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Yume Kitasei (she/her)

@yumewrites.bsky.social

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🇺🇸&🇯🇵 SFF writer | THE DEEP SKY (2023) • THE STARDUST GRAIL (2024) (Flatiron Books) (linktr.ee/yumekitasei)

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Enjoy!!!

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So, a lot has happened on the health front. No final answers yet, but what we've learned so far needs to be followed up, & fast. For that, I need at least $11,000 (to go to $55,000 overall) for blood tests, CT scans, consultant fees & more. Please donate & share!
www.gofundme.com/f/help-r-s-a...

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Had a great time talking to @yumewrites.bsky.social at Loyalty Books in DC last week, where our tours for THE STARDUST GRAIL and RAKESFALL intersected. Pics by Nikhil Bumb!

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GRAILFALL! Come get some pink covers for your shelves. It’s going to be fun!

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The Stardust Grail by @yumewrites.bsky.social is a gorgeous, endlessly imaginative space opera that yanked me out of my reading slump and threw me into a brilliant future vision of our galaxy.

Please do yourself a favor and read this book.

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Thank you for reading it! ❤️

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Tonight! @vajra.me and I are celebrating our new books, RAKESFALL and THE STARDUST GRAIL, at Loyalty Books Petsworth in DC at 7pm. Come join us!

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I read this book and it blew my mind. It’s out today!!!

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Two newses: the actual Nebula Award trophy—which my first novel won last month—arrived! And it's a beautiful thing. My second novel RAKESFALL is out today! Like LITERALLY today. I'm talking to Cassandra Khaw for my official book launch: 7:30pm at Greenlight Bookstore in Brooklyn! Come if you can!

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Look! A new book! So thrilled to announce DEAD NOTE, my next novel out summer 2025! This is my first foray into more realistic fiction and is inspired by very real (and very bonkers) events. I can’t wait till you all get to read it.

Full article: www.thebookseller.com/rights/zaffr...

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My sophomore book, THE STARDUST GRAIL is out today from Flatiron! It’s my Indiana Jones x Star Trek adventure with:
🚀 space heist
👽 alien bestie
🤖 angsty robot
🪐 strange worlds
You might like it! And even if you don’t the cover by Jonathan Bush is gorgeous!

www.goodreads.com/book/show/19...

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Tor Nightfire is running a Goodreads giveaway (6.10-7.1) for ARCs of my debut novella THIS WORLD IS NOT YOURS, a queer sci-fi horror family drama set on a sentient planet!

www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

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IT'S COVER REVEAL DAY!!

Behold THE NIGHTWARD (click to expand)!

A coup steals her throne. It will take more than magic to make her Queen.

The Nightward opens Oct 15! Pre-orders are up everywhere.

www.amazon.com/Nightward-Bo...

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WE HAD SO MUCH FUN! I hope everyone else did too 😂

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Well hello there, finished copies! What’s up, endpapers! This came in for me today but it’s only three more days till y’all can get yours too. Preorder link in bio

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Will be back in a month. TTYL.

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Wrote 500 words of novel today on the subway on my phone while commuting. Slowly but surely. 🐢

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Run don’t walk 🏃🏻‍♀️

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Thank you! I wrote this when I was in severe writer’s block so I sat down & said, write. Write anything. Even if it’s short. This came out, & I think is the most ‘me’ thing I’ve ever written. I almost didn’t submit it anywhere bc I thought it must be bad. I’m thrilled it continues to find readers.

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Renting Super Nintendo games from Blockbuster.

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It’s so unexpected and rich. Really good!

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I sneaked onto Netgalley and requested an ARC of Veronica Roth’s WHEN AMONG CROWS, because I enjoyed ARCH CONSPIRATOR last year and whew, it’s good, people!

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I'm so excited THE SPLINTER IN THE SKY was amazing and I'm definitely reading this!!!!

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Look what I got! TY to my sister for bringing them to me in a suitcase LOL

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That’s so nice to hear as I begin to plunk away with my next one!

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Wow!! What a compliment! Thank you for reading it!!

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Aw thank you! I’m so glad you’re enjoying it!!

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The trade paperback of NEW MUTANTS: LETHAL LEGION comes out January 16! If you pre-order from Folio Books, I'll sign, personalize and doodle in your copy.

*AND* Folio and I will both donate to the TGI Justice Project, a wonderful organization, for each copy sold.

www.foliosf.com/book/9781302...

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That’s so cool. I had no idea!

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Oh yay!!!! That makes me so happy! I interviewed quite a few anthropologists as I was writing it - enough that I am aware I got some things wrong 😳 hopefully you’ll forgive the liberties I took!

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Specifically how many are you are rushing to hit your Goodreads goals right now

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Does anyone else spend New Year’s Eve day chasing a to do list and what’s on it?

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I just read your book and OMG it was so good. One of my favorite reads all year. Great way to finish out my 2023 reading!!!

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Here’s the thing, I do this present giving formula that I call “one for you, one for me.” Also my sister asked me to pick up a copy of H Mart for her to give to someone else and somehow we ended up with 3 copies. So then naturally I “had to” go back.

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Here for the fifth time 😬

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The question is how many times will I go back to the bookstore before Christmas

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