 Some more happy news! KINDLING made Booklist's Editors' Choice: Books for Youth, 2024! Thanks to the staff, reviewers, and Allie Stevens for the extra shout-out: "The characters’ lives are threaded together with the most careful, nuanced exploration of different and rippling effects of violence. The kindling will have you inescapably wrapped up in their tale before you even realize it." Check out the complete list here!
 KINDLING is one of Kirkus Reviews’ Best Young Adult Books of 2024! 🔥 It has been such a thrill seeing the end-of-the-year love for this story. Thank you so much to the staff and readers for this recognition! See the full list here!
 KINDLING is one of School Library Journal’s Best Young Adult Books of 2024! 🎉 It’s such an honor to be included on this list of excellent titles—thank you so much to the staff and reviewers for this recognition!
Want to gift one of my books to a reader in your life? ⭐ Swipe through for a handy-dandy gift guide to all my novels! 👉 Find them at your favorite local retailer or at the links here: KINDLING, 1000 STEPS, WE ARE NOT FREE, THE READER TRILOGY. 🎁
 KINDLING made Indigo’s Best Books of 2024! 🔥 Thanks so much to Indigo’s staff and readers for including KINDLING among such wonderful titles!
 🎉 Happy book day to THE HOUSE WHERE DEATH LIVES, edited by my friend Alex Brown! I’m so excited to be part of this amazing YA horror anthology, filled with stories about what it’s like to be haunted. 👻 Start in the attic with Courtney Gould's “Good Morning, Georgia,” then head down the stairs to the second-floor hallway for my story, “Vanishing Point.” Later, check out “What Lies in Silence” by Justine Winans on the first floor and “A Helping Hand” by Linsey Miller while out on the grounds!
🎉 On my newsletter, I’m talking about the writing process for “Vanishing Point,” showing how I take inspiration from other pieces of literature and extrapolate lessons that I can apply to my own craft. Part I of this two-part series is up today--check it out via my SubStack! 🎉 The NorCal launch party for THE HOUSE WHERE DEATH LIVES is happening this Saturday, 8/10 at Books Inc. Alameda! Join me, Alex Brown, Sandra Proudman, and Gina Chen for a fun & spooky panel moderated by Tara Sim! RSVP & order link are here—hope to see you this weekend!  ⭐⭐⭐⭐ FOUR STARS ⭐⭐⭐⭐
It's real! KINDLING has received a fourth starred review! School Library Journal calls it, "A heartrending, must-read fantasy about youth searching for home and learning to survive a world not designed for them." This review highlights so many of the ways I hoped this book would reach readers, from the power dynamics between young people and the previous generations' most entrenched institutions to the way that reflects on the uncertainty of our current world and the fights we are fighting now for a future we may never see. Thank you so much to School Library Journal for seeing and recognizing KINDLING. Full review to come.  Three stars for KINDLING! ⭐⭐⭐ I could hardly believe it when I saw this yesterday, I refreshed the page about five times to make sure that shiny red star was real! Thanks so much to Publishers Weekly for this lovely review: "Employing simple yet brutal worldbuilding rendered in raw prose, Chee offers an unflinching look into the horrors of war in this Seven Samurai–inspired tale." Read the full review here!
 Happy paperback day to A THOUSAND STEPS INTO NIGHT! I am so proud of this spooky/goofy/beautiful little folktale; this road trip through a magical Ghibli-esque world; this critique of American patriarchy in the guise of a rollicking adventure involving spirits, demons, and gods; this zero-romance fantasy about friendship and allies and embracing the parts of yourself that everyone told you were unworthy of love. 👹🌙 To celebrate, I'm finally releasing the playlist I used while writing the book! It's got a wide variety of eerie/lovely/fantastical soundscapes, and most often I'd just hit shuffle and let the music take me away to the world of 1000 Steps! Listen now on Spotify.
Here's the official book description: A Bank Street Children’s Best Books of the Year Longlisted for the National Book Award From bestselling and award-winning author Traci Chee comes a fantasy perfect for fans of Studio Ghibli. When a girl who’s never longed for adventure is hit with a curse that begins to transform her into a demon, she embarks on a quest to reverse the curse and return to her normal life, but along the way is forced to confront her true power within. In the realm of Awara, where gods, monsters, and humans exist side by side, Miuko is an ordinary girl resigned to a safe, if uneventful, existence as an innkeeper’s daughter. But when Miuko is cursed and begins to transform into a demon with a deadly touch, she embarks on a quest to reverse the curse and return to her normal life. Aided by a thieving magpie spirit and continuously thwarted by a demon prince, Miuko must outfox tricksters, escape demon hunters, and negotiate with feral gods if she wants to make it home again. With her transformation comes power and freedom she never even dreamed of, and she’ll have to decide if saving her soul is worth trying to cram herself back into an ordinary life that no longer fits her… and perhaps never did. Find it on Bookshop.org, Barnes & Noble, Amazon, Indigo, or at your favorite local retailer!  Please join me for a KINDLING launch party at Linden Tree Books in Los Altos, CA on Friday 3/1 at 6pm! 🔥 I’ll be hosting a trivia game show night with special guests/contestants Parker Peevyhouse (THE ECHO ROOM), Randy Ribay (PATRON SAINTS OF NOTHING) & Emily Skrutskie (THE ABYSS SURROUNDS US), and it’s going to be so much fun. 🔥 I haven’t had a true launch party since 2018, so I’d love it if you could be there to celebrate KINDLING with me! RSVP here! PLUS, you can pre-order your copy of KINDLING from Linden Tree to receive your faux kindling “Polaroids,” and you can pick it all up the day of the event! 🎁 Go here for details!
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