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biography & contact info

Sunyi Dean (sun-yee deen) is a multi-award losing author who was born in Texas, grew up in Hong Kong, and now resides in North England. She writes speculative fiction with a weird slant and her debut novel, THE BOOK EATERS, was an instant #2 Sunday Times Bestseller. 


In her spare time, she likes buying whisky, collecting dumbbells, and dying in jiu-jitsu. She also cohosts the Hugo-nominated Publishing Rodeo Podcast with fellow author, Scott Drakeford. 

 BLURB POLICY: 

For enquiries about events, foreign rights, and book blurbing, please contact Sunyi's literary agent, Harry Illingworth.  


Additionally, Sunyi requests that her blurbs not be used on books which make use of AI covers. 


For anything else, you can email Sunyi directly. 

published fiction

The Book Eaters

The Book Eaters

The Book Eaters

 Out on the Yorkshire Moors lives a secret line of people for whom books are food, and who retain all of a book's content after eating it. To them, spy novels are a peppery snack; romance novels are sweet and delicious. Eating a map can help them remember destinations, and children, when they misbehave, are forced to eat dry, musty pages from dictionaries.

Devon is part of The Family, an old and reclusive clan of book eaters. Her brothers grow up feasting on stories of valor and adventure, and Devon—like all other book eater women—is raised on a carefully curated diet of fairy tales and cautionary stories.

But real life doesn't always come with happy endings, as Devon learns when her son is born with a rare and darker kind of hunger—not for books, but for human minds. 

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UNTITLED BOOK 2

The Book Eaters

The Book Eaters

Tentatively due out in May 2026. 


Announcement coming later in 2025! 


This image was created in canva, purely as a website placeholder. It is not official, and real the cover hasn't been announced yet.

Untitled Book 3

The Book Eaters

The Thief of Memory

This image was created in canva, purely as a website placeholder. It is not official, and the real cover hasn't been announced yet.

The Thief of Memory

How To Cook and Eat the Rich

The Thief of Memory

 The Hero must journey across the desert to capture The Thief Of Memory and retrieve her stolen memories. But what she finds in the end may destroy her. 

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A man is offered the opportunity to partake in an exclusive, subscription-based eating club for thos

How To Cook and Eat the Rich

How To Cook and Eat the Rich

How To Cook and Eat the Rich

A man is offered the opportunity to partake in an exclusive, subscription-based eating club for those who wish to dine on human flesh. But he may have bitten off a little more than he can chew. 

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