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Anna Meriano
@annameriano.bsky.social
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She/her. Author of LOVE SUGAR MAGIC series, THIS IS HOW WE FLY, and IT SOUNDS LIKE THIS
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I am so excited to finally announce my Anti-mermaid mermaid book!! 2027 feels far away, but I can’t wait to share it with yall!! 🚫🧜🏽🧙🏽‍♀️🧜🏼‍♀️📚
A photo collage over a background of green scales, showing a kid in a boat releasing an underwater robot, a gulf coast ocean scene, rocky cave and underwater scenes, a pair of yellow rain boots, and a picrew of a young character in a tank top with braided pigtails and a disgruntled expression with scaly markings on her face. A screenshot from publisher’s weekly: Alison Romig at Delacorte Press has acquired Marina versus the Mermaids by Anna Meriano (Love Sugar Magic), in which a Texas middle schooler who has always hated the water learns on her 13th birthday that her family is part of a secret community of merfolk, and sets out to fight against their expectations that she transform into something that feels all wrong; plus a second standalone middle grade novel. Publications is scheduled for spring of 2027 and spring of 2028; Patricia Nelson at Looking Glass Literary & Media sold world English rights while at Marsal Lyon Literary.
October 3, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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Hey… the world is stressful, can I interest you in my short story about queer kids trying to start a ttrpg club but getting sidetracked by CR 0 beasts irl?
Orange illustration of a book on a blue background. Text: barnes and noble preorder sale, 25% off, February 5th through February 7th. Code: preorder25. Book cover text: This is How We Roll: A Queer Anthology edited by Rosiee Thor. Cover to be revealed. Page street YA
February 6, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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Cosplaying at the Texas Ren Fest, which is probably the slice of Texans I most want to remake the world for 💙
Shadows on grassy sand of two people from the waist up with a teapot and tall cone hat, respectively.
November 25, 2024 at 2:36 AM
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Get excited for RELIT one story at a time! @sandraproudman.bsky.social is making these graphics every week, starting with my Pride and Prejudice retelling set on a space ship with a housing crisis. Can’t wait for everyone to meet Izzy, Darcy, and the rest of the ISS Heartford crew! 💙🚀

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Graphic with the cover of RELIT and text: “Relit story #1– Shame and Social Media by Anna Meriano.” There is a preorder QR code in the corner. Graphic with long chunk of text: “first line, Shame and Social Media by Anna Meriano. Audio transcript: Isabel Bernal: hiiiii new followers! Well hi loyal star chasers too, but I’ve gotten a truly astronomical number of new followers since my last video, so I’m doing a quick re-intro in case the only thing you know about me is how I rejected Douche-face Darcy’s stars-awful proposal of a date.” Graphic with the covers of three books: It Sounds Like This, Firsts and Lasts, and Love Sugar Magic: A Dash of Trouble. Text: “other works by Anna Meriano”
October 13, 2023 at 4:08 PM
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It’s out!! Happy book birthday to this excellent anthology, full of amazing realistic and speculative stories about the transitions of adolescence 💙💙💙

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Firsts and lasts, a blue book with green, red, and purple text and line art illustrations, propped up on light grey dirt with trees in the background.
September 26, 2023 at 3:25 PM
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Five days until Firsts and Lasts comes out! Check out this lovely review and snippet from my story, “The First Breakup” (affectionate) 💖💖
Graphic with colorful splotches and line drawings of a cell phone and a planet, with a Penguin teen logo in the corner. The cover of Firstd and Lasts, a fiction anthology edited by Laura Silverman is in one corner. Text: Firsts and Lasts Kirkus review: the entries that are rooted in trauma and sadness especially demonstrate the fictional adolescents’ incredible resilience and maturity as they process these novel experiences. Beautifully sentimental and utterly relatable. Graphic with colorful splotches and line drawings of a cell phone and a planet, with a Penguin teen logo in the corner. The cover of Firstd and Lasts, a fiction anthology edited by Laura Silverman is in one corner. Text: Firsts and Lasts, The First Breakup by Anna Meriano. “I never had an elaborate scheme to capture his attention or steal his heart. I didn’t need one. He just likes me, and it was so nice, and it had never happened to me before. When people are nice like that, what could be wrong?”
September 22, 2023 at 4:44 AM
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Less than two weeks until this awesome anthology hits shelves!! If you love the epic highs and lows of YA short stories, this is for you!
Firsts and Lasts, a novel with a dark cover and multicolored line illustrations of small objects like a scythe, plastic vampire teeth, a UFO, drumsticks, and a phone with a broken heart on the screen. Tagline: 16 stories from our world and beyond!
September 17, 2023 at 4:07 AM
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Shamelessly stealing promo graphics from the editor of this amazing anthology, @sandraproudman.bsky.social — B&N preorder sale can get you 16 retellings for the price of 12!
The cover of RELIT on a light gradient background with a QR code and text: B&N sale! 25% off preorders. Discount rain. The cover of Relit on a light gradient background with text: 5 months to go!
September 6, 2023 at 6:23 PM