Friends. Thank you. I am unsurprisingly emotional today and so grateful. It feels selfish to ask for your love. Unlucky. As if the blessings I’ve received and the grace of your support is finite. Zero sum. As if daring for this book to do well, to be widespread enough to tell its story to the people I most wanted to reach is asking too much. But I’m also done with scarcity. I’ve been shown so many times this past year that love is generative. That it isn’t transactive. And I know in my heart this is true because I love you this way. 💛🍳 I am proud of this book. I am proud of all of us who have the audacity to make something. I love my family of creative humans. I am so moved when I see your work. It’s proof of life. Evidence that we were here. All these efforts no matter how small or quiet count. They give me relief and reassurance and fundamentally change my brain. They are insurrections against despair and mortality. It’s so weird and cool that we do this. Uuuugh I’m fully crying. I love you. 💛
🇰🇷 *heart eyes* @sola5532 for @voguekorea by Hyea W. Kang
🇰🇷 *heart eyes* @sola5532 for @voguekorea by Hyea W. Kang
🇰🇷 *heart eyes* @sola5532 for @voguekorea by Hyea W. Kang
🇰🇷 *heart eyes* @sola5532 for @voguekorea by Hyea W. Kang
🇰🇷 *heart eyes* @sola5532 for @voguekorea by Hyea W. Kang
🇰🇷 *heart eyes* @sola5532 for @voguekorea by Hyea W. Kang
🇰🇷 *heart eyes* @sola5532 for @voguekorea by Hyea W. Kang
My heart hurts today. I can’t stop thinking about all the anti Asian racism and attacks in the news. The videos, the headlines, how it’s all gotten so much more flagrant and angry. And how optics, proximity to whiteness, assigned privilege, Uber rich caricatures in media all play into this notion that anti-Asian racism doesn’t count or is more forgivable. I can’t stop thinking about my parents and how they’re so far away and how I felt when they got their first vaccine shot last week and for the moment where I could allow myself the tiniest glimmer of hope and how deeply I slept that night for the first time in so long. And how I have to be helplessly vigilant again because this is what it is. Anyway I’m sad. There’s just so much ache in my body.
Edit: All winners have been chosen and notified, thank you all so much for entering and pre-ordering Yolk! Love you so much!! 🤍 🥚YOLK SWEEPSTAKES🥚 YESSSSSS! It’s PRE-ORDERS PRIZES TIME! *shimmies awkwardly* Feast your eyes upon this BOUNTY!!! WHAT’S ON DECK: Exclusive Yolk AirPod Pros (one of ONE in the whole wide world!), the most covetable bag of ANY season the Bushwick Birkin, aka the TELFAR bag in stunning white, a Starface beauty set (deep space cleanse PLUS the iconic big yellow pimple patches), a complete set of semi-cured Ohora nails (plus the gel lamp, the topcoat and the remover), OR signed and personalized copies of Permanent Record and Emergency Contact as well as VINTAGE (lol) PR and EC pop sockets and pins. HOW TO ENTER: Enter to win one of the above 5 prizes by sending your Yolk pre-order confirmation (screen-grab) to [email protected] WITH your address and contact phone for mailing purposes AND your preferred prize. Only one winner will be chosen for each prize. Open to the US only. Winners will be picked at random and announced on 3/5 12PM EST. Why are pre-orders so crucial? Pre-orders count towards a book’s debut numbers. So even if you pre-order a book 3 months before its launch, the actual sale counts towards that first day and that first week. All of this really dictates the success of the book which bumps up your rankings. Rankings on a bookseller’s website, whether it’s Amazon or an Indie, helps determine how much promotion that book gets. So, if you love and want to support an author, getting a pre-order helps HUGELY. OK, that’s it from me. Good luck. Love yous. xo
Edit: All winners have been chosen and notified, thank you all so much for entering and pre-ordering Yolk! Love you so much!! 🤍 🥚YOLK SWEEPSTAKES🥚 YESSSSSS! It’s PRE-ORDERS PRIZES TIME! *shimmies awkwardly* Feast your eyes upon this BOUNTY!!! WHAT’S ON DECK: Exclusive Yolk AirPod Pros (one of ONE in the whole wide world!), the most covetable bag of ANY season the Bushwick Birkin, aka the TELFAR bag in stunning white, a Starface beauty set (deep space cleanse PLUS the iconic big yellow pimple patches), a complete set of semi-cured Ohora nails (plus the gel lamp, the topcoat and the remover), OR signed and personalized copies of Permanent Record and Emergency Contact as well as VINTAGE (lol) PR and EC pop sockets and pins. HOW TO ENTER: Enter to win one of the above 5 prizes by sending your Yolk pre-order confirmation (screen-grab) to [email protected] WITH your address and contact phone for mailing purposes AND your preferred prize. Only one winner will be chosen for each prize. Open to the US only. Winners will be picked at random and announced on 3/5 12PM EST. Why are pre-orders so crucial? Pre-orders count towards a book’s debut numbers. So even if you pre-order a book 3 months before its launch, the actual sale counts towards that first day and that first week. All of this really dictates the success of the book which bumps up your rankings. Rankings on a bookseller’s website, whether it’s Amazon or an Indie, helps determine how much promotion that book gets. So, if you love and want to support an author, getting a pre-order helps HUGELY. OK, that’s it from me. Good luck. Love yous. xo
Edit: All winners have been chosen and notified, thank you all so much for entering and pre-ordering Yolk! Love you so much!! 🤍 🥚YOLK SWEEPSTAKES🥚 YESSSSSS! It’s PRE-ORDERS PRIZES TIME! *shimmies awkwardly* Feast your eyes upon this BOUNTY!!! WHAT’S ON DECK: Exclusive Yolk AirPod Pros (one of ONE in the whole wide world!), the most covetable bag of ANY season the Bushwick Birkin, aka the TELFAR bag in stunning white, a Starface beauty set (deep space cleanse PLUS the iconic big yellow pimple patches), a complete set of semi-cured Ohora nails (plus the gel lamp, the topcoat and the remover), OR signed and personalized copies of Permanent Record and Emergency Contact as well as VINTAGE (lol) PR and EC pop sockets and pins. HOW TO ENTER: Enter to win one of the above 5 prizes by sending your Yolk pre-order confirmation (screen-grab) to [email protected] WITH your address and contact phone for mailing purposes AND your preferred prize. Only one winner will be chosen for each prize. Open to the US only. Winners will be picked at random and announced on 3/5 12PM EST. Why are pre-orders so crucial? Pre-orders count towards a book’s debut numbers. So even if you pre-order a book 3 months before its launch, the actual sale counts towards that first day and that first week. All of this really dictates the success of the book which bumps up your rankings. Rankings on a bookseller’s website, whether it’s Amazon or an Indie, helps determine how much promotion that book gets. So, if you love and want to support an author, getting a pre-order helps HUGELY. OK, that’s it from me. Good luck. Love yous. xo
Edit: All winners have been chosen and notified, thank you all so much for entering and pre-ordering Yolk! Love you so much!! 🤍 🥚YOLK SWEEPSTAKES🥚 YESSSSSS! It’s PRE-ORDERS PRIZES TIME! *shimmies awkwardly* Feast your eyes upon this BOUNTY!!! WHAT’S ON DECK: Exclusive Yolk AirPod Pros (one of ONE in the whole wide world!), the most covetable bag of ANY season the Bushwick Birkin, aka the TELFAR bag in stunning white, a Starface beauty set (deep space cleanse PLUS the iconic big yellow pimple patches), a complete set of semi-cured Ohora nails (plus the gel lamp, the topcoat and the remover), OR signed and personalized copies of Permanent Record and Emergency Contact as well as VINTAGE (lol) PR and EC pop sockets and pins. HOW TO ENTER: Enter to win one of the above 5 prizes by sending your Yolk pre-order confirmation (screen-grab) to [email protected] WITH your address and contact phone for mailing purposes AND your preferred prize. Only one winner will be chosen for each prize. Open to the US only. Winners will be picked at random and announced on 3/5 12PM EST. Why are pre-orders so crucial? Pre-orders count towards a book’s debut numbers. So even if you pre-order a book 3 months before its launch, the actual sale counts towards that first day and that first week. All of this really dictates the success of the book which bumps up your rankings. Rankings on a bookseller’s website, whether it’s Amazon or an Indie, helps determine how much promotion that book gets. So, if you love and want to support an author, getting a pre-order helps HUGELY. OK, that’s it from me. Good luck. Love yous. xo
Edit: All winners have been chosen and notified, thank you all so much for entering and pre-ordering Yolk! Love you so much!! 🤍 🥚YOLK SWEEPSTAKES🥚 YESSSSSS! It’s PRE-ORDERS PRIZES TIME! *shimmies awkwardly* Feast your eyes upon this BOUNTY!!! WHAT’S ON DECK: Exclusive Yolk AirPod Pros (one of ONE in the whole wide world!), the most covetable bag of ANY season the Bushwick Birkin, aka the TELFAR bag in stunning white, a Starface beauty set (deep space cleanse PLUS the iconic big yellow pimple patches), a complete set of semi-cured Ohora nails (plus the gel lamp, the topcoat and the remover), OR signed and personalized copies of Permanent Record and Emergency Contact as well as VINTAGE (lol) PR and EC pop sockets and pins. HOW TO ENTER: Enter to win one of the above 5 prizes by sending your Yolk pre-order confirmation (screen-grab) to [email protected] WITH your address and contact phone for mailing purposes AND your preferred prize. Only one winner will be chosen for each prize. Open to the US only. Winners will be picked at random and announced on 3/5 12PM EST. Why are pre-orders so crucial? Pre-orders count towards a book’s debut numbers. So even if you pre-order a book 3 months before its launch, the actual sale counts towards that first day and that first week. All of this really dictates the success of the book which bumps up your rankings. Rankings on a bookseller’s website, whether it’s Amazon or an Indie, helps determine how much promotion that book gets. So, if you love and want to support an author, getting a pre-order helps HUGELY. OK, that’s it from me. Good luck. Love yous. xo
Edit: All winners have been chosen and notified, thank you all so much for entering and pre-ordering Yolk! Love you so much!! 🤍 🥚YOLK SWEEPSTAKES🥚 YESSSSSS! It’s PRE-ORDERS PRIZES TIME! *shimmies awkwardly* Feast your eyes upon this BOUNTY!!! WHAT’S ON DECK: Exclusive Yolk AirPod Pros (one of ONE in the whole wide world!), the most covetable bag of ANY season the Bushwick Birkin, aka the TELFAR bag in stunning white, a Starface beauty set (deep space cleanse PLUS the iconic big yellow pimple patches), a complete set of semi-cured Ohora nails (plus the gel lamp, the topcoat and the remover), OR signed and personalized copies of Permanent Record and Emergency Contact as well as VINTAGE (lol) PR and EC pop sockets and pins. HOW TO ENTER: Enter to win one of the above 5 prizes by sending your Yolk pre-order confirmation (screen-grab) to [email protected] WITH your address and contact phone for mailing purposes AND your preferred prize. Only one winner will be chosen for each prize. Open to the US only. Winners will be picked at random and announced on 3/5 12PM EST. Why are pre-orders so crucial? Pre-orders count towards a book’s debut numbers. So even if you pre-order a book 3 months before its launch, the actual sale counts towards that first day and that first week. All of this really dictates the success of the book which bumps up your rankings. Rankings on a bookseller’s website, whether it’s Amazon or an Indie, helps determine how much promotion that book gets. So, if you love and want to support an author, getting a pre-order helps HUGELY. OK, that’s it from me. Good luck. Love yous. xo
✨🐣 THIS PRIZE HAS BEEN CLAIMED 🐣✨ Thank you 💛 🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱 EDIT: hi friends. Just wanted to say that I will be picking someone by EOD today but also that I am so moved by all of your courage and honesty. It is such a difficult time to admit to dreams and wishes and hopes. I identify so much with everyone who commented. With the anxiety, the self-doubt, the fear of the unknown but also that ✨ glimmer ✨ of a suspicion that perhaps we are expansive and magical and can accomplish all we envision. I’m holding space for all these prayers and love you with my entire heart. You are enough. And it is WONDERFUL. Sending gentleness to yourselves and your bodies. 💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛 It is just a very REAL thing that not everyone can afford books right now and I get that. So if you’ve wanted to read my books for a while but couldn’t make it happen here’s your chance. Enter to win a FULL SET of all three books, signed and personalized (including the hardcover Yolk which isn’t out yet) by answering in the comments: What’s one thing you need to say outloud that you want in life. Name an ambition, a goal, any intention of any size (it can be teeny-tiny) and I’ll pick someone at random to win. Also, if you’re in Texas with power outages and no heat like my parents and brother’s family are, my heart goes out to y’all. Stay safe. Love you so much. x
Have you forgotten what I look like? I SURE HAVE. Twelve days until Yolk. Seventy trillion days since I could hug all of you and take pictures and sign your books and talk about your eyeliner and your lip tints and how hot it is or how cold it is or how many books you got that day or how cute the bookstore in your town is and how grateful I am for your love and support in my short, FULL life as an author. I MISS Y’ALL. Book three. What a journey. Thank you all for holding my hand. I’m so grateful. Stay safe stay warm. Go slow. ❄️ (Also my parents got power back last night thank you for your thoughts 💛)
T-2 days until launch! 😱 *breathes heavily* Have you entered the Yolk sweepstakes yet? You could win: 🥚 An Yolk themed AirPod Pro 🥚 A mini Telfar bag 🥚 A complete Ohora nail set 🥚 Starface Set 🥚 Signed copies of Emergency Contact Permanent Record HOW TO ENTER: Enter to win one of the above 5 prizes by sending your Yolk pre-order confirmation (screen-grab) to [email protected] WITH your address and contact phone for mailing purposes AND your preferred prize. Only one winner will be chosen for each prize. Open to the US only. Winners will be picked at random and announced on 3/5 12PM EST. 🥚🍳🥚🍳🥚🍳🥚🍳🥚
T-2 days until launch! 😱 *breathes heavily* Have you entered the Yolk sweepstakes yet? You could win: 🥚 An Yolk themed AirPod Pro 🥚 A mini Telfar bag 🥚 A complete Ohora nail set 🥚 Starface Set 🥚 Signed copies of Emergency Contact Permanent Record HOW TO ENTER: Enter to win one of the above 5 prizes by sending your Yolk pre-order confirmation (screen-grab) to [email protected] WITH your address and contact phone for mailing purposes AND your preferred prize. Only one winner will be chosen for each prize. Open to the US only. Winners will be picked at random and announced on 3/5 12PM EST. 🥚🍳🥚🍳🥚🍳🥚🍳🥚
Hi friends, just wanted to share the first page of Yolk. Today marks the beginning of Eating Disorder Awareness Week in the U.S. If you know me, chances are you’ll know that bulimia, binge-eating and body obsession are part of my story. I was hoping this letter would serve as a trigger warning but also a reminder. You are not alone and you are not the sum of your compulsions, your traumas or the life-saving tools that are broken but kept you protected at different times. Trust bodies. They are unfathomably wise and doing their best. All my love. 💛💛💛 [Image caption: The first page of the book, Yolk, that reads, This is a work of fiction that mirrors aspects of my own history with disordered eating, dysmorphia, and bulimia. For those struggling with body image and food, this story might be emotionally expensive for you. Please be gentle with yourselves—sensitivity is a superpower. And please know that there is no such thing as a bad body. Truly. Take up space, it is your birthright. Love, Mary.]
새해 복 많이 받으세요 🎎 Happy Lunar New Year!! 🧧 Call your parents, call your cousins, call ALL your favorite people. Also, tag me in what you’re eating!
Yolk. Yellow awash in whiteness. The part of the egg I didn’t eat for two decades when I had an eating disorder. The tie that binds beasts of burden. Fertility and the biological strictures foisted on women. The yellow spheroidal mass of stored food that forms the inner portion of the egg. The title of my third book about sisters. Happy Valentine’s Day. Love you so big. xx “Heart Eggs” by Masao Saito, 1988
A l👀k for luck. Yolk is out in just TWO WEEKS!!! 😱 Thank you @nycnailroom for the exquisite 💅🏻 [Image Description: YOLK inspired nails – eggs on the thumb and ring finger, yellow polka dots on the pointer finger, and yellow base on the middle and pinkie finger – holding a green and white canvas tote bag with a copy of Yolk inside]
Very in love with this illustration by @pixelendo that ran with the delightful @cntraveler profile that @heykmenz wrote. It’s absolutely magical what certain humans can do (did you peep the nails?) 💛🍳☺️
