Tessa Yang (she/her)

I'll get to work on the first draft now

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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

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

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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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.

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.

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

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...

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 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...

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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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.

Saltcrop: A Novel A Novel

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!!!

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 👋

Graphic with text announcing: Join Yume Kitasei on Tour for Saltcrop *All times are local. FLATIRON BOOKS Tuesday, September 30, 7:00pm, The Strand with Steph Pilavin, New York, NY Thursday, October 2, 7:00pm, Riverstone Books with M.C. Benner Dixon, Pittsburgh, PA Friday, October 3, 6:30pm, Joy & Matt's Books with Emily Jane, Cincinnati, OH Monday, October 6, 7:00pm, Elliot Bay Books with Wendy Wagner, Seattle, WA Tuesday, October 7, 6:30pm, First Light Books with Nicky Drayden, Austin, TX Thursday, October, 9, 11:00am, New York Comic Con, New York, NY October 13 - October 24, Traveling SFF Festival, Nationwide Making stops in NYC, Baltimore, DC, Philly, New Haven, Northampton, Norwich, Boston Sunday, November 2, 1:00pm, Princeton Public Library Princeton, NJ with Daria Lavelle

Logo that says: "The Traveling SFF Festival" Text that says: 8 nights • 8 cities • 8 panel discussions Elaine Cho ∙ J.R. Dawson ∙ Emily Jane ∙ Micaiah Johnson ∙ Yume Kitasei ∙ Mia Tsai ∙ Julia Vee with Matthew Kressel ∙ Ray Nayler ∙ Sarah Pinsker ∙ Veronica Roth ∙ Fran Wilde Week 1: Monday, Oct 13, 6:30PM, PT Knitwear, New York, NY Wednesday, Oct 15, 7:00PM, Greedy Reads Remington, Baltimore, MD Thursday, Oct 16, 7:00PM, East City Bookshop, Washington, DC Friday, Oct 17, 7:30PM, Mavey Books, Philadelphia, PA (Ardmore) Week 2 Tuesday, Oct 21, 6:30PM, Possible Futures, New Haven, CT Wednesday, Oct 22, 4:30PM, Smith College, Northampton, MA Thursday, Oct 23, 7:00PM, Norwich Bookstore, Norwich, VT Friday, Oct 24, 7:00PM, Brookline Booksmith, Boston, MA

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.

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.

🥀OFFICIAL PRE-ORDER
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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

The Best Sci-Fi Books You Haven't Read These sci-fi books have small audiences but huge imagination.

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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Thanks for sharing!

This so perfectly captures my experience with Goodreads, which has always managed to feel weirdly wholesome despite its toxic trappings

Highly recommend. I'm obsessed with her little clicker wheel

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.

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>...

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

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.

Spoiler alert: No.

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.

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...

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.

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