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celine 🩷💜💙 pre-order HOLD ME LIKE A GRUDGE
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little court jester 🌈 • queer & diverse reader • author HOLD ME LIKE A GRUDGE (berkley, 03.31.26) & LOSER NEW YEAR (2027) • she/they • rep: brent taylor at triada us
http://bio.site/celineong
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dog collar scene you will always be famous (iykyk) 🌶️

📖 HOLD ME LIKE A GRUDGE, out 03/31/26 with Berkley/PRH. preorders are available wherever you love to shop for books / my bio + you can now request an arc on netgalley and edelweiss! it means a lot to a debut like myself!
October 30, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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HOLD ME LIKE A GRUDGE is now available to request on netgalley!!

❤️‍🔥 sports romance
✨ enemies to idiots to (forbidden) lovers
❤️‍🔥 nuclear grade yearning
✨ grumpy x sunshine
❤️‍🔥 love letter to queer history and revolution
✨ soft love, big secrets, scorching spice

#booksky #queerbooksky #romancebooks
August 24, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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GRUDGE preorders are currently 25% off at b&n! preorders really help debut authors such as myself out by signalling interest and it will also guarantee you Hottest Person status!

🔗 www.barnesandnoble.com/w/hold-me-li...

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July 10, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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WELCOME. SHE’S HERE.

thrilled to reveal the cover of my debut novel, a queer sports romance where a sizzling rivalry between two professional wrestlers grows increasingly heated ❤️‍🔥

HOLD ME LIKE A GRUDGE will be yours on 3/31/26 & is now available for preorder (🔗 in bio!)

#booksky #queerbooksky
The cover art of HOLD ME LIKE A GRUDGE, a novel by Celine Ong, where two male wrestlers (to the left is an Asian man in his 20s with black hair tied up in a man bun and a red fringe cascading down his face, dressed in a pair of black wrestling tights designed to look like flames; to the right is a white man with short blond hair with slight curls at the top, dressed in white tights and blue lines coming up the side) square up in the middle of a ring. They stare at each other with a mix of fierceness and affection, and have an arm on each other. They are illuminated by pinkish, purplish, and blueish stage lights above. In the background, a faceless crowd watches them. a synopsis for HOLD ME LIKE A GRUDGE that reads: When a fierce rivalry between two professional wrestlers grows increasingly heated, neither man can fight the attraction burning between them, in this dazzling debut romance. From dramatic character gimmicks to death-defying stunts, everything in the world of professional wrestling is an act. Asher Ross's hatred for Caleb Knight, however, is not. When Asher gets drafted to Global Elite Wrestling’s main roster, playing the role of Caleb’s worst enemy—the face to his heel—should be easy. Stripping him of his World Championship title should be even easier. But as the two men trade barbs and blows across arenas, they’re each surprised to find their chemistry is so sizzling, it can’t just be for the cameras.

Through training sessions, rehearsals, and injuries, Caleb’s icy demeanor melts away, and Asher begins to see the real man behind the cruel persona GEW has molded Caleb into. An unlikely truce evolves into feelings neither want to deny, but the company won’t let them be seen as anything other than bitter rivals, both in and out of the ring.

As Asher and Caleb grapple with what they truly want in an industry with a history of denying queerness, their forbidden romance comes crashing down on them, and both men are forced to decide if their relationship is real enough to last, and just how much they’re willing to fight for it. a trope map for HOLD ME LIKE A GRUDGE, including: freak4freak, himbo golden retriever x soggy wet cat, fuck you (nuclear grade yearning), hurt/comfort, a bi demon & a gay disaster walk into a bar, the inherent eroticism of choking out your enemy, found family, love letter to queer history & revolution, with text that announces “now available for pre-order”
July 3, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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tropes in HOLD ME LIKE A GRUDGE except it gets more unhinged as the author completely loses the plot. bon appétit 💋

💌 out spring 2026 with @berkleyromance.bsky.social !!

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hold me like a grudge by celine ong, featuring the tropes the following tropes: do you want to fight him or fuck him?, himbo golden retriever x soggy cat, fuck you (nuclear grade pining), the inherent eroticism of choking out your enemy, diversity win! no one is straight!, freak4freak, everyone is in horny jail, *jumps over problems* parkour, hurt/comfort, love letter to queer history & revolution more tropes in hold me like a grudge by celine ong: cute first date ideas: hand-to-hand combat, i fucked my way into this mess & i’ll fuck my way out, human version of a headache, middle fingers up to capitalism, bisexuality strikes again, my beloathed <3, my mother sold me to one direction, erotic & religious, repressed emotions in a trenchcoat, emotionally-charged soup hold me like a grudge as tumblr quotes and ao3 tags
June 20, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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new year new cry log, turned in edits for grudge, and uh. pissing on cybertrucks #booksky
a bookstack (true love and other impossible odds, his boy next door s3, a collar for his brat s1 & 2, have you seen this girl, the eyes are the best part, mooncakes, we used to live here, incidents around the house, fence challengers: sweet sixteen, recognizing the stranger, we got the beat) on a black desk with a floral green table runner draped over it. next to it, a lego flower bouquet is arranged in a vase in the shape of a polar bear. three tarot cards rest at its base. “january wrap up” is overlaid on top janaury cry tracker with 8 days colored in cel, asian person in their 20s wearing a floral dress with a cowl neck, staring off into the distance with a tiny smile, overlaid with a tweet that says: "you think you're smarter than elon musk" no, i KNOW i'm smarter than elon musk. i'm also funnier and hotter. hope that helps a laptop next to a tray of sandwiches and coffees at a cafe
February 16, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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*inhales* the discomfort when forced to make eye contact and masking and hyperfixating and rewatching comfort media a hundred times for familiar reassurance and not understanding why humans act the way they do or how to interact with them murderbot is so autistic coded in this essay i—

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February 5, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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happy LOSER NEW YEAR i mean lunar new year!!🍊 can’t believe i get to watch my feral cat son fall in love with his anxious golden retriever fake boyfriend in real time perhaps life is worth living after all

#booksky #queerbooksky
January 28, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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local author doesn’t even remember which year their own books take place head empty running purely on vibes only
two texts that read “did you know loser new year takes place this year in canon” “because i, the author, did not”
January 26, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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i’d like to believe hope will always exist because /you/ exist. because /we/ exist. and we will rise up with dirt caked on our face, throwing bricks & sticks & earth from chipped nails. digging our claws & teeth in, refusing to be erased from history.
January 20, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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sometimes i hyperfocus so hard on writing or reading that i lowkey forget i’m a person? then someone calls my name and i’m like
January 14, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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how to write in these conditions
January 14, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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perhaps the most unhinged thing i did last year was track the number of times i cried as though i could scientifically figure out if i was okay lmao. the answer is: no
January 11, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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hey how do i be normal about that fact that my debut novel—a homoerotic rivals-to-lovers sports romance with big middle fingers up to capitalism energy—comes out NEXT YEAR 🧎🏻‍♀️
January 9, 2025 at 2:04 PM