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T. A. Chan
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SFF Writer ✨ ONE LAST GAME (Fall 2025) ♟️ THE CELESTIAL SEAS (Spring 2026) 🐳 Rep’d by Karly Dizon and Laurie McLean | Website: authortachan.com | Linktree: https://bit.ly/3URYAtM
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The world is not ready for this book!!! I’ve been devouring The King Must Die by @kashinggiwa.bsky.social — a stunning anti colonialism sci fi set on a strange new world 🌍 🪐
October 22, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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ARCs for The Celestial Seas are here!!! So excited to share these with the world ✨ 🐳

If a YA sci fi queer Moby Dick sounds like your jam, be sure to keep this on your radar 📕

#scifibooks #yabooks
October 15, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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In case you missed it…The Celestial Seas is available to read on Netgalley and Edelweiss!

#scifibooks #amreading
October 4, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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🎉BOOK RELEASE DAY FOR ONE LAST GAME 🎉

I can’t believe this dystopian book is now free into the world 🌎

NOVELLA CONTAINS 👇🏽
♟️ lethal board games
🥘 so much food
🌱 eco friendly dystopia
🔪 overthrowing immoral governments
🩸 betrayal
🌁 the nightmare version of Karl the fog

#newbook #scifibook
September 9, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Ayoooo it’s that time of the year and I’ve got not one but TWO options for you!

🩵ONE LAST GAME is a punchy novella with lethal board games and asshole characters - it’s out 9/9 so no need to wait long for it!

🐳THE CELESTIAL SEAS is a queer space Moby Dick!

#scifibooks #dystopianbooks
September 3, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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🪐🐋COVER REVEAL🌊💕

I am thrilled to share the STUNNING cover for my YA sci fi coming March 2026!

THE CELESTIAL SEAS is a fast paced, gender flipped sci fi homage to Moby Dick 🩵
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#thecelestialseas #writingcommunity #scifibook
August 28, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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⚠️Radar detection ⚠️Rapidly approaching something cover shaped 📖 🐳 💫 Check back in tomorrow to see the STUNNING cover for The Celestial Seas!
August 27, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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hi hi! I've got a YA sci fi that is pretty much genderbent moby dick in space :)

more info here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/762411...
August 4, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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What’s this??? Stickers and ✨foiled prints✨ and signed book plates galore for everyone who pre orders ONE LAST GAME! 🔗 in bio for pre order info 🫶🩷

#scifibooks #amreading
Graphic promoting a pre order campaign for the novella One Last Game by T A Chan. Pictures of two stickers, art prints, and a book plate
June 23, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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✨ Sooo…did I convince you to give ONE LAST GAME a chance?
✨ Preorder links in bio!
✨ Save your receipts for a fun surprise :)

#bookish #scifibooks #writerslife
May 15, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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✨COVER REVEAL✨

So excited to share the beautiful cover for ONE LAST GAME! If you're looking for a sci fi/dystopian novella featuring

- found family
- betrayals
- board games that are more than just games

Then be sure to keep an eye out for this book coming September 2025!

#amreading #scifibooks
April 30, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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👀 SOMETHING COVER SHAPED IS COMING SOON!

Absolutely cannot wait to share the cover for ONE LAST GAME, an adult speculative novella releasing in September 2025!

#amreading #scifibooks #writingcommunity
April 27, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Some more info about my books if you are so intrigued ✨❤️👀

#writingcommunity #booksky
February 5, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Hello! Finally, an intro:

ABOUT ME
✏️ writer
🐟 obsessed w/ fish
🐕 & dogs
☕ & coffee

ONE LAST GAME (fall '25) - Adult speculative
♟️ high stakes game
🌱 eco friendly dystopia
🩸 over throwing immoral systems

THE CELESTIAL SEAS (spring '26) - YA sci fi
🐳 moby dick
✨ ...in space
🌈 & make it queer
Imani, a character from the novella One Last Game. She is a woman in her with dark brown hair in a braid, a dark green jump suit, and tool kit. Niko, a character from the novella One Last Game. He is wearing a purple and gold track suit and has light brown hair with a serious looking face. Ishara and the space whale from the novel, The Celestial Seas. Ishara is a girl falling through an ocean of stars. She has long black hair and is wearing a white futuristic looking space suit. The space whale has six flippers and is made of mechanical components. The space whale from The Celestial Seas. The whale is primarily colored white and blue. It has a crown of spikes, six flippers, and a fierce looking gaze.
February 5, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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✨ BOOK DEAL ANNOUNCEMENT✨

excited ONE LAST GAME found a home with @patrickswenson.bsky.social thanks to @karlydizon.bsky.social

If you like stories with:
♟️ high stakes game
🌱 eco friendly dystopia
🩸 over throwing immoral systems
🗡️ b e t r a y a l s

This might be for you!

#writingcommunity
Book deal announcement for a novella by T A Chan to Fairwood Press by Karly Dizon Character art of a young man posed with a leg crossed in a purple and gold uniform Character art of a young woman in a green jumpsuit and radio in hand
January 11, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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🌁 Ahhhh wanted to let y’all know you can find me at the San Francisco Writer’s Conference this Feb!! 🌉

✍️ Super excited to be doing a talk about Story Outlining AND moderating a super rad panel (which I am both terrified and super excited to be doing)

#writingcommunity #amwriting
Graphic stating Tina will be talking about outlining methods and moderating a panel at the 2025 San Francisco writers conference Screenshot of the San Francisco writers conference home page with a bullet list of conference features and registration info Magestic dog on a log in a field
January 3, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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"A noble (space) craft, but somehow a most melancholy (and murderous)! All noble things are touched with that." -Ishmael from Moby Dick (w/ Ishara's commentary from The Celestial Seas, out 2026)

I'm as obsessed with this space whale as Ishara is obsessed with hunting it down

(art by Saik Hai)
December 27, 2024 at 3:17 PM
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📢 To my monolid kin…(IYKYK)

TUBING MASCARA is the holy grail that won’t transfer to under your eye 👁️

I’ve tried everything—waterproof mascara, primers, setting sprays—EVERYTHING but always looked like a 🦝 by the end of the day

Currently using this 👇🏽
December 21, 2024 at 7:56 PM
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BUT HOW can Ishara let a mech-operated bio-integrated spacecraft (MOBIS 🐳) get away with murdering everyone aboard her former ship????
(answer: she can't and she won't 😤)

Space whale shenanigans swimming ur way in 2026 w/ The Celestial Seas!

Character art by @ftacchi.bsky.social
#writingcommunity
pen and marker drawing of 3 fierce looking ladies who work on a spaceship together
December 19, 2024 at 5:39 AM
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The space sperm whale has, in fact, many a words to speak. ✨🐳

(Find out what does the whale say in THE CELESTIAL SEAS out in 2026!)

#writingcommunity #scifibooks
December 15, 2024 at 12:26 AM
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👋🏽 Hi Bluesky #writingcommunity! Super excited to be here and I’ll do a proper intro soon but first…

Sooo excited to share I got to chat on The Literary Blend podcast about writing advice and “hacks” I wish I’d know earlier! 🎧 📚

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November 19, 2024 at 1:54 AM