I hit repost too fast bc I needed to add THIS IS THE BEST THING I'VE EVER SEEN 😭😭😭 also "full immersion study abroad program all-time champion" for a character who jumps bodies by increasing language fluency is *chef's kiss* brb changing the tagline of the book everywhere 🚀🦑

Dana Berube@dana-berube.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This book gave me so many feelings I had to draw tonally inappropriate silly fanart about it!! We love our foreign language full immersion study abroad program all-time champion Ro!!!

This book gave me so many feelings I had to draw tonally inappropriate silly fanart about it!! We love our foreign language full immersion study abroad program all-time champion Ro!!!

SL Huang [THE LANGUAGE OF LIARS is out!]🎇🦑🌌]@slhuang.com · 7mo ago

us.macmillan.com/books/978125... 💥 "devastating" - Rebecca Roanhorse 💥 "destroyed me" - Yoon Ha Lee 💥 "f*king fantastic" - Samantha Mills 💥 "i AM NOT OKAY" - Mia Tsai 💥 "I felt shattered" - Sue Burke 💥 "heartbreaking" - Yume Kitasei 💥 "brilliant" - Wole Talabi 💥 "SF at its best" - Kate Elliott

i just finished "The Language of Liars" by @slhuang.com and holy WOW. this is a book that nails the novella format so well, especially for reading slowly and carefully. picking it apart. it's a book for: - language nerds - travelers (time or otherwise) - people who like their friends - people

The Language of Liars

Check out The Language of Liars - <p><b>A story of secrets, body jumping, and the power of language, <i>The Language of Liars</i> is a poignant, thought-provoking new masterpiece from award-winning au...

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Happy Pride! As far as I know, none of my books are on sale, but if you want a romance involving an anxious bisexual man or a museum ethics adventure with a princess lesbian and a feral knight bisexual woman, I got you. tachyonpublications.com/product/bitt... bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

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I don't usually crosspost my Tiktoks here but I thought this one might be Of Interest*: 7 Women of Color Who Wrote Speculative Fiction Before 1980 www.tiktok.com/@s.l.huang/p... (who you can still read today! in english 😅) [*perhaps especially to @nisishawl.bsky.social @jdnicoll.bsky.social]

I’m 30% in and The Language of Liars is excellent. @slhuang.com

POV a few months from now: we're all bringing back webrings to get around the internet 😭

oh my god every time I see that title 🤣

Beth Cato@bethcato.bsky.social · 2mo ago

THIS SATURDAY: join me at the Red Wing Library as I discuss my community reads book, Cheddar Luck Next Time, & get personal about life as a cheese-loving autistic person! 🧀 10AM in the Foot Room. (The free books have already been given away! They went fast!)

I'll do you one better, I thought Yo-seh-mih-tee and Yah-seh-might were two different parks ...I was an adult before I figured it out

Hildur Knútsdóttir@hildur.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Confession: I used to think “Yosemite” was pronounced like “marmite”.

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Anatidae. Quack! Honk! A sleeping mallard drake, down on the Wandle Delta. Or is he? I may have been spotted... #birds #birding #wildlifephotography #wandle #mallard

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linguistics is literally as sexy as you can getttt (trust me guys i have two degrees in it i am expert)

Lololol completely forgot about my 4am shitposting until l woke up to packed notifs; glad everyone enjoyed! If all that sound like a sexy time to you the book is THE LANGUAGE OF LIARS. I can haz romantasy monies now? 😚🤣 us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

The Language of Liars

A story of secrets, body jumping, and the power of language, The Language of Liars is a poignant, thought-provoking new masterpiece from award-winning author...

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no YOU invented a species that reproduces via asexual budding and thus doesn't even HAVE sex also they've forgotten how to do THAT I've graduated from books without sex to entire worlds without sex, am I doing this romantasy thing right

Fonda Lee@fondalee.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Glad for all the romantasy readers who're living in their golden age but when will fiction drenched in unsentimental cynicism starring women who give no fucks be on trend again (asking for myself and my career)

what do you mean alien linguistics isn't sexy sexytimes ohhhhhh give me that inflection, make it both future AND perfect, yessssss

Fonda Lee@fondalee.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Glad for all the romantasy readers who're living in their golden age but when will fiction drenched in unsentimental cynicism starring women who give no fucks be on trend again (asking for myself and my career)

You can continue to expect my books to get thinkier and less romantic, bah who needs to pay bills

Fonda Lee@fondalee.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Glad for all the romantasy readers who're living in their golden age but when will fiction drenched in unsentimental cynicism starring women who give no fucks be on trend again (asking for myself and my career)

I'm in the middle of Villain by @nataliezed.bsky.social ; it's amazing so far. It's a sequel to Hench, one of my all-time favorites. Just finished The Language of Liars by @slhuang.com , heartbreaking and wonderful. Also Automatic Noodle by @annaleen.bsky.social was a bunch of fun.

I went in to "The Language of Liars" knowing nothing but the title because luckily the first mention I saw was more or less "do yourself a favor and don't read anything else about it befoe you read this book!" 100% agree, top tier experience. I didn't even read the jacket copy or the inside flap. 😂

SL Huang [THE LANGUAGE OF LIARS is out!]🎇🦑🌌]@slhuang.com · 3mo ago

so many people saying they wish they didn't know anything about THE LANGUAGE OF LIARS going in sadly hard to tempt people to read and... not say anything about the book... just gotta become this year's Sixth Sense where everyone's all DON'T LET ANYONE TELL YOU ANYTHING JUST READ

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"The Language of Liars" by @slhuang.com this one is so good, i am sitting with it a lot. it's giving me so much to think about and consider that i don't want to go through it quickly. wanna read 2 chapters and then do BIG THOUGHTS

Self-promo time: The Subtle Art of Folding Space Are people rewriting the physical laws of the universe for their own personal gain? What if the only things preventing anyone from doing this are norms? What do you do? us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

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The Subtle Art of Folding Space is the exhilarating debut science fiction novel from Nebula and Hugo Award-winning author John Chu which channels unhinged ph...

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Kat Abughazaleh@katmabu.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I just finished the latest Dungeon Crawler book. Pls send me your recommendations for my next read, series or not. Some of my favorite authors/books are Becky Chambers, Octavia Butler, the Red Rising series, Battle Royale, When Women Were Dragons, etc. Sci-fi appreciated but not necessary.

I have like 12,000 things to do today and this wasn't on my list but there are currently 2 ways to support the Ignytes: General Donations: ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/support/ Sponsorship: donorbox.org/sponsor-the-... If you're local to the ATL area, I'm also looking for help packing trophies.

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Preorders are a gift from you to: 🎁Your future self 🖊️The author (seriously, it helps!) ✨With this book, also your childhood self: the one who dreamed of finding a hidden door to Narnia, or traveling the stars to see new worlds. Treat yourself: hornedlarkpress.com/product/the-... #BookSky #sffbooks

Horned Lark Press@hornedlarkpress.com · 3mo ago

*checks watch* It’s time to preorder THE FINAL CHRONICLE OF YENEH (a standalone sci-fi yarn by @jomiles.bsky.social) because Future You in July is super cool and deserves a gift from Current You, who is also turbo rad. Available everywhere, but you get a discount and goodies if you order from us!

Oops I should have specified, this is about various factors affecting BOOK sales This is a bookish thread XD

SL Huang [THE LANGUAGE OF LIARS is out!]🎇🦑🌌]@slhuang.com · 3mo ago

I am still very sick so have a ramble about "r"! In my Mathematics of Word of Mouth thread, someone linked me to these very cool slides by @swilua.bsky.social They show correlation between various factors and sales. But what is "r"?

I am still very sick so have a ramble about "r"! In my Mathematics of Word of Mouth thread, someone linked me to these very cool slides by @swilua.bsky.social They show correlation between various factors and sales. But what is "r"?

Phone ate a Bluesky thread I was working on and it was incredibly demoralizing and then I got an email from my agent that THE LANGUAGE OF LIARS is entering a second printing!!! Y'all are so wonderful, go little book go us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

The Language of Liars

A story of secrets, body jumping, and the power of language, The Language of Liars is a poignant, thought-provoking new masterpiece from award-winning author...

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This thread was extremely neat

SL Huang [THE LANGUAGE OF LIARS is out!]🎇🦑🌌]@slhuang.com · 3mo ago

What is the mathematics of word of mouth? My latest book THE LANGUAGE OF LIARS seems to be having exceptionally good word of mouth, so I found myself wondering...what does "good word of mouth" mean? You know. Mathematically.

Feels like a great time to tell people about Kagi Been on it a few weeks now and *I actually have useful search results again* 😭😭 $10/month for a paid product that doesn't advertise to you & just serves non-enshittified web search: kagi.com [I am unaffiliated I just like my technology to work]

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ToonHive@toonhive.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Google announces it will now prioritize AI-generated answers in Search results over human-written website articles. A move that could make it significantly harder for independent websites to gain organic traffic starting next Tuesday.

I worked so hard to try to capture this 🥹

Jordan Kurella@jordankurella.com · 3mo ago

i am reading "The Language of Liars" by @slhuang.com and holy shit this book encapsulates being mutilingual and trying to immerse onself in another culture SO WELL only speaking as a white person who has lived elsewhere and traveled elsewhere but i am SCREAMING at the accuracy

The outage last night effed me up doing this thread (grr) & I thought I put everything back but I missed one post Fortunately it was an extension of the alt text on the graph, about how we want the blue line, that's cumulative cases So uh the alt text may help if the graph's confusing! Sorry!

SL Huang [THE LANGUAGE OF LIARS is out!]🎇🦑🌌]@slhuang.com · 3mo ago

What is the mathematics of word of mouth? My latest book THE LANGUAGE OF LIARS seems to be having exceptionally good word of mouth, so I found myself wondering...what does "good word of mouth" mean? You know. Mathematically.