Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Kat Cho

@katchowrites.bsky.social

3.2K followers 200 following 370 posts

NYT & international best-selling chaos machine 📚 GUMIHO series | ONCE UPON A K-PROM | WISH UPON A K-STAR 🔜 GODS & COMICS (PRH, April 21, 2026) 🇰🇷🌈 📱 tiktok/IG katchowrites https://www.katchowrites.com/links she/her

www.katchowrites.com

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

Kat Cho @katchowrites.bsky.social · Jul 24

☀️COVER REVEAL for Gods & Comics☀️
🎨 by Robin Har
I am obsessed with this beautiful cover for GODS & COMICS! The comic panels, Grace reaching for Haemosu as he comes alive! It's everything I could have dreamed of!
#GodsAndComics #booksky @penguinteen.bsky.social
🔗: www.katchowrites.com/gods-comics

About Gods & Comics
New York Times bestseller Kat Cho returns with a fresh contemporary, fantasy romance about a teen whose life is upended when the gods in her anonymous viral web comic inspired by a forgotten Korean myth come to life and the hero falls in love with her.
Seventeen-year-old junior class vice president Grace Bak has her entire future all mapped out. With plans to become a doctor like both her parents, Grace has her sights set on Boston University's intensive science summer program--which will put her on the fast track to medical school.
When she's not at school or studying, Grace writes and illustrates her webcomic, Sun God, inspired by the Korean myth of Haemosu about two teenage gods trapped in human form who are cursed to live in the modern world, and perhaps worst of all, to attend public high school. She started the comic as a way to honor her grandmother who used to tell her all the old myths before she died. Grace never expected the comic to go viral, but it has, and she's still spinning from the excitement of having thousands of readers. But somehow the power of all those readers has conjured the real Haemosu and now it's up to Grace to get him back to his own realm.
As Grace and Hae try to figure out a way for Hae to return home, the two become close. Hae challenges everything Grace has ever believed about herself even making her braver in the face of her near-crippling anxiety. hae learns he is fallible, after all and waht it means to sacrifice for those you love.
But Hae isn't the only god to find themselves suddenly trapped in the mortal realm and now a battle is on the horizon. Grace and Hae fight side by side, but in the end, will their burgeoning love keep them together or tear them apart?

4 20

Reposted by Kat Cho

#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social · 12m

Wow! Hearing about people getting partial and full requests for their queries from #DVpit already! So exciting!

a little girl is crying while holding her fist in the air and the word exciting is on the bottom .

ALT: a little girl is crying while holding her fist in the air and the word exciting is on the bottom .

media.tenor.com

1 2 22

Kat Cho @katchowrites.bsky.social · 15m

How dare you not set aside superfluous things like hunger for DVpit

1 1

Kat Cho @katchowrites.bsky.social · 15m

Dericah Smawson?

1 1

Kat Cho @katchowrites.bsky.social · 17m

just write it yourself, Eric

a cartoon of a fish saying `` you want something done , you 've got to do it yourself ''

ALT: a cartoon of a fish saying `` you want something done , you 've got to do it yourself ''

media.tenor.com

1 1

Kat Cho @katchowrites.bsky.social · 2h

My heart is so full seeing all the diverse stories pitched today! But, more than that, the way people came together & supported each other is exactly why I love #DVpit & working on this event! Our stories matter! Our community matters! Best wishes to all participants. Now back to my deadlines...

#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social · 3h

That's a wrap on #DVpit 2025!
Thank you to everyone who participated, volunteered, or supported!
Thank you to the agents & editors who showed up!
And thank you to our board @peterlopez.bsky.social & @katchowrites.bsky.social & @claribelortega.com who brought #DVpit to Bluesky!

Thank you
to everyone who pitched, supported, or volunteered for #DVpit 2025
follow @dvpit.bsky.social to stay in touch

2 50

Kat Cho @katchowrites.bsky.social · 5h

Please Agents/Editors snatch this one up so i can find out what the "truth her world was forced to forget" is!

HK Smith | Writer @thehksmith.bsky.social · 8h

LEGENDBORN’S Black girl magic+DUNE’S theocratic mysticism in a #YA dystopian #F where memories are sacrificed to an arcane intelligence.

To break a generational curse, Vega must:
⚔️Save her missing brother
💔Ally with her first heartbreak
🌑Uncover the truth her world was forced to forget

#DVPit #SFF

1 11

Kat Cho @katchowrites.bsky.social · 5h

YES! I am ALL ABOUT sci-fi! I'd read this in a heartbeat!

1 2

Kat Cho @katchowrites.bsky.social · 6h

LOOOVE this pitch!

1 1

Kat Cho @katchowrites.bsky.social · 6h

DVpit #querying Tip: As you scroll the feed make note of which agents like pitches in similar categories/genres as yours & add them to your general querying list! The feed is so busy, they might've missed yours, but if they're liking similar stories that means it's something they want in their inbox

1 22 120

Kat Cho @katchowrites.bsky.social · 6h

Thank you for being a part of it as an agent, Kelly! <3

Kat Cho @katchowrites.bsky.social · 6h

Seeing a bunch of DVpit pitches with multiple agent and editor requests and we've still got four more hours to go! So exciting to see the event flourish on a new platform this year

a close up of a person wearing headphones and a jacket with their eyes closed .

ALT: a close up of a person wearing headphones and a jacket with their eyes closed .

media.tenor.com

3 1 75

Kat Cho @katchowrites.bsky.social · 6h

Ahhh! Love the imagery you create here!

Kat Cho @katchowrites.bsky.social · 7h

It's kind of rood that I'm not able to buy this book yet

Brighton Rose @heybrightonrose.bsky.social · 11h

NINTH HOUSE x BOYS WITH SHARP TEETH

16yo Beatrice attends cutthroat Blairwood Academy in disguise to uncover which student there killed her ex-girlfriend.

📚 Magical dark academia
🇵🇭 Biracial FMC
🖤 Rivals-to-lovers
🗡️ Dueling secret societies
📖 Sentient evil library

#DVpit #YA #CF #F #WOC #LGBT

A black and white illustration done in the styles of Alphonse Mucha and Bon Orthwick. On the left is Beatrice Tamayo, a dark-haird teenage girl in a school uniform levitating an unbitten apple. On the right is Bianca Sacramore, her hair billowing up above her, levitating an apple with a single bite out of it. Around each girl is an ornate frame with smaller illustrations, including celestial elements and vintage books.

1 10

Kat Cho @katchowrites.bsky.social · 7h

Alright, honestly, why isn't this published yet? Seriously

Kanani O’Kelly @kananiokelly.bsky.social · 10h

MOANA x SHADOW & BONE

To save her uncle, Keahi must interfere with the King’s plans to restore his kingdom’s power—except the throne was never his to claim, & the island only answers to one: the girl with a heart of fire

🌋 Hawaiian folklore
🌌 sentient island
🌊 found family

#DVPit #YA #F #NHPI

1 1 8

Kat Cho @katchowrites.bsky.social · 7h

These comps! Sisterhood? Yes, please!!

Abbey ابي 🌻✨ @abbeyfwilliams.bsky.social · 15h

SPICE ROADxSPIRITED AWAY
Leila lives by 3 rules for survival: never look at the jinn, never talk to them, & never draw their attention. But when the treacherous spirits from her sitti’s tales steal her sisters, she’ll do anything—even strike a deal with a jinni—to save them.
#DVpit #YA #F #MENA #ND

1 8

Kat Cho @katchowrites.bsky.social · 7h

You'd have to pry my vampire books from my cold (un)dead hands. Gimme this one please!!!

Elena B Sato @elenabsato.bsky.social · 7h

BETTER THAN THE MOVIES X A GOOD GIRL’S GUIDE TO MURDER X VAMPIRES

🧛🏻‍♀️ an antisocial vampire turned amateur sleuth
💫 her ex-best friend, back from boarding school
🔎 a baffling murder with secretive suspects
🖤 an inconvenient time to fall in love

#DVPit #YA #CF #Asian #WOC #CI

Kat Cho @katchowrites.bsky.social · 7h

Bridgerton but with assassins? Say less

Jade Wilburn @jadewrites.bsky.social · 8h

QUEEN’S SPADE X BRIDGERTON

Thief Selene impersonates a Lady and fakes a courtship with Prince Henry to protect him in exchange for a hefty payday. It’s knives out for the upstart from both the glittering high society and the assassins who won’t stop until Henry is dead 💀

#DVPIT #YA #F #booksky

1 6

Kat Cho @katchowrites.bsky.social · 7h

Oooh! This one looks so fun! I'd definitely read!

Alexandra Z. Lazar @alexandrazlazar.bsky.social · 15h

FROZENxWICKED

To free-spirited 13y/o Harriet, living Happily Ever After as a queen feels horrible. But if she unleashes her powers to break free of the Book of Fate, she’ll break the kingdom. Can she embrace her true self even if it means defying her sister, the Fairy Godmother?

#DVpit #MG #F #ND