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Kelsea Yu
@anovelescape.bsky.social
Shirley Jackon Award-nominated author:
🍃BOUND FEET (CGM)
🎮IT'S ONLY A GAME (Bloomsbury)
🎭DEMON SONG (Titan)
🌊STORMRAVEN (Gallery/Titan, 2026)
🖤stories/essays in Clarkesworld, Apex, Nightmare, PseudoPod +

she/her
www.kelseayu.com
Thank you to Iris Lei for the stunning cover!! I'm absolutely obsessed! 😍

Links & more info: www.kelseayu.com/ye-xian
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November 4, 2025 at 5:32 PM
YE XIAN AND THE CELESTIAL FEAST
📜 Chinese folklore
🥢 royal banquet
🐲 dragons & princes
🎭 masquerade ball
🦊 fox spirits
🎧 award-winning narrator @natalienaudus.bsky.social
⌛ quick read
👗 Cinderella retelling

Romantic fantasy tale written by me, produced by @spotifyforauthors.bsky.social! 💖
November 4, 2025 at 5:30 PM
“Were she any other girl, Ye Xian might have died of her stepmother’s treatment. But she had a secret, passed down from her mother’s line; one which she guarded closely.
Ye Xian was a húli jīng.”
- YE XIAN AND THE CELESTIAL FEAST by Kelsea Yu

More info: www.kelseayu.com/ye-xian

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November 4, 2025 at 5:26 PM
✨NEW RELEASE!!!✨
It’s pub day for my fox spirit Chinese Cinderella romantic fantasy folklore tale, YE XIAN AND THE CELESTIAL FEAST! 🥳🎧🦊🍜💖

Listen for free via Spotify Premium, purchase from Libro.FM, Audible, or your fave audiobook retailer, or request from your local library!!! 🎧🦊🍜💖
November 4, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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!! 🥳🥳
September 30, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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 🖤
September 29, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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! 🖤🖤
September 25, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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!
September 22, 2025 at 3:04 PM
“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 👀
September 19, 2025 at 4:21 PM
“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!! 🎭🎶🕯️💀
September 17, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Stunning DEMON SONG artwork by @miavern.bsky.social & Isa Agajanian! 😍
September 16, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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!
September 16, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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...
September 10, 2025 at 5:03 PM
"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!
September 4, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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! 🖤
September 3, 2025 at 3:39 PM
If you're new to BOUND FEET, it's my twisty haunted Chinese garden & ghost museum grief horror novella feat mom BFFs who break into a garden overnight to perform a ghost day ritual honoring their passed children…& accidentally summon something ancient. Shirley Jackson Award finalist w/ 4.4🌟 on GR!
September 2, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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)!
September 2, 2025 at 3:26 PM
"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!
August 25, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Ready for WorldCon day 1!! If you see me come say hi!! 🫶
August 13, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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 👻🖤👋
August 10, 2025 at 6:45 PM
“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! 🖤🥰🎶
August 8, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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
August 1, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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...
July 14, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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
June 27, 2025 at 1:23 AM
And here’s a fun aesthetic/preview I made for STORMRAVEN! 🖤🗝️🕯️💀
June 18, 2025 at 4:46 PM