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Kelsea Yu

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Shirley Jackon Award-nominated author: 🍃BOUND FEET (CGM) 🎮IT'S ONLY A GAME (Bloomsbury) 🎭DEMON SONG (Titan, Sep 30) 🌊STORMRAVEN (Gallery/Titan, 2026) 🖤stories/essays in Clarkesworld, Apex, Nightmare, PseudoPod + she/her rep: Jen Azantian www.kelseayu.com

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Kelsea Yu @anovelescape.bsky.social · May 28

✨🖤📕BOOK DEAL!! 🌊👻✨

Absolutely thrilled to share that my very first horror novel, STORMRAVEN, will be coming out next spring with @simonandschuster.bsky.social (US) & @titanbooks.bsky.social (UK)!!! 🥳  Thank you @jenazantian.bsky.social, @ed-schlesinger.bsky.social, & @dancarpenter.bsky.social

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Announcement Graphic for Stormraven by Kelsea Yu. The background is a photograph of the interior of a gothic mansion, in red and black.

Overlaid Publishers Marketplace screenshot reads: "Category: fiction: horror. STORMRAVEN by Kelsea Yu. Imprint: Galery, Titan Books. Date: May 27, 2025.

Shirley Jackson Award-nominated author Kelsea Yu’s STORMRAVEN, pitched as a Rebecca-inspired gothic horror rooted in Chinese American history, in which an ambitious artist uncovers the chilling secrets of a haunted mansion on a private Pacific Northwest island with a whitewashed past—secrets that threaten to turn her dream life into a nightmare, to Ed Schlesinger at Gallery, at auction, for publication in 2026, by Jennifer Azantian at Azantian Literary Agency (NA).

Rights also to Daniel Carpenter at Titan Books (UK).

Film/TV: film@azantianlitagency.com

Translation: alba@mushens-entertainment.com"

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Kelsea Yu @anovelescape.bsky.social · 2h

😍😍😍😍 NEEEED

Kelsea Yu @anovelescape.bsky.social · 6h

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Leah Ning @leahning.bsky.social · 7h

Gay JOHN WICK x MAD MAX FURY ROAD + soul magic

When his ma’s murdered, Noah embarks on a cross-desert hunt for answers—w/ an annoyingly attractive war criminal offering help. As Noah’s suspicion turns to feelings (ugh!), secrets from his companion’s past threaten to destroy them both. #dvpit #a #f

A mood board of eight pictures: reddish dunes, the wheel of a dirt bike, two silhouettes of men, silhouettes in a nightclub, a truck driving through dust, tents in a desert, and a lone house on flat sand.

Kelsea Yu @anovelescape.bsky.social · 6h

YESSSS AHHHH 🔥🔥🔥

Kelsea Yu @anovelescape.bsky.social · 22h

Mwahahaha

Kelsea Yu @anovelescape.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you!!

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ZD Dochterman @zddochterman.bsky.social · 2d

Wonderful underwater death-dreamscapes from @anovelescape.bsky.social Kelsea Yu.

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It is cold where the dreamer lies. She is the only one of her kind in this dark, murky cage, but she is not alone. Claws tap out rhythms on her skull; fins brush patterns on her ribs.

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Caitlin Starling @caitlinstarling.com · 4d

last minute, but for Oregon folks: I’ll be at the Book Bin in Salem today with Kate Alice Marshall, and a little birdie told me there might be early copies of THE GRACEVIEW PATIENT available tonight only.

A nice graphic with the cover of The Starving Saints, some sculpted columnar ladies, and bees. The text reads:

The Book Bin Presents:
Author Event with Caitlin Starling in conversation with Kate Alice Marshall

When:
Saturday October 4th 5pm
Where:
The Book Bin
450 Court St Ne

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Kelsea Yu @anovelescape.bsky.social · 5d

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Kelsea Yu @anovelescape.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you Eugenia!! 🥰🖤

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Kelsea Yu @anovelescape.bsky.social · 5d

🖤🖤🖤

Kelsea Yu @anovelescape.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you Emma!! 🖤

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Corrinne @corrinney.bsky.social · 7d

Check out Kelsea's new Chinese spin of Phantom of the Opera with Pacific Northwest (Portland) representation. Her novella from Titan books hits some of my favorite things: PNW representation, Chinese monkey god mythology, Chinese food, and Phantom of the Opera spookiness with a Chinese spin!

Kelsea Yu @anovelescape.bsky.social · 8d

DEMON SONG is out in the world today!! Thank you to everyone who preordered, blurbed, reviewed, library requested, shared, beta read, recommended, or otherwise supported this release!! With help from all of you, I get to continue in my dream career! 🥰

Available now in hardcover, ebook, & audio!! 🥳🥳

Photograph of a smiling Chinese American woman in a skull crown holding a copy of Demon Song by Kelsea Yu

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Kelsea Yu @anovelescape.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you Corinne!!! 🖤

Kelsea Yu @anovelescape.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you @sadiehartmann.bsky.social for including DEMON SONG in this fantastic October reads recs list!! 🥰🖤

Sadie Hartmann (Mother Horror) @sadiehartmann.bsky.social · 7d

Goodreads asked me to curate some October-Inspired Book Recommendation lists for them, so here they are!
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Eight Halloween Reading Lists Based on Very Specific Vibes, Themes & Tropes

Sadie Hartmann (known as Mother Horror on social media) is the co-owner of the monthly, curated, horror fiction subscription company Night Worms and...

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