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Celeste Moon Bunny @celestemoonbunny.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Thanks to my amazing library I've discovered another favorite author in @zipitelle.bsky.social 🥺 The Hanging Bones has been such a gripping and amazing story so far and I can't wait to read more of your books 🥰 Also, my partner and I were VERY delighted to read somebody writing aspec characters 🥺💕🏳️‍🌈

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Shannon Hawkins @sionainnigans.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

From one Ace to another, this book was fucking solid. Welcome to my list of top five reads for this year. I was laughing, gasping, swooning, wrapped up and falling hard for this read.

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Elle Tesch ✨💫 @zipitelle.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

NEW BOOK!! So excited to share that THE GODS WE BURIED will publish Summer 2027 with Delacorte/PRH! A YA adventure fantasy and love letter to Indiana Jones, National Treasure, and Tomb Raider. This is truly the book of my heart, and one 12-year-old me would have done anything to get her hands on.

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Elle Tesch ✨💫 @zipitelle.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

🦴 SIX MONTHS 🦴 Until the Scavenge Moon is upon us, and the Breimar Stag walks the Forest. Join the Hunt on May 12, 2026 for your chance to end a man … and hopefully the monster rising from the Forest’s depths won’t get you first. Also please preorder THE HANGING BONES now, out from FierceReads!

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Elle Tesch ✨💫 @zipitelle.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

🦴 Clack clack 🦴 ARCs for THE HANGING BONES are now available to request from Netgalley and Edelweiss! A YA standalone dark fantasy, BONES is what happens when feminine rage combines with magical stag hunts and eldritch forest monsters … and no man is safe.

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Eleonor Piteira @eleonorpiteira.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Incredibly happy to finally have this in my hands!! It never feels real until I hold it ❤ @zipitelle.bsky.social @luguardio.bsky.social

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Elle Tesch ✨💫 @zipitelle.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Did you know I actually have two books up for preorder and 25% off at Barnes and Noble right now? What Wakes the Bells comes out in paperback (with a cheeky little bonus chapter 👀) April 14, and The Hanging Bones releases May 12! Also please enjoy my really bad but important photoshop.

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Elle Tesch ✨💫 @zipitelle.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

ICYMI 🦴 THE HANGING BONES has a cover now! And I may be biased, but I think it is *stunning* But wait, what’s it about, you ask? Well, look below for the official summary and prepare to go hunting in Wielinde Forest May 12, 2026!

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Elle Tesch ✨💫 @zipitelle.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

🦴 COVER REVEAL 🦴 I am so excited to share the cover for THE HANGING BONES, my next YA Dark Fantasy with Feiwel and Friends, out May 12, 2026! Art: Coey + Shy Designer: Meg Sayre

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Elle Tesch ✨💫 @zipitelle.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Tomorrow! We’re celebrating Canada Day with bones and keeping Pride going an extra day.

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Elle Tesch ✨💫 @zipitelle.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

The clack clack era is upon us! See you here Tuesday for the stunning THE HANGING BONES cover reveal! The Hanging Bones is my second YA dark fantasy standalone about a young gamekeeper, the legendary stag hunt she enters to end a baron, and the ancient horror rising from the forest depths.

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Jen @popgoesthereader.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

🌈 195 2025 Young Adult Books Featuring LGBTQIA+ Representation 🌈 popgoesthereader.com/195-2025-you... #BookSky #YALit #KidLit #Pride #PrideMonth

A compilation of twenty-one 2025 young adult book covers in shades of pink and purple. Books featured include if We Were A Movie, I Love You S'More, Love At Second Sight, Togetha, Out of Step, Into You, Finding Prince Charming, Call Your Boyfriend, Chaos King, Hit Me With Your Best Charm, The Assassin's Guide To Babysitting, All-Nighter, Why On Earth, Run Away With Me, On Starlit Shores, There's Always Next Year, We Were Villains, Lucha of the Forgotten Spring, Nav's Foolproof Guide To Falling In Love, The Good Vampire's Guide To Blood and Boyfriends, The L.O.V.E. Club and Come Home To My Heart.

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Elle Tesch ✨💫 @zipitelle.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

🖤🤍💜Happy Pride from a demi author and her demi heroine! 💜🤍🖤 Did you know that Mina’s coat on the book cover has the same colours as the ace flag? It’s one of my favourite details!

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Elle Tesch ✨💫 @zipitelle.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

*keyboard smash* To say I’m honoured that Indigo has WHAT WAKES THE BELLS as one of its best YA books of the year so far is a massive understatement! If you’ve been waiting for a price drop, you can get 20% off right now! And if you’re near Indigo Metrotown, there are still signed copies!

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Elle Tesch ✨💫 @zipitelle.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

I keep forgetting this app exists but I’m just here to let you know that the final cover for THE HANGING BONES is in my inbox and she is an autumn QUEEN.

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Elle Tesch ✨💫 @zipitelle.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

✨INDIGO EXCLUSIVE EVENT✨ If you’re in the Lower Mainland, come join myself and Tessa Barbosa one week from today at Metrotown Indigo to celebrate What Wakes the Bells with a Q+A and signing! Where: Indigo Metrotown Burnaby When: Friday May 9 | 7 pm How: Tickets through Indigo events or link in bio

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Elle Tesch ✨💫 @zipitelle.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

THE HANGING BONES is off to copyedits! No release date beyond first half of 2026, cover still in progress, but this weird dark fantasy full of autumn forests, angry girls, and bony monster horror is coming! Make sure to add it on Goodreads and join my newsletter for updates (🔗s in bio!)

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Forever Young Adult @foreveryoungadult.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Gothic and dark, @zipitelle.bsky.social's WHAT WAKES THE BELLS is a story about saints, living cities, and how hard it can be to live up to parental expectations. Check out Mandy C.'s review at foreveryoungadult.com/book-report/....

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Book Review of What Wakes the Bells by Elle Tesch

When the gargoyles come for you, run.

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Elle Tesch ✨💫 @zipitelle.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

If you’d told me two years ago that friends would send me pictures of a giant stack of my little gothic book beside an equally giant stack of a new Hunger Games book by THE Suzanne Collins in The Strand I’d have disowned you because what?

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Elle Tesch ✨💫 @zipitelle.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

✨AUDIOBOOK GIVEAWAY✨ Yesterday marks two weeks since WHAT WAKES THE BELLS has been out, and as the lovely folks at Macmillan Audio gave me a few extra digital copies, I want to celebrate with a giveaway on insta here: www.instagram.com/p/DHqqLLiACs...

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Elle Tesch ✨💫 @zipitelle.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

I *always* have music playing. Like, my annual Spotify listening hours are over 90k each time. AKA of course there’s an official WHAT WAKES THE BELLS playlist! It sets the perfect mood for reading about magical bells, angry sentient cities, and vengeful saints, and you can save it at the 🔗 below!

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Elle Tesch ✨💫 @zipitelle.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

WHAT WAKES THE BELLS is officially one week old! The biggest thank you to everyone who bought a copy, sent me a photo of your local store or shelf, or messaged about how much you enjoyed it! It’s meant so so much to me 🩷 Also, if you read and enjoyed BELLS, please consider leaving a review online!

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Elle Tesch ✨💫 @zipitelle.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Book one has been kicked out of the nest and now it’s back to coddling book two. THE HANGING BONES (2026) is a YA dark fantasy standalone completely separate from WHAT WAKES THE BELLS. But it’s got monsters, spooky settings, magical stags, and a very angry ace girl with vengeance on her mind.

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Elle Tesch ✨💫 @zipitelle.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

And just like, WHAT WAKES THE BELLS is out of my hands. Release day absolutely did not go according to plan but we still managed to salvage it in the best way. It was a day of family and friends, love and pride, and I’m so grateful to everyone who sent a message/text/comment to help me celebrate.

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Elle Tesch ✨💫 @zipitelle.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

In case you needed another reason to love the WHAT WAKES THE BELLS cover 💜

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Nura @nur-a.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

A dark fantasy written by a Canadian author? I cannot get my hands on this quick enough. Congratulations @zipitelle.bsky.social on your debut book birthday!

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Leslie D (she/her) @leslie-d.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

What Wakes the Bells by @zipitelle.bsky.social is out today! A fantastic debut #YASFF #booksky

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Chandra Rooney @sakuralovestea.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Happy Book Birthday to @zipitelle.bsky.social’s What Wakes the Bells! Get her dark fantasy debut from Kobo, at Indigo, or from your local indie that you can find here: www.indiebookstores.ca

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Elle Tesch ✨💫 @zipitelle.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Today, What Wakes the Bells, my debut novel, is unleashed upon the world! I’M A PUBLISHED AUTHOR!!

Today, What Wakes the Bells, my debut novel, is unleashed upon the world!

It’s wild I can say that. Especially since this book has been mine for a long time. I got the idea in 2019, wrote the first draft in 2020, sold it to F&F in 2022, and now it’s not really mine anymore.

It’s a book I wish I had for myself as a teen but it also helped me figure out who I am as an adult. What Wakes the Bells won’t be for everyone, but for some it will be everything.

And that’s enough for me.

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Elle Tesch ✨💫 @zipitelle.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

My book comes out tomorrow, so if you wanted a look into my brain right now, here you go. Obviously I am completely fine.

Pink tinted graphic of a girl before a stained glass window with words reading "One Day" in the centre and "What Wakes the Bells" on the bottom

Hozier with a quote edited to say "Yeah, I made a book. I don't know if I've made peace."

Dark haired woman running and repeatedly saying "Fuck"

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Elle Tesch ✨💫 @zipitelle.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

First ever author panel/event ever = survived! I had such fun at @emeraldcitycon.bsky.social this weekend meeting readers, talking about WHAT WAKES THE BELLS, and debating the superior tropes! Was shaking in my sneakers with nerves but every lovely person on the panel made me feel welcome!

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Elle Tesch ✨💫 @zipitelle.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Blurb round up part two, and now they’re all accounted for at last! I am so unbelievably thrilled that 8 authors I deeply admire not only read WHAT WAKES THE BELLS, but their lovely words have left me a happy, grateful puddle! WHAT WAKES THE BELLS releases March 11 and you can still preorder now!

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Elle Tesch ✨💫 @zipitelle.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

More trade reviews have come in for WHAT WAKES THE BELLS, and I’m thrilled with the kind words they have to say about my little gothic book! WHAT WAKES THE BELLS is out March 11!

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Elle Tesch ✨💫 @zipitelle.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Last day to enter the very last goodreads giveaway for WHAT WAKES THE BELLS!!! www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

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Elle Tesch ✨💫 @zipitelle.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

If you’re looking to support a Canadian author, not only does Indigo have it 30% off, but it’s part of the 30% off BESTSELLERS SALE! BESTSELLER. BEFORE IT’S EVEN OUT.

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Elle Tesch ✨💫 @zipitelle.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

✨ ONE WEEK TO GO ✨ Want a tour of the WHAT WAKES THE BELLS hardcover? If you said yes, swipe! If you said no, swipe anyway! Because it’s too pretty not to look at!

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Elle Tesch ✨💫 @zipitelle.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

One week left to preorder if you’re looking for a signed copy!

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Elle Tesch ✨💫 @zipitelle.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

It’s March 1, which means WHAT WAKES THE BELLS is out this month and for some reason B&N lists it as one of the best YA books for March?!? What do you mean my little dark fantasy is on a “Best” list alongside absolute legends like Tracy Deonn and Suzanne Collins??? SAY SIKE RIGHT NOW.

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Jen @popgoesthereader.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

📚 Hey, YA readers! You won't want to miss these 55 exciting new young adult books being published in March 2025! 📚 popgoesthereader.com/hot-off-the-... #BookSky #KidLit #YALit

A compilation of ten March 2025 YA book covers including In The Company Of Killers, The Scorpion and The Night Blossom, What Wakes The Bells, When The Bones Sing, They Bloom At Night, The Shadow Bride, Lovely Dark and Deep, Nightweaver, Fair & Sinister Heart and To Steal From Thieves

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Elle Tesch ✨💫 @zipitelle.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

EXTRA EXTRA! EXCLUSIVE EXCERPT! This is absolutely an author bucket list item checked off! If you’ve been wanting an early peek at WHAT WAKES THE BELLS, Paste Magazine has chapter 2 for you to read! Also a sneaky peek at some demi rep 👀 www.pastemagazine.com/books/elle-t...

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Elle Tesch ✨💫 @zipitelle.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

✨🔔 BLURB 🔔✨ “Another?” you ask incredulously, and I shout at you “You better believe it!” because this one comes from THE Lyndall Clipstone! Quite easily one of the coolest authors I know, her books and prose are to die for, so her words for WHAT WAKES THE BELLS mean the world to me!

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Elle Tesch ✨💫 @zipitelle.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

THEY’RE HERE AND THEY HAVE GOLD FOIL 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

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Elle Tesch ✨💫 @zipitelle.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

✨AUDIOBOOK NEWS✨ We’re two weeks from pub, but did you know WHAT WAKES THE BELLS is getting an audiobook? And narrated by the immensely talented Ell Potter! Ell was my dream narrator for YEARS, so her voicing Mina and the clang gang now has me on the floor in disbelief. Team Ell(e) squared 💖

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Elle Tesch ✨💫 @zipitelle.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Do you ever, when you're talking to someone, say a perfectly normal and simple sentence, and then it just comes out upside down?

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Elle Tesch ✨💫 @zipitelle.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

By the way, these Saints look as gorgeous as they do because @eleonorpiteira.bsky.social and her art are pure magic

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Elle Tesch ✨💫 @zipitelle.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

✨🔔 BLURB 🔔✨ A very exciting one for me and WHAT WAKES THE BELLS from the fabulous Nicki Pau Preto! Part of my lore is I first met Nicki after accidentally ambushing her outside the bathroom in an Indigo 👇

Illustration of fog-covered skulls with white text reading “A haunting page-turning mystery.” - Nicki Pau Preto, bestselling author of Bonesmith

White skinned woman in a red sweater holding a stack of three books by Nicki Pau Preto and a copy of What Wakes the Bells by Elle Tesch

Illustration of fog-covered skulls with text in a box reading: "What Wakes the Bells is a haunting, page-turning mystery set in an exquisitely wrought gothic city, where ancient beauty and eldritch horrors walk side by side. The lush prose, immersive world building, and ominous atmosphere make for a thrilling and unique YA fantasy debut."
- NICKI PAU PRETO, bestselling author of Bonesmith

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Elle Tesch ✨💫 @zipitelle.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

✨ Meet the Saints ✨ Only three weeks to go until WHAT WAKES THE BELLS releases March 11, and it’s time to share a little about those fabled figures you’ve probably noticed on the gorgeous cover’s rose window!

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