Tessa Yang (she/her)
@theptessadactyl.bsky.social
Fiction Writer | Shark Enthusiast | Debut novel THE JELLYFISH PROBLEM (Berkley 2026) • THE RUNAWAY RESTAURANT (7.13 Books 2022) https://linktr.ee/tessayang
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Tessa Yang's 'The Jellyfish Problem' Is a Sea Monster Story and a 'Way Out of Grief' — See the Cover! (Exclusive)
Tessa Yang is releasing her debut novel 'The Jellyfish Problem' on June 2, 2026, and PEOPLE can exclusively reveal the cover of the book that deals with grief and sea monsters.
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COVER REVEAL! Find my book's face (and my face) over at People.com!
Just admiring my book haul from the traveling SFF book fest—featuring @yumewrites.bsky.social, @jrdawson.bsky.social, Elaine U Cho, @itsamia.bsky.social, & Emily Jane
October 29, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Just admiring my book haul from the traveling SFF book fest—featuring @yumewrites.bsky.social, @jrdawson.bsky.social, Elaine U Cho, @itsamia.bsky.social, & Emily Jane
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Do you have FOMO? When it comes to horror, you're probably justified... @bookriot.bsky.social names 8 horror novels you may have missed, FIEND among them @cheriepriest.com Kylie Lee Baker, Alex Gonzalez, Cassandra Khaw, Jennifer Givhan bookriot.com/outstanding-...
Outstanding Horror Reads from 2025 You May Have Missed
Whether you like lighter horror with a side of mythology, haunted houses, dark academia, or ghost stories — there's something for you here
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October 24, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Do you have FOMO? When it comes to horror, you're probably justified... @bookriot.bsky.social names 8 horror novels you may have missed, FIEND among them @cheriepriest.com Kylie Lee Baker, Alex Gonzalez, Cassandra Khaw, Jennifer Givhan bookriot.com/outstanding-...
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My amazing former colleague at Hartwick College, @theptessadactyl.bsky.social, has a cover for her forthcoming book The Jellyfish Problem AND a writeup in @peoplemag.bsky.social! people.com/tessa-yang-t...
Tessa Yang's 'The Jellyfish Problem' Is a Sea Monster Story and a 'Way Out of Grief' — See the Cover! (Exclusive)
Tessa Yang is releasing her debut novel 'The Jellyfish Problem' on June 2, 2026, and PEOPLE can exclusively reveal the cover of the book that deals with grief and sea monsters.
people.com
October 22, 2025 at 3:42 PM
My amazing former colleague at Hartwick College, @theptessadactyl.bsky.social, has a cover for her forthcoming book The Jellyfish Problem AND a writeup in @peoplemag.bsky.social! people.com/tessa-yang-t...
COVER REVEAL! Find my book's face (and my face) over at People.com!
Tessa Yang's 'The Jellyfish Problem' Is a Sea Monster Story and a 'Way Out of Grief' — See the Cover! (Exclusive)
Tessa Yang is releasing her debut novel 'The Jellyfish Problem' on June 2, 2026, and PEOPLE can exclusively reveal the cover of the book that deals with grief and sea monsters.
people.com
October 22, 2025 at 3:44 PM
COVER REVEAL! Find my book's face (and my face) over at People.com!
T-minus 2 days until THE JELLYFISH PROBLEM's cover reveal!!! I'm so excited for folks to get their first glimpse of my sea monster
October 20, 2025 at 11:41 AM
T-minus 2 days until THE JELLYFISH PROBLEM's cover reveal!!! I'm so excited for folks to get their first glimpse of my sea monster
Heyyy it's my first book's third birthday! To celebrate, I'm giving away three signed copies on Goodreads. Enter and share!
Book giveaway for The Runaway Restaurant by Tessa Yang Oct 11-Oct 21, 2025
Enter to win one of 3 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Oct 11-Oct 21, 2025. Celebrate The Runaway Restaurant's third birthday by entering for a...
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October 11, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Heyyy it's my first book's third birthday! To celebrate, I'm giving away three signed copies on Goodreads. Enter and share!
THE SALVAGE by Anbara Salam is out today! It is beautiful, spooky, and gay, and you will want to wear all your sweaters while reading it.
@tinhouse.bsky.social
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The Salvage
Check out The Salvage - It is 1962, and Marta Khoury, a trailblazing marine archaeologist, has been called to Cairnroch, a small island off the east coast of Scotland. A Victorian shipwreck, dragged f...
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October 7, 2025 at 1:04 PM
THE SALVAGE by Anbara Salam is out today! It is beautiful, spooky, and gay, and you will want to wear all your sweaters while reading it.
@tinhouse.bsky.social
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
@tinhouse.bsky.social
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Lol I am seriously so cranky about every app trying to convince us we can't function without their trash AI assistants. & making it unintuitive to turn them off/opt out of having our data used to train more AI.
October 2, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Lol I am seriously so cranky about every app trying to convince us we can't function without their trash AI assistants. & making it unintuitive to turn them off/opt out of having our data used to train more AI.
Happy pub day to @yumewrites.bsky.social! If you love vivid near-future world building or have ever been annoyed by your sibling breathing too loudly, this sisterly seafaring adventure is for you. I'm so excited for SALTCROP to find its readers!!!
Saltcrop: A Novel
A Novel
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September 30, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Happy pub day to @yumewrites.bsky.social! If you love vivid near-future world building or have ever been annoyed by your sibling breathing too loudly, this sisterly seafaring adventure is for you. I'm so excited for SALTCROP to find its readers!!!
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This is much, much more significant than the Comey indictment but has gotten like 0.1% of the media coverage
🚨 New directive NSPM-7 targets "anti-capitalism," “anti-Christian,” and “anti-American" opinions as indicators of extremist violence, authorizing an army of 4,000 counter-terrorism officers to prevent crimes that haven't happened:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nsp...
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Trump’s NSPM-7 Labels Common Beliefs As Terrorism “Indicators”
New order targets “anti-Christian,” “anti-American,” and “anti-capitalism” opinions
www.kenklippenstein.com
September 27, 2025 at 7:20 PM
This is much, much more significant than the Comey indictment but has gotten like 0.1% of the media coverage
The sheer number of students using generative AI on their *CREATIVE WRITING* assignments was one of my main motivations for leaving academia 👋
I cannot tell you how grim the AI in higher ed situation is. Many of the students have completely surrendered to letting AI do their homework, badly, I might add. How do you fix this? Truly, what the hell do we do, beyond what grading can address, which isn't a solution?
September 22, 2025 at 5:13 PM
The sheer number of students using generative AI on their *CREATIVE WRITING* assignments was one of my main motivations for leaving academia 👋
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Sharing details here for my SALTCROP tour!!! Writing is painful but meeting people is fun! Please come / tell your friends! ALSO to celebrate my new book, I slipped and accidentally planned a whole "Traveling Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Festival" - 8 cities, 8 nights, 8 con-style panels.
September 15, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Sharing details here for my SALTCROP tour!!! Writing is painful but meeting people is fun! Please come / tell your friends! ALSO to celebrate my new book, I slipped and accidentally planned a whole "Traveling Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Festival" - 8 cities, 8 nights, 8 con-style panels.
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one of the common threads you will frequently find among devoted adult readers & writers is that as kids the librarian let them get away with reading whatever the fuck they wanted. so much of the scifi and fantasy I fell in love with as a kid was very much Not For Kids, but it made my brain light up
every time we talk about parental permission in terms of book banning I'm like fuck man. kids have rights too. a 17-year-old should be able to check out books at the library without Mom and Dad stepping in. so should a 10-year-old or 7 or whatever. kids deserve SOME goddamn freedom and privacy
September 20, 2025 at 3:52 AM
one of the common threads you will frequently find among devoted adult readers & writers is that as kids the librarian let them get away with reading whatever the fuck they wanted. so much of the scifi and fantasy I fell in love with as a kid was very much Not For Kids, but it made my brain light up
Update on my accelerating journey into elderhood: Just signed us up for Sunday newspaper delivery.
August 30, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Update on my accelerating journey into elderhood: Just signed us up for Sunday newspaper delivery.
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🥀OFFICIAL PRE-ORDER
CAMPAIGN🥀
I'm so excited to announce my pre-order campaign for my debut adult gothic romantasy WE BECOME DARKNESS coming
March 10th, 2026!
I've also partnered with some
INCREDIBLE indies to bring you exclusive goodies!
🥀links in bio🥀
#writingcommunity #preorder
CAMPAIGN🥀
I'm so excited to announce my pre-order campaign for my debut adult gothic romantasy WE BECOME DARKNESS coming
March 10th, 2026!
I've also partnered with some
INCREDIBLE indies to bring you exclusive goodies!
🥀links in bio🥀
#writingcommunity #preorder
August 28, 2025 at 7:06 PM
🥀OFFICIAL PRE-ORDER
CAMPAIGN🥀
I'm so excited to announce my pre-order campaign for my debut adult gothic romantasy WE BECOME DARKNESS coming
March 10th, 2026!
I've also partnered with some
INCREDIBLE indies to bring you exclusive goodies!
🥀links in bio🥀
#writingcommunity #preorder
CAMPAIGN🥀
I'm so excited to announce my pre-order campaign for my debut adult gothic romantasy WE BECOME DARKNESS coming
March 10th, 2026!
I've also partnered with some
INCREDIBLE indies to bring you exclusive goodies!
🥀links in bio🥀
#writingcommunity #preorder
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I love the idea of this list---books with small audiences but big imagination! Trying to create SFF commmunity over here!
Books by @ellybangs.bsky.social , @julieczerneda.bsky.social , @saadzhossain.bsky.social , @voidcricket.bsky.social, & @theptessadactyl.bsky.social
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Books by @ellybangs.bsky.social , @julieczerneda.bsky.social , @saadzhossain.bsky.social , @voidcricket.bsky.social, & @theptessadactyl.bsky.social
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The Best Sci-Fi Books You Haven't Read
These sci-fi books have small audiences but huge imagination.
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August 27, 2025 at 12:44 PM
I love the idea of this list---books with small audiences but big imagination! Trying to create SFF commmunity over here!
Books by @ellybangs.bsky.social , @julieczerneda.bsky.social , @saadzhossain.bsky.social , @voidcricket.bsky.social, & @theptessadactyl.bsky.social
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Books by @ellybangs.bsky.social , @julieczerneda.bsky.social , @saadzhossain.bsky.social , @voidcricket.bsky.social, & @theptessadactyl.bsky.social
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This so perfectly captures my experience with Goodreads, which has always managed to feel weirdly wholesome despite its toxic trappings
August 24, 2025 at 4:03 PM
This so perfectly captures my experience with Goodreads, which has always managed to feel weirdly wholesome despite its toxic trappings
I did it, y'all. I switched to the light phone. No emails, no social media, no apps. She is dumb and she is beautiful.
August 22, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I did it, y'all. I switched to the light phone. No emails, no social media, no apps. She is dumb and she is beautiful.
Hey, LESSONS IN MAGIC AND DISASTER by @charliejane.bsky.social is available! It's a dazzlingly layered story that's part queer family portrait, part exploration of modern-day witchcraft, and part literary criticism. You will love it if you love any of those things!
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Lessons in Magic and Disaster
Check out Lessons in Magic and Disaster - <p><b>In the vein of Alice Hoffman and Charlie Jane Anders's own <i>All the Birds in the Sky</i> comes a novel full of love, disaster, and magic. </b><br><br>...
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August 21, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Hey, LESSONS IN MAGIC AND DISASTER by @charliejane.bsky.social is available! It's a dazzlingly layered story that's part queer family portrait, part exploration of modern-day witchcraft, and part literary criticism. You will love it if you love any of those things!
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Really good to see some good news on this front (especially after reading about that KY church telling its members to literally steal gay books from the library). Progress is possible
“It’s a complete knockout. There’s not a single issue that the court did not side with the plaintiffs on.”
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Judge strikes down parts of a Florida law used to ban school library books
The 2023 law prompted educators to pull classic literature, popular novels and even children’s picture books from school shelves.
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August 18, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Really good to see some good news on this front (especially after reading about that KY church telling its members to literally steal gay books from the library). Progress is possible
Spoiler alert: No.
Is crime in Washington really out of control as Trump claims?
President Trump says he will deploy hundreds of troops to Washington DC to address crime there.
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August 12, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Spoiler alert: No.
Today marks 7 years with my writing muse 😍 Happy adoptaversary, Ripley!
August 8, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Today marks 7 years with my writing muse 😍 Happy adoptaversary, Ripley!
Ah, First Draft Paradox: where I am simultaneously incredibly proud of, and thoroughly mortified by, this big weird baby I've produced.
August 6, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Ah, First Draft Paradox: where I am simultaneously incredibly proud of, and thoroughly mortified by, this big weird baby I've produced.
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Every time I read an article like this, I think, if male novelists are so endangered, how do I know so fucking many of them? Apparently the answer is, because we're all in "genre," which is the One Simple Trick for still getting published when you're a dude.
www.the-independent.com/arts-enterta...
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Is it the end for male novelists? The lonely life of a man writing fiction in 2025
A long-overdue shift to female perspectives means male authors are being sidelined, or so says the founder of Conduit Books, a new publishing house that trades only in novels written by men. Nick Duer...
www.the-independent.com
July 20, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Every time I read an article like this, I think, if male novelists are so endangered, how do I know so fucking many of them? Apparently the answer is, because we're all in "genre," which is the One Simple Trick for still getting published when you're a dude.
www.the-independent.com/arts-enterta...
www.the-independent.com/arts-enterta...
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Doing a masterclass in Philly in August at Bluestoop, cosponsored by Asian Arts Initiative, a fundraiser for both of them. Advice writers often give to new writers is to write the stories they've never seen before. I will present some approaches. www.bluestoop.org/classes/p/ma...
The Stories You've Never Seen Before: A Masterclass with Alexander Chee — Blue Stoop
Monday, August 4, from 6 – 8 PM ET ( Hybrid. Asynchronous option available) Need financial aid? Apply here first. In my 25 years of teaching, I have seen many students who st...
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July 19, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Doing a masterclass in Philly in August at Bluestoop, cosponsored by Asian Arts Initiative, a fundraiser for both of them. Advice writers often give to new writers is to write the stories they've never seen before. I will present some approaches. www.bluestoop.org/classes/p/ma...