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Robert Repino @repino1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm hosting a panel for the Saratoga Book Festival on 3 October, titled: "Confronting Looming Catastrophes in Fiction". With @yumewrites.bsky.social and @isabel.kim. Come with me if you want to live. friends.sspl.org/book-festiva...

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2026 Festival Sessions

Announcing the 2026 Saratoga Book Festival Schedule Click below to check out Friday’s Literary Night Market! Click on the image below to download the Schedule-at-a-Glance PDF for Saturday and Sunday F...

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Shecky @shecky.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Still no takers. I don't *understand*, and it's killing me. LOOK AT THESE FACES.

Gray cat with small white flash on throat, sitting on bed, looking up.

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Yume Kitasei @yumewrites.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

persist through the pain, honestly. the only way out is through

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Yume Kitasei @yumewrites.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Thanks ❤️ Writing is painful, because your perception of what things could be are like that shiny illusory puddle in the road that you never quite reach

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Thomas Elrod @thomas-elrod.com · 05/06/2026

June 10: Come see cool people talking about cool books. @josepheckert.bsky.social @isabel.kim @yumewrites.bsky.social (and me)

THE CENTER FOR FICTION presents
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10 at 7PM ET
Imaginative Firsts On Writing Debut Sci-Fi and Fantasy

Featuring
JOSEPH ECKERT
THOMAS ELROD
ISABEL J. KIM
Moderated by YUME KITASEI
In Person & Livestreamed | Register at CENTERFORFICTION.ORG

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Yume Kitasei @yumewrites.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

If you're in the US right now, the SALTCROP ebook is $2.99, and if you're in the UK, the THE STARDUST GRAIL ebook is 99p. Just FYI, in case you were interested in trying either. ❤️

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Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim · 13/05/2026

HI COME HANG OUT WITH ME (also come hang out with @scalzi.com @clarkesworldmagazine.com Jinwoo Chong @rfkuang.bsky.social Jody Blanchette @yumewrites.bsky.social @thomas-elrod.com andddd @josepheckert.bsky.social , respectively, at varying locations :3 )

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Yume Kitasei @yumewrites.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

ahhh yay that's so exciting! thank you!!!

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Anna North @annanorth.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Come hang out with me @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social @yumewrites.bsky.social @victormanibo.com at Taylor & Co Books in Brooklyn this Thursday, April 30! We’ll be talking about climate fiction and raising money for ecosystem preservation! www.taylorcobooks.com/s/stories/ea...

Flyer for Earth Changes, a fundraiser panel discussion. April 30, 7:30 PM, Taylor & Co, 1021 Cortelyou Rd.

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Sirens @sirensconference.org · 01/01/2026

#Sirens26 #Bookmas Day 29: For your exhausted friend who specializes in impossible quests THE STARDUST GRAIL, Yume Kitasei's (@yumewrites.bsky.social) brilliant, anti-colonialist space heist. Maya Hoshimoto, art thief and anthropologist, thinks she's settled down into a quiet academic life...

The cover of THE STARDUST GRAIL, featuring red clouds and blue tentacles against a starfield

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Dr Charlotte Gislam @cgislam.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Finished on Christmas Eve after snagging from the library impulsively when I saw it was in. Loved The Stardust Grail so had to read this! Thanks @yumewrites.bsky.social for a stunning book about sisterhood, environmental collapse, and sailing. It was exactly what I needed right now in my life! 🌱⛵️💚

A photo of the cover of Yume Kitasei's novel Saltcrop against a background of a green blanket. The cover is green and black with a striking pink used for the title and a little boat sailing across the front.

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Yume Kitasei @yumewrites.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Seriously look what getting NYT best books of the year does 😜

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Yume Kitasei @yumewrites.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

For some reason my book club decided to read my arch rival @bingewriting.bsky.social new book DISSOLUTION this month and unfortunately I’m really enjoying it.

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Yume Kitasei @yumewrites.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

5 astronauts were sent to make first contact. 1 of them brought something back they shouldn’t have. It might be why someone wants them dead. ARRIVAL x Lucy Foley

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Arley Sorg @arleysorg.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

The latest F&SF, edited by the amazing Sheree Renée Thomas @shereereneethomas.bsky.social, includes (with MANY fantastic things) my latest By the Numbers column, "Why We Need To Count On Each Other": 53 BIPOC authors filled out a survey asking about their experiences in publishing! www.fandsf.com

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Fantasy and Science Fiction

The award-winning Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, founded in 1949. The original publisher of Stephen King's Dark Tower, Daniel Keyes's Flowers for Algernon, and Walter M. Miller's A Canticle f...

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Kemi Ashing-Giwa @kashinggiwa.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

THE KING MUST DIE has been out for a whole month! To celebrate, I’m giving away 3 signed + personalized author copies. To enter, repost this and comment below with the last great story you read!

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Today is your LAST CHANCE to nominate your favorite books, movies, TV shows, book covers, and more for the Reactor poll!!! go go go go go go!!

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Cast Your Vote for the Best SFF of the Year! - Reactor

Books! Movies! TV shows! Video games! Short fiction! And more!!

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Yume Kitasei @yumewrites.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

I feel this in the leftover crumbs of my remaining soul

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Yume Kitasei @yumewrites.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

I’m really impressionable when it comes to food in books

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Yume Kitasei @yumewrites.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Oh also, I forgot to mention I have a new book out too, Saltcrop - a climate dystopian novel about sisters who sail across the ocean in search of their missing sister ⛵️

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Yume Kitasei @yumewrites.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Did you immediately go out and get noodles?

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Rebecca Blood 🇺🇦 @rebeccablood.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Oooh. Lots of kinds of book in here.

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Yume Kitasei @yumewrites.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

These are just some of the amazing books I read this year! (And if you want more recs, subscribe to my monthly newsletter - I recommend new releases every month)

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Yume Kitasei @yumewrites.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Everyone Who Is Gone is Here by Jonathan Blitzer - for your friends who love history and political context, are unafraid of being depressed, and want to understand how we got here with immigration

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Yume Kitasei @yumewrites.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Ebony Gate by @juliavee.bsky.social and @kenbebelle.bsky.social - for your urban fantasy friends who are fully expect their city is defended by a badass sword wielding lady who knows where the best bao are at

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Yume Kitasei @yumewrites.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

The Space Between Worlds by @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social - for your smartest friends whom you would stay up until three am talking to about the world and how to fix it - or burn it down

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Yume Kitasei @yumewrites.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

To Clutch a Razor, an excellent sequel to When Among Crows, by @veronicarothbooks.com - for your gothic contemporary fantasy friends who would definitely fall in love with a monster

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Yume Kitasei @yumewrites.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

TEO’S DURUMI, the satisfying sequel to Ocean’s Godori, by Elaine U Cho - for your friends who won’t shut up about Becky Chambers (complimentary)

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Yume Kitasei @yumewrites.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

The Prey of Gods by @nickydrayden.bsky.social - for your friends who like rich, ensemble, morally grey epic dystopian scifi

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Yume Kitasei @yumewrites.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Audition by Katie Kitamura - for your friends who like to read books that make them ask “what the f did I just read?”

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Yume Kitasei @yumewrites.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Seascraper by Benjamin Wood - for your minimalist friends who loved Small Things Like These. This was one of my favorite books of the year, and I was rooting for it to win the Booker.

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Yume Kitasei @yumewrites.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

The Lighthouse at the Edge of the World by @jrdawson.bsky.social - for your sisters and every dog lover in your life. This one is like hot cocoa on a very awful day.

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