Hi. Guess what? Emergency Contact is FOUR YEARS OLD TODAY! Can you believe it? Penny’s graduating from college!!!! 😭😭😭😭😭 Four years. Four years of me getting to be an author. A NOVELIST. With three books. It’s so surreal and really does feel like some glitch in the matrix or a rounding error or a dream but this is actually happening. I want to learn how to appreciate this. This THING that no one can take away from me no matter how much it feels that way sometimes. I also want to thank you. For all your love and support. For coming out to meet me at bookstores, book fairs, schools, all of it. For sharing your stories in letters and IG voice memos and in person because for some reason my books made you feel seen and safe. I am so grateful to live in service to you and your pain and your struggles and your bodies and your laughter and your eyeliner and your truth. I tear up everytime I think about y’all. And I SUPER miss you. To commemorate this occasion I’m doing an AMA over the next few days in stories so please ask any questions you have about Yolk (no spoilers), any of the books, writing or VIBES. I also recorded a little micropod about *FEELINGS* about this day which is in stories. Love you with my entire everything.
Hi. Guess what? Emergency Contact is FOUR YEARS OLD TODAY! Can you believe it? Penny’s graduating from college!!!! 😭😭😭😭😭 Four years. Four years of me getting to be an author. A NOVELIST. With three books. It’s so surreal and really does feel like some glitch in the matrix or a rounding error or a dream but this is actually happening. I want to learn how to appreciate this. This THING that no one can take away from me no matter how much it feels that way sometimes. I also want to thank you. For all your love and support. For coming out to meet me at bookstores, book fairs, schools, all of it. For sharing your stories in letters and IG voice memos and in person because for some reason my books made you feel seen and safe. I am so grateful to live in service to you and your pain and your struggles and your bodies and your laughter and your eyeliner and your truth. I tear up everytime I think about y’all. And I SUPER miss you. To commemorate this occasion I’m doing an AMA over the next few days in stories so please ask any questions you have about Yolk (no spoilers), any of the books, writing or VIBES. I also recorded a little micropod about *FEELINGS* about this day which is in stories. Love you with my entire everything.
Hi. Guess what? Emergency Contact is FOUR YEARS OLD TODAY! Can you believe it? Penny’s graduating from college!!!! 😭😭😭😭😭 Four years. Four years of me getting to be an author. A NOVELIST. With three books. It’s so surreal and really does feel like some glitch in the matrix or a rounding error or a dream but this is actually happening. I want to learn how to appreciate this. This THING that no one can take away from me no matter how much it feels that way sometimes. I also want to thank you. For all your love and support. For coming out to meet me at bookstores, book fairs, schools, all of it. For sharing your stories in letters and IG voice memos and in person because for some reason my books made you feel seen and safe. I am so grateful to live in service to you and your pain and your struggles and your bodies and your laughter and your eyeliner and your truth. I tear up everytime I think about y’all. And I SUPER miss you. To commemorate this occasion I’m doing an AMA over the next few days in stories so please ask any questions you have about Yolk (no spoilers), any of the books, writing or VIBES. I also recorded a little micropod about *FEELINGS* about this day which is in stories. Love you with my entire everything.
Just a reminder that we as Asians contain multitudes. My parents are in this month’s GQ magazine with an article I wrote about family. We went through the ringer this pandemic. Together and apart. I think about them always and it’s heartbreaking to bear witness to the ways that society and media flatten us. It’s enraging to see how we are targeted with violence and indifference. We are diverse. And yet the same. I defy you to read this story and tell me that grief isn’t universal. That intimacy isn’t unbearable for everyone at different times. Yes, I am in my feelings. I live here now. Honestly, I really hope you’ll fucking join me. I love you. Thank you @GQ. Thank you @WillWelch. Thank you @AlHoyt. Thank you @mikechoiart for keeping our parents alive who thank god aren’t #onhere.
Just a reminder that we as Asians contain multitudes. My parents are in this month’s GQ magazine with an article I wrote about family. We went through the ringer this pandemic. Together and apart. I think about them always and it’s heartbreaking to bear witness to the ways that society and media flatten us. It’s enraging to see how we are targeted with violence and indifference. We are diverse. And yet the same. I defy you to read this story and tell me that grief isn’t universal. That intimacy isn’t unbearable for everyone at different times. Yes, I am in my feelings. I live here now. Honestly, I really hope you’ll fucking join me. I love you. Thank you @GQ. Thank you @WillWelch. Thank you @AlHoyt. Thank you @mikechoiart for keeping our parents alive who thank god aren’t #onhere.
Doing a giveaway for morale… (and because I bought ALL the stamps when we were saving USPS.) If you’d like a pop socket and a signed bookplate for your book, head over to stories and fill out the link with your address. While supplies last. We’ve got more bookplates than pop sockets so if you only get one that’s what happened. Also, if you are overseas we are DOWN to slap as many stamps on the envelope and roll that dice and see what unfolds? Love you. Have a beautiful day.
Doing a giveaway for morale… (and because I bought ALL the stamps when we were saving USPS.) If you’d like a pop socket and a signed bookplate for your book, head over to stories and fill out the link with your address. While supplies last. We’ve got more bookplates than pop sockets so if you only get one that’s what happened. Also, if you are overseas we are DOWN to slap as many stamps on the envelope and roll that dice and see what unfolds? Love you. Have a beautiful day.
Hi friends. I need your help. If you bought Yolk at a store, please leave a review so that it will be made more visible when you’re shopping online 💛💛💛. If you bought it at Amazon please leave a verified purchase review. It hurts my heart but it really does make a difference to dance for the algorithm. 👀🍳 It’s really tough releasing a book during Covid especially without the human interaction and getting to meet all of you and talking about the book IRL. I miss it so much but creating excitement in other ways is what we’ve got and it’s super helpful. And THANK YOU for reviewing the book on your blogs, feeds and for writing me so many notes of encouragement. I’m so grateful 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Hi friends! Happy #indiebookstore day! I know I rep my local @booksaremagicbk super hard so I want to take a moment to share my gratitude for all of you! Thank you for the support and love and for including me in your events. Thank you for the staff recommendations and the impassioned hand-selling throughout my short career (I know my books aren’t for everyone so I am wild lucky that I have you in my corner making sure that my stories meet their readers 🥲). Thank you for being so much more than brick-and-mortars. Y’all are all are such agents of change and beacons of hope. I love knowing where you stand and I love how much emotional labor you take on as part of local communities as we all learn together. I’m so grateful for everyone who survived an absolutely harrowing year and I can’t wait to hang out with all of you. ❤️🤓❤️ @loyaltybooks @bluewillowbooks @wordbookstores @greenlightbklyn @oblongbooks @mcnallyjackson @strandbookstore 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Hi friends! Happy earth day. I won’t even get into the Drake equation or geo-exceptionalism (or attitudinal geocentrism as it relates to our specialness) BUT I am into this planet so much! And I am so grateful. Trees are so wonderful! Also fruit. And animals are so funny and cool. Which is to say that about a month ago I stopped eating meat every day or even really that much at home and it’s been really sweet. I’m not vegetarian or vegan and I eat eggs and dairy and honey and figs and sometimes fish which is to say that all I did was eat less meat but I am into it. I have such perfectionism and fear of failure but I also saw how my disordered eating assigned magical thinking around “lean protein” and I wanted to start interrogating that. It does mean I’m eating more carbs which scares me sometimes and I have fear around fullness and satiety but it’s okay. I also am careful to make sure I’m not doing this as a virtue-motivated way to start dieting because that’s a surefire path to binge-eating and madness for me. I’m just sharing this to say that for me little actions do count and they do contribute to personal morale and self esteem. And just for today this is something I am exploring with gentleness and self forgiveness and curiosity (it turns out I actually loathe eating broiled chicken breast!) Anyway 🌱💕 Go smile at the sun and say hi if it’s available for you today. And trees, they’re hilarious and have the best personalities!
“If I so much as see you at H Mart or even Sunrise Mart, I will fucking ruin you.” Jayne Baek Starter Pack 💛🍳 Have you read Yolk yet?
The stories! It’s all about the stories! I love you. What an abundant evening. It’s such a joy to celebrate you and laugh with you 🇰🇷❤️🇰🇷❤️🇰🇷❤️🇰🇷 THANK YOU FOR YOUR ART! 😭😭😭😭 what a crew of iconoclasts ✨✨✨✨✨✨happy bountiful #apahm
Day and Night. Somebody actually went outside and it was lovely. Celebrating the LAUNCH of summer I turned pretty (season 1 out on Amazon right now!😭😭😭 it’s so good) on a rooftop with @phenomenal. Mansei with Jenny and Minjin. Also 🥰 for getting to see J. The photo I sent my brother late last night in the cab ride where we gushed about Gilmore Girls and me and @leilani_shizue_’s date night 💗
Day and Night. Somebody actually went outside and it was lovely. Celebrating the LAUNCH of summer I turned pretty (season 1 out on Amazon right now!😭😭😭 it’s so good) on a rooftop with @phenomenal. Mansei with Jenny and Minjin. Also 🥰 for getting to see J. The photo I sent my brother late last night in the cab ride where we gushed about Gilmore Girls and me and @leilani_shizue_’s date night 💗
Day and Night. Somebody actually went outside and it was lovely. Celebrating the LAUNCH of summer I turned pretty (season 1 out on Amazon right now!😭😭😭 it’s so good) on a rooftop with @phenomenal. Mansei with Jenny and Minjin. Also 🥰 for getting to see J. The photo I sent my brother late last night in the cab ride where we gushed about Gilmore Girls and me and @leilani_shizue_’s date night 💗
Are we hanging out tonight or what? ☺️ Come join me and @ro.kwon to celebrate #Yolk with @barnesandnoble’s YA book club on IG live. It’s at 7PM EST. Ask me anything! Even when the job podcast is coming back lol 🤪🧐 Love you 💛🍳🍳🍳🍳
New York I love you!
Happy Mother’s Day you absolute ledge. ❤️
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***ALSO! If you are an indie store that would like bookplates or pop sockets for a purchase gift please message me 💛🍳🙏 Ahem… did you know that ordering #yolk from @loyaltybooks gets you a SIGNED copy AND this beautiful gem? Designed exclusively by @ohgigue. 💛🍳🌱 (link in stories)
