Penny Zang

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Please help me share! Book sale alert: The ebook version of Doll Parts is on sale today only, 10/9. For only 2.99, get yourself a copy at places Barnes & Noble, Kobo, or Amazon. 🖤👻🎀

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My personal and unofficial fall curriculum while editing Book 2 (Accidents Never Happen 💋) is a combination of Poe and Shirley Jackson, haunted bar stories, and the architecture of Baltimore row homes.

Domino Sugar plant at sunrise, seemingly quite excited to see me this morning. But, seriously: I always tell my writing students that they won’t be able to achieve things that they’re not willing to articulate to at least one other sentient being. I tell them they have to own their dreams. If you want to be a NYT bestseller or a Nobel Prize winner or have Marion Ettlinger take your author photo — whatever your dream is, you must speak to it. But there was a time when my own dreams were so limited, when all I could see was a certain kind of house, a career like my father’s, a life like my mother’s, i.e. having a job AND doing almost all the housework/child care. By sheer happenstance, I walked away from newspapers less than a decade before the industry imploded and through crazy luck I’ve kept my head above water in an industry whose obituary is written every six months or so. tl;dr: Who knows what the next 5, 10, 20 years will bring?

Good morning, Bluesky.

I chanced upon my own alternative universe yesterday, unexpectedly taking a long walk through the neighborhood I once thought would be my lifelong home, surprised/gratified/chagrinned at how limited my imagination is when it comes to my own life.

It’s my birthday! 🥳 Instead of candles, I’d love more readers discovering Doll Parts. If you’ve been looking for a sign to grab a copy (or leave a review), consider this my shameless birthday wish. Oh, and eat some cake while you're at it, too.

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Ooh #booksky – Doll Parts by @pennyzang.bsky.social is delicious, if you like your fiction dark and sexy and conspiratorial. (And I’m only on chapter six)

Thank you so much! 🖤

Turns out that I really needed to unplug. Getting back on the hamster wheel but adjusting the speed to slow.

Selfie with a copy of doll parts by Penny Zang

My copy of DOLL PARTS by @pennyzang.bsky.social finally arrived!!!! Can’t wait to read it!!!

Asheville folks! I hope you can join me and @pennyzang.bsky.social for a celebration of THE COVER GIRL and her amazing book DOLL PARTS at Malaprop’s Books!

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My copy of Doll Parts arrived! Can't wait to dive in @pennyzang.bsky.social.

Yay!!! 💗

Book 142: Doll Parts by @pennyzang.bsky.social

The Love Language of the Auto Buy Shut Up and Take My Money

Every time you see a book and you can think of someone you know who is the ideal reader for it, I called that a special kind of love language.

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Vibes Can't Make a Book, but They Can Help Find Readers Author Penny Zang discusses vibes and how they may not make a book, but they may still help writers find their readers.

I’m talking about vibes over on Writer’s Digest: “The book is anchored in themes of grief and girlhood, with a setting on an all-women’s campus in the 90s and full of 90s grunge references. Signaling this to readers started with a title change.”

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Penny Zang: Unfinished Business Eva and Holly chat with Penny Zang, author of Doll Parts, about writing through grief, the “rights and wrongs” of motherhood, and finding inspiration in Sylvia Plath.

"I was finding that grief was changing who I was, how I wrote, how I processed, how I listened to music. Gosh, music was the hardest to listen to." @pennyzang.bsky.social talks w @evalangston.bsky.social & @hollyrizzutopal.bsky.social about her new novel, grief, and Sylvia Plath.

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Warm congratulations to all concerned!Delighted that I have such a fine lineup to appreciate as a reader 💙📚 #booksky

@ofmooseandmen.bsky.social
@regretteruane.bsky.social
@pennyzang.bsky.social
@antonialloydjones.bsky.social
@lindeneditions.bsky.social
@jennyknight.bsky.social

Writing What Haunts Us: Penny Zang on Friendship, Loss, and the Making of Doll Parts with Lauren Nossett

I loved this conversation with Thriller Thursday. Any chance to talk about Sylvia Plath and writing 🖤

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When the bookstore gets the assignment. Thank you to M Judson Booksellers in Greenville, SC for making my pub day so fantastic.

This was such a fun conversation. Please go listen to This Mama is Lit!

Thank you!!!

Happiest of book launch weeks to the VERY talented author @pennyzang.bsky.social
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#thrillers #crimefic #darkacademia #pennyzang #writingcommunity #dollpartsthenovel

Check this out #ThrillsandChills ❤️

Best New Books: Week of 8/26/25 “War doesn’t determine who’s right. War determines who remains.” – R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War Doll Parts by Penny Zang fiction / mystery / suspense. For best friends Nikki and Sadi…

August is coming to a close with 8 great new #books for you to read, including the latest by R.F. Kuang, which may be the most recommended book of the year, having earned mentions from over 30 publications. + @authormiriamtoews.bsky.social, @dhbaron.bsky.social, @pennyzang.bsky.social, & more!

Thank you!!!

Happy book birthday @pennyzang.bsky.social ! I have been intrigued by the description of this dark academia suspense debut and am looking forward to reading it.

Today is the day! Doll Parts is officially out in the world. 💗💗💗

Cover of Doll Parts by Penny Zang; Half of a woman’s face looking upward. Samantha Downing says it is mesmerizing, original, eerie, and addictive.

So excited to see what dropped into my e-reader today: Congrats, @pennyzang.bsky.social !!

Paul! Thank you. 💗