SL Huang [THE LANGUAGE OF LIARS is out!]🎇🦑🌌]

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THE LANGUAGE OF LIARS, April 2026. "Hugo award winner Huang stuns in this philosophical sci-fi exploration of linguistics and lost civilizations" - PW (⭐) "Fast paced and sharp" - LJ (⭐) Not here very much. Mailing list: slhuang.com

Slides that show various factors affecting book sales, with lots of text: (slide 1) Book characteristics correlated with sales Size of author advance r = 0.4 Relative fame of author (includes major awards) r = 0.4 “Carryover” (association with something famous) r = 0.4 Cover likability score r = up to 0.4 Number of Amazon reviews r = 0.4 Number of author’s Twitter followers r = 0.3 Starred reviews in SLJ, PW, or Booklist r = 0.3 Higher number of pages (likely due to crossover appeal) r = 0.3 These are all marketing factors (slide 2) Book characteristics likely correlated with sales Book was acquired at auction or in a pre-empt r = 0.2 Book was acquired as part of a multi-book deal r = 0.2 Book is part of a series r = 0.2 Author has and maintains a website r = 0.2 “The book made me feel ‘yearning’” r = 0.2 These are primarily marketing factors
A blue line zooms upward and then levels off at 80% (cumulative cases). There's also a red line showing a small high bump matching the blue zoom-up (infections) and a green line that zooms down from 100% opposite the blue line to plateau at 20% (susceptible).
Text: "THE LANGUAGE OF LIARS is a sharp, brilliant book with ambitious, high-concept worldbuilding and ideas. It's also devastating, with an ending that haunts me days later. I'm calling it now: This will be one of the most talked-about books of the year." --Vanessa Fogg
Shiny, gleamy textured dim sum on a book cover that you seriously want to eat
"Works that used LLMs at any point during the writing process must disclose this upon acceptance of the nomination, and those works will be disqualified."
A line graph that's near zero with a few small spikes, then starts zooming up and down higher and higher like someone fed it Miracle Gro
A line graph with little spikes, most of which approximately match election years in the United States.
Photo of me holding a sign that says "Reddit AMA - Name: SL Huang - Username: slhuang - May 9, 2024 - 10am CDT"
Screenshot of text: "The Water Outlaws by S.L. Huang - This wuxia novel, which is set in an alternate Song Dynasty China and based (in queer and genderbent ways) on the classic Chinese novel Water Margin, is an exciting and thought-provoking sword & sorcery adventure, but if you have any triggers, they are probably in this book; and if you want your reads to comfort or reinforce your Western expectations, moralities, or pieties, you are in the wrong place."
Screenshot of text: "The Water Outlaws by SL Huang: I had no idea how much I needed this book until I read it. SL Huang delivers cinematic action and champion-level worldbuilding within a story of magic, court drama, and flawed justice. This book is fun as hell to read, but still delivers deeply contemplative reflections on the nature of violence within an intricate universe."
The bottom of THE WATER OUTLAWS copyright page, reading "0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1". The "1" is crossed out in red with the notes "The 1 will be DELETED!!" "Go away 1!!" and "Get outta here!"
The copyright page of THE WATER OUTLAWS with a line at the bottom reading "0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1". It's boxed in red with a note that says "These numbers right here!"
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