ONE WEEK
Until Boys with Sharp Teeth releases!! Read on for preorder bonus material and appearances!
Disclaimer: This post will have an excessive amount of exclamation marks. Read at your own risk.
It’s April. Who let that happen!!! Confess!!!
Boys with Sharp Teeth releases ONE WEEK from today, and already I’ve been getting messages that y’all are seeing it in Barnes & Nobles across the country!! Indigo has also shipped their orders!!
So many of you have already preordered, and for that I want to pause and say thank you. Your early and consistent love for this dark, devious book is one of the biggest reasons why so many exciting things are happening for it! I wouldn’t be here without you, and I won’t ever stop being grateful.
When I first starting writing this book, even dreaming of getting a literary agent with it felt downright audacious. Now, just two years after signing with my agent, there’s two special editions (and maybe one more ehehehe), it’s been named one of Barnes & Noble’s best books of April, a Goodreads “read this” YA for April, and a most anticipated book of 2025 for Paste Magazine, readwithcindy, The Nerd Daily, Books-A-Million, Indigo!, and more!!
HWAT.
No, really, WHAT.
Me @ y’all <3
Preorder Incentives!
If you preordered from Curious Iguana (US), West End Lane Books (UK), or Bookish Signs (int’l), you’ll receive a signed copy with two gorgeous art prints of Marin and the boys.
EVERYONE who preordered, though, can enter your receipt and email at the form here to receive a bonus chapter from Henry Wu’s point of view!
Here’s an excerpt from that chapter, because nothing is more fun on Tuesday than a good tease :)
His eyes widen, as much as they can. I tuck the image away like a treasure. He gives me so little. Everything about him is so tightly controlled, to punish me. To keep me hungry. He knows how much I need to know when I’ve hurt him, and so he holds it back. I run my free hand over his closely cropped hair, trailing my fingers down the side of his jaw. “You’d like that, wouldn’t you?”
hehe
Also, for my DMV loves: Barnes & Noble of Frederick, Columbia, Gaithersburg, and Congressional Rockville will all have signed copies available soon! I’ll post on my IG when I’ve visited each!
Me Meeting You!
I’ve been hearing from so many of you that you’re planning to come to one of my events this spring / summer, and I cannot WAIT to meet you!!! Or, if we already know each other (lol hi to my sisters who subscribe) I can’t wait to see you <3
Here’s a quick summary of everywhere you can find me over the next few months:
April 8, 6:30-7:45 PM (Frederick, MD) — Launch event with Curious Iguana bookstore at the C. Burr Artz Library. Free to attend with copies available for purchase at the event! I’ll be in conversation with author Charlene Thomas and have an open Q&A and signing. Light snacks and refreshments provided. Amazing glorious custom handmade soaps inspired by Henry & Adrian, made by sos.sapo, will be available for the first 40 guests.
April 12, 12-1 PM (Columbia, MD) — Signing and chat at Barnes & Noble. Come hang out at the Columbia Mall with me over lunch break :)
April 30, Time TBA (Columbia, MD) — Indie Bookstore Day celebration with Queen Takes Book. So, so excited to celebrate with this gorgeous new (1 year old this month!!) bookstore in my area
May 5, 6:30 PM (Ann Arbor, MI) — FierceReads Sour Tour at Schuler Books
May 6, 6:00 PM (St. Paul, MN) — FierceReads Sour Tour at Red Balloon Books
May 7, 6:00 PM (Austin, TX) — FierceReads Sour Tour at BookPeople
May 8, 6:30 PM (Denver, CO) — FierceReads Sour Tour at Pauline Robinson Branch Library, books sold by The Bookies Bookstore
June 21, Time TBD (New York City, NY) — ThrillerFest, find me at the Debut Author Breakfast & my book the bookstore. I’ll update my IG with details!
July 19, Time TBD (Westminster, MD) — Teen Writers Craft class and Q&A with Carroll County Public Libraries Westminster Branch
August 16, 6:30 PM (Bethany Beach, DE) — Book Signing at Bethany Beach Books
Please let me know with a comment here or dm on IG if you’re planning to come to any of the events so that I can stave off anxiety with daydreaming about meeting you instead ahaha! Help. (I’m really excited, but have never done any of this before, and have no idea what to expect, so expecting YOU is exactly the balm my soul needs <3)
Until next week, when my book becomes your book,
<3 j