COVER PEEK! Here's Prince Trystoferian (Trys). Dreamer, optimist, sunshine in the sunshine/grump pair. His uncle's war took his family. Now he can end it...with Elia's reluctant help & the use of old magic far darker than he realizes. I love the yearning & hope in his eyes here!

COVER SNEAK PEEK!!! The magic in UNLOCK THE DARK is so fun! Elia is a Conjurista who summons keys from the elements, unlocking paths to faraway places. She's a prodigy who got too daring and opened a lock she shouldn't have. Now she lives with the consequences every day.

✨🗝️ COVER REVEAL!!! 🗝️✨ I'm so excited to share the absolutely gorgeous cover for UNLOCK THE DARK! Look at the details and hints about the story! The magic, the conflict, the expressions on Elia & Trys's faces! 🤩 Art by the incredible @afterblossom_art! Design by Kathy Lam!

Ahhhh!!!! Look at how gorgeous this is!!! 𝔞𝔣𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔟𝔩𝔬𝔰𝔰𝔬𝔪✨ ANIME FEST!+ 2025/2 did such amazing work for my cover! I'm so excited!

✨🗝️ GOOD NEWS!!!🗝️✨ I'm so excited to announce that UNLOCK THE DARK will be published in the UK with Harper360!! It will have the same cover as the US edition and will come out about a month later. I can't wait to share it with you all!! Harper360YA Harper360UK

✨🗝️ UNLOCK THE DARK 🗝️✨ is now available on Netgalley and Edelweiss! I love this picture for the book because there is sooo much magical baking in the story. 🤤🥰 #writerscommunity #books

I've wanted to post one of these for a long time!! Here are a few hints at what's inside UNLOCK THE DARK! 👀🗝️✨ Available for requests on Edelweiss and Netgalley, preorders everywhere, and on Goodreads!

This is literally the thought that spawned Unlock the Dark. I was trying to spark my own joy in a scary time, and it grew from there. Pleased to report that the trained lemurs who work in a magical library and only exist in the plot because they made me happy are still there!

It's my balloons day!!! What a great birthday present it would be if you added UNLOCK THE DARK to your Goodreads or bookstore wishlists...or even preordered it!! 👀 😇🎁🎈🎂

If you're leaving here, you can also find me on ig and threads. Same handle. The algorithm will probably punish this post since I mentioned the other places but 🤷🏻‍♀️

Sneaking into a magical library 😳 On a forbidden floating island 😲 Is he holding my hand?!?! 😱 I absolutely LOVE this character art by queen_joey on ig! Trys' joy, Elia's panic, magical lemur library assistants casually lurking. 😍 Preorder or get ARCs of UNLOCK THE DARK now!

Back from my hike so let's do this. For context, I have "won" #NaNoWriMo ten times and previously collaborated with them on their official channel. I'm no longer involved with them for... all the reasons. So some alternative resources I've collected.

Hurray! Another sale! Barnes & Noble is having a 25% off sale on preorders. My debut YA Fantasy novel, UNLOCK THE DARK, will be released on February 25th, 2025. The sale is Sept 4-6 and online only. #unlockthedark #yafantasy #booksbooksbooks #fantasyromance #barnesandnoble Epic Reads

BIG NEWS!!! UNLOCK THE DARK is going to be an audiobook! Right now, I can't share any further details except the team at HarperAudio has started work on it. I love audiobooks, and hearing my own story in audio is an author dream. I am SO excited to share UTD in this way! 🎧📕😁

Want to read Chapter 1 of UNLOCK THE DARK? 👀 Sign up for my newsletter at sasahawk.com, and get an exclusive download when my 1st issue goes out in early Nov. I have so many fun secrets to share about this book, and subscribers will be first to know! #readingcommunity

Find me in other places if you go! My handle is the same everywhere. Tons of people are leaving this place. But I'm not quite ready to turn off the lights on my account yet. That said, I'm much more active elsewhere. I miss what this place used to be. #WritingCommunity