Y'all, turns out SACRIFICIAL ANIMALS was just the warm-up. Kailee crushed this one, go get a taste.

The first chapter of THE MINIMALIST, my psychological horror novel of classical music & adoptee identity, is now available online at Criminal Elements! This was such a personal novel for me to write as an adoptee and classical musician & I'm so excited to share more! Read here: tr.ee/DsAMYT 🥚

This Salieri’s birthday is gonna be an absolute rager

Thank you to Goodreads for including THE MINIMALIST on this list of readers' most anticipated summer horror along with so many other wonderful titles! I'm excited for my gruesome classical music psychodrama to be out on August 18th - Salieri's birthday 🙂 Read more: www.goodreads.com/blog/show/31...

Kailee and I are planning to do a book talk about THE MINIMALIST at my library later this year! These advance copies are a generous gift to the adoptee community. 🥚

Looking to read a classical music themed psychological horror with an adoptee protagonist & author - perfect for fans of TÁR and THE PIANO TEACHER? We're still offering free advance reader copies of THE MINIMALIST to the adoptee community. Request here: tr.ee/FdlY1S Deadline: June 19, 2026 🥚

It's Jewish American Heritage Month, which means it's now time for me to yap about one of my favorite composers, Bernard Herrmann. A longtime collaborator of Alfred Hitchcock, Herrmann scored some of the most iconic films ever made and is a worthy addition to any (spooky) listening session. 🎶 (1/3)

Deep into Hells Canyon is the farthest I've ever gone for a novel, but I had to see where the 1887 Hells Canyon Massacre happened for myself. Researching this novel has been difficult but rewarding, and the writing has been equally challenging. CW: Anti-Asian Violence

I wanted to start AANHPI Heritage Month by sharing the works of some fellow AAPI adoptee authors. Our literature, like our identities as adoptees, is complex, vibrant, and rich with possibility. Consider reading an AAPI adoptee author today. 💖🥚

Had such a wonderful time at the VOICES BIPOC Adoptees Author reading. I read from SACRIFICIAL ANIMALS and THE MINIMALIST, and also heard these wonderful adoptee authors read their work! Check out their writing in the thread. 🥚 Thank you to BIPOC Adoptees and Alberta Abbey for having me! (1/2)

Come see me & this wonderful group of BIPOC adoptee authors read tomorrow at Alberta Abbey in Portland, OR! 🥚 Register here: www.bipocadoptees.org/event/voices...

Perfect for fans of TÁR and THE PIANO TEACHER, THE MINIMALIST charts a classical composer & adoptee's spiral into madness. We're still offering free copies to the adoptee community! Request here by 6/19/26: forms.gle/bPv4yhQnshiU... Content warnings: kaileepedersen.com/the-minimali... 🥚

I survived! There were many notes and I sang most of them correctly 🙂

Singing my first Susanna today in The Marriage of Figaro. Why did Mozart write so many notes…

NEW EPISODE @kaileepedersen.bsky.social and Briana N. Cox join the show to talk about their new books THE MINIMALIST and INDIGENT, and we dig into Jane Schoenbrun's modern classic I SAW THE TV GLOW! LISTEN NOW!

Q4. Hopefully you're all already reading everything by @stephengrahamjones.com, but if you aren't you SHOULD. Others, not all officially horror but all HAUNTING: @jensookfonglee.bsky.social, @pcverrone.com, @tananarivedue.bsky.social, @kaileepedersen.bsky.social, Ian Muneshwar #HorrorWritersChat

Interested in avant-garde classical music but don't know where to start? This playlist will get you up to speed on some of my favorite minimalist composers. My classical music psychological horror novel, THE MINIMALIST, releases 8/18! Listen here: open.spotify.com/playlist/5Hi...

Kailee Pedersen is one of our OG Friends of the Show, so when she came to me with this one I was thrilled, and as a bonus she introduced me to Briana's work, which is fantastic! Go pick up/pre-order these books!

Come hear Briana, Matthew, and I yap about the incredible film I SAW THE TV GLOW, queer/BIPOC horror, our new books, and more in this upcoming episode of The Scares That Shaped Us! @scaresshapedus.bsky.social

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EPISODE 174 – Queer and BIPOC Horror Panel Kailee Pedersen and Briana N Cox discuss the field of Queer and BIPOC Horror, how horror is a lens for storytelling, and recommend books, films and operas! @kaileepedersen.bsky.social

Me after watching Melancholia: am I a depressed Wagner fan now???

The Independent picks up the story first reported by the NYT on risks facing an estimated 200,000 intercountry adoptees. Data are provided per media reports by Adoptees United. Note, data are VERY hard to come by. Intercountry adoptions since 1999 tracked by State Dept. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

@barnesandnoble.com is offering 25% off on preorders of THE MINIMALIST through March 26th for Rewards & Premium members with code PREORDER25. Consider preordering a copy for your favorite unhinged classical musician in your life. Preorder here: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-minima...

“As many as 200,000 adoptees are vulnerable to deportation because they lack U.S. citizenship or important proof of it… Many international adoptees first learn they are not citizens when they apply for a drivers license, join the military or, these days, when federal agents stop them on the street.”

Had the absolute pleasure of talking with Briana N. Cox and @scottymilderhorror.bsky.social on Horror from the High Desert about inclusion, queer/BIPOC issues in horror, Jewish identity, trauma in fiction, and of course worms 🪱. Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h... (1/3)

Reposting for anyone who didn’t see this last week - I’ve reserved (free) advance copies of my novel for the adoptee community for request! 🥚

Interested in reading a classical music psychological horror novel about an Asian adoptee from an adoptee author? We've reserved some advance reader copies (ARCs) of THE MINIMALIST specifically for the adoptee community!🥚 Deadline: June 19, 2026 Request here: forms.gle/bPv4yhQnshiU... (1/2)

As an opera singer who will never be particularly well-known nor make any money off of my singing, I do think there is something very special about opera...

I can't wait to share the stage with four other amazing adoptee authors at the VOICES BIPOC Adoptees Author Reading! Come see us on April 23rd 7-9pm at Alberta Abbey (Portland, OR).🥚 Register here: www.bipocadoptees.org/event/voices...

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Feeling exceedingly lucky in my book choices lately, with three absolute winners in a row. Sacrificial Animals by @kaileepedersen.bsky.social, A Master of Djinn by @pdjeliclark.bsky.social, and tonight I just finished Black River Orchard by @chuckwendig.bsky.social.

So excited to share that I've been awarded a grant from The Authors' Foundation. I'm immensely grateful for their support of HELLS CANYON, my upcoming brutal & unflinching Western charting three generations of a Chinese American family on the frontier. @societyofauthors.bsky.social #SoAGrants

As an adoptee, I’ve always been interested in the anxieties surrounding “unnatural” reproduction in horror — in which the presence of a fostered, adopted, or even monstrously “created” child within the family leads to ruin and destruction. (1/2)

@kaileepedersen.bsky.social I just finished Sacrificial Animals and found it fantastic. I can’t believe that’s your debut! I look forward to reading The Minimalist.

Tonight’s the night!

🥚 NY Review of Books reviews two new titles about the tens of thousands of children—many forcibly taken from their birth parents—who were adopted overseas from Guatemala and El Salvador as a direct result of U.S.-backed violence. Average price tag: $30K per kid www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

So excited for this event in the fall with an incredible lineup of amazing authors! Thank you to the Spooktastic Book Fair and Roundhead Brewing for having me! Stay tuned for more info about some special & spooky music I'll be performing while there 😊

Just found out a friend of mine, an Iranian adoptee, has been given notice by DHS to report to court to justify her stay in the states. She's lived here all her life, but her parents never finalized her citizenship, so she's targeted. I hate this country. Pass the Adoptee Citizenship Act! 🥚🤬🤬

We're giving away 30 early copies of THE MINIMALIST on Goodreads! For fans of Tár and The Piano Teacher, THE MINIMALIST is a gruesome and darkly lucid portrait of a classical composer’s descent into madness. Enter here: www.goodreads.com/giveaway/ent... @stmartinspress.bsky.social

Looking to enjoy and/or ruin Valentine's Day weekend with a darkly thrilling opera involving (200-year-old spoiler alert) seduction, murder, talking statues, and a man getting dragged to hell? Come see me and my wonderfully talented friends in Don Giovanni this Friday! 😈🎵

Had a really wonderful conversation with Haley Radke of @adopteeson.bsky.social about family, inheritance, SACRIFICIAL ANIMALS, Nebraska farm life, opera, and storytelling through an adoptee perspective in my upcoming novel THE MINIMALIST. Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/k... 🥚

AND @catrionaward.bsky.social @gwendolynkiste.bsky.social @tkingfisher.com @ceejthemoment.bsky.social @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social @paultremblay.bsky.social @cgolden.bsky.social @kaileepedersen.bsky.social @adamcesare.bsky.social @joshmalerman.bsky.social @almakatsu.bsky.social

What a spectacular list! @bloody-disgusting.com's list of most anticipated horror novels! @claymcleod.bsky.social @natcassidy.bsky.social @ericlarocca.bsky.social @rachelharrison.bsky.social @danielkraus.com @ronaldmalfi.bsky.social @haileypiperfights.bsky.social tinyurl.com/ydm8ydek

"Essential reading." Thank you to @awalrusdarkly.bsky.social and @bloody-disgusting.com for including THE MINIMALIST in this most anticipated round up for 2026! 🎶🩸 bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/3... @stmartinspress.bsky.social

🥚 for the adoptee feed! My current project doesn’t explicitly deal with the modern adoption industry but has themes of identity, patrimony, inheritance, and parental loss. Hope I can share more soon & I’m always proud to see my adoptee identity in my bio 🙂

So unbelievably excited to share I'll be doing my first-ever residency at the Jan Michalski Foundation in Switzerland this summer! There I hope to finish my third novel, HELLS CANYON, a brutal & unflinching Western charting three generations of a Chinese American family on the frontier. 🤠 (1/4)

THE MINIMALIST, my fleshy and gruesome classical music psychodrama, is now available to request on NetGalley! Thank you to everyone who has expressed interest already, making it one of the most-requested horror titles! Request here: www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

Diving into Kailee Pedersen’s THE MINIMALIST, on shelves August 18, from St. Martin’s Press. @kaileepedersen.bsky.social @stmartinspress.bsky.social

Looks like I'll be doing five operas and at least one mini concert in 2026. Welp, there goes my free time. 😅