Christina Hyun
@christinahyun.bsky.social
👩🏻💻 Writer of Love & Suspense | 🏡 Realtor | 💕 Mom | 📚🐶🍳 Lover of books, dogs, & bfast all day | WFWA | Agent: Mark Gottlieb of Trident Media Group | IG: christina.hyun
My Indy short stories: http://amazon.com/author/christinahyun
My Indy short stories: http://amazon.com/author/christinahyun
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Christina Hyun
@christinahyun.bsky.social
· May 10
It’s been a whirlwind past month! Happy to share I’m now repped by Mark Gottlieb of Trident Media Group and am on sub!
#writingcommunity #amwriting
#writingcommunity #amwriting
I added a dog character to my novel-in-progress. And the dog now has the longest bio of all the characters in my separate “character notes” doc haha. 🐾
#writingcommunity #amwriting #wip
#writingcommunity #amwriting #wip
October 29, 2025 at 9:12 PM
I added a dog character to my novel-in-progress. And the dog now has the longest bio of all the characters in my separate “character notes” doc haha. 🐾
#writingcommunity #amwriting #wip
#writingcommunity #amwriting #wip
Happiest of book launch weeks to the VERY talented author @pennyzang.bsky.social
🥳📖🙌🏼❣️
#thrillers #crimefic #darkacademia #pennyzang #writingcommunity #dollpartsthenovel
🥳📖🙌🏼❣️
#thrillers #crimefic #darkacademia #pennyzang #writingcommunity #dollpartsthenovel
August 27, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Happiest of book launch weeks to the VERY talented author @pennyzang.bsky.social
🥳📖🙌🏼❣️
#thrillers #crimefic #darkacademia #pennyzang #writingcommunity #dollpartsthenovel
🥳📖🙌🏼❣️
#thrillers #crimefic #darkacademia #pennyzang #writingcommunity #dollpartsthenovel
My current July/August TBR.
📖👩🏻💻📱☀️🦋
#tbr #summerreads #writingcommunity #amreading #thrillers #suspense #literary #scifi #timetravel #comedy #historicalfiction #historicalfictionbooks #romanticfiction #bookrecs #books #bookish #read #novels
📖👩🏻💻📱☀️🦋
#tbr #summerreads #writingcommunity #amreading #thrillers #suspense #literary #scifi #timetravel #comedy #historicalfiction #historicalfictionbooks #romanticfiction #bookrecs #books #bookish #read #novels
July 1, 2025 at 6:23 AM
My current July/August TBR.
📖👩🏻💻📱☀️🦋
#tbr #summerreads #writingcommunity #amreading #thrillers #suspense #literary #scifi #timetravel #comedy #historicalfiction #historicalfictionbooks #romanticfiction #bookrecs #books #bookish #read #novels
📖👩🏻💻📱☀️🦋
#tbr #summerreads #writingcommunity #amreading #thrillers #suspense #literary #scifi #timetravel #comedy #historicalfiction #historicalfictionbooks #romanticfiction #bookrecs #books #bookish #read #novels
“Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism…”
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If you’ve never read this 1946 article by George Orwell, and you get complaints you as a writer shouldn’t be “political”…
#amwriting #writingcommunity
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If you’ve never read this 1946 article by George Orwell, and you get complaints you as a writer shouldn’t be “political”…
#amwriting #writingcommunity
Why I Write | The Orwell Foundation
"What I have most wanted to do throughout the past ten years is to make political writing into an art. My starting point is always a feeling of partisanship, a sense of injustice."
www.orwellfoundation.com
June 23, 2025 at 8:28 PM
“Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism…”
——
If you’ve never read this 1946 article by George Orwell, and you get complaints you as a writer shouldn’t be “political”…
#amwriting #writingcommunity
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If you’ve never read this 1946 article by George Orwell, and you get complaints you as a writer shouldn’t be “political”…
#amwriting #writingcommunity
On a solo writing retreat and this Airbnb I’m at has a ramen/Doritos/mini Takis vending machine on the back porch.
#writingcommunity #amwriting #upmarket #suspense #satire #fiction #wip #write #authorcommunity #firstdraft
#writingcommunity #amwriting #upmarket #suspense #satire #fiction #wip #write #authorcommunity #firstdraft
June 11, 2025 at 6:08 AM
On a solo writing retreat and this Airbnb I’m at has a ramen/Doritos/mini Takis vending machine on the back porch.
#writingcommunity #amwriting #upmarket #suspense #satire #fiction #wip #write #authorcommunity #firstdraft
#writingcommunity #amwriting #upmarket #suspense #satire #fiction #wip #write #authorcommunity #firstdraft
Whenever a video starts with, “This is genius!”, I turn it off. I’ve reached my limit for being underwhelmed for the rest of my life.
June 3, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Whenever a video starts with, “This is genius!”, I turn it off. I’ve reached my limit for being underwhelmed for the rest of my life.
I’ve done nothing today except pleasure read and fry apples in butter and brown sugar. Taking a real (AKA full) day off. 🙂
CR 📖: “Bicentennial Summer” by indy author @chrispoorewrites.bsky.social
#amreading #writingcommunity #booksky #historicalfiction #ya #comingofage #retrofiction #bookrec
CR 📖: “Bicentennial Summer” by indy author @chrispoorewrites.bsky.social
#amreading #writingcommunity #booksky #historicalfiction #ya #comingofage #retrofiction #bookrec
May 30, 2025 at 9:50 PM
I’ve done nothing today except pleasure read and fry apples in butter and brown sugar. Taking a real (AKA full) day off. 🙂
CR 📖: “Bicentennial Summer” by indy author @chrispoorewrites.bsky.social
#amreading #writingcommunity #booksky #historicalfiction #ya #comingofage #retrofiction #bookrec
CR 📖: “Bicentennial Summer” by indy author @chrispoorewrites.bsky.social
#amreading #writingcommunity #booksky #historicalfiction #ya #comingofage #retrofiction #bookrec
While doing my early morning walks the past two weeks, I listened to the tell-all audiobook of “Kitchen Confidential” by Anthony Bourdain. It was SO good narrated by him. Nvr read or heard it before. I miss his show and perspectives on people all over the 🌎.
#booksky #cooking #bookrecs #restaurants
#booksky #cooking #bookrecs #restaurants
May 17, 2025 at 4:10 AM
While doing my early morning walks the past two weeks, I listened to the tell-all audiobook of “Kitchen Confidential” by Anthony Bourdain. It was SO good narrated by him. Nvr read or heard it before. I miss his show and perspectives on people all over the 🌎.
#booksky #cooking #bookrecs #restaurants
#booksky #cooking #bookrecs #restaurants
Reading makes me braver as a writer—seeing to what extremes other writers have pushed envelopes, bucked systems, taken up space as they should have, and wrote knowing there would be consequences from so many that will always pick what is self-preserving over what’s true. #writingcommunity #amwriting
May 12, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Reading makes me braver as a writer—seeing to what extremes other writers have pushed envelopes, bucked systems, taken up space as they should have, and wrote knowing there would be consequences from so many that will always pick what is self-preserving over what’s true. #writingcommunity #amwriting
My TBR. And I’ll listen to “Gone Girl” while walking bc I’m curious to see how thrillers hv changed. 13 yrs since it pubbed and 20 yrs(!) since “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”, which for me was the first thriller in the “girl in the title” trend. Lisbeth Salander, is a MC I’ll nvr forget. #booksky
May 12, 2025 at 2:14 PM
My TBR. And I’ll listen to “Gone Girl” while walking bc I’m curious to see how thrillers hv changed. 13 yrs since it pubbed and 20 yrs(!) since “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”, which for me was the first thriller in the “girl in the title” trend. Lisbeth Salander, is a MC I’ll nvr forget. #booksky
Never have I so extensively “told” a story to myself like I am with this current first draft. There’s going to be some serious editing needed in the “showing” department later. 🫠 🙈
#writingcommunity #amwriting #upmarket #satire #suspense #fiction #momswritersclub #5amwritersclub #wip
#writingcommunity #amwriting #upmarket #satire #suspense #fiction #momswritersclub #5amwritersclub #wip
April 2, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Never have I so extensively “told” a story to myself like I am with this current first draft. There’s going to be some serious editing needed in the “showing” department later. 🫠 🙈
#writingcommunity #amwriting #upmarket #satire #suspense #fiction #momswritersclub #5amwritersclub #wip
#writingcommunity #amwriting #upmarket #satire #suspense #fiction #momswritersclub #5amwritersclub #wip
Someone emailed me from an AOL account. I wondered if they were typing away from the underground bunker in “Lost.”
April 1, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Someone emailed me from an AOL account. I wondered if they were typing away from the underground bunker in “Lost.”
My husband and I are both sitting around reading. Books. Not phones. A perfect night. Tomorrow has enough worries of its own, and we’ll face them…tomorrow.
#booksky
#booksky
March 13, 2025 at 5:06 AM
My husband and I are both sitting around reading. Books. Not phones. A perfect night. Tomorrow has enough worries of its own, and we’ll face them…tomorrow.
#booksky
#booksky
Goodreads Giveaway!
“Told in a dual timeline, Doll Parts is an evocative and irresistible debut, at once an exploration of the dark chasms that break apart friendships, an ode to the aching beauty of girlhood, and a sharp portrayal of grief that can physically haunt you.”
Oooh {{shiver}} YES. 💗📚
“Told in a dual timeline, Doll Parts is an evocative and irresistible debut, at once an exploration of the dark chasms that break apart friendships, an ode to the aching beauty of girlhood, and a sharp portrayal of grief that can physically haunt you.”
Oooh {{shiver}} YES. 💗📚
March 1, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Goodreads Giveaway!
“Told in a dual timeline, Doll Parts is an evocative and irresistible debut, at once an exploration of the dark chasms that break apart friendships, an ode to the aching beauty of girlhood, and a sharp portrayal of grief that can physically haunt you.”
Oooh {{shiver}} YES. 💗📚
“Told in a dual timeline, Doll Parts is an evocative and irresistible debut, at once an exploration of the dark chasms that break apart friendships, an ode to the aching beauty of girlhood, and a sharp portrayal of grief that can physically haunt you.”
Oooh {{shiver}} YES. 💗📚
May you have peace and security again as the sovereign nation you are. So much of the world stands with you. To my Seattle area Ukrainian friends especially, you aren’t alone.
March 1, 2025 at 7:15 AM
May you have peace and security again as the sovereign nation you are. So much of the world stands with you. To my Seattle area Ukrainian friends especially, you aren’t alone.
What’s your method for making a note when you want to incorporate some detail later in a story but can’t right now? Do you put a note in the actual mss in a bright color, do you keep a list in a separate doc, do you jot a physical note down?
#writingcommunity #momswritersclub #5amwritersclub
#writingcommunity #momswritersclub #5amwritersclub
February 27, 2025 at 7:39 PM
What’s your method for making a note when you want to incorporate some detail later in a story but can’t right now? Do you put a note in the actual mss in a bright color, do you keep a list in a separate doc, do you jot a physical note down?
#writingcommunity #momswritersclub #5amwritersclub
#writingcommunity #momswritersclub #5amwritersclub
Most first chapters (fiction) seem to be around 2-7 pgs these days.
If you have one, what is your editor advising on first chapter length? Have any of you exceeded the current norm by quite a bit? And what genre do you write?
#writingcommunity #amwriting #momswritersclub #5amwritersclub
If you have one, what is your editor advising on first chapter length? Have any of you exceeded the current norm by quite a bit? And what genre do you write?
#writingcommunity #amwriting #momswritersclub #5amwritersclub
February 26, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Most first chapters (fiction) seem to be around 2-7 pgs these days.
If you have one, what is your editor advising on first chapter length? Have any of you exceeded the current norm by quite a bit? And what genre do you write?
#writingcommunity #amwriting #momswritersclub #5amwritersclub
If you have one, what is your editor advising on first chapter length? Have any of you exceeded the current norm by quite a bit? And what genre do you write?
#writingcommunity #amwriting #momswritersclub #5amwritersclub
What’s *your* 2025 writing mantra? ✨
#amwriting #upmarket #bookclub #readinggroup #suspense #satire #writingcommunity #5amwritersclub #momswritersclub #wip
#amwriting #upmarket #bookclub #readinggroup #suspense #satire #writingcommunity #5amwritersclub #momswritersclub #wip
February 18, 2025 at 11:14 PM
What’s *your* 2025 writing mantra? ✨
#amwriting #upmarket #bookclub #readinggroup #suspense #satire #writingcommunity #5amwritersclub #momswritersclub #wip
#amwriting #upmarket #bookclub #readinggroup #suspense #satire #writingcommunity #5amwritersclub #momswritersclub #wip
We each contribute in our own way. All efforts are worthy.
But sometimes we do need to abandon the work. To grieve. To recover. To regroup. To move to Canada. Or a different galaxy far far away.
But sometimes we do need to abandon the work. To grieve. To recover. To regroup. To move to Canada. Or a different galaxy far far away.
February 18, 2025 at 7:33 AM
We each contribute in our own way. All efforts are worthy.
But sometimes we do need to abandon the work. To grieve. To recover. To regroup. To move to Canada. Or a different galaxy far far away.
But sometimes we do need to abandon the work. To grieve. To recover. To regroup. To move to Canada. Or a different galaxy far far away.
Hrarh Vrharaaar’r Drgh! 🤎
February 14, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Hrarh Vrharaaar’r Drgh! 🤎
At the grand opening of Barnes & Noble in my town. The store is beautiful, the cafe spacious, the peanut butter cup cookies scrumptious, and there are of course wonderful #booksbooksbooks 😍
Buying Southern crime fic by Lo Patrick - a new author for me!
@bnissaquah #amreading #crimefiction
Buying Southern crime fic by Lo Patrick - a new author for me!
@bnissaquah #amreading #crimefiction
February 13, 2025 at 1:01 AM
At the grand opening of Barnes & Noble in my town. The store is beautiful, the cafe spacious, the peanut butter cup cookies scrumptious, and there are of course wonderful #booksbooksbooks 😍
Buying Southern crime fic by Lo Patrick - a new author for me!
@bnissaquah #amreading #crimefiction
Buying Southern crime fic by Lo Patrick - a new author for me!
@bnissaquah #amreading #crimefiction
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Usher's halftime performance has 32 million views in a year. Kendrick's has 27 million in a day. Art hits different.
February 12, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Love it when helpful examples are provided about a writing concept. It’s one thing to teach theory; it’s another to demonstrate it well.
#writingcommunity #writingcraft #amwriting #upmarket #lovestories #suspense #romance #wip #booksky #authorcommunity
#writingcommunity #writingcraft #amwriting #upmarket #lovestories #suspense #romance #wip #booksky #authorcommunity
Are you aware of “sequential narration” in your storytelling? Or are you merely conveying a visual of your characters’ progress? Agent and teacher Don Maass recommends using “human moments” to convey progress, today at WU.
Moving Along
Hello from Bisbee, Arizona. Have you been? Everything here is named Copper Queen This-or-That, after the played-out copper mine outside of town. Today you mine the antique stores for copper kettles…
writerunboxed.com
February 6, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Love it when helpful examples are provided about a writing concept. It’s one thing to teach theory; it’s another to demonstrate it well.
#writingcommunity #writingcraft #amwriting #upmarket #lovestories #suspense #romance #wip #booksky #authorcommunity
#writingcommunity #writingcraft #amwriting #upmarket #lovestories #suspense #romance #wip #booksky #authorcommunity
Our son called and said his L.A. rental house caught fire last night while everyone was out and it’s a total loss. Electrical failure. His little pet hamster died. I don’t even know what to say right now. It’s devastating he and his housemates made it through the LA fires, and then this happens. 😢
February 3, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Our son called and said his L.A. rental house caught fire last night while everyone was out and it’s a total loss. Electrical failure. His little pet hamster died. I don’t even know what to say right now. It’s devastating he and his housemates made it through the LA fires, and then this happens. 😢