Enter HOUSE OF MIRRORS, a collection of hermit crab essays--stories in the forms of preexisting types of writing like a teen mag quiz or newspaper--about the modern gay Asian experience 🪞

genre-bending🤯
LGBT+🌈
POC💛
immigrant family dynamics👪
search for love & belonging🏠

#posterpit #q #w #a #c #nf

Author Josh Emmons says, "Aaron Chan's HOUSE OF MIRRORS is extraordinary, full of moving...episodes... Chan calls to mind Ocean Vuong and Ben Lerner, poets moonlighting as prose writers to beautiful effect... I applaud the publisher lucky enough to bring out this book.”

😊😊😊

#queerpit #a #lf #cnf

Hey #queerpit! Enter HOUSE OF MIRRORS, a collection of hermit crab essays--stories in the forms of preexisting types of writing like a teen mag quiz or newspaper--about the gay Asian experience.

It’s about growing up in an immigrant family and the search for love & belonging 💜

#a #lf #cnf

A nice thing one of my former professors had to say about my hermit crab essay collection, HOUSE OF MIRRORS:

#questpit #q #w #nf #lf #ownvoices #own #lgbtq #agentsguide #bipoc

Hey #questpit! Enter HOUSE OF MIRRORS, a collection of hermit crab essays--stories in the forms of preexisting types of writing like a teen mag quiz or newspaper--about the gay Asian experience.

It is about growing up in an immigrant family and the search for love & belonging.

#q #w #nf #lf

I pressed it 🤞

I'm giving away two signed copies of my new picture book THE BROKEN HEART! It's a moving story about heartache and grief, but also love and family. ❤️

Follow me on Insta, like this post, and tag a couple folks. That's it! Good luck!

www.instagram.com/p/DCUPXHWPjgd/

Less than a month before my picture book THE BROKEN HEART comes out! Tell bookstores and my publisher that you support a story about love, family, healing by pre-ordering a copy 💔♥️

Preorder links in bio.

It's my birthday today! 🥳🎉

You know what would be an amazing birthday gift? If you pre-ordered THE BROKEN HEART, my upcoming picture book! Plus, you'll get a beautifully illustrated book in five months that you'll have forgotten about! 😆🎁

Preorder link in bio

THE BROKEN HEART, my debut children's picture book, is available to pre-order! 🥳🎉❤️

It's a poignant, tender, and subtly queer story about a girl named Stephanie who helps put her brother's broken heart back together 💔

Pre-order here: www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/713317...

⭐️COVER REVEAL! ⭐️

My children's picture book, THE BROKEN HEART, has a cover, illustrated by the fabulous Josiane Vlitos! I love the colours and the subtle heart in the trees and ahhh it's so good!! 😊

THE BROKEN HEART comes out May 28, 2024

Until next time, Vancouver ❤️

Ever wondered what agonies are involved in getting a book published as a queer POC? I'll be talking about the publication journey of THIS CITY IS A MINEFIELD on Aug. 18th!

Reg here: https://shorturl.ac/7b90t

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