“Set out with good intentions,” Zhao wrote in March 2018, in a post advising other writers on how to navigate social media. And over the course of the past year, Zhao emerged as an active and outspoken participant in the YA community - not just the author of a buzzworthy debut but an enthusiastic, effective communicator who was deeply engaged with issues of diversity and knew how to make herself heard. Her fantasy series, a loose retelling of Anastasia with a diverse cast of characters and a hefty dose of blood magic, sold at auction in a high six-figure deal with Delacorte. Zhao matched with her agent, Park Literary’s Peter Knapp, during a Twitter pitching event for marginalized creators (Zhao immigrated from China to the U.S. Excerpt:īlood Heir, the first in a planned three-book series, began as the ultimate social media–meets–publishing success story. New York magazine reports on the controversy, and talks about how Young Adult author Amelie Wen Zhao - whose professional self-immolation amid a savage struggle session with Social Justice Warriors I wrote about yesterday - was heretofore an enthusiastic participant in woke YA social media culture.
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