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Yume Kitasei @yumewrites.bsky.social · 8h

Possibly inspired by your latest book, Haunt Sweet Home, which I just read 😆

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Yume Kitasei @yumewrites.bsky.social · 10h

Yes! At least the answer isn’t definitively swag. 😅

Yume Kitasei @yumewrites.bsky.social · 11h

Or you have an opportunity for an amazing prank!!

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Yume Kitasei @yumewrites.bsky.social · 12h

Is there an effective way to drive preorders for a midlist author that doesn’t cost a lot of money 😅

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Yume Kitasei @yumewrites.bsky.social · 17h

Ooo I wanna know too!

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Alexandra Rowland @alexandrarowland.bsky.social · 2d

There's a lot of received wisdom about what motivates readers to preorder, but I've been wondering if cold hard data can back that up -- so I'm doing SCIENCE!

Got ~20 minutes to do a survey on your preorder habits (or non-habits)? forms.gle/RhfegAyrAWcM...
Please signal boost for sample size! 📖✨

Reader Survey: What Drives Preorders?

Hello, and thank you for taking the time to participate in this survey! As an author, I've heard a lot of “received wisdom” about how preorders work for readers, what motivates someone to preorder, an...

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ACLU @aclu.org · 2d

We’ve got everything you need for Banned Books Week — just add your favorite banned book!

Support our work defending free speech and shop our collection at aclu.org/bannedbook_shop, and the first 100 orders of $20 or more will get a FREE banned bookworm sticker sheet, automatically added to cart.

Graphic of items from the ACLU banned book collection, including a black varsity sweatshirt, blue and yellow banned books t-shirts, a Banned Book bookmark, banned book sticker sheet that is free with purchase and a banned book totebag.

Graphic titled "Banned Book Bag" there is an image of the ACLU Banned Book Bag with a pink background, on the tote bag is a smiling cartoon image of a bookworm with glasses on top of a pile of books.

Graphic with image of a black reading light on a yellow background. The image is titled "Banned Bookworm Reading Light" and on the reading light it reads "Banned Bookworm, ACLU."

Image of a sticker sheet on a green background. On the sticker sheet there are cartoon stickers of an apple, piles of books, a bookworm, a pencil, and sticker reading "Banned Bookworm".

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Yume Kitasei @yumewrites.bsky.social · 2d

I’m curious which subgenre you think your works fall under!

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Yume Kitasei @yumewrites.bsky.social · 2d

Ah yes! I think of speculative fiction as a broader umbrella term that captures science fiction, fantasy, spec lit, surreal fiction, etc. So Handmaid’s Tale to me is both!

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Yume Kitasei @yumewrites.bsky.social · 2d

I wrote an essay for @lithub.com.web.brid.gy about how I think there are two subgenres of dystopian fiction - the allegorical / thought experiment and the potential horrible future - and how they seem to be blending more and more…and converging with reality.

lithub.com/its-okay-but...

“It’s Okay But It’s Also Really Not.” When Dystopian Fiction is No Longer a Thought Experiment

Dystopian fiction is getting real, and I’m here for it. I don’t think I’m the only one. There’s something cathartic about reading about the end of the world. As a science fiction reader and avid fa…

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Yume Kitasei @yumewrites.bsky.social · 2d

Please join me tomorrow in Austin with @nickydrayden.bsky.social , and Thursday at NY Comic Con!!!

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Yume Kitasei @yumewrites.bsky.social · 2d

I'm all better now but sadly not in time to make it out for the event in Seattle tonight with Wendy Wagner We are working on rescheduling. Stay tuned! I'm so sorry. I can't tell you how disappointed I am to have missed three stops, but I'm relieved to be otherwise back on track.

Graphic of a tour schedule, with an event in Pittsburgh marked as rescheduling, Cincinnati marked at cancelled, and Seattle marked as rescheduling. Two events are circled: Tuesday, October 7 6:30PM at First Light Books with Nicky Drayden in Austin, TX and Thursday, Oct 9 11:00AM at New York Comic Con in New York, NY.

Graphic that says: Event for Saltcrop by Yume Kitasei with Nicky Drayden. A Novel about two sisters who sail across a climate-ravaged ocean in search of their missing sister. Yume Kitasei is the author of The Deep Sky, The Stardust Grail, & Saltcrop. Nicky Drayden is the award-winning author of The Prey of Gods and Escaping Exodus. Tus Oct 7 at 6:00PM, First Light Books, 4300 Speedway, Unit 104, Austin, TX 78751.

Graphic that says: Find me at New York Comic Con. Text: Science Fiction Tropes: Best to Worst Panel with John Scalzi, C.J. Farley, Emery Robin, Yume Kitasei, Julie Snyder Thu, Oct 9 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Room 1B02 Science Fiction Tropes - Post Panel Book Signing Thu, Oct 9 12:15 PM - 1:15 PM Hall 1A: Author Signing Tables Autographing Thu, Oct 9th 3pm-3:30pm Tor Booth

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Yume Kitasei @yumewrites.bsky.social · 6d

We are working on trying to reschedule PITTSBURGH. I will keep you posted. (4/4)

Yume Kitasei @yumewrites.bsky.social · 6d

The CINCINNATI events will still go on with Emily Jane. If you bought a book and want it signed, please DM me or contact me through my website, and I can mail you a signed bookplate. (3/4)

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Yume Kitasei @yumewrites.bsky.social · 6d

I’m so disappointed and sorry not to be able to do these events! It feels like an inauspicious way to launch a new book, especially when first week sales are so important, but I don’t want to get anyone sick. (2/4)

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Yume Kitasei @yumewrites.bsky.social · 6d

SALTCROP Tour update —

I’m so sorry — I’m sick and won’t be able to make my events tonight, tomorrow, and this weekend in PITTSBURGH and CINCINNATI 💔 (1/4)

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Fran Wilde @franwilde.bsky.social · 7d

Book bub deal for A PHILOSOPHY OF THIEVES! www.bookbub.com/books/a-phil...

A Philosophy of Thieves by Fran Wilde - BookBub

Leverage meets Parasite meets Six of Crows in multi-award winning author Fran Wilde s thrilling, high-tech adventure heist wrapped in a gaslamp fantasy where thieves are entertainment for the wealthy....

www.bookbub.com

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Nicky Drayden @nickydrayden.bsky.social · 8d

Y'allllll, if you're a fan of weird and brilliant and poignant and WEIRD climate fiction, let me point you in the direction of ----> @yumewrites.bsky.social's new novel SALTCROP!

Come hear me gush about this book with Yume next Tuesday at First Light Books in Austin!

(Get it now, thank me later!)

Yume Kitasei @yumewrites.bsky.social · 23d

Sharing details here for my SALTCROP tour!!! Writing is painful but meeting people is fun! Please come / tell your friends! ALSO to celebrate my new book, I slipped and accidentally planned a whole "Traveling Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Festival" - 8 cities, 8 nights, 8 con-style panels.

Graphic with text announcing: Join Yume Kitasei on Tour for Saltcrop *All times are local.
FLATIRON BOOKS

Tuesday, September 30, 7:00pm, The Strand with Steph Pilavin, New York, NY
Thursday, October 2, 7:00pm, Riverstone Books with M.C. Benner Dixon, Pittsburgh, PA
Friday, October 3, 6:30pm, Joy & Matt's Books with Emily Jane, Cincinnati, OH
Monday, October 6, 7:00pm, Elliot Bay Books with Wendy Wagner, Seattle, WA
Tuesday, October 7, 6:30pm, First Light Books with Nicky Drayden, Austin, TX
Thursday, October, 9, 11:00am, New York Comic Con, New York, NY
October 13 - October 24, Traveling SFF Festival, Nationwide
Making stops in NYC, Baltimore, DC, Philly, New Haven, Northampton, Norwich, Boston
Sunday, November 2, 1:00pm, Princeton Public Library Princeton, NJ
with Daria Lavelle

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Aɴᴅʀᴇᴡ Lɪᴘᴛᴀᴋ @andrewliptak.com · 8d

Authors this round include @mattdinniman.bsky.social, @sarahgailey.bsky.social, @yumewrites.bsky.social, @jensookfonglee.bsky.social, @olgaravn.bsky.social, @eddierobson.bsky.social, @senlinyu.bsky.social, @michaelwehunt.bsky.social, @franwilde.bsky.social, and more!

17 more sci-fi, fantasy, and horror books to close out September with

One last book list for the month

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Yume Kitasei @yumewrites.bsky.social · 8d

Thank you for reading it three times!!!

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 8d

How can two people raised the same way turn out so different? And what does it mean when they separate? @yumewrites.bsky.social, author of Saltcrop and The Deep Sky, highlights five books about searching for a lost sibling:

reactormag.com/five-sff-boo...

Five SFF Books About Searching for a Missing Sibling - Reactor

Yume Kitasei recommends five SFF books about sibling quests

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Yume Kitasei @yumewrites.bsky.social · 8d

You’re the best!!!

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M. C. Benner Dixon @mchristinebd.bsky.social · 10d

Woo! Weekend conference followed by a book talk this evening . . . So much writerliness over the last few days!

And more to come! @yumewrites.bsky.social and I are talking about her new book on Thursday! www.riverstonebookstore.com/events/an-ev... #PittsburghBooks

An Evening with Yume Kitasei in Conversation with MC Benner Dixon — Riverstone Books

Author Yume Kitasei joins us to talk about her latest dystopian sci-fi book, SALTCROP.

www.riverstonebookstore.com

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Yume Kitasei @yumewrites.bsky.social · 10d

Thank you!!

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The Literate Lizard @theliteratelizard.bsky.social · 10d

Your first look at this week's 20% off new release book picks, four fiction, four nonfiction. You don't have to support Jeff Bezos to get discounts on hot new books. Come to us: theliteratelizard.com/front-page-b...
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This week's four new release fiction picks, discounted 20% through October 11th, 2025:
- What a Time to Be Alive: A Novel, by Jade Chang
- Saltcrop: A Novel, by Yume Kitasei
- A Murder in Paris: A Novel, by Matthew Blake
- Guilty by Definition: A Novel, by Susie Dent

This week's four new release nonfiction picks, discounted 20% through October 11th, 2025:
- Without Precedent: How Chief Justice Roberts and His Accomplices Rewrote the Constitution and Dismantled Our Rights, by Lisa Graves
- Terms of Respect: How Colleges Get Free Speech Right, by Christopher L. Eisgruber
- The Perfect Tuba: Forging Fulfillment from the Bass Horn, Band, and Hard Work, by Sam Quinones
- The Formula for Better Health: How to Save Millions of Lives--Including Your Own, by Tom Frieden

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