Trang Thanh Tran
@nvtran.bsky.social
NYT & Indie bestselling author of She Is a Haunting | Morris YA Debut Award finalist & Bram Stoker Award winner | They Bloom at Night out now!
Starting off Pride month with another #BIPOCQTchat tomorrow! 5pm pacific time
Sonido Reyes@sonidoreyes.bsky.social · 2y agoI missed this chat so much. Having a space to celebrate with other queer BIPOC writers was so healing, and I'm so happy to finally bring it back! I changed the name to be more inclusive, but it'll essentially be the same thing only here on bluesky instead of the other place #BIPOCQTchat #QPOCchat
20% off select AAPI titles at @bookshop.org!! 😍 They Bloom at Night is there! It takes place in a small shrimping community in the South, where I grew up. Vietnamese immigrants settled there and became shrimpers. TBAN is about how survival becomes a piece of folklore. bookshop.org/info/aapi
To make this run, however, we need funding to the tune of 5000 USD. A full breakdown of costs can be found at concurrentseattle.weebly.com/funding.html. This is where you come in! Please help us make ConCurrent a real thing and declare unequivocally that genAI has no place in the arts. 3/7
Funding
No convention is put on for free, and ConCurrent is no exception. Luckily, our costs are low because of our single-day program. Below is a breakdown of what we'll need to get this off the ground.
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There’s no way to ease into this news, so here it is. Today, I am announcing ConCurrent Seattle, a one-day SFFH con intended to be an alternative program to WorldCon, scheduled for Thursday, August 14, 2025, at the ACT Theatre in downtown Seattle at 700 Union Street, across from the Sheraton. 1/7
Obligatory hey I have a spooky book out full of ocean horrors and the queers who fear them 🦑😱 They Bloom at Night is like Annihilation meets Speak. bookshop.org/p/books/they...
May #NotesfromtheHornBook: 5 #YA supernatural novels www.hbook.com/story/newsle... @harperkids.bsky.social @mackidsbooks.bsky.social @torbooks.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social @ninocipri.bsky.social @markdoesstuff.bsky.social @nvtran.bsky.social
Otherworldly forces
From the May 2025 issue of Notes from the Horn Book.
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If you enjoy playing Dredge, BOY should you have a look at THEY BLOOM AT NIGHT by @nvtran.bsky.social . Just finished it and really enjoyed!
I'm very happy to say that I just finished reading #TheyBloomAtNight by @nvtran.bsky.social and it was one of the most beautiful stories I have ever read.
Day 3, Book 3: SHE IS A HAUNTING, a dazzling, terrifying YA horror novel by Vietnamese-American author Trang Thanh Tran (@nvtran.bsky.social). Jade's Ba is mid-restoration on a French colonial in Vietnam when she visits--but the house, with colonialism steeped in its foundation, is ravenous.
FREE SHIPPING this weekend from our affiliate Bookshop! Every purchase you make through this link bookshop.org/shop/mainstb... (our logo should be in the top left corner) gets us 30% and ships directly to you!
last year @nobordersbooks.bsky.social sent 600+ books to Rikers; this year our book drive is for teens who are incarcerated in Brooklyn. please purchase a book if you can—most of these are requested titles, and a $7 Goosebumps book would mean A LOT to a kid in detention bookshop.org/wishlists/70...
HAPPY INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORE DAY!! How are you celebrating?! What are you going to get today?
Need an excuse to buy more books? Now you have one! Saturday is Indie Bookstore Day! Show your favorite indie some love.
Why Shopping Local This Indie Bookstore Day Is More Important Than Ever
Several independent book store owners are encouraging people to go out to their local independent bookstores to buy some novels to help celebrate Independent Bookstore Day and keep independent busines...
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Happy (Upcoming) Lesbian Visibility Day 2025! Saturday is Lesbian Visibility Day, and we're celebrating with lesbian fiction! For even more recs, check out last year's post. Middle Grade Pasta Girls by Taylor Tracy (September 9, 2025) Hot-headed and energetic Romea Marino is starting ninth grade…
Happy (Upcoming) Lesbian Visibility Day 2025!
Saturday is Lesbian Visibility Day, and we're celebrating with lesbian fiction! For even more recs, check out last year's post. Middle Grade Pasta Girls by Taylor Tracy (September 9, 2025) Hot-headed and energetic Romea Marino is starting ninth grade with a full plate. Between confusing social dynamics of high school and juggling extracurriculars, Ro can only find peace in the reliable comfort of her kitchen, where she’s able to follow in her dad’s culinary footsteps, whipping up Italian-fusion recipes.
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Sinners is an excellent movie. Highly recommend seeing it!!!
I cannot move again with so many copies 💀 Any educators working with teens want a book? I will mail to you! SIAH is a gothic horror about a bi girl fighting a hungry haunted house that wants to keep her family & TBAN is about a enby teen searching for monsters at the end of the world.
Read for the #transrightsreadathon, this book was like OUR WIVES UNDER THE SEA meets HELL FOLLOWED WITH US. The prose is salty, frightening, and beautiful like the waters it explores while the body horror asks what it means to be human. @nvtran.bsky.social writes horror you don't want to miss.
Noon from They Bloom At Night by @nvtran.bsky.social !! fantastic YA horror I read recently #theybloomatnight #art #transrightsreadathon
Some of my favourite recommendations for the Trans Rights Readathon! @kmenright.bsky.social @haileypiperfights.bsky.social @briewoodfiction.bsky.social @unheimlichmanvr.bsky.social @nvtran.bsky.social @hauntpublishing.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️ ❤️💙📚 #TransRights
I finished my first book of the #TransRightsReadathon last night! THEY BLOOM AT NIGHT by @nvtran.bsky.social is a powerful story about family, queerness, bodily autonomy, and, well, body horror. Five stars, twelve out of ten, etc.
THEY BLOOM AT NIGHT by @nvtran.bsky.social is a wonderfully queer coming-of-age horror/fantasy blending body horror and Vietnamese folklore. If you like eerie and emotional YA horror about grief and monsters, this one’s for you. Pick up a copy here: www.proud-geek.co.uk/product-page...
the March horror shopping list is live! feat. new books from @sgj.bsky.social, @alexgrecian.bsky.social, @erikatwurth.bsky.social, @nvtran.bsky.social, @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social, @authorallisongunn.bsky.social, @drewhuff.bsky.social, @charleneelsby.bsky.social, @patrickbarb.bsky.social, & more:
All the New Horror Books Coming in March 2025
March 2025’s new horror books, featuring titles from Agustina Bazterrica, Stephen Graham Jones, Cynthia Pelayo, Trang Thanh Tran, Alex Grecian, Erika T. Wurth, and more!
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Let’s talk genderqueer leads in horror, LA! Today ❤️ at Annabelle’s Book Club 4PM
Such a great event at @doylestownbookshop.bsky.social with @nvtran.bsky.social today!! They bloom at night is a fantastic book, go out and get it today! #books
Philly & doylestown folks, come to Doylestown Bookshop tomorrow at 1! Pls don’t let my mom see an empty audience 🤣
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)
