Steph Lau (she/her)

@stephlaubooks.com

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Author, illustrator, former pastry chef. ❄️🩰THE ABOMINABLE SNOW DANCER (Penguin Workshop): out now! 🐍🪨 MEDUSA'S PET ROCK (HarperCollins): 9/22/26 Rep: @allielevick.bsky.social Website: bit.ly/stephlaubooks

cover for The Abominable Snow Dancer by Steph Lau a hairy yeti in a tutu leaps across the stage, while unicorns watch with various facial expressions ranging from enamored to disgusted
A yellow potato that looks like a slug, that appears to be looking at the camera. It is a round potato with two tiny protrusions that look like eyestalks
A busy summer swimming pool scene with lots and lots of dogs of different shapes and sizes
Mini Otto shades his head with a striped towel, in front of Linderhof palace. The gold fountain is visible in the background
A germknödel: a round bun-like pastry, kind of like a Chinese mantou, but it's filled with plum jam and covered in poppy seeds, and sitting in a pool of melted butter
Barnes and Noble 25% off pre-orders Use code: preorder25 Thru Friday 6/26/26 A cover for Medusa's Pet Rock by Steph Lau
A large stack of Belgian waffles on a plate
a frog and a girl glare at each other, because they've arrived at the bus stop wearing the same pink ruffly dress.
SCBWI Crystal Kite Award: CA/Hawaii Division Vote Now! Round 1 is open! The cover of The Abominable Snow Dancer by Steph Lau, with a bunch of stars in the background.
Woman signing The Abominable Snow Dancer book at a table. Two kids watch as she signs. Caption reads Shiny pen, whee!
The blinky face The duck lips
Woman in Otto the Abominable Snow Dancer costume reading a picture book, The Abominable Snow Dancer, on stage. The captions say Aieee! Eek! Somebody save us! The page she is reading from has a yeti scaring off a tiny mouse. Other yeti are scared and screaming, and have climbed up a tree. The woman has her palm near her mouth, as in yelling.
Woman in Otto the Abominable Snow Dancer costume at a book signing table.
Steph Lau in partial Otto the Abominable Snow Dancer costume, which consists of an orange pompom beanie, orange and yellow scarf, and a pink tutu. She also has a fluff of yeti hair on top of her head
Glowing baguette lamp
A butt ton of Semifreddi's bakery products (3 loaves of ciabatta, 3 baguettes, 3 bags of granola, 3 boxes of biscotti, 3 morning buns, 3 cinnamon loaves, 3 garlic crostini)
How to Get to Heaven from Belfast. Three ladies with various expressions on their faces
Happy 6 months - spelled out in pasta letters/numerals. Mini polymer Otto the Abominable Snow Dancer on a blue chair with cake shaped eraser
Drome, a graphic novel by Jesse Lonergan
B&W caricatures of Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan from the end of the movie, You've Got Mail. Tom Hanks' character thinks: I put you out of business, and now you love me! Meg Ryan's character thinks: S'okay, it was just my dead mother's legacy! They look at each other lovingly.
Image for podcast Obsessions: Wild Chocolate. A person is going down a river jungle in a canoe
Poster for the 12th Annual Bay Area Book Festival Abominable Squiggle Time! with Steph Lau Sunday, May 31st, @ 2pm - Youthlit Family Stage in the Park, MLK Jr. Civic Center Park
A brown rabbit on a brown carpet. The bunny is facing away from us in a half spoot half loaf position. The furry soles of his back two legs merge underneath a blackish brown tail.
cover for The Abominable Snow Dancer by Steph Lau - a hairy yeti in scarf and beanie and tutu leaps across the stage, while unicorns look up with varying degrees of horror and amazement
Exhibit by Chiharu Shiota. Red thread with paper embedded crisscrosses through the room, creating a tunnel which people are walking through
A rainbow assortment of Jelly Belly jelly beans in puzzle form, completed.
a sad looking child Medusa holds a hamster cage which contains a stonified hamster, flipped upside down. Her shadow is a sinewy, creepy version of her with evil snake hair, and there is a wiggly red/black text treatment of the word MONSTROUS in the background. Steph Lau author-illustrator www.stephlaubooks.com
Barnes and Noble 25% off Pre-orders! Cover for the picture book, Medusa's Pet Rock, by Steph Lau: a cute looking child Medusa hold's a bean shaped rock. Also: two smiling snakes with purple hearts Thru Thurs, 3/26/26 Use Code: PREORDER25 www.stephlaubooks.com/medusa
A plate of flat noodles covered in morel cream sauce
Animated cover reveal for the picture book, Medusa's Pet Rock, by Steph Lau. A sad Medusa frowns ("Life is a little lonely when you're a monster") then looks up in surprise ("But everything is easier...") as a rock falls down into her lap ("with a friend!") Launch date; 9/22/26 Pre-order now: www.stephlaubooks.com
A distorted version of the cover for Medusa's Pet Rock, by Steph Lau
A woman flips off the uneven bars and lands it!
A yeti with a scarf and orange beanie slides across the room in a dance pose. His scarf trails behind him, wrapping itself into a hand-drawn "whoosh". In the background, there are dance paraphernalia, including a spoof of Dirty Dancing but with unicorns (Unicorns Dancing), a unicorn version of a Degas ballet painting, and dance books (e.g. Tutu Fast, Tutu Furious).
Brown bunny loafed up next to a human. His ears are hidden so he looks like a gopher
Two pieces of nian gao (sticky rice cake) on a blue plate. They are a tan color, and look crispy and a little eggy
Sweet glutinous rice balls in various colors, covered with a variety of things: coconut, some kind of brown dust, white sesame, ground black sesame
Cover for Lunar New Year Love Story by Gene Luen Yang and LeUyen Pham An Asian girl leans her head against a boy, who is turned away from us. Their arms are linked.
In paper cutout style, there are some overlapping hearts in red pink and purple, on a light pink background. A white cutout paper has the poem: Roses are red, Violets are blue, I can fight fascists, when I am with you. Illustrator URL to the side: www.stephlaubooks.com
9pm time for bed Elmo is holding a toothbrush and saying, "Brush your teeth!" And thinking "Elmo doing these digitally next year"
4pm Bo's book launch Rendition of Ren's Pencil cover with arrow (sorry Bo, I mangled it) Plate of dumplings with sauces (oops, that red sauce is spicy!)
11:30am: two handa holding a steaming burrito looking thing Chicken Tikka masala naan wrap! Yum! Arrow says: cut my lip on the foil :(
730am Don't wanna get up. A disheveled woman whose face is smoother into a pillow looks grumpily out from under a blanket
A photo cutout of miniature Otto the Abominable Snow Dancer made of polymer clay, standing on some green moss. A purple dialog bubble says "Read Aloud Time!" and mini Otto is holding a copy of the picture book, The Abominable Snow Dancer
A snail delivers a valentine, while looking lovingly at a giant person with snailish looking boots Steph Lau www.stephlaubooks.com
A slide from a presentation: There's a picture of a woman dressed in an Otto the Abominable Snow Dancer costume, with some socials and newsletter callouts www.stephlaubooks.com Bluesky: @stephlaubooks.com Instagram: @stephlaubooks
A bunny butt. The feet are little fluff scooters and they are flopped to one side
Character Design: Shapes and Silhouettes A cartoon lady waves and there is a speech bubble that says "Hi, I'm Steph Lau.'
A brown bunny has its head stuck in a light blue, square ish napkin box. He is lifting his head in a regal manner
A screenshot of You May Contribute a Verse podcast logo (a quokka with headphones, illustrated by Maddie Frost). It has the title of the podcast in bubbly letters as well as "with your hosts Josh Monken and Brenna Jeanneret". Title of episode is "Abominable Steph Lau!"
Creme caramel on a plate. The top is brown and caramelly and the bottom is custardy, and there is a pool of caramel on the plate
Creaky Acres, a graphic novel by Calista Brill and Nilah Magruder. Cover shows a black girl in riding gear, on top of a brown horse
The Horn Book Inc. "With her colorful, fluid digital illustrations, Lau creates a delightful, comical world where creatures bound across the page with abandon." Cover for the picture book The Abominable Snow Dancer, which includes a yeti in a tutu leaping across the stage, while unicorns watch with various facial expressions. Author/illustrator is Steph Lau. www.stephlaubooks.com
A woman holds up a striped sweet potato that is shaped like a butterfly chrysalis
A brown bunny poses in front of a tiny Xmas tree and presents
The Abominable Snow Dancer, by Steph Lau. The book is arranged under a lighted Xmas tree amongst presents.
Pigs in a blanket on a baking sheet. Some are topped w sesame and some are topped with bagel spice
Otto the Abominable Snow Dancer in front of a bunch of ginger bread people. A sign post has a lot of arrows indicating directions to different parts of Children's Fairyland.
There are a bunch of children crowded around a drawing easel. Somewhere in this photo is the author, dressed as Otto the Abominable Snow Dancer
A miniature polymer clay version of Otto the Abominable Snow Dancer wiggles in front of Children's Fairyland in Oakland. He wanders through the giant boot, into Fairyland, and around the gingerbread people. He walks to the dragon to say hi, then zoom in of him inside the dragon’s mouth. He walks through colorfully painted arches and painted mushroom paths to the Emerald City Stage, where he poses with a picture book, The Abominable Snow Dancer, for storytime. Quick pic of Steph Lau, with tiny lapel mic, posing with a storytime advertisement easel behind. Visit to the big whale. He then climbs up the dragon slide and slides down, wheeee! At the pirate's cove spinning the navigation wheel, swinging on the swing. Visiting the bookstore where The Abominable Snow Dancer is displayed. Final shot of Otto on top of the giant boot, with Children's Fairyland sign behind.
Fairy Winterland Book Celebration @ Children's Fairyland Steph Lau, author and illustrator of The Abominable Snow Dancer Saturday, December 13, 3:00 p.m. Drawn portrait of Steph Lau, along with cover of the picture book, The Abominable Snow Dancer