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But! What’s selling right now is the first printing still — it’s not sold through YET, it's just going fast — so if YOU want to be a book collecting dork and get a hardcover with the “1” in it, you still can!

us.macmillan.com/books/9781250

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival! Celebrate with mooncakes and stabby lesbians!! 🥮⚔📕

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You’ll see discussions of this among book collectors, where earlier printings can be more valuable...

Or, yanno, among people like me who are just TOTAL DORKS

In fact this is the first time one of my books has had a second printing (YAY!), so I might actually go out and buy it so I can have a copy without the “1” there 🤣🤣🤣

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Have you ever looked at a copyright page and seen this line?

This is the “number line” or “printer’s key” and it tells you which printing a book’s on! The lowest existing number is the current print run.

(I think 0 means 10 here, making 1 the lowest number = 1st print run)

For the second printing... drum roll... the “1” will be DELETED!!!

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well then, what do, how write?

I experimented a lot & no pronouns felt best for the character!

(they're in "fantasy Chinese", which doesn't gender pronouns just as real Chinese doesn't...which doesn't stop misogyny btw. Anglophones sometimes seem to assume that'd correlate but ungendering pronouns doesn't magically heal sexism/transphobia, sadly 😭)

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I've started talking about it in like every interview now because I want more people to see it ah hahaha, and the reaction tends to be, "omg I didn't see it BUT NOW I DO"

I guess it's not as awkward to read English without pronouns as we tend to assume? 😉

smol thread!

Do you ever do something as an author that's SO VERY CLEVER AND CHALLENGING and then

and then

nobody notices?

Y'all I wrote 1 of 5 POVs in a 3rd person book entirely without personal pronouns and I don't think anyone's mentioned it at all 🤣🤣🤣