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Not sure if #AlwaysBeMyBibi is your cup of tea? You can read an EXTENDED EXCERPT on @simonteen dot com until the end of June to help you make a decision! Open intl—all you need is an account with their website to be able to read the first SEVEN chapters!
June 13, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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#AlwaysBeMyBibi has received its first trade review—and it’s a very nice one from Kirkus! Other kind things they had to say about the book:

“deftly woven together”

“interesting snippets of [Bangladeshi] history”

“a quick & fun read”

OUT JUNE 10!

#CrazyRichAsians x #Clueless / a modern day #Emma
A graphic with orange/yellow flowers in the background and the following quote on what looks like a torn piece of white paper: “family dynamics, love, and dating make for a bracing cuppa...” - Kirkus The cover of the book is on the other side of the quote and the graphic is decorated with a photo of a couple’s silhouette with trees and water in the background and rolling tea hills, both accompanied by white envelopes. Information about the Always Be My Bibi preorder campaign. Preorder ABMB from Watchung Booksellers in Montclair, NJ (ships throughout the U.S.) to get a cute two sided bookmark and romantic print of Bibi and Sohel on the tea estate at no additional cost with your signed/personalized copy. Only while supplies last and until June 10th.
May 19, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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All Bibi links: linktr.ee/alwaysbemybibi

Add it on Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...

Preorder it from Watchung Booksellers (ships t/o the U.S.): www.watchungbooksellers.com/item/uhkEB3h...
Always Be My Bibi
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May 7, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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In honor of #IndependentBookstoreDay, here’s a peek @ the #AlwaysBeMyBibi pre0rder campaign! If you pre0rder from my favorite indie, Watchung Booksellers, while supplies last, you’ll get:

✨ a 6x9 inch art print
✨ a 2 sided bookmark
✨ a signed/personalized copy
🌟 ships throughout 🇺🇸
🌟 out June 10th
PREORDER ALWAYS BE MY BIBI FROM WATCHUNG BOOKSELLERS FOR INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORE DAY TO GET… Today only (April 26): 20% off SIGNED/PERSONALIZED HARDCOVER—AVAILABLE IN OTHER FORMATS TOO TWO SIDED BOOKMARK A CUSTOMER 6x9 INCH ART PRINT—THIS IS JUST A PREVIEW SWIPE TO GET A CLOSER LOOK AT THE PRINT LINEART AND BOOKMARK *WHILE SUPPLIES LAST All of the above mentioned items are pictured with this text on a pink background The art print is currently just lineart, but will be in color. It displays Bibi in a sun hat and sundress biting her lip in a playful, flirty smile, holding onto her hat, while an also smiling Sohel, dressed in a Mr. Darcy-esque flowy shirt over simple pants and shoes, holds her face affectionately, his other hand holding an umbrella above them, a beautiful tea garden landscape in the background, his own straw hat floating away in the wind. It’s a rough preview, so things may change in the final. This image shows both sides of the bookmark. One featured Sohel holding up an umbrella while waiting on top of a hill. The other features Bibi at the bottom of the hill under a tree, her umbrella closed by her side. Neither of their features are super defined. If you bring two bookmarks together, they become one image side by side. Watchung Booksellers IBD 2025 INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORE DAY APRIL 26, 2025 20% off all books Yellow and white background, black text, image of smiling woman in yellow holding up books in one hand
April 26, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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There’s a cover-shaped thing in my inbox again (and something ELSE #AlwaysBeMyBibi related that is ALSO incredibly gorgeous)! 👀

In related news, aren’t Bibi arcs stunning??? You can request a digital early review copy off NetGalley/Edelweiss+ or see if S&S will send you one! #booksky #bookcommunity
ARCs of ALWAYS BE MY BIBI, a smiling Bangladeshi American girl holding seven color tea, with brown skin, heart shaped sunglasses she’s winking behind, red lipstick, bangles and bracelets on her wrists, a pinkish red manicure, a yellow South Asian blouse with blue and gold trim on the sleeves and a matching urna/scarf, with a tea garden in the background. Here’s what ABMB is about, for the uninitiated: CLUELESS meets CRAZY RICH ASIANS in this YA romcom where a bratty Bangladeshi American fashionista jets off to a swanky tea estate in Sylhet for her older sister’s wedding to its heir, only to butt heads with the sanctimonious (and annoyingly attractive) younger brother of the groom and come to the joint conclusion that they might need to conspire to break their siblings up. Out June 10th!
March 25, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Happy #ValentinesDay!

Have some Valentines inspired by ALWAYS BE MY BIBI, my upcoming YA romcom set on a dreamy Bangladeshi tea estate, where a bratty fashionista and broody farmer are thrown together by their siblings’ upcoming nuptials!

Out June 10th! ☕️🍃🫖

Find out more: linktr.ee/alwaysbemybibi
A tea garden in the background with the text, I’ll never leaf you and two leaves forming a heart, with the greeting also in green. Valentines card with a pink cup of tea that has a red heart on it and the text you’re my cup of tea under in blue, with heart shaped chocolate scattered on the side and the greeting also in blue. Two cartoon bees floating over a purple plant with the text we bee-long together in read above the bees, and the greeting also in red. Four butterflies are varying shades, congregating on top of a pink rose over a blue sky with the text you give me…
February 14, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Pass pages are in for my Clueless meets Crazy Rich Asians YA romcom, ALWAYS BE MY BIBI! ✈️🍃☔️

Bratty fashionista x Broody farm boy

Set at a swanky Bangladeshi tea resort

Younger siblings of the bride and groom scheming together

OUT JUNE 10!!!

Get the 🫖 about the 📖 here: linktr.ee/alwaysbemybibi
A picture of the Always Be My Bibi cover page on my laptop screen on top of my author copies bookshelf, next to a heart shaped blue and white letter board that says 4 months till ABM Bibi with an airplane, leaf, cloud, heart and other decorations on it. An arrow graphic with the same background as the first image and the book cover in the center. Yellow arrows with hearts and paper planes decorating them point to the following: Scheming to break their siblings up while solving a family mystery Set a tea resort in Sylhet, Bangladesh Big fat Bangladeshi wedding Fashionista x farm boy Bride’s sister x groom’s brother
February 10, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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My sophomore YA romcom, ALWAYS BE MY BIBI, got a shoutout in TEEN VOGUE—something that would have my fashion-obsessed heroine fangirling big time! And she’s in such chic company too! 🤩

Read the article: www.teenvogue.com/story/new-so...

Preorder Bibi: linktr.ee/alwaysbemybibi
Screenshot of Always Be My Bibi featured in Teen Vogue with the following text: When bratty Bibi Hossain travels to a dreamy tea resort in Bangladesh - for her oh-so-perfect sister Halima's wedding to its heir - she finds herself falling for the groom's infuriatingly handsome brother Sohel. Taslim (The Love Match) describes Bibi as a "Bengali Cher Horowitz... meddling in the love lives of everyone around her even as a romance of her own brews." The book also "touches on Bangladesh's history, its struggle for independence, and some of its growing pains — as very American Bibi learns about this beautiful place she's never been to," Taslim says.
January 23, 2025 at 4:02 PM