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Susie Ghahremani / boygirlparty® is

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today!!!!!!! SHE WANTED TO BE HAUNTED is out! 🖤

today!!!!!!! SHE WANTED TO BE HAUNTED is out! 🖤🖤🖤 order it from your favorite bookseller! and swipe for a glimpse at the original art in my studio.

the creepy cute, paranormal, rhyming, hilarious story by @marcusewertwriter had me laughing every time i read it. i loved the challenge of bringing a pink house with a bad attitude to life in illustration! there is also a unicorn 🦄 (but NOT a nice one!)

my character illustrations were inspired by my time in rhode island, living in a pink house that had a few ghosts hanging around 👻 hope this makes kids laugh at a time when some silliness might be needed 🖤

My Flying Fish miniature painting (only 3x4”!) i

My Flying Fish miniature painting (only 3x4”!) is in the Underwater show at Giant Robot opening today. It’s been a strange experience this year to make and send physical, handmade artwork for art shows only attended virtually, when my paintings are meant to hold a viewer’s focus closely in person with its tiny details. A miniature painting is meant to draw you toward it!
I’ll skip the fish out of water metaphors, but we both know they’re there!
You can see and purchase work from the show at giantrobot.com

Also: as we discuss inclusion and celebrating Black, indigenous, and other marginalized business owners, i want to celebrate how
@giantrobot & @giantrobotstore have ****always*** made a focus of showing the work of people of color. Focused primarily on, but not limited to, Asian and Asian American art, GR is a small business with the most dedicated team behind it i’ve ever met (including @cassloop who curated this show), a community, and a unique voice in art and design curation. i am proud to be a part of the GR family. Eric welcomed me and my long, strange last name nearly 20 years ago. i’ll collab with GR as long as they’ll have me 💙💙💙

I have not one, not two, but three [*3*] books com

I have not one, not two, but three [*3*] books coming out during a pandemic. 🙃 and one of them — Little Muir’s Night, the companion to Little Muir’s Song pictured here — benefits Yosemite National Park with every purchase. it can be pre-ordered through your local indie and/or favorite Black-owned bookstore? — if you don’t already order with your local indie bookseller directly, bookshop.org is a helpful resource to connect you!

Pre-orders help authors, publishers, and bookstores all SO much — it creates excitement around its release, unburdens stores from risk around carrying authors and artists they love, and even helps publishers justify how much artists are paid going forward. Do you pre-order to support your favorite authors/artists/shops already?

I’m honestly excited to share more about my books coming in 2020. Despite the setbacks of a pandemic, i realize some new possibilities are now available: if you have an indie bookstore or work at a library and would like to do an event together online, please get in touch! A virtual signing? I’m open to figuring it out! A q&a? Let’s do it!

meanwhile, i’m dreaming of these trails & hoping to be back at beloved Yosemite National Park and browsing the shelves of my local bookstores soon.
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i’m struggling today. if you are, too, you’re

i’m struggling today. if you are, too, you’re not alone.
today i’m going to try to do creative work — a challenge lately — and search for some peace within myself. how are you grounding yourself these days?
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i saw a post this morning that said “bring your

what i wouldn’t give for a quiet moment away. ou

what i wouldn’t give for a quiet moment away. our reality feels so difficult, it’s become surreal. i think about the injustice and pain that causes brave people to protest during a global pandemic. to put themselves at risk to make a message clear about how we will not tolerate the systemic violence and oppression of Black people in america, to try to make our future see our present and past. feeling at my outrage limit & wish i could rest my eyes on nature for awhile. there are so many good places to donate to right now. (i shared a few in my stories.) i’m donating to the ACLU today, for their ongoing work for a more just society. a penny thrown into a wishing well.

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