C.H.Lei

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Goth-lite, mixed racial almost-maybe writer, heavy metal officiando, Murder Mystery whore. Watches a movie a day, maybe two. He/him. I use up all my good grammar and spelling while writing.

Corgi Tax
Over a background of San Francisco Chinatown: GRACIE FOON FIGHTS FOR HER LIFE Pitch: After a malevolent ghost takes over her body and starts living her life, the spirit of a 13-year-old girl must survive clans of hungry demons, overzealous spiritualists, and a literal dragon that lives in the sewers of San Francisco in order to regain even a fraction of her humanity back. Comps: Momo Arashima Steals the Sword of the Wind by Misa Sugiura x White Snake (2019) Spirited Away x Jade City by Fonda Lee FUN STUFF/TROPES(?) - San Francisco just not a setting, but a character - Friends to enemies to friends to ??? - Loosely influenced by the White Snake folk story - Hope you like martial arts fight scenes and magic talismans
1. Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect by Benjamin Stevenson 2. The Treasure Hunters Club by Tom Ryan 3. Binti: The Conplete Trilogy by Nnedi Okorafor 4. The Hexologists: A Tangle of Time by Josiah Bancroft
From Left to right The Grief of Stones by Katherine Addison Exit Strategy by Martha Wells Clown in a Cornfield by Asam Cesare
Piebald deer yearling
Blurry AF phone zoom of chilling piebald doe yearlings.
Best Horror of the Year Vol 17 edited by Ellen Datlow These Familiar Walls by C. J. dotson Dinner at the Night Library by Hika Harada, translated by Philip Gabriel.
Tress and the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson
Orange boy sleeping stupid
NOTES APP MESS.
The best of boys.
And offkilter photo of—okay, here me out you know how the top and bottom of a hardcover spine hets bent? Yeah, there’s none of that. This is a pure rectangle, like hottdamn. Anyways, the book is Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree
Three books (from left to right) 1. Hardcover copy of Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo 2. Leatherbound copy of Anatomy of a Murder by Robert Travers 3. Leatherbound copy of Which Lie Did I Tell?: More Adventures in the Screen Trade by William Goldman, signed by the author, first edition. Wrapped in plastic. Yes, I bought a leatherbound memoir about how to screenwrite etc.
The Collected Short Stories of Louis L’Amour: Volume 1, the Frontier Stories. Magic: The Gathering card as bookmark.
A copy of STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION: Q-In-Law by Peter Davi. Picard’s in the foreground with Q and Lwaxana Troi in the background.
A copy of Shadows on the Sgage by Edinburgh small press Forest Publications, edited by Nadine Brito and Claire Wallace next to my tiny-ass hand giving a thumbs up.
The cover to The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to the Waatelands by Sarah Brooks. The titlr is ond a ribbon over green clouds, and the border is a train.
A copy of Dead Voices by Katherine Arden. The cover art has the ghost of a different book cover, Nothing Can Hurt You by Nicola Maye Goldberg. One of the covers was printed over the other.
Five books on a rug: Ghost Scout’s Honor by Carey Blankenship-Kramer All About Me! My Remarkable Life in Show Business by Mel Brooks (the GOAT) The Oleander Seord by Tasha Suri Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells The Pearl Hunter by Miya T. beck
The Ballad of Perilous Graves by Alex Jennings
Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell
Four books. Clockwise from top left corner: 1. The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories by V/A 2. The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to the Wastelands by Sarah Brooks 3. Close to Death by Anthony Horowitz 4. Alright, Alright, Alright: The Oral History of Richard Libklater’s Dazed and Confused by Melissa Maerz
Hardcover copy of Victor LaValle’s The Ballad of Black Tom
The Last Hope School for Magical Delinquents by Nicki Pau Preto
On the left: Breath of the Dragon by Shannon Lee & Fonda Lee On the right: Artificial Condition by Martha Wells.
Two piles of books next to the headphone of a bed, where typically a pillow would go. One pile has pages pacing the camera, excepting a naked hardback cppy of The Legacy of Yangchen and Death on Gokumon Island by Seishi Yokomizo. The second pile consists of Star Wars Hogh Republic Phase 1 books.
Dusk jacketless cover of Avatar: the Last Airbender: Legacy of Yangchen by F. C. Yee. Notice the double colon of the title.
Witchlings: House of Elephants by Claribel A. Ortega.
From left to right. Death on Gokumon Island by Seishi Yokomizo, Witchlings 3: House of Elephants by Claribel A. Ortega, and The Legacy of Yangchen by F.C. Yee. The books are laid lavishly on a bed of pale blue felt.
Alien Nation: Chinese Immigration in the Americas from the Coolie Era through World War II by Elliott Young.
“Ellery Queen’s Japanese Mystery Stories — from Japan’s Greatest Detective & Crime Writers” originally released by Tuttle in 1978. This version is the 2020 re-lease.
Crooked image of the YA Star Wars book Into the Dark by Claudia Gray