Kelsea Yu

✨🖤📕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 🧵⏬ 👀

We are hosting a "Why Horror?" panel for the #PDXBookFest at Broadway Books on November 5, 6-7 p.m. podcasters Amber and Dan will sit down with horror authors @keithrosson.bsky.social, @dangerslater.bsky.social, @caitlinstarling.com, and @anovelescape.bsky.social to discuss the appeal of horror.

Journey to the West and Phantom of the Opera jostle for top billing in @anovelescape.bsky.social's Demon Song. i am a simple soul. i like a white bone demon thing. doesn't flinch from the proper ending or the tangle of jealousies and ambitions and petty evil that a proper theatre ghost story needs.

Excited for everyone to read this gorgeous book!!

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

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! 🙌

"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

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

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...

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...

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!

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

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

Tonight!

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

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...

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.

"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! 🦀🖤

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!

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.

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. 🎭 https://tinyurl.com/bdd8wdhu

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...

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

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. 🎭 https://tinyurl.com/bdd8wdhu

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

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

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Wonderful underwater death-dreamscapes from @anovelescape.bsky.social Kelsea Yu. psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...

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.

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!

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

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!! 🥳🥳

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!

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 🖤

Watch our novella panel today at 3pm Pacific! 🖤

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