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Penny Zang

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English prof + writer + Tori Amos fan. Debut novel, Doll Parts, forthcoming from Sourcebooks in 2025. Substack & more: http://linktr.ee/PennyZang

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Penny Zang @pennyzang.bsky.social · Nov 20

Cover reveal!

I am so excited to share the cover of DOLL PARTS, coming August 2025. Thanks to the wonderful team at Sourcebooks and Browne & Miller Literary Associates.

I am thrilled to share this story with you! 🖤✨👻

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Penny Zang @pennyzang.bsky.social · 1d

Please help me share! Book sale alert: The ebook version of Doll Parts is on sale today only, 10/9. For only 2.99, get yourself a copy at places Barnes & Noble, Kobo, or Amazon. 🖤👻🎀

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Doll Parts: A Novel

Doll Parts: A Novel - Kindle edition by Zang, Penny. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Doll Parts: A Novel.

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Penny Zang @pennyzang.bsky.social · 6d

My personal and unofficial fall curriculum while editing Book 2 (Accidents Never Happen 💋) is a combination of Poe and Shirley Jackson, haunted bar stories, and the architecture of Baltimore row homes.

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Laura Lippman @lauralippman.bsky.social · 6d

Good morning, Bluesky.

I chanced upon my own alternative universe yesterday, unexpectedly taking a long walk through the neighborhood I once thought would be my lifelong home, surprised/gratified/chagrinned at how limited my imagination is when it comes to my own life.

Domino Sugar plant at sunrise, seemingly quite excited to see me this morning.

But, seriously: I always tell my writing students that they won’t be able to achieve things that they’re not willing to articulate to at least one other sentient being. I tell them they have to own their dreams. If you want to be a NYT bestseller or a Nobel Prize winner or have Marion Ettlinger take your author photo — whatever your dream is, you must speak to it. But there was a time when my own dreams were so limited, when all I could see was a certain kind of house, a career like my father’s, a life like my mother’s, i.e. having a job AND doing almost all the housework/child care. By sheer happenstance, I walked away from newspapers less than a decade before the industry imploded and through crazy luck I’ve kept my head above water in an industry whose obituary is written every six months or so.

tl;dr: Who knows what the next 5, 10, 20 years will bring?

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Penny Zang @pennyzang.bsky.social · 10d

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ALT: a fluffy cat is sitting on a table with a meme .

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Penny Zang @pennyzang.bsky.social · 13d

It’s my birthday! 🥳 Instead of candles, I’d love more readers discovering Doll Parts. If you’ve been looking for a sign to grab a copy (or leave a review), consider this my shameless birthday wish. Oh, and eat some cake while you're at it, too.

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Scary Heavens @daddyissuesbarbie.bsky.social · 16d

Ooh #booksky – Doll Parts by @pennyzang.bsky.social is delicious, if you like your fiction dark and sexy and conspiratorial. (And I’m only on chapter six)

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Penny Zang @pennyzang.bsky.social · 13d

Thank you so much! 🖤

Penny Zang @pennyzang.bsky.social · 20d

Turns out that I really needed to unplug. Getting back on the hamster wheel but adjusting the speed to slow.

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Jennifer Savran Kelly @jsavrankelly.bsky.social · 24d

My copy of DOLL PARTS by @pennyzang.bsky.social finally arrived!!!! Can’t wait to read it!!!

Selfie with a copy of doll parts by Penny Zang

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Amy Rossi @mossyair.bsky.social · 22d

Asheville folks! I hope you can join me and @pennyzang.bsky.social for a celebration of THE COVER GIRL and her amazing book DOLL PARTS at Malaprop’s Books!

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In-Store | Amy Rossi and Penny Zang present The Cover Girl and Doll Parts

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Melissa Flores Anderson @melissacuisine.bsky.social · 27d

My copy of Doll Parts arrived! Can't wait to dive in @pennyzang.bsky.social.

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Penny Zang @pennyzang.bsky.social · 25d

Yay!!! 💗

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Final Girlboss @scarletteharris.bsky.social · 29d

Book 142: Doll Parts by @pennyzang.bsky.social

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Penny Zang @pennyzang.bsky.social · Sep 9

Every time you see a book and you can think of someone you know who is the ideal reader for it, I called that a special kind of love language.

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The Love Language of the Auto Buy

Shut Up and Take My Money

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Penny Zang @pennyzang.bsky.social · Sep 4

I’m talking about vibes over on Writer’s Digest: “The book is anchored in themes of grief and girlhood, with a setting on an all-women’s campus in the 90s and full of 90s grunge references. Signaling this to readers started with a title change.”

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Vibes Can't Make a Book, but They Can Help Find Readers

Author Penny Zang discusses vibes and how they may not make a book, but they may still help writers find their readers.

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Literary Mama @literarymama.bsky.social · Sep 4

"I was finding that grief was changing who I was, how I wrote, how I processed, how I listened to music. Gosh, music was the hardest to listen to." @pennyzang.bsky.social talks w @evalangston.bsky.social & @hollyrizzutopal.bsky.social about her new novel, grief, and Sylvia Plath.

Penny Zang: Unfinished Business

Eva and Holly chat with Penny Zang, author of Doll Parts, about writing through grief, the “rights and wrongs” of motherhood, and finding inspiration in Sylvia Plath.

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Penny Zang @pennyzang.bsky.social · Sep 3

😍😍😍

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Jennifer Bew Orr 📖🖊️📷 @jenniferbeworr.bsky.social · Sep 1

Warm congratulations to all concerned!Delighted that I have such a fine lineup to appreciate as a reader 💙📚 #booksky

@ofmooseandmen.bsky.social
@regretteruane.bsky.social
@pennyzang.bsky.social
@antonialloydjones.bsky.social
@lindeneditions.bsky.social
@jennyknight.bsky.social

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Penny Zang @pennyzang.bsky.social · Aug 28

I loved this conversation with Thriller Thursday. Any chance to talk about Sylvia Plath and writing 🖤

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Writing What Haunts Us: Penny Zang on Friendship, Loss, and the Making of Doll Parts

with Lauren Nossett

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Penny Zang @pennyzang.bsky.social · Aug 27

When the bookstore gets the assignment. Thank you to M Judson Booksellers in Greenville, SC for making my pub day so fantastic.

Penny Zang @pennyzang.bsky.social · Aug 27

This was such a fun conversation. Please go listen to This Mama is Lit!

Literary Mama @literarymama.bsky.social · Aug 27

***NEW EPISODE!***

@pennyzang.bsky.social, author of Doll Parts, talks with @evalangston.bsky.social & @hollyrizzutopal.bsky.social about writing through grief, the “rights and wrongs” of motherhood, and finding inspiration in Sylvia Plath.

Penny Zang: Unfinished Business

Eva and Holly chat with Penny Zang, author of Doll Parts, about writing through grief, the “rights and wrongs” of motherhood, and finding inspiration in Sylvia Plath.

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Penny Zang @pennyzang.bsky.social · Aug 27

Thank you!!!

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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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Kelly Malacko @kellymalacko.bsky.social · Aug 26

Check this out #ThrillsandChills ❤️

Penny Zang @pennyzang.bsky.social · Aug 26

Today is the day! Doll Parts is officially out in the world. 💗💗💗

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Avalon Free Public Library @avalonlibrary.bsky.social · Aug 26

August is coming to a close with 8 great new #books for you to read, including the latest by R.F. Kuang, which may be the most recommended book of the year, having earned mentions from over 30 publications. + @authormiriamtoews.bsky.social, @dhbaron.bsky.social, @pennyzang.bsky.social, & more!

Best New Books: Week of 8/26/25

“War doesn’t determine who’s right. War determines who remains.” – R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War Doll Parts by Penny Zang fiction / mystery / suspense. For best friends Nikki and Sadi…

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