I hear we’re starting to look at eligibility posts and what we loved this year. Here are two books that I fell absolutely in love with in 2025. @isaac-fellman.bsky.social and @yumewrites.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 7:50 PM
I hear we’re starting to look at eligibility posts and what we loved this year. Here are two books that I fell absolutely in love with in 2025. @isaac-fellman.bsky.social and @yumewrites.bsky.social
Pittsburgh!
I’m in town tomorrow, Tuesday for this rescheduled event for SALTCROP! Please vote early and come join us!
I’m in town tomorrow, Tuesday for this rescheduled event for SALTCROP! Please vote early and come join us!
November 3, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Pittsburgh!
I’m in town tomorrow, Tuesday for this rescheduled event for SALTCROP! Please vote early and come join us!
I’m in town tomorrow, Tuesday for this rescheduled event for SALTCROP! Please vote early and come join us!
Hey folks! The King Must Die comes out in two days! (AHH) Here's a blurb from the incredible @yumewrites.bsky.social, author of The Deep Sky, The Stardust Grail, and Saltcrop.
Please consider requesting TKMD at your local library!
Please consider requesting TKMD at your local library!
November 2, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Hey folks! The King Must Die comes out in two days! (AHH) Here's a blurb from the incredible @yumewrites.bsky.social, author of The Deep Sky, The Stardust Grail, and Saltcrop.
Please consider requesting TKMD at your local library!
Please consider requesting TKMD at your local library!
“SALTCROP is a distinctive, ambitious, smart novel, and its fable-like tone enables it to end with a fable-like promise about the power of individual agency in a time of systemic breakdown” @niallharrison reviews @yumewrites.bsky.social
Saltcrop by Yume Kitasei: Review by Niall Harrison
Saltcrop, Yume Kitasei (Flatiron 978-1-250-38096-8, $30.99, 384pp, hc) September 2025. Cover by Jonathan Bush. It is a bit of an adjustment to go directly from Everything Will Swallow You, in which…
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October 31, 2025 at 1:00 AM
“SALTCROP is a distinctive, ambitious, smart novel, and its fable-like tone enables it to end with a fable-like promise about the power of individual agency in a time of systemic breakdown” @niallharrison reviews @yumewrites.bsky.social
Good news first - as of two weeks ago, Saltcrop is getting a second printing. That’s amazing. Thank you for your support!!!
The bad news is it’s been out of stock for two weeks at Ingram, a major book distributor, which is pretty agonizing. 😓😓😓
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The bad news is it’s been out of stock for two weeks at Ingram, a major book distributor, which is pretty agonizing. 😓😓😓
🧵
October 26, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Good news first - as of two weeks ago, Saltcrop is getting a second printing. That’s amazing. Thank you for your support!!!
The bad news is it’s been out of stock for two weeks at Ingram, a major book distributor, which is pretty agonizing. 😓😓😓
🧵
The bad news is it’s been out of stock for two weeks at Ingram, a major book distributor, which is pretty agonizing. 😓😓😓
🧵
New Jersey!!! I’ll be in Princeton this Sunday at 1pm at Labyrinth books with @darialavelleauthor.bsky.social please join us!
October 28, 2025 at 4:01 PM
New Jersey!!! I’ll be in Princeton this Sunday at 1pm at Labyrinth books with @darialavelleauthor.bsky.social please join us!
BUT I hear there will be a bunch more copies available Tuesday!!! 📣📣📣
If you read SALTCROP and enjoyed it, I’d also appreciate any word of mouth this week more than ever as stores are hopefully able to get more copies. 🙏🏻
If you read SALTCROP and enjoyed it, I’d also appreciate any word of mouth this week more than ever as stores are hopefully able to get more copies. 🙏🏻
October 26, 2025 at 10:27 PM
BUT I hear there will be a bunch more copies available Tuesday!!! 📣📣📣
If you read SALTCROP and enjoyed it, I’d also appreciate any word of mouth this week more than ever as stores are hopefully able to get more copies. 🙏🏻
If you read SALTCROP and enjoyed it, I’d also appreciate any word of mouth this week more than ever as stores are hopefully able to get more copies. 🙏🏻
The FOMO finally got me and I subscribed to @aardvarkbookclub.bsky.social. My first pick was Saltcrop by Yume Kitasei; described as part eco-thriller, part sisterhood epic with dystopian elements. I’m super excited to dive in! Thanks Aardvark! I look forward to seeing next months picks! #booksky
October 23, 2025 at 2:36 PM
The FOMO finally got me and I subscribed to @aardvarkbookclub.bsky.social. My first pick was Saltcrop by Yume Kitasei; described as part eco-thriller, part sisterhood epic with dystopian elements. I’m super excited to dive in! Thanks Aardvark! I look forward to seeing next months picks! #booksky
Philadelphia-area friends, this is tonight! 💜💜💜
October 17, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Philadelphia-area friends, this is tonight! 💜💜💜
I wrote about five (or six??) fall speculative mysteries and thrillers for @crimereads.bsky.social: SALTCROP, A MOUTHFUL OF DUST, BOG QUEEN, THE UNVEILING, and the Saga double RED STAR HUSTLE/APPREHENSION, in case your TBR needs to be a little taller!
crimereads.com
October 6, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I wrote about five (or six??) fall speculative mysteries and thrillers for @crimereads.bsky.social: SALTCROP, A MOUTHFUL OF DUST, BOG QUEEN, THE UNVEILING, and the Saga double RED STAR HUSTLE/APPREHENSION, in case your TBR needs to be a little taller!
I'm all better now but sadly not in time to make it out for the event in Seattle tonight with Wendy Wagner We are working on rescheduling. Stay tuned! I'm so sorry. I can't tell you how disappointed I am to have missed three stops, but I'm relieved to be otherwise back on track.
October 6, 2025 at 3:44 PM
I'm all better now but sadly not in time to make it out for the event in Seattle tonight with Wendy Wagner We are working on rescheduling. Stay tuned! I'm so sorry. I can't tell you how disappointed I am to have missed three stops, but I'm relieved to be otherwise back on track.
The incomparable Yume Kitasei has done it again!! A brilliant novel about sisters willing to sail to the ends of the earth to find each other, through a world transformed by climate disaster. Immersive and funny as well as being simply beautifully written. Don’t miss it!!! @yumewrites.bsky.social
October 1, 2025 at 11:41 AM
The incomparable Yume Kitasei has done it again!! A brilliant novel about sisters willing to sail to the ends of the earth to find each other, through a world transformed by climate disaster. Immersive and funny as well as being simply beautifully written. Don’t miss it!!! @yumewrites.bsky.social
How can two people raised the same way turn out so different? And what does it mean when they separate? @yumewrites.bsky.social, author of Saltcrop and The Deep Sky, highlights five books about searching for a lost sibling:
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Five SFF Books About Searching for a Missing Sibling - Reactor
Yume Kitasei recommends five SFF books about sibling quests
reactormag.com
September 30, 2025 at 2:07 PM
How can two people raised the same way turn out so different? And what does it mean when they separate? @yumewrites.bsky.social, author of Saltcrop and The Deep Sky, highlights five books about searching for a lost sibling:
reactormag.com/five-sff-boo...
reactormag.com/five-sff-boo...
Doing this show is an absolute joy, and if that isn't evident in the latest episode with @yumewrites.bsky.social, then I've done it wrong.
Come join in as we talk about SALTCROP, her latest novel, and dive deep into hope, near-future sci-fi, and more.
We're everywhere you podcast! Links below.
Come join in as we talk about SALTCROP, her latest novel, and dive deep into hope, near-future sci-fi, and more.
We're everywhere you podcast! Links below.
September 30, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Doing this show is an absolute joy, and if that isn't evident in the latest episode with @yumewrites.bsky.social, then I've done it wrong.
Come join in as we talk about SALTCROP, her latest novel, and dive deep into hope, near-future sci-fi, and more.
We're everywhere you podcast! Links below.
Come join in as we talk about SALTCROP, her latest novel, and dive deep into hope, near-future sci-fi, and more.
We're everywhere you podcast! Links below.
Y'allllll, if you're a fan of weird and brilliant and poignant and WEIRD climate fiction, let me point you in the direction of ----> @yumewrites.bsky.social's new novel SALTCROP!
Come hear me gush about this book with Yume next Tuesday at First Light Books in Austin!
(Get it now, thank me later!)
Come hear me gush about this book with Yume next Tuesday at First Light Books in Austin!
(Get it now, thank me later!)
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 30, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Y'allllll, if you're a fan of weird and brilliant and poignant and WEIRD climate fiction, let me point you in the direction of ----> @yumewrites.bsky.social's new novel SALTCROP!
Come hear me gush about this book with Yume next Tuesday at First Light Books in Austin!
(Get it now, thank me later!)
Come hear me gush about this book with Yume next Tuesday at First Light Books in Austin!
(Get it now, thank me later!)
Saltcrop by @yumewrites.bsky.social is now out!
It's a near future tale of two sisters who must travel across a dying earth to find their missing sibling who left to seek a cure for ecological collapse ⛵🌾❤️
It's a strange and beautiful journey about family, resilience, hope and mystery
💙📚🪐
It's a near future tale of two sisters who must travel across a dying earth to find their missing sibling who left to seek a cure for ecological collapse ⛵🌾❤️
It's a strange and beautiful journey about family, resilience, hope and mystery
💙📚🪐
September 26, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Saltcrop by @yumewrites.bsky.social is now out!
It's a near future tale of two sisters who must travel across a dying earth to find their missing sibling who left to seek a cure for ecological collapse ⛵🌾❤️
It's a strange and beautiful journey about family, resilience, hope and mystery
💙📚🪐
It's a near future tale of two sisters who must travel across a dying earth to find their missing sibling who left to seek a cure for ecological collapse ⛵🌾❤️
It's a strange and beautiful journey about family, resilience, hope and mystery
💙📚🪐
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.
📚 Saltcrop by: Yume Kitasei
In Earth's not too distant future, seas consume coastal cities, highways disintegrate underwater, and mutant fish lurk in pirate-controlled depths. Skipper, a skilled sailor and the youngest of three sisters, earns money skimming […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
In Earth's not too distant future, seas consume coastal cities, highways disintegrate underwater, and mutant fish lurk in pirate-controlled depths. Skipper, a skilled sailor and the youngest of three sisters, earns money skimming […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
October 2, 2025 at 6:08 PM
📚 Saltcrop by: Yume Kitasei
In Earth's not too distant future, seas consume coastal cities, highways disintegrate underwater, and mutant fish lurk in pirate-controlled depths. Skipper, a skilled sailor and the youngest of three sisters, earns money skimming […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
In Earth's not too distant future, seas consume coastal cities, highways disintegrate underwater, and mutant fish lurk in pirate-controlled depths. Skipper, a skilled sailor and the youngest of three sisters, earns money skimming […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
Super looking forward to Saltcrop by @yumewrites.bsky.social and Memory Hunters by @itsamia.bsky.social
Pause! Before you scroll further, quote this with at least one book you're looking forward to in the rest of this year.
May 4, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Super looking forward to Saltcrop by @yumewrites.bsky.social and Memory Hunters by @itsamia.bsky.social
I GOT THREE @LIBRO.FM ARCS AT MIDNIGHT AND THIS MORNING I HAVE AN IMPOSSIBLE DECISION TO MAKE.
September 1, 2025 at 6:39 PM
I GOT THREE @LIBRO.FM ARCS AT MIDNIGHT AND THIS MORNING I HAVE AN IMPOSSIBLE DECISION TO MAKE.
After reading some just ok books this month, I just finished Saltcrop by Yume Kitasei and that might be favorite book of 2025 so far.
October 17, 2025 at 8:59 AM
After reading some just ok books this month, I just finished Saltcrop by Yume Kitasei and that might be favorite book of 2025 so far.
A Ruin, Great and Free (Cadwell Turnbull)
Sunward (William Alexander)
Saltcrop (Yume Kitasei)
The First Thousand Trees (Premee Mohamed)
A Mouthful of Dust (Nghi Vo)
All that We See Or Seem (Ken Liu)
An Arcane Inheritance (Kamilah Cole)
We Will Rise Again (anthology)
The Shattering Peace (Scalzi)
Sunward (William Alexander)
Saltcrop (Yume Kitasei)
The First Thousand Trees (Premee Mohamed)
A Mouthful of Dust (Nghi Vo)
All that We See Or Seem (Ken Liu)
An Arcane Inheritance (Kamilah Cole)
We Will Rise Again (anthology)
The Shattering Peace (Scalzi)
August 30, 2025 at 8:33 PM
A Ruin, Great and Free (Cadwell Turnbull)
Sunward (William Alexander)
Saltcrop (Yume Kitasei)
The First Thousand Trees (Premee Mohamed)
A Mouthful of Dust (Nghi Vo)
All that We See Or Seem (Ken Liu)
An Arcane Inheritance (Kamilah Cole)
We Will Rise Again (anthology)
The Shattering Peace (Scalzi)
Sunward (William Alexander)
Saltcrop (Yume Kitasei)
The First Thousand Trees (Premee Mohamed)
A Mouthful of Dust (Nghi Vo)
All that We See Or Seem (Ken Liu)
An Arcane Inheritance (Kamilah Cole)
We Will Rise Again (anthology)
The Shattering Peace (Scalzi)
Today on Kaiju & Gnome: I read & review Dan Brown's The Secret of Secrets so that you can read other books instead (like @yumewrites.bsky.social's Saltcrop next week).
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The Secret of Secrets by Dan Brown
Review by Jordan S.
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September 23, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Today on Kaiju & Gnome: I read & review Dan Brown's The Secret of Secrets so that you can read other books instead (like @yumewrites.bsky.social's Saltcrop next week).
kaijuandgnome.substack.com/p/the-secret...
kaijuandgnome.substack.com/p/the-secret...
I love sibling stories, and Saltcrop by Yume Kitasei is a good one. It features 3 sisters, each with different dreams and goals, brought together by the eldest's disappearance in a dystopian future world.
Full review: fanfiaddict.com/review-saltc...
#booksky #bookreview @lordtbrffa.bsky.social
Full review: fanfiaddict.com/review-saltc...
#booksky #bookreview @lordtbrffa.bsky.social
Review: Saltcrop by Yume Kitasei | FanFiAddict
Synopsis: In Earth's not too distant future, seas consume coastal cities, highways disintegrate underwater, and mutant fish lurk in pirate-controlled d ...
fanfiaddict.com
August 26, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I love sibling stories, and Saltcrop by Yume Kitasei is a good one. It features 3 sisters, each with different dreams and goals, brought together by the eldest's disappearance in a dystopian future world.
Full review: fanfiaddict.com/review-saltc...
#booksky #bookreview @lordtbrffa.bsky.social
Full review: fanfiaddict.com/review-saltc...
#booksky #bookreview @lordtbrffa.bsky.social