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The Black Friday Book Sale is back! (Plus Book News)

Published 12 months ago • 2 min read

26 November 2025

It's November!

Once again, happy Thanksgiving to the Americans and Happy Book Sales to everyone else, because I can't be bothered to segregate my mailing list by location. It's probably a little early since you're still having turkey, but I have just had my first mince pie of the season.

The Absolution books are on sale at $0.99 from Black Friday to Cyber Monday (28 Nov - 1 Dec). Click on the graphics to get to the sales page!

OR click the black button below to get too ALL THE SALES AND FREE EBOOKS!

All the books in the sale are rated Mild+ at most according to Book Cave's ratings, so if you're planning to snag ebooks for younger readers or you're picky about the content you read, the sales page gives an indication of what to expect.

THAT'S NOT ALL

Moriah pinged me to join her specially curated The Picky Readers Holiday List from 1 to 7 Dec, which means that Amok will continue to be on sale at $0.99 until 7 Dec, while the other two books will go up to $2.99 from 2 - 7 Dec before returning to full price.

I have not actually read any of these others yet, but they sure sound good!

So reminder: sales are happening 28 November all the way to 7 December!

New Book Alert!

So, I said in my last newsletter (in Sept!!) that I had good book news to announce... and then I didn't write a next newsletter. LOL.

Well, I finally wrote a newsletter so here's the announcement:

I FINALLY SOLD THE TEA NOVEL!!!

Which, I'm sure, potentially sounds like, wait, what, what do you mean you "sold" it? You sell books all the time!

To clarify:

Jasmine and the Perfect Brew will be published by Watchful Wizard Publishing!

We don't have an exact release date yet, but we're currently targetting Fall 2026. Don't worry, I'll remind you about it when the time comes.

I do have another Tea Advent Calendar this year, so maybe I'll drop some snippets/info/whatever on Instagram while I'm doing that.

~

I'm going to be out this weekend at the George Town Literary Festival, so if you're in town, come say hi. :)

See you next time!

anna

Check out Anna's Books

The Absolution Series

​Honour (#0.5)​

​Amok (#1)​

​The Tale of the Hostage Prince (#1.5)​

​Absolution (#2)​

The Fairy Tale Series

​Coexist​

​Dongeng​

The Painted Hall Collection

​The Painted Hall Collection consists of 4 short stories that are also available as singles, plus an exclusive short story set in the Absolution world:

Standalones

​A Spoonful of Malaysian Magic: An Anthology (ed.)​

​The Making of a Jurusihir​

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Anna Tan

Anna Tan grew up in Malaysia, the country that is not Singapore. She writes fantasy stories and fairy tales, puts together anthologies, and helps people figure out their publishing goals at Teaspoon Publishing. She is interested in Malay/Nusantara and Chinese legends and folklore in exploring the intersections of language, culture, and faith.

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