Amélie Wen Zhao was an up-and-coming young-adult fiction writer. She was also a social media success story. She found an agent with Park Literary over Twitter, during an event in which marginalized creators pitched story ideas. In January 2018, she announced on Twitter that she was going to be published, as her pitch “sold at auction in a high six-figure deal with Delacorte,” according to Vulture.
Zhao, a Chinese immigrant to the U.S., was to publish “Blood Heir,” the first in a series of three books. The story was “a loose retelling of Anastasia with a diverse cast of characters and a hefty dose of blood magic,” Vulture author Kat Rosenfield wrote.
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