Your chance to meet NYT Best-Selling Author, Yangsze Choo
5:30PM-7:00PM PT, WEDNESDAY JUNE 26TH VIA ZOOM.
A NYT BEST-SELLER, A REESE WITHERSPOON PICK, A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES,
AND SHE KNOWS HER KUEH FROM HER KUAY TEOW.
Hello, everyone!
I am SO excited to announce the guest for my next Zoom chat and Q&A—well, I guess I’ve already given it away—Yangsze Choo, the author of the only books in the past twenty years that all three Yim ladies (my mom, my author-sister Natasha, and myself) have unanimously enjoyed. (If you know both me and Tash, as many of you do, you’ll see this is quite an achievement.)
Yangsze has accumulated in three books so many accolades that I am going to list them at the end, to make sure they don’t slow down my pacing. Suffice it to say, Yangsze models the success that almost all of us would like to achieve. Acclaimed for the plotting of her mysteries. Addictive for the uninventable (yes, my word) details of her rich and exotic settings. Precise yet often lyrical in her language. An unmitigated commercial success. If you wanted to know how to accomplish any of these things, who could you ask? So, how much better to be able to ask all these questions of one friendly, dark-chocolate-addicted author? (Very handy for me that I prefer the milk stuff.)
I would really like a good turn-out for this. Yangsze is being so generous to speak to us, I’d like the compliment returned with a sea of smiling faces. In fact, I will throw in a sweetener: On the night, I will be awarding nine free 10-page critiques from three professional dev editors (details below). To win, you need to select your editors, register, and be present at the end of the night when the prizes are drawn, AND you’ll need to hold up a copy of one of Yangsze’s books to claim your prize.
Plus, I recommend you read her work beforehand so you know better what you’d like to ask her. A binge warning should accompany that recommendation, but what is better than wanting to binge an author?
I myself slipped into a binge. Like Yangsze, I have roots in Malaysia. So encountering kueh (“cake” but not really cake) and kuay teow (noodles, but not merely noodles) in Yangsze’s books brought a frisson of…Recognition? Resonance? A strong desire to speak to her, anyway. An itch to ask her about her path, and her craft, and where these books—really so unexpected—mysterious, historical, supernatural, folkloric, come from.
Won’t you please join me?
Register here to save your seat, and if you’d like a free 10-page critique, submit your name below for the editors you’re interested in, and don’t forget to bring a copy of one of Yangsze’s books on the day—Wednesday, June 26th (5:30-7:00pm PT)—to claim your prize if your name is drawn.
Yangsze’s recent accolades:
THE GHOST BRIDE
Carnegie Medal nominee
Oprah.com’s Book of the Week
Indie Next List pick
Barnes & Noble Fall ‘13 Discover Great New Writers selection
Goodreads Choice Award Finalist for Best Fantasy
Glamour Magazine 2013 Beach Read
Good Housekeeping Magazine Book Pick
The Bookseller Editor’s Pick
Library Journal Barbara’s Pick
A Netflix Original Series
THE NIGHT TIGER
Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine’s Book Club NYTimes bestseller
Big Jubilee Read book pick for Queen Elizabeth’s Diamond Jubilee
Amazon’s 100 Best Books of the Year
A Most Anticipated Book (Glamour, Real Simple, Parade, Bustle, BookPage, Goodreads, PopSugar, BookRiot, Refinery29, Tor.com, HelloGiggles—note this could be 11 separate entries)
USA Today: Best Books of the Year So Far
Refinery29: A Best Book of the Year (So Far)
Parade: A Best Book of the Year
National Geographic: 13 New Books for Spring Break Trips
THE FOX WIFE
A semifinalist for Jimmy Fallon’s Book Club on The Tonight Show
A Best Book of February by Time
A Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by LitHub and BookPage
A Fresh Fiction Pick by Oprah Daily
A February 2024 IndieNext Pick
A February 2024 LibraryReads pick
And the editors for your free critiques are…
Laurie Skiba: Literary fiction, historical fiction, memoir
Laurie has almost forty years of experience as a developmental editor, copyeditor, and writing coach. She started in academia, teaching writing and literature, and is the editor of Language Essentials: Grammar and Writing, and Literature and Language Arts: Exploring Literature. Click here if you’d like the chance to receive one of three free 10-page critiques from Laurie.
Lisa Manterfield: General fiction, mystery, thriller
Lisa Manterfield is the award-winning author of five novels, two works of non-fiction, and five non-fiction eBooks. As a developmental editor and book coach, she has guided many writers through the process of writing, revising, and publishing. Click here if you’d like the chance to receive one of three free 10-page critiques from Lisa.
Susan Lyn McCombs: Children’s, adult, fiction, and nonfiction (but not biography or science!)
Once an acquisitions editor for Tricycle Press and Hunter House, Susan has almost twenty years of experience as a developmental editor working across many genres. She is especially interested in creative nonfiction and memoir, which she also coaches. Click here if you’d like the chance to receive one of three free 10-page critiques from Susan.
So, see you on Wednesday, June 26th at 5:30pm PT. Don’t forget to register here to receive your Zoom link on the day. Until then, happy writing—and hopefully also happy reading of Yangsze’s work!
Shirin