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YALSA's 2021 Top Ten Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults

1/15/2021

 
(image: Traci Chee, blurred in the background, holding up a CD copy of We Are Not Free in the foreground)
YALSA has named the WE ARE NOT FREE audiobook one of their Top Ten 2021 Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults! ⭐️ I absolutely adore this audiobook and it’s amazing cast of narrators, including Dan Woren, Scott Keiji Takeda, Ryan Potter, Ali Fumiko, Sophie Oda, Andrew Kishino, Christopher Naoki Lee, Grace Rolek, Erika Ishii, Brittany Ishibashi, Kurt Sanchez Kanazawa, and Terry Kitagawa!  💙 Congratulations to this incredible cast and thank you again for bringing these stories to life! ​​

BookUp@Home

1/13/2021

 
navy blue graphic for BookUp@Home with the National Book Foundation, featuring Traci Chee on Wednesday, January 20 at 4pm ET
​One week from today, I’ll be participating in BookUp@Home, which connects authors with middle and high school students at over a dozen different sites in New York City, Detroit, Los Angeles, Greensboro, NC, and Huntsville, TX! Registration is free and open to students, so register here! The event kicks off on Wednesday, January 20 at 4pm ET/1pm PT—hope to see you there!

National Book Award Finalist Sticker!

12/27/2020

 
the book We Are Not Free by Traci Chee surrounded by green and blue ornaments
Happy holidays to me! 🎄 This is the first time I’ve seen WE ARE NOT FREE with the National Book Award Finalist sticker in person, and it is so beautiful!!! 😭😭😭

Workshop: How I Plot with the Hero's Journey

12/18/2020

 
white graphic featuring an author photo of Traci Chee with the text TRY MY PROCESS and JAN 16
Want to know how I wove four storylines into The Reader? Or how I plotted We Are Not Free with fourteen main characters? I’m doing a one-hour workshop on Saturday, January 16 at 1pm PT, and we’re going to be talking about How I Plot with the Hero’s Journey!

📣 This workshop is part of the Try My Process series with Parker Peevyhouse (Strange Exit, The Echo Room), who’s brought in a bunch of guest authors to share and discuss their approaches to writing.

Sign up here for four Saturday workshops in January or get EIGHT workshops for both January AND February! 📣 Hurry--less than two weeks to register! Hope to see you there!

Apple Books Best Books of the Year

12/3/2020

 
green background with a cover of We Are Not Free by Traci Chee and the text,
Good morning!!! ☀️ So excited to share that Apple Books chose WE ARE NOT FREE in their Best Books of the Year! Check it out here!

Book Riot's Best Books of 2020

12/1/2020

 
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Wow! WE ARE NOT FREE made Book Riot's Best Books of 2020! There are so many amazing reads on this list--so thrilled to be in their company! Check out the full list for tons of great recommendations!

TIME's 10 Best and NYPL's Top Ten

11/24/2020

 
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Whoa! Check out WE ARE NOT FREE on TIME's 10 Best YA and Children's Books of 2020 AND the New York Public Library's Top 10 Books for Teens! So thrilled to be in such incredible company!

Amazon's Best Young Adult Books of 2020

11/20/2020

 
screen shot of the Amazon page for Best Young Adult Books of 2020, featuring the covers of Crave by Tracy Wolff, We Are Not Free by Traci Chee, The Enigma Game by Elizabeth Wein, The Extraordinaries by TJ Klune, Super Fake Love Song by David Yoon, and Dear Justyce by Nic Stone
Good morning! WE ARE NOT FREE is one of Amazon's Best Young Adult Books of 2020! 🎉 Check out the full list here!

A Thousand Steps into Night Cover Reveal

11/19/2020

 
cover of Traci Chee's A THOUSAND STEPS INTO NIGHT, featuring a blue wash of color, a girl in a red robe, and a blue magpie
✨And now... a COVER REVEAL! ✨
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A THOUSAND STEPS INTO NIGHT is a Japanese-inspired YA fantasy, featuring a kiss, a curse, a quest, and SO MANY DEMONS! 🌙 👹 Coming to you Feb. 2022!
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Design by Celeste Knudsen, illustrations by Kotaro Chiba. 💙

71st National Book Award Ceremony

11/17/2020

 
Traci Chee in a metallic floral dress holding a bronze medal under her chin and smiling
Thanks to the National Book Foundation for the lovely virtual medal ceremony! It’s so beautiful to be able to celebrate right now, and I’m so grateful all the finalists and our loved ones got that chance today! ✨
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Next up: Come hang out at Books of Wonder with me, Gavriel Savit, Victoria Jamieson & Candice Iloh TONIGHT at 3pm PT/6pm ET! These are really incredible creators and I’m so excited to get to chat with them! 📚 Register here!
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And TOMORROW, tune in at 4pm PT/7pm ET to watch the 71st National Book Awards Ceremony! ✨ Hope you can make it! Watch here!
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