Byrd Koto has a particular fondness for tsunderes and the unexplainable.

Her queer mysteries refuse easy categorization—spanning Tokyo publishing houses, alternative Chinese kingdoms, and worlds that haven't yet been named—and keep returning to one question: what do people do when the truth costs too much?

Her debut novel, Our Funny Love Story, is out now. Or So We Say—Book 2 of the Resistance trilogy—arrives December 2026.

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