⁦Crystal Maldonado - Updates only⁩, look who I said hi to in the book store at DC airport. 📘✈️

i'm about to see if i can sit in on this class lolol

The Books for Maui auction starts today! I'm offering:

✨ A query critique
✨ Signed copies of my books plus stickers.

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Crystal Maldonado (Crystal Maldonado - Updates only) is a young adult author with a lot of feelings. She is the author of romcoms for fat, brown girls, including The Fall of Whit Rivera, which will be released Oct. 10, 2023.

@Michelekiricha1 interviewed Crystal buff.ly/457xZfe

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NOTHING ELSE BUT MIRACLES arrives 9/5! I’d love to share some real-life sites from the story. First up, the Statue of Liberty! ‘Libby’ is a sort of confidante for our protagonist, Dory. I visited her myself recently… first time since elementary school!
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interested in being my WeNeedDiverseBooks mentee?? IT’S TIME TO APPLY!!! 🥳🥳🥳

can’t today; all booked up

Applications for 2024 WNDB Mentorships are now OPEN! Diverse illustrators and writers, don’t miss out on your chance to work with one of our amazing mentors next year. Info and application: bit.ly/WNDBMentorship

We're over halfway thru 2023, here's a list of Latinx YA books releasing during the summer & fall for your tbr― from fantasy romance, romcoms and chilling mystery reads you can't miss!✨

― clicks & rt's appreciated!💗
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Did you miss yesterday's panel, 'How to Write a Novel'? You can watch it any time on the website! Two novelists, Crystal Maldonado - Updates only and Amy Shearn, discuss the novel writing process, from starting to sticking with a draft to submitting to agents & editors. bit.ly/47ellMY

💗💗 hungry for sapphic fiction? here are hundreds and hundreds of sapphic books releasing this half of 2023! 💗💗

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Alechia’s friend here with an amazing update of a Kirkus star for JUST A PINCH OF MAGIC!🌟

Read the review: kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/a…

For signed copies: onemorepagebooks.com/book/978125082…

In case you missed it...pack your duffle bag and get ready to go back to Camp Sylvania! Congratulations, Crystal Maldonado - Updates only & Julie Murphy! 🥳

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Yes, let’s be transparent, authors!

65K/year for my teaching fellowship at UT

15K advance for print book

6K advance for audiobook

2K advance for Polish translation rights

-15% agent cut on advances

migraine folks when it's 80% humidity with a chance of thunderstorms every day

with books by very talented people, including malavika kannan Sabina Khan Daniel Tawse Owen Lach 🏳️‍🌈 Queer YA Author adrienne tooley Tiana Warner | sapphic romance author LL McKinney (mostly) Updates David Fenne ~ OVERTHINKING out now!🧠 benjamin dean Meriam Metoui *Updates*🇵🇸 Julio Anta @notjacoby Jessica Mary Best Alechia Dow (updates only) Cassandra Jean Mosskat (Pls read Cuckoos3!) Jen Bailey / j. leigh bailey 🏳️‍🌈📚 💛 (1/?)

Crystal Maldonado - Updates only's NO FILTER AND OTHER LIES Holiday House Publishing, Inc. is a #massachusettsbookawards Must Read! A hilarious #youngadult #novel of love, social media & race. See: ow.ly/PQFe50PbKPv #summerreading #bookstagram #CenterForTheBook Massachusetts Library Association 📚 MBLC New England Independent Booksellers Association

the overwhelming consensus is yes, and shorter YAs very much have a place/would be appreciated and this makes me really happy! i personally LOVE shorter YA books even though i tend to be a lil..... verbose. lollll. but my latest MS is around 62k 😅

are shorter YAs a thing anymore?