see how thrillers hv changed. 13 yrs since it pubbed and 20 yrs(!) since “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”, which for me was the first thriller in the “girl in the title” trend. Lisbeth Salander, is a MC I’ll nvr forget. #booksky

Christina Hyun @christinahyun.bsky.social · Apr 25

This is so interesting! Thanks for sharing.

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Christina Hyun @christinahyun.bsky.social · Apr 3

This balance is so hard!

Christina Hyun @christinahyun.bsky.social · Apr 2

Never have I so extensively “told” a story to myself like I am with this current first draft. There’s going to be some serious editing needed in the “showing” department later. 🫠 🙈

#writingcommunity #amwriting #upmarket #satire #suspense #fiction #momswritersclub #5amwritersclub #wip

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Christina Hyun @christinahyun.bsky.social · Apr 1

Someone emailed me from an AOL account. I wondered if they were typing away from the underground bunker in “Lost.”

Christina Hyun @christinahyun.bsky.social · Mar 13

Maybe nothing for lots of people.

Christina Hyun @christinahyun.bsky.social · Mar 13

Not depressing at all. It’s nice to share a quiet evening together.

Christina Hyun @christinahyun.bsky.social · Mar 13

*sigh* yeah for a whole 7 seconds of my nice night. Someone’s always gotta be the nit picky smart ass lol. 😂 Just finished reading the last 70 or so pages of a really good novel.

Christina Hyun @christinahyun.bsky.social · Mar 13

My husband and I are both sitting around reading. Books. Not phones. A perfect night. Tomorrow has enough worries of its own, and we’ll face them…tomorrow.

#booksky

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