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

Looking forward to this panel tomorrow!!

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!

I'm so excited about this novella!

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! 🖤🖤

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 👀🫶

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!

“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 👀

“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!! 🎭🎶🕯️💀

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!

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...

Last day of the sale!

Some GORGEOUS #bookmail Can’t wait to dive in! @anovelescape.bsky.social

"Demon Song reaches such a high note, a blissful blend of Chinese folklore & Shirley Jackson, reading like The Haunting of Hill's Opera House, where phantoms flit on pitches no living organism can continue to read sanely." Thanks for the amazing blurb, @claymcleod.bsky.social! DEMON SONG, out 9/30!

It's that time again 👀 Get 25% off your B&N preorder w/ "PREORDER25"! Sale through Friday. DEMON SONG (out 9/30/25): www.barnesandnoble.com/w/demon-song... STORMRAVEN (out 6/30/26): www.barnesandnoble.com/w/stormraven... Demon Song is out in less than a month, so you'll get your preorders soon! 🖤

Exciting news 👀 BOUND FEET is now available as an audiobook produced by Spotify & narrated by the incomparable @natalienaudus.bsky.social! Thank you to my amazing agent @jenazantian.bsky.social for negotiating the deal 🫶 Available everywhere audiobooks are sold (or listen free via Spotify Premium)!

Exciting news 👀 BOUND FEET is now available as an audiobook produced by Spotify & narrated by the incomparable @natalienaudus.bsky.social! Thank you to my amazing agent @jenazantian.bsky.social for negotiating the deal 🫶 Available everywhere audiobooks are sold (or listen free via Spotify Premium)!

ICYMI! #Stories that clutch at the natural world and our unnatural creations, of love and the corruption of love. What a wonderful time to read alongside the fabulous @anovelescape.bsky.social and with the lovely hosts at @storyhour.bsky.social, @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social and Daniel Marcus!

Build your fall TBR with September's new horror releases - Day 3 @anovelescape.bsky.social @thebuffwriter.bsky.social @timlebbon.bsky.social @kalynnbayron.bsky.social @bobpastorella.com @jfdt.bsky.social @lisaspringer.bsky.social @almakatsu.bsky.social @scribeofhades.bsky.social

THE SUPERBLOOM HAS ARRIVED 🏵️🌹🪷🌻🌷🌼💮 @marissavu.bsky.social and the Violet Lichen team are thrilled to present the cover for ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE FICTION! 🌿 Cover Art: @tropicalgloom.bsky.social Cover Design: Mikio Murakami @ Silent Q Design

Story Hour welcomes back Kristy Park Kulski, and welcomes Kelsea Yu in her Story Hour debut! It’s going to be a night of gorgeous eerie fiction. Join us Wednesday, August 27 at 7:00 PDT! @garnetonwinter.bsky.social @anovelescape.bsky.social www.storyhour2020.com

"An appetizingly dark Gothic served dripping in mood and laced with Chinese mythology. Yu's love of theatre sings throughout this musical nightmare." Thank you @edenroyce.bsky.social for this lovely blurb of Demon Song! 🥰🖤 Out Sep 30, @titanbooks.bsky.social!

so excited to announce that my debut poetry collection 🌬️WE IN/EXHALE ODYSSEYS 🌬️will be forthcoming in 2027 with @badhandbooks.bsky.social 👀‼️✨

New Books in My House!! @buehlmeister.bsky.social @anovelescape.bsky.social @manylittlewords.bsky.social @lauracranehill.bsky.social @andreamorstabilini.bsky.social @pennyzang.bsky.social @mkhardywrites.com @vanessalilie.bsky.social @titanbooks.bsky.social @readlandmark.bsky.social

New Books in the house of Mother Horror! Cursed Daughters/OYINKAN BRAITHWAITE Demon Song/Kelsea Yu Blood as Bright as the Moon/ANDREA MORSTABILINI Roots of My Fears/ed. Gemma Amor @titanbooks.bsky.social @anovelescape.bsky.social @manylittlewords.bsky.social @andreamorstabilini.bsky.social

Ready for WorldCon day 1!! If you see me come say hi!! 🫶

Been working on some fun lil things to give out at WorldCon—if you’re going, come find me! I’d love to say hi and give you an envelope of booooookish goooooodies 👻🖤👋

“Characters to sink into & a gorgeous setting, this modern Gothic fantasy touched on the soul of so many of my favourite classics, but stands unique through the mesmerizing use of folklore & excellent unfolding of mystery right up to the end.” Thank you @alexwoodroe.com for blurbing DEMON SONG! 🖤🥰🎶

An ink-rendered shriek that echoes down marble hallways, ricochets off of high ceilings and reverberates through rafters, “Demon Song,” by @anovelescape.bsky.social is a truly horrifying night out at the opera. @titanbooks.bsky.social -SEPT 30TH FULL REVIEW:

Sooooo evocative! 🌊 🐠 🩻

My flash fiction piece, “Deliquescence,” is out today at @thedeadlands.com! There’s a magical lake and it’s about dredging up the past, both literally and figuratively 👀 and I’m really proud of this piece. I’d be honored if you took a minute to read! 🖤

Thank you for the lovely blurb of DEMON SONG, @unheimlichmanvr.bsky.social! “Yu's uncanny debut deals concisely w/ friendship, domestic violence, & her protagonist's budding (demi)sexuality, w/o ever losing the unearthly touch of the ancient world behind the curtain.” 9/30, @titanbooks.bsky.social

Kelsea Yu’s (@anovelescape.bsky.social) affecting short story “In Our Skin” (www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/in-o...) was published in the February 2025 issue of @nightmare-magazine.com.

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Powerful essay by Kelsea Yu (@anovelescape.bsky.social): "Haunting, Haunted" in khōréō magazine. Read it online here: www.khoreomag.com/non-fiction/...

DEMON SONG is on Netgalley! 🥳 🎭haunted Beijing opera house 🎭decades-old secrets 🎭modern gothic horror 🎭inspired by Phantom of the Opera 🎭Chinese mythology 🎭novella: quick read! 🎭complicated mother-daughter relationships 🎭demi MC www.netgalley.com/catalog/book... www.netgalley.co.uk/catalog/book...

New Book Review Demon Song by @anovelescape.bsky.social publishing in a few months by @titanbooks.bsky.social "this novella offers a haunting siren song that is utterly impossible to resist or forget." gnofhorror.com/demon-song-b...

Book Mail Demon Song by @anovelescape.bsky.social A young woman discovers the terrifying secrets lurking within the walls of a Beijing opera house, in this addictive Gothic horror novella inspired by Chinese mythology. @titanbooks.bsky.social

Thank you @khoreo.bsky.social for publishing my haunted house x diaspora essay and to @danaiwrites.bsky.social for editing!! Friends, if you have a moment, it would mean the world to me if you took a few minutes to read “Haunting, Haunted” 🥰🖤👻 www.khoreomag.com/non-fiction/...

Thrilled to have a story included in this fantastic anthology!! 🥰🥰🥰🥳🥳🥳 Thank you @marissavu.bsky.social, the ecofic slush team, @apexmag.bsky.social, and, of course, @apparitionlit.com for publishing my weird little horseshoe crab eczema story in the first place 🖤🖤🖤

Cover Reveal for A RIVER FROM THE SKY (the second book in the Natural Engines duology) forthcoming April 2026 with @titanbooks.bsky.social is now live with @thefantasyhive.bsky.social 👀‼️🌊🌬️⚙️ Eternally grateful to Natasha Mackenzie for once again creating such a gorgeous cover! 😭🫶🏼🔥

Excited to reveal this lovely blurb for DEMON SONG from the queen of horror, @haileypiperfights.bsky.social!!! Thank you Hailey!! 🖤 DEMON SONG is out Sep 30 from @titanbooks.bsky.social! In the meantime you can: 🎭preorder 🎭add to Goodreads TBR 🎭add to Storygraph TBR 🎭learn more at www.kelseayu.com

look at that cover!!!!! EVERYONE GO PREORDERRRRRR #BookSky #BookBlogger 🌈📚🌎📚🪐

Can we fast forward to 2026 pleeeaaase 🔥🤩

AAAA the handssss. This cover is so good!

✨🕯️cover reveal🕯️✨ STORMRAVEN, my Chinese American modern gothic horror novel, has a cover! 🥹 Now available for preorder (US/Can): www.simonandschuster.com/books/Stormraven/Kelsea-Yu/9781668097304 Add to Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/235689122-stormraven More info: www.kelseayu.com 💀🖤🕯️🩸👻

Loved writing this micro! 🥰🖤

It's time to learn the names, spore prints, habitat and ranges of many fungi, with "A Widow's Field Guide to Fungi" by @marissavu.bsky.social. Bring a canteen and something to wipe your hands: this may get messy. smallwondersmag.com/...

Submissions open July 1-31, 2025! We aim to amplify immigrant and diaspora voices through impactful stories and essays in genres like fantasy, sci-fi, and horror, especially those exploring migration. Read our submission guidelines here: www.khoreomag.com/submissions/

Seattle area friends! Come hang out with me next month as I join the amazing Isabel Cañas in conversation about my book GIRL IN THE CREEK! www.eventbrite.com/e/wendy-n-wa...