VERA WONG is up for request on @NetGalley!! I’m sharing the acknowledgments pages because the journey to write VERA is about as madcap as the book itself, and none of it would have been possible without my friends (especially @tilslatimer and @laurieelizabethflynn), my agent @katelyndetweiler, my editor Cindy Hwang, and the team at @berkleypub. Srsly, if you wrote a story abt a writer whose tiny pitch is swept into a magical whirlwind because her agent and editor are just so passionate and flexible, I would smack you on the head and say, “That’s not how publishing works!” 😂🤣 But Vera doesn’t play by the rules 😂 Head on over to Netgalley and request this bad betch!!! Link: http://netgal.ly/0a7YQl And here is the pitch that got the hurricane going: Vera Wong is a lonely little old lady—ah, lady of a certain age—who lives above her forgotten tea shop in the middle of San Francisco’s Chinatown. Despite living alone, Vera is not needy, oh no. She likes nothing more than sipping on a good cup of Wulong and doing some healthy detective work on the Internet about what her Gen-Z son is up to. Then one morning, Vera trudges downstairs to find a curious thing—a dead man in the middle of her tea shop. In his outstretched hand, a flash drive. Vera doesn’t know what comes over her, but after calling the cops like any good citizen would, she sort of . . . swipes the flash drive from the body and tucks it safely into the pocket of her apron. Why? Because Vera is sure she would do a better job than the police possibly could, because nobody sniffs out a wrongdoing quite like a suspicious Chinese mother with time on her hands. Vera knows the killer will be back for the flash drive; all she has to do is watch the increasing number of customers at her shop and figure out which one among them is the killer. What Vera does not expect is to form friendships with her customers and start to care for each and every one of them. As a protective mother hen, will she end up having to give one of her newfound chicks to the police?