Cynthia Timoti

𝗛𝗮𝗽𝗽𝘆 𝗟𝘂𝗻𝗮𝗿 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗬𝗲𝗮𝗿 🧧🏮🐎

To welcome the Year of the Horse, here are some Asian author recs-books I own & others I’ve read & loved.

Please consider adding these books (& other BIPOC authors that aren't listed here) to your TBR-you’ll forever have my gratitude for supporting marginalised voices! ✨

Love this!!

Also, ICYMI:
📚✨ BOOK NEWS ✨📚

I'm beyond thrilled (and extremely grateful!) to announce that I get to write more books 🥹🩷 massive thanks to my amazing editor Erika, my rockstar agent Ann, and everyone at Bramble - I am incredibly fortunate to be able to work with you all.

More to come! 🪩🍾🥂💍⛈️💙

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Consider this your sign to celebrate February 14th by adding these books to your TBR 📚 run, don't walk to your local bookstore now and thank me later 😉🩷 (part 1/2)

Some great recs to add to your TBR!! ✨️

Thanks so much, Alexandra!! 🥰

Thanks Alexandra!!

🤯🥹🥳🎉🩷💙

Thank you so much @spotify what a huge honour 🩷

(Also freaking out a bit - no, a lot - because my debut is covered in @people magazine?!!)

#saltyspicedandalittlebitnice #brambleromance #panmacmillanaustralia

Went into Goodreads to update my reading challenge and accidentally saw that some readers are starting to leave reviews for my next book. Closed Goodreads faster than you can say "five stars" 🫣🫣

Massive congrats, @zombicatures.bsky.social 🥳🥳

Best Graphic Middle-Grade Books of 2025 | Kirkus Reviews Weekly book lists of exciting new releases, bestsellers, classics, and more. The lists are curated by the editors of Kirkus Reviews.

Massive congrats to the amazing @zombicatures.bsky.social for being a Kirkus Best MG Graphic Novel of 2025 with The Many Misfortunes of Eugenia Wang!
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I'm doing a giveaway! Head on over to Instagram if you'd like to win a signed copy of my debut and some bookish goodies - open worldwide 💙

www.instagram.com/p/DQsJKNDE4Wz

🥹 thanks, Alexandra!!

So excited to share the beautiful cover of #HowToFindAGuyInFiveWeddings, my newest romcom coming from @brambleromance next year!😍

Gorgeous art and design: @jacqlnli

Available May 12th 2026, and you can pre-order here✨

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Bookstore Romance Day 2025 - YouTube

If you missed any of this year's #BookstoreRomanceDay virtual programming, or if you just want to watch your favorite panels again, everything has been uploaded to the BRD YouTube channel for you to watch at any time. You can also catch events from previous years! youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Thank you to my fellow #rosebudauthor, @cynthiatimoti for the review of my upcoming mg #graphicnovel, THE MANY MISFORTUNES OF EUGENIA WANG on #goodreads! Don't forget to drop a review and join Team Misfortune and get freebies on pub date! stanyan.me/team-misf....

Mostly text - A Hexcellent Chance to Fall in Love Ann Rose. Berkley, $19 trade paper (400p) ISBN 978-0-593815-97-7 Rose (The Seemingly Impossible Love Life of Amanda Dean) mixes spooky and sweet in this queer Halloween romance. Visiting The Dead of Night, a Halloween supply store, is a beloved autumnal tradition in small-town Clover Creek, but the store has a secret: it’s real magic that makes it appear and disappear each Halloween season and its proprietor is cursed to vanish along with it. Pepper has been the unlucky Keeper of the Store for the past five years, forced to live a half-life knowing that everyone in town will forget her the instant the store closes. She’s made her peace with this predicament—until she meets and falls for Christina, a new schoolteacher who’s overwhelmed with the task of operating the town’s famous haunted house. Literally ghosting her new love interest is the last thing Pepper wants, but can she find a way to break the curse before it’s too late? Despite the dark magic involved, Rose keeps things light and cozy. Pepper and Christina are well shaded and easy to root for, and the town comes to life via Rose’s bright and inviting prose. The magic itself sometimes feels a bit arbitrary, but it keeps the plot moving and adds real stakes to the budding romance. Fans of Casey McQuiston’s One Last Stop should check this out. (Sept.) Image of the cover of the book with two women holding each other, one of them slowly fading away.

Gotta love when you stumble across a good review of your book. ❤️🥲

So excited for this!! 🤩🩷

Reminder: Write that thing. Pluck it outta your soul with rusty pliers. Hit the keyboard like it owes you money. Write whenever, wherever you can. Tell your story. Make the words dance. Whatever you want—a novel, a short story, an agent, a movie—it all starts with the writing.

Bookstore Romance Day 2025 Virtual events for Bookstore Romance Day 2025

Are you ready for #BookstoreRomanceDay weekend? Two days of virtual programming! 650+ officially registered participating bookstores (plus probably more that aren't on the list).

You can save your spot(s) for the virtual events at the link. Bookstore map & list link in next post.
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Busy day, but it’s still #FridayReads time! Let’s boost all signals. Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. I’m sharing the perfect summer read: a hurricane, the ocean, things from beyond the reef, magic, friends, and maybe a bit of violence.

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Background of hearts in various shades of pink and red and various sizes, all scattered like confetti. Deep red script text reads: "Modern Love Presented by Bramble Sunday, August 10 AM Eastern On Zoom" to the right of the text author photos of (from top to bottom) Cynthia Timoti, Zen Cho, Avery Keelan, and Vi Keeland are framed in ovals made up of stylized Art Nouveau-ish greenery. On the bottom left are the logos for Bookstore Romance Day and Island Books. At bottom right is the logo for Bramble.

Start your Sunday off with a David Bowie earworm & authors #AveryKeelan, @zenaldehyde.bsky.social, @cynthiatimoti.bsky.social, & @vikeeland.bsky.social with moderator Becca Oman of Island Books as they talk all things Modern Love. 8/10 at 10 AM Eastern on Zoom. Register here: bit.ly/4ffrmxe

My kid is spending the day at our local theatre for his school's production today, and he sent me a text saying "This place is fire!" and the Gen X in me is thinking - is he saying the place is on fire? 🔥🙃

One of the coolest things to happen now that my book is out in the world: getting messages from readers telling me how much they enjoy the story 🥹 so very grateful for everyone who has picked up the book 🩷

There's a giveaway happening on Goodreads for this amazing book, and you don't want to miss it!!

Thanks Ann! 🩷🩷

✨🇪🇸 Foreign Rights News ✨🇪🇸

Excited to share that Salty, Spiced, and a Little Bit Nice is going to SPAIN! 🎉

Massive thanks to Steffi Rossitto and my agent Ann Rose @annmrose.bsky.social at @thetobiasagency.bsky.social, as well as Estel Margenat at Sandra Bruna Literary Agency for making this happen.

The covers of 13 books with the text "May Reads, a lovely mix of genres, styles, old and new books"

Highlight this month was Salty, Spiced and a Little Bit Nice from @cynthiatimoti.bsky.social.

Thanks so much Alexandra!! 🥰