Elle Tesch ✨💫

🦴 SIX MONTHS 🦴

Until the Scavenge Moon is upon us, and the Breimar Stag walks the Forest. Join the Hunt on May 12, 2026 for your chance to end a man … and hopefully the monster rising from the Forest’s depths won’t get you first.

Also please preorder THE HANGING BONES now, out from FierceReads!

A BELLS pitch comp?! It sounds amazing!! ♥️

🦴 Clack clack 🦴

ARCs for THE HANGING BONES are now available to request from Netgalley and Edelweiss!

A YA standalone dark fantasy, BONES is what happens when feminine rage combines with magical stag hunts and eldritch forest monsters … and no man is safe.

Photo of a hand holding the book What Wakes the Bells by Elle Tesch, cover illustration by Eleonor Piteira, featuring a young white woman with light brown hair, with her back towards the viewer, face in profile, in front of a circular gothic-style window with stained glass. There are 5 figures in the stained glass design. Smoke hides the bottom half of the woman while skulls carved in the stone beneath the window peek through.

Incredibly happy to finally have this in my hands!!
It never feels real until I hold it ❤

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Did you know I actually have two books up for preorder and 25% off at Barnes and Noble right now? What Wakes the Bells comes out in paperback (with a cheeky little bonus chapter 👀) April 14, and The Hanging Bones releases May 12!

Also please enjoy my really bad but important photoshop.

Truly!

Preorder 🔗 and FAQs can be found here: elletesch.com/the-hanging-...

ICYMI 🦴 THE HANGING BONES has a cover now! And I may be biased, but I think it is *stunning*

But wait, what’s it about, you ask? Well, look below for the official summary and prepare to go hunting in Wielinde Forest May 12, 2026!

I'm obsessed!

Ahh thank you!

Thank you!

BONES is about a young gamekeeper, the legendary stag hunt she enters to end a baron, and the ancient horror that rises from the depths of the forest. The spooky fairy tale and autumnal vibes are perfectly captured by this cover and I’m so glad I can yell about it now!

🦴 COVER REVEAL 🦴

I am so excited to share the cover for THE HANGING BONES, my next YA Dark Fantasy with Feiwel and Friends, out May 12, 2026!

Art: Coey + Shy
Designer: Meg Sayre

Tomorrow! We’re celebrating Canada Day with bones and keeping Pride going an extra day.

The clack clack era is upon us!

See you here Tuesday for the stunning THE HANGING BONES cover reveal!

The Hanging Bones is my second YA dark fantasy standalone about a young gamekeeper, the legendary stag hunt she enters to end a baron, and the ancient horror rising from the forest depths.

A compilation of twenty-one 2025 young adult book covers in shades of pink and purple. Books featured include if We Were A Movie, I Love You S'More, Love At Second Sight, Togetha, Out of Step, Into You, Finding Prince Charming, Call Your Boyfriend, Chaos King, Hit Me With Your Best Charm, The Assassin's Guide To Babysitting, All-Nighter, Why On Earth, Run Away With Me, On Starlit Shores, There's Always Next Year, We Were Villains, Lucha of the Forgotten Spring, Nav's Foolproof Guide To Falling In Love, The Good Vampire's Guide To Blood and Boyfriends, The L.O.V.E. Club and Come Home To My Heart.

🌈 195 2025 Young Adult Books Featuring LGBTQIA+ Representation 🌈
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It’s so subtle and perfect!

🖤🤍💜Happy Pride from a demi author and her demi heroine! 💜🤍🖤

Did you know that Mina’s coat on the book cover has the same colours as the ace flag? It’s one of my favourite details!

*keyboard smash* To say I’m honoured that Indigo has WHAT WAKES THE BELLS as one of its best YA books of the year so far is a massive understatement!

If you’ve been waiting for a price drop, you can get 20% off right now! And if you’re near Indigo Metrotown, there are still signed copies!

🖤🤍💜Happy Pride from a demi author and her demi heroine! 💜🤍🖤

Did you know that Mina’s coat on the book cover has the same colours as the ace flag? It’s one of my favourite details!

Ahh thanks friend!!

Had the BESTEST time, actually

Tomorrow!!

I keep forgetting this app exists but I’m just here to let you know that the final cover for THE HANGING BONES is in my inbox and she is an autumn QUEEN.

In Conversation: Elle Tesch - Get event information and buy your tickets at Ticketscene!

Please note that every ticket gets you a signed copy of Bells!

Can’t wait to see you there!

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✨INDIGO EXCLUSIVE EVENT✨

If you’re in the Lower Mainland, come join myself and Tessa Barbosa one week from today at Metrotown Indigo to celebrate What Wakes the Bells with a Q+A and signing!

Where: Indigo Metrotown Burnaby
When: Friday May 9 | 7 pm
How: Tickets through Indigo events or link in bio

THE HANGING BONES is off to copyedits!

No release date beyond first half of 2026, cover still in progress, but this weird dark fantasy full of autumn forests, angry girls, and bony monster horror is coming!

Make sure to add it on Goodreads and join my newsletter for updates (🔗s in bio!)

Thanks for reading!!

Beside my literal idol 😭