Tara Tai (they/she)
@taratai.com
Author of SINGLE PLAYER (Alcove Press) and Product Manager @ Google. Not a Thai restaurant.
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Tara Tai (they/she)
@taratai.com
· Feb 3
Jasmine Guillory, Helen Hoang, Lucy Score and More Romance Authors Recommend Hot New Valentine's Day Reads (Exclusive)
We asked 14 bestselling romance authors which romance books they're most excited about this Valentine's Day and beyond. We've got the sexy, steamy shenanigans of royalty, gamers, Hollywood hopefuls an...
people.com
Yes, 'tis true. My book was featured in PEOPLE, thanks to @tjalexandernyc.bsky.social, who's quite simply the best of all people everywhere.
Stoked to see so much queer 🌈 and bipoc 💛 rep on this list.
people.com/authors-reco...
Stoked to see so much queer 🌈 and bipoc 💛 rep on this list.
people.com/authors-reco...
Nothing like flagging on your run and the Elden Ring theme song coming on, screaming at you to GIT GUD.
July 12, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Nothing like flagging on your run and the Elden Ring theme song coming on, screaming at you to GIT GUD.
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STOP
BRINGING
MY SHIT
INTO YOUR BULLSHIT
BRINGING
MY SHIT
INTO YOUR BULLSHIT
Rep. Steve Scalise says of proposed Medicaid cuts: "35-year-olds sitting at home playing video games, they're gonna now have to go get a job."
"And by the way, that's a good thing for them — their mom doesn't want them sitting in the basement playing video games anyway."
"And by the way, that's a good thing for them — their mom doesn't want them sitting in the basement playing video games anyway."
July 3, 2025 at 4:32 PM
STOP
BRINGING
MY SHIT
INTO YOUR BULLSHIT
BRINGING
MY SHIT
INTO YOUR BULLSHIT
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I just DEVOURED Single Player by @taratai.com and I’m in love. As a romance reader and gamer I have never felt such joy at seeing two of the things I adore the most be combined!! I LOVED this!! 🩷
June 18, 2025 at 4:12 AM
I just DEVOURED Single Player by @taratai.com and I’m in love. As a romance reader and gamer I have never felt such joy at seeing two of the things I adore the most be combined!! I LOVED this!! 🩷
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🏳️🌈 This one is for the gaymers! 🎮
@taratai.com and I talked about the best romantic storylines in games, and how they wrote a rom-com about two game devs who butt heads while writing romantic storylines in a new video game. Meta!
Listen in the Rebel Ever After feed: open.spotify.com/episode/5QnE...
@taratai.com and I talked about the best romantic storylines in games, and how they wrote a rom-com about two game devs who butt heads while writing romantic storylines in a new video game. Meta!
Listen in the Rebel Ever After feed: open.spotify.com/episode/5QnE...
June 16, 2025 at 3:15 PM
🏳️🌈 This one is for the gaymers! 🎮
@taratai.com and I talked about the best romantic storylines in games, and how they wrote a rom-com about two game devs who butt heads while writing romantic storylines in a new video game. Meta!
Listen in the Rebel Ever After feed: open.spotify.com/episode/5QnE...
@taratai.com and I talked about the best romantic storylines in games, and how they wrote a rom-com about two game devs who butt heads while writing romantic storylines in a new video game. Meta!
Listen in the Rebel Ever After feed: open.spotify.com/episode/5QnE...
I had so much fun recording this! 😊
next monday's episode of Rebel Ever After features me and @taratai.com nerding out hard about video games and immersive storytelling and I cannot wait for y'all to hear it
June 14, 2025 at 12:31 PM
I had so much fun recording this! 😊
I can't get over this wonderfulness. 🥹
June 9, 2025 at 1:56 AM
I can't get over this wonderfulness. 🥹
Some days, you share an elevator with a PEN/Hemingway award winner but don't recognize her, and when she asks about your Baldur's Gate 3 shirt, you tersely say, "It's an owlbear."
Then you see the line for people waiting to get books signed by her and realize your mistake. 🤦🏻♀️
Then you see the line for people waiting to get books signed by her and realize your mistake. 🤦🏻♀️
May 31, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Some days, you share an elevator with a PEN/Hemingway award winner but don't recognize her, and when she asks about your Baldur's Gate 3 shirt, you tersely say, "It's an owlbear."
Then you see the line for people waiting to get books signed by her and realize your mistake. 🤦🏻♀️
Then you see the line for people waiting to get books signed by her and realize your mistake. 🤦🏻♀️
See y'all at PAX. Didn't have enough time to get my Lune cosplay together so I'll be Alta from Wanderstop. Ask me for tea. (Really.)
May 10, 2025 at 1:06 PM
See y'all at PAX. Didn't have enough time to get my Lune cosplay together so I'll be Alta from Wanderstop. Ask me for tea. (Really.)
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Just started reading Single Player by @taratai.com and as a queer person who left a steady career in healthcare admin to go to school for game dev, I feel so seen lol
May 6, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Just started reading Single Player by @taratai.com and as a queer person who left a steady career in healthcare admin to go to school for game dev, I feel so seen lol
If you're a type A, chronically burnt out person and want to cry at least once an hour, I highly recommend Wanderstop. What a deeply clever, deeply introspective, not-quite-cozy game.
April 27, 2025 at 12:54 AM
If you're a type A, chronically burnt out person and want to cry at least once an hour, I highly recommend Wanderstop. What a deeply clever, deeply introspective, not-quite-cozy game.
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aloha Boston!!! if you know me, you KNOW I'm a big gamer. come to Panethnic Pourovers on April 25th and listen to me and @taratai.com yap about heist movies, romances in video games, and our TTRPG characters!
admission is free, but RSVP at the link in the comments!
admission is free, but RSVP at the link in the comments!
April 15, 2025 at 12:24 AM
aloha Boston!!! if you know me, you KNOW I'm a big gamer. come to Panethnic Pourovers on April 25th and listen to me and @taratai.com yap about heist movies, romances in video games, and our TTRPG characters!
admission is free, but RSVP at the link in the comments!
admission is free, but RSVP at the link in the comments!
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It feels like shouting into the void these days because it seems like a lot of allos don’t care, but when our own community doesn’t care either? Yikes. Anyway in case it helps reach even one more ace person… a lot of my books have ace rep! These are some!
April 12, 2025 at 5:02 PM
It feels like shouting into the void these days because it seems like a lot of allos don’t care, but when our own community doesn’t care either? Yikes. Anyway in case it helps reach even one more ace person… a lot of my books have ace rep! These are some!
Gosh... Split Fiction. What a masterpiece. Literally dripping with creativity. GenAI could never.
April 2, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Gosh... Split Fiction. What a masterpiece. Literally dripping with creativity. GenAI could never.
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im gonna scream if I see one more well-intentioned person be like AI is bad but I only use it for cover letters/travel itineraries/dumb innocuous thing. It uses SO much WATER!!!! It is bad for the EARTH. Just write that shit yourself you will be FINE. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
A bottle of water per email: the hidden environmental costs of using AI chatbots
AI needs a lot of electricity and water to stay cool in data centers. We break down the toll prompt-by-prompt to show the scale of AI’s environmental needs.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 1, 2025 at 5:15 PM
im gonna scream if I see one more well-intentioned person be like AI is bad but I only use it for cover letters/travel itineraries/dumb innocuous thing. It uses SO much WATER!!!! It is bad for the EARTH. Just write that shit yourself you will be FINE. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Tonight at 7PM! @erikaishii.bsky.social and I talk about queer chaos gremlin gamedevs and swoony romances at @geekyteas.bsky.social.
Come on out and RSVP here: tinyurl.com/yex4ac8a 🌈!
Come on out and RSVP here: tinyurl.com/yex4ac8a 🌈!
March 25, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Tonight at 7PM! @erikaishii.bsky.social and I talk about queer chaos gremlin gamedevs and swoony romances at @geekyteas.bsky.social.
Come on out and RSVP here: tinyurl.com/yex4ac8a 🌈!
Come on out and RSVP here: tinyurl.com/yex4ac8a 🌈!
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We were happy to talk with Tara Tai. They are an Asian American writer. Their love of video games and tabletop RPGs has led to their first novel, “Single Player”, which has just come out. Check us out on YouTube!
@taratai.com
youtu.be/D1r7rzVZzA4
@taratai.com
youtu.be/D1r7rzVZzA4
A Talk with Tara Tai - Author of Single Player
YouTube video by The Halfling and the Spaceman
youtu.be
March 23, 2025 at 9:09 PM
We were happy to talk with Tara Tai. They are an Asian American writer. Their love of video games and tabletop RPGs has led to their first novel, “Single Player”, which has just come out. Check us out on YouTube!
@taratai.com
youtu.be/D1r7rzVZzA4
@taratai.com
youtu.be/D1r7rzVZzA4
Hell yes!
March 19, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Hell yes!
SINGLE PLAYER author event coming your way, LA. See you next Tuesday, March 25, at @geekyteas.bsky.social with the inimitable @erikaishii.bsky.social 🎮!
Make sure to RSVP 💛.
Make sure to RSVP 💛.
March 18, 2025 at 2:57 PM
SINGLE PLAYER author event coming your way, LA. See you next Tuesday, March 25, at @geekyteas.bsky.social with the inimitable @erikaishii.bsky.social 🎮!
Make sure to RSVP 💛.
Make sure to RSVP 💛.
One hour into Split Fiction and I can't stop grinning. What an awesome co-op adventure game. Thank you, @hazelightgames.bsky.social ✨!
March 9, 2025 at 4:36 AM
One hour into Split Fiction and I can't stop grinning. What an awesome co-op adventure game. Thank you, @hazelightgames.bsky.social ✨!
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Finally got to meet @taratai.com in Atlanta! One of my fave debut authors of the past year, I rec her book, Single Player, at every opportunity. Well-written, hilarious, sapphic, and nerdy as hell. 5 big stars. And the book swag she brought to the event was SO CUTE!!
#booksky 💙📚 🌶️📚 🌈 📚
#booksky 💙📚 🌶️📚 🌈 📚
March 7, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Finally got to meet @taratai.com in Atlanta! One of my fave debut authors of the past year, I rec her book, Single Player, at every opportunity. Well-written, hilarious, sapphic, and nerdy as hell. 5 big stars. And the book swag she brought to the event was SO CUTE!!
#booksky 💙📚 🌶️📚 🌈 📚
#booksky 💙📚 🌶️📚 🌈 📚
Have y'all tried writing? It's, like, the hardest thing in the world. ⚰️
February 17, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Have y'all tried writing? It's, like, the hardest thing in the world. ⚰️
Yayyy happy reading and happy Valentine's Day! 💘
My day has been made again this week has been one of the best weeks!!! Winning an amazing giveaways!!! I’m feel so amazing and happy!! Two of my fave authors!! 😊🩷📚❤️🎮🥰🎧🙌😊 if u haven’t read their books I def recommend!! Check out my reviews soon!! Thank you Tara!!! 😊🩷🙃 @taratai.com
February 8, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Yayyy happy reading and happy Valentine's Day! 💘
Yes, 'tis true. My book was featured in PEOPLE, thanks to @tjalexandernyc.bsky.social, who's quite simply the best of all people everywhere.
Stoked to see so much queer 🌈 and bipoc 💛 rep on this list.
people.com/authors-reco...
Stoked to see so much queer 🌈 and bipoc 💛 rep on this list.
people.com/authors-reco...
Jasmine Guillory, Helen Hoang, Lucy Score and More Romance Authors Recommend Hot New Valentine's Day Reads (Exclusive)
We asked 14 bestselling romance authors which romance books they're most excited about this Valentine's Day and beyond. We've got the sexy, steamy shenanigans of royalty, gamers, Hollywood hopefuls an...
people.com
February 3, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Yes, 'tis true. My book was featured in PEOPLE, thanks to @tjalexandernyc.bsky.social, who's quite simply the best of all people everywhere.
Stoked to see so much queer 🌈 and bipoc 💛 rep on this list.
people.com/authors-reco...
Stoked to see so much queer 🌈 and bipoc 💛 rep on this list.
people.com/authors-reco...