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Kelsea Yu @anovelescape.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Excited for everyone to read this gorgeous book!!

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Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

ICYMI 🌟 treat yourself to some stellar speculative ecofiction! 🌏🌱🦋 app.thestorygraph.com/giveaways/88...

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M. L. Krishnan @emelkrishnan.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Just a little over $2000 to go before we're FULLY FUNDED! We're down to the wire folks, with about three days to go, so let's get this over the hump and across the finish line! 🙌

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Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

"Esther had just enough time to marvel at seeing its lithe, rust red body move lightning-fast before it opened wide—wider than physically possible, she thought—and clamped sharp teeth down onto her wrist." "Creature" by @anovelescape.bsky.social

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“Creature” by Kelsea Yu

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Kelsea Yu @anovelescape.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Love this book!! It’s available for request now!!

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Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Violet Lichen is NOW OPEN to novella queries until June 30th! 🌱🍄 We're seeking speculative and literary ecofiction and sci-fi between 30-45k words. We look forward to reading your work! Read Full Submission Guidelines: violetlichen.com/submissions/ Query Portal: querytracker.net/query/Violet...

Violet Lichen Books OPEN TO QUERIES. We are seeking: speculative ecofiction, folk horror, weird and New Weird, literary scifi. 30-45k words. Closes June 30th, 2026.

Read the full guidelines: www.violetlichen.com/submissions
Query Portal: www.querytracker.net/query/violetlichen

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khōréō magazine @khoreo.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Our Kickstarter is live! Help support another year of speculative fiction by immigrant & diaspora writers over at @Kickstarter. 🧡 With your help, we can keep funding our work, expand to regular author interviews, raise our artist pay, & more! Support us at: www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...

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Rosiee Thor @rosieethor.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

On June 12th at 6:30pm, Always Here Books in Portland is hosting us for an aro/ace panel with some of my favs! I'll be moderating the event with panelists Sydney Langford, @anovelescape.bsky.social, Neil Cochrane, and @roannasylver.bsky.social!

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Kelsea Yu @anovelescape.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Thrilled to be in this month's issue of The Dark Magazine w/ my reprint, "Obedient Son," a 17th/18th-century twisted Chinese folklore retelling! Originally pubbed in Death in the Mouth anthology and later podcasted by Tales to Terrify. Now available free online: www.thedarkmagazine.com/obedient-son

Graphic showing the cover of The Dark Issue 132, May 2026, featuring stories by NM Whitley, Kelsea Yu, Nelson Stanley, and Ai Jiang. Cover image features a girl standing in an open gate looking down, with silhouetted figures in the background.

Excerpt from "Obedient Son" by Kelsea Yu: "It began with a tickle in the back of Wong An’s throat, light as a goose feather. She let out a long, rasping wheeze, and would have thought no more of it. But her son, Chen Wei, recently returned from his apprenticeship with Doctor Song in Peking, gave her a long, searching look. When he relayed his concern, suggesting she rest while he brought her red date ginger tea and massaged her feet, she sneered at him."

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Rock Capuano @rockcapuano.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

My top 6 favorite stories from this collection: 1. Jubilee Junction by Nat Cassidy @natcassidy.bsky.social 2. 7 P.M. Awards Ceremony, Followed by Girl Scout Auction at 8 by Sam Rebelein 3. I Swear I Didn’t Kill the Others by Kelsea Yu @anovelescape.bsky.social 1/3

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Kelsea Yu @anovelescape.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

This Friday at 6pm Pacific, I’ll be doing a live reading + Q&A on YouTube in support of @thepixelproject.bsky.social! Would love to see you there! 🫶🖤 Event: tinyurl.com/KYuR4P Fundraiser + More Info: bit.ly/Read4Pixels

Graphic on a black background with the following text: live YouTube reading + Q&A with Kelsea Yu in support of the pixel project. Friday, March 6 at 6pm pacific. Includes links to YouTube Live and Donations, Exclusive Goodies, & More. Your support goes toward stoping violence against women.

Also includes images of the books Bound Feet, It’s Only a Game, and Demon Song, all by Kelsea Yu, and a photo of Kelsea Yu credited to Katy Weaver Photography.

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Kelsea Yu @anovelescape.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

I'm doing an AMA over at r/Fantasy today in support of @thepixelproject.bsky.social! Post your questions whenever you get the chance and I'll be back tonight to answer! <3 www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/co...

Photograph of a Chinese American woman in a purple dress and glasses with the text “ask me anything! @anovelescape, Today on r/fantasy. In support of @thepixelproject

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Eugenia Triantafyllou @foxesandroses.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Crawling back from a very nasty bout of flu by posting some of my favorite stories I read last year. Is it a perfect list? No, there's a ton of amazing stuff out there. But I am happy with it and I hope you can find something in here for you <3

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AN INCOMPLETE LIST OF GLORIOUS SHORT FICTION THAT I ENJOYED IN 2025 (BY PUBLICATION MONTH).

his love’s ashes on his tongue, by Monte Lin, in The Deadlands (January) I love how this story explores grief and death. It’s a journey in a strange city. A journey inside our minds and the v…

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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 14/01/2026

I got my contributor copy of ECO24, which contains my piece The Plasticity of Being! I’m extremely honored to be part of this antho with @anovelescape.bsky.social, @genni.bsky.social, @jenniferhudak.bsky.social and others! It was edited by the great @marissavu.bsky.social.

Hands holding a black cover with a flower growing wildly, stemming to several directions. The petal is full and resembles smoke at some points. It's called ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction. Edited by Marissa Van Uden.

One of the anthology pages with the initial text for the story The Plasticity of Being by Renan Bernardo. It also includes his bio.

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Marissa van Uden @marissavu.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

I love how this story taps into that deep compassion and connection we have with other creatures as children, a more honest and real way of seeing the non-human world that not everyone is able to keep through adulthood.

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Kelsea Yu @anovelescape.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

"My imagination was particularly captured by Skittering Within, by Kelsea Yu, where a young girl grows up with an extraordinary affinity with crabs" Thank you to Dr. Alice Violett for mentioning my story in this thoughtful review of the ECO24 anthology! 🦀🖤

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Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Excited for Moonfall by @edcrockerbooks.bsky.social, Saltswept by Katalina Watt, Home Sick by @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social, Bodies of Work @claymcleod.bsky.social, Nowhere Burning by @catrionaward.bsky.social, Stormraven by @anovelescape.bsky.social, Children of Strife @aptshadow.bsky.social & more!

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Kelsea Yu @anovelescape.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

All my awards-eligible 2025 publications!! It’s been a good publishing year. Thanks to @titanbooks.bsky.social @spotifyforauthors.bsky.social @nightmare-magazine.com @crepuscularmag.bsky.social @thedeadlands.com @khoreo.bsky.social @horrortree.com for sharing my stories & essays with the world! 🖤🖤🖤

Graphic showing Kelsea Yu’s 2025 original publications:
Novella: Demon Song published by Titan and Spotify
Novelette: Ye Xian and the Celestial Feast produced by Spotify
Short Story: “In Our Skin” in Nightmare
“Unspoken” in Crepuscular
“Deliquescence” in The Deadlands
Essay:
“Haunting, Haunted” in khoreo
“Novella: the Perfect Length for Horror” in HorrorTree

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Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Today's Love Letter is a reflection on the incredible, healing, life-affirming power of pain -- and how good it is to get the chance to hurt.

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When It Hurts

A Love Letters Feature by Sarah Gailey - December 2025

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Titan Books @titanbooks.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Have you picked up DEMON SONG by @anovelescape.bsky.social yet? 🎶 A young woman discovers the terrifying secrets lurking within the walls of a Beijing opera house, in this Gothic horror novella inspired by Chinese mythology. 🎭 tinyurl.com/bdd8wdhu

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

do you have a horror/horror-ish book coming out in 2026? tell me about it here, please! I'm working on the 2026 horror list and while I'm very good at sniffing out new books, I still miss things - help me help you! forms.gle/KxLNwVDVbbRS...

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2025-2026 Horror Master List Book Submissions

Because I'm out of my mind, I maintain a running list of the year's new horror releases. If you're an author/editor/marketer/publicist/agent who'd like one of your books included, please fill out the ...

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Cassandra Jeanne Farrin @cassandrafarrin.com · 29/11/2025

I finished reading DEMON SONG by Kelsea Yu, and it was a beautiful take on diaspora experience and Chinese opera and completely delivered on the Phantom of the Opera (but make it sapphic)! Very sensual with some intense body horror moments, done beautifully. www.kelseayu.com/demon-song

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Demon Song — Kelsea Yu

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Kelsea Yu @anovelescape.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

✨NEW RELEASE!!!✨ It’s pub day for my fox spirit Chinese Cinderella romantic fantasy folklore tale, YE XIAN AND THE CELESTIAL FEAST! 🥳🎧🦊🍜💖 Listen for free via Spotify Premium, purchase from Libro.FM, Audible, or your fave audiobook retailer, or request from your local library!!! 🎧🦊🍜💖

Photograph of Chinese American woman looking up to the side at a superimposed image of the cover for Ye Xian and the Celestial Feast.

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Titan Books @titanbooks.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

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Horror Tree @horrortree.com · 18/10/2025

Check out Kelsea Yu's ( @anovelescape.bsky.social ) thoughts on the novella being the PERFECT length for horror! horrortree.com/novella-the-... #WritingCommunity #AmWriting

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Denise Ruttan @teawhilewriting.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Met @anovelescape.bsky.social and @wnwagner.bsky.social at the Salem, Oregon Book Bin today, had fun hearing them talk all things horror, writing and musical theater, and got some books signed 🥰 #booksky

Me, Kelsea Yu, Wendy Wagner at Salem Book Bin

Kelsea Yu and Wendy Wagner in conversation at the Salem Book Bin

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Caitlin Starling @caitlinstarling.com · 04/10/2025

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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Corrinne @corrinney.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

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!

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Kelsea Yu @anovelescape.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

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

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Kelsea Yu @anovelescape.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

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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🌌Sia is a numinous nebula atm🌌 @raenbowpunk.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

This Must-Have Monday we have - count 'em - FORTY new books to cover! Incl 🎶 Chinese opera horror from @anovelescape.bsky.social! 🐉 dragon/human romance going NOWHERE expected with @jmfrey.bsky.social! 🩸 autistic CottageGORE by @taylorlgrothe.bsky.social!

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Must-Have Monday #256 - Every Book a Doorway

Selkies, antichrists, and a shy trans banshee are only a few of this week's FORTY new releases!

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Kelsea Yu @anovelescape.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Thank you to the incredible @aijiang.bsky.social for this stunning blurb! 🥰😭🖤🫶 DEMON SONG comes out TOMORROW in hardcover, ebook, and audio, wherever books are sold!! 😱😱😱 @titanbooks.bsky.social 🖤

Blurb tile for DEMON SONG which reads as follows: “Demon Song is a fast-paced exploration of the power of performance and the cost of desire by the queen of thrilling murder mysteries, twisty red herrings, and complex mother-daughter relationships.”

—Ai Jiang, Ignyte, Bram Stoker, and Nebula Award-winning author of Linghun and A Palace Near the Wind

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Kelsea Yu @anovelescape.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Watch our novella panel today at 3pm Pacific! 🖤

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Mackenzie 📖🍵 @mackenziespocket.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

today was a great day for preordering books hehe. I got: - Demon Song by @anovelescape.bsky.social - Silver and Lead by @seananmcguire.bsky.social - Name Her Holy hardcover ed. by @clericofthevoid.bsky.social With these I’ve got scary fall vibes, urban fantasy fav, lady knights! Wheee #BookSky

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Kelsea Yu @anovelescape.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Looking forward to this panel tomorrow!!

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ShinyFluff @shinyfluffdnd.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

very excited about this! @anovelescape.bsky.social novella Bound Feet was so chilling and I am very much looking forward to reading this new work!

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Wendy N. Wagner 🎃 @wnwagner.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

I'm so excited about this novella!

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Kelsea Yu @anovelescape.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Thank you @michaelwehunt.bsky.social for the kind words about DEMON SONG! 🥰🖤 Michael’s debut novel, The October Film Haunt, also comes out next Tuesday, so be sure to check both books out! 🖤🖤

Blurb time for Demon Song by Kelsea Yu which reads as follows: “Demon Song spreads its lovely darkness through the eerie passageways of an aged Beijing opera house, the perfect setting for its many charms: The horror rises like an aria, the evil is enchanting behind its mask, and Kelsea Yu’s haunting prose moves like music to its skin-crawling conclusion. If House of Leaves absorbed the best of 1960s Asian horror films and classic weird fiction into its hallways, this poisonous novella could be the marrow of such a strange architecture.”

—Michael Wehunt, author of The October Film Haunt and Greener Pastures

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Marissa van Uden @marissavu.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

omg, ECO24 got a starred Publisher's Weekly review! "23 stellar tales" 🌿✨🥲✨🌿 High-five to all the authors who make this collection so wonderful! And an extra high-five to @jenniferhudak.bsky.social and @louisevans.bsky.social, whose stories are highlighted in this review as standouts 👀🫶

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Kelsea Yu @anovelescape.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Thank you @publisherswkly.bsky.social for this lovely review! 🥰 8 days ‘til DEMON SONG is out! “Fans of updated gothic horror will find much to enjoy in this gritty take on the sacrifices artists are willing to make for fame and fortune. Yu’s off to a promising start.” Full review on PW’s website!

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Kelsea Yu @anovelescape.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

“A haunting story that’ll please fans of Black Swan and Suspiria, but with a distinctly Chinese folklore hue. It dances right up to phantasmagoric while still commanding a captive audience.” Thank you for the lovely blurb, @mattblairstone.bsky.social! 🖤 DEMON SONG: 9/30, @titanbooks.bsky.social 👀

Blurb graphic with the following text beside a cover of Demon Song by Kelsea Yu: “A haunting story that’ll please fans of Black Swan and Suspiria, but with a distinctly Chinese folklore hue. It dances right up to phantasmagoric while still commanding a captive audience.”
—Matt Blairstone, Shirley Jackson Award-nominated Publisher at Tenebrous Press

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Kelsea Yu @anovelescape.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

“Featuring a historic tale which blends seamlessly into the contemporary narrative like a traditional zhiguai, Yu’s white bone spirit beguiles and terrifies.” Thank you @leemurraywriter.bsky.social for your lovely blurb of DEMON SONG!! 🥰🖤 Out in 13 days from @titanbooks.bsky.social!! 🎭🎶🕯️💀

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Kelsea Yu @anovelescape.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

ICYMI, you can get a set of bonus goodies (both art prints below + bookmark + signed bookplate) when you preorder DEMON SONG through participating bookstores!! All pre-order links on my website: kelseayu.com Out 9/30 from @titanbooks.bsky.social - you won't have to wait long for your order!

Graphic for demon song preorder campaign showing participating bookstores: Always Here, Mysterious Galaxy, Nowhere Galaxy, Brave + Kind, Under the Umbrella, Ballast Book Company, The Book Bin, Forbidden Planet

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Kelsea Yu @anovelescape.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Come celebrate @catherineyuwrites.bsky.social’s THE DEVIL’S IN THE DANCERS virtually with me, @peculiaritea.bsky.social, & Pintip Dunn via a YA horror panel hosted by Underbrush Books! Tomorrow (Thurs) @ 6:30pm CST! Sign up for free at the link: www.eventbrite.com/e/teen-horro...

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