WHEN THEY BURNED THE BUTTERFLY is out today!!! it's a dark sapphic fantasy about a girl gang with a fire god in 70s Singapore, about female rage and claiming your own places.

to the complex girls and to home. yours to read now, I hope you enjoy ❤️🦋

sapphic fantasy fall (girl gangs & golems edition) ✨

on BUTTERFLY release week, come join @maddiesmartinez.bsky.social and I over on IG on 26 Oct to talk about our sapphic fantasy books and our joint publishing journeys!

the sapphic historical fantasy in post/colonial Asia conversation ✨️ I'll be having a virtual launch for WHEN THEY BURNED THE BUTTERFLY with Vaishnavi Patel on 21 Oct!!

link in bio to register :)

announcing the WHEN THEY BURNED THE BUTTERFLY preorder campaign!!

send me your preorder receipts now till Oct 21 (with an exclusive for certain Singapore bookstores) & get some pretty gifts ft. all southeast asian artists!

links in bio 🦋✨

. @torbooks.bsky.social has a free extended preview of my forthcoming sapphic fantasy BUTTERFLY up online!! ❤️✨️

us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

christina called my main character a bitch and i said yes correct thank you 🫶🏼

ARCs for When They Burned the Butterfly, my sapphic girl gang fantasy set in 1970s singapore, are up on both edelweiss & netgalley!!!!

mine and now everyone else's 🥹

COVER REVEAL❤️🦋

WHEN THEY BURNED THE BUTTERFLY is my sapphic adult fantasy about a girl gang in 1970s postcolonial singapore, and i got the mean pyro femme art of my DREAMS. it's out oct 21 from @torbooks & you can preorder now!!

🎨 @carissasusilo.bsky.social (art) & esther kim (design)

BUTTERFLY cover reveal tomorrow 11am est 😃😃 vibrating out of my chair

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first time announcing here: my sapphic adult fantasy WHEN THEY BURNED THE BUTTERFLY will be out from Tor on 10/21/25!

a girl gang w fire magic in 70s singapore-turf wars & god tattoos in an age of transformation, for jade city/poppy war/arcane fans

i have seen cover art & can't WAITTT to show