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Ruby Lang, Opal Wei, Mindy Hung
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THE GLOWING LIFE OF LEEANN WU by Mindy out now from Alcove. WILD LIFE by Opal available now from Harlequin. I have a lot of names. she/her. Canadian. Rep'd by Sarah E. Younger at NYLA. www.opalwei.com
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HARD KNOCKS by me (Ruby Lang) has hockey and is written by someone who's Asian Canadian (and has an Asian Canadian FMC)
rubylangwrites.com/practice-per...
UK cover of Hard Knocks: Light blue background, illustrated white male hockey player (uniform, skates, holding hockey stick) and illustrated East Asian doctor (white coat, holding clipboard). "You can't put love in the penalty box", title HARD KNOCKS.
January 9, 2026 at 12:05 AM
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Gonna need a couple more mugs for my other names
Selfie in the kitchen with a mug with a slogan that says World's Best Mindy.
January 1, 2026 at 7:10 PM
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US readers, check it out! You can get THE GLOWING LIFE OF LEEANN WU at 20% off, too!

oblongbooks.com/book/9798892...
The Glowing Life of Leeann Wu flat at the center of a round yellow table with a smaller white circle under the book.
January 1, 2026 at 2:12 PM
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May you find humour in unexpected places.
A boarded window in an apartment building with an exhaust tube coming out of it and pair of googly eyes flanking the tube which makes the whole thing look like a clueless elephant.
December 31, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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An early Nancy Meyers kitchen!
Diane Keaton in a white robe with her back to the camera standing in a wood paneled, huge, light-filled kitchen with silver and red pots and pans on a rack overhead, and red salt and pepper shakers, country table in the foreground. Blue-gray cabinets to the side.
December 28, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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The final product (although I'm tempted to stuff more dessert into both tins). Nanaimo bars (separate because they contain nuts), chocolate chip blondies (the kids like them best) and gingerbread latte cookies.
Small rectangular box line with parchment with Nanaimo bars next to a round cookie tin with half blondies and half cookies.
December 25, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Too lazy to do one of those how it started/ how it's going posts
Nanaimo bars (three layer bars of ganache topping, yellow custard middle, and graham cracker, cocoa, walnut and coconut bottom) on parchment nestled in a rectangular festive tin
December 25, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Nanaimo bars are set. They'll hang out in the fridge and I'll slice them tomorrow. A bit craggier than I like, but that's how you know they're homemade. (Plus, we plate the nice middle cuts and keep the less attractive end bits for ourselves.)
A cross section of a Nanaimo bar: graham cracker and walnut coconut crust on the bottom, yellow custard middle, and a big expanse of ganache top.
December 24, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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My only responsibility for tomorrow is Christmas crackers (the loud English kind) and desserts. For one of the sweets, I decided to make the gingerbread latte cookies from Half Baked Harvest that @authoremmabarry.bsky.social posted about.
www.halfbakedharvest.com/gingerbread-...
Baking sheet lined with crumpled parchment and winsomely lumpy cookies topped with icing squiggles.
December 24, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Glad past me didn't give it all away
A table with papers and a computer off to the side, a grilled cheese sandwich with one bite out of it on the top left side. bottom left, a very hearty bowl of soup with greens and beans.
December 23, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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💙💙💙
Cherry blossoms from earlier this year.
December 19, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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I'm giving away 2 copies of THE GLOWING LIFE OF LEEANN WU in audio in my upcoming newsletter: buttondown.com/rubyopalmindy

Info, buy links, content notes: rubylangwrites.com/the-glowing-...
Blue background with white text at top: "The Glowing Life of Leeann Wu: A Novel, Mindy Hung". Audio cover of book (dark blue background with darker blue open hand with gold sparks flying from it. Gold lettered title and author name.) White text, bottom left corner: "Listen on" Spotify logo.
December 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Are you looking for novellas to complete your reading goals? I posted this thread last year of my novellas and novelettes (10K-25K words), all of which are available in audio and ebook. Info, content notes and buy links at rubylangwrites.com
Top row: audiobook covers of Playing House, Open House, and House Rules. Middle row: text, "available in audio" and covers of The Art of Losing and I Am Trying to Break Your Heart. Bottom row: covers of Yes, And... and The Long Run.
December 11, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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GIVEAWAY! My publisher @alcovepress.bsky.social has a copy of THE GLOWING LIFE OF LEEANN WU up for grabs (US only, sorry!). Enter on Instagram for a chance to win this multigenerational story about magic and midlife!

www.instagram.com/p/DSFsO2djV2...
cover of THE GLOWING LIFE OF LEEANN WU: Dark blue background with a darker blue open hand with gold sparks flying from it. Title and author name in gold.
December 10, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Kiddo asked for a matcha crepe cake. It was beautiful and [Asian auntie voice] not too sweet.
Matcha crepe cake uncut. Small green iced cake decorated with a row of little circles around the top dusted with darker green matcha powder. The cut cake displaying many thin layers of crepe and cream.
December 5, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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If you read audiobooks, great news! The Glowing Life of Leeann Wu is available as an audiobook performed by the incomparable Natalie Naudus. Listen on Spotify or wherever you get your audiobooks. (Including libraries.)

open.spotify.com/show/2Udb4SC...
dark blue background, white text at top: THE GLOWING LIFE OF LEEANN WU: A NOVEL, Mindy Hung. Cover of book in bottom left corner, "Listen on [spotify logo]" on bottom right corner.
November 25, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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I really enjoyed Llinos Cathryn Thomas' All Is Bright which is about a misunderstanding between neighbours. It does deal with grief, but I'd say it's a pretty low-angst sapphic novella.

llinoscathrynthomas.com/books/
All is Bright Cover--dark blue with the round glow of multicoloured lights in the background plus (if you look carefully) a house. Title in white, festive font.
November 23, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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THE GLOWING LIFE OF LEEANN WU is out now! I hope you enjoy my novel about a magical midlife midwife dealing with generational trauma while discovering her true power.

Available in print, ebook, and audio. Info and buy links here: rubylangwrites.com/the-glowing-...
Flatlay yellow background (it's my coffee table) with white circular trivet and a copy of the book in the center. Book is dark blue with a darker blue hand with gold sparks flying from it. Title in gold.
November 18, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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so this is happening...
new snow on a still-green hydrangea bush
November 9, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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THE GLOWING LIFE OF LEEANN WU is out in 2 weeks!

rubylangwrites.com/the-glowing-...
Background: a pile of copies of The Glowing LIfe of Leeann Wu. Book open to dedication page which reads: For everyone who's going through it.
November 4, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Thanks for doing this! The Glowing Life of Leeann Wu, my romantic contemporary fantasy about a perimenopausal woman whose hands suddenly begin to glow, comes out November 18. rubylangwrites.com/the-glowing-...
Cover of THE GLOWING LIFE OF LEEANN WU: dark blue background with a darker blue open hand throwing off gold sparks. Title and author name in gold.
October 29, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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The Inexplicable Magic Giveaway!

@elizabethdavis.bsky.social and I are running a giveaway on Instagram for signed copies of our books TIME FOR YOU and THE GLOWING LIFE OF LEEANN WU: www.instagram.com/p/DQXVNBUkWQ...

Go to IG to enter!
Center top text, The Inexplicable Magic Giveaway. Covers of Time for You (illustrated white, dark-haired man in Victorian garb kissing the hand of blonde white woman in scrubs) and The Glowing Life of Leeann Wu (blue background with open hand, gold sparks). Center bottom text: "See caption for how to enter."
October 28, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Join me and @oliviawrites.bsky.social and our excellent moderator @authoremmabarry.bsky.social for a virtual book celebration, 11/22 at 1pm Central. The event is free, but you'll need to register with Love's Sweet Arrow:
shop.lovessweetarrow.com/oliviaandmindy
Cream background with some tiny mid-century stars, an illustrated picture of Olivia (white woman with brown bob, glasses, smile, a dress with lemon pattern) and the cover of Second Chance Romance (illustrated clench) and photo of Mindy (East Asian woman with black hair, glasses, chin on hand) and cover of The Glowing LIfe of Leeann Wu. Text: Olivia Dade and Mindy Hung, November 22 1pm CT. Love's Sweet Arrow logo.
October 22, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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One month until THE GLOWING LIFE OF LEEANN WU, my weird, romantic summer Gothic about a perimenopausal woman whose hands suddenly begin to glow, comes out in paper, hardcover, ebook and audio.

Info and buy links here: rubylangwrites.com/the-glowing-...
THE GLOWING LIFE OF LEEANN WU cover: dark blue background with an open hand, gold bolts shooting from it, title in gold serif font
October 18, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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We got our mooncakes from Bake Code and they were non-traditional (clockwise starting with the green: matcha, kitkat, and ube).
White plate with gray kaleidescopic pattern, three of those non-traditional mooncakes on top: green (match), red (chocolate kitkat), and silvery lilac-ish (ube)).
October 6, 2025 at 4:32 PM