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Maria Dong (AVIARY coming 04.2026 from Severn House)
@mariadongwrites.bsky.social
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(She/Her) Author of LIAR, DREAMER, THIEF and PSYCHOPOMP. AVIARY (literary suspense/horror) coming soon 04.2026! http://mariadong.com/link-tree/ for deets and short fiction! Rep:
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I legitimately can't get over how good this spine game is! Also, pretty cool to be on the shelf by some absolute greats! Thank you @lmanusos.bsky.social for the snap!
A bookshelf from a bookstore. Green arrows point to the spine of PSYCHOPOMP, whose lime green and purple color scheme makes it pop off the shelf
April 9, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Incoming - Podcast interview containing:
- PSYCHOPOMP's incredibly long and twisty road to pub
- How to keep it together(?) and make art when the world is on fire
- The need to keep fighting even when you're probably going to lose
- Eat the rich
A yellow backdrop has two images on it. First, a zoomed in version of the cover of Psychopomp, art by Katerina Belikova, which shows a woman named Young in a spacesuit/miner's suit. The second image is a headshot of author Maria Dong, a Korean woman with dark brown hair in a black shirt in front of a black background. The text below the images reads: Bitches on Comics Episode 198: Fight even if you know you’re gonna lose featuring Maria Dong
March 31, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Attempt #3 to post this cool graphic AND have it animate....
March 25, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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PSYCHOPOMP blurb 15 comes to us from @sefleenor.bsky.social, who is the host of Bitches on Comics and quite honestly the best human being I have ever met (not to mention being an incredible writer and editor and critic and screenwriter and artist and and and---*hyperventilates, collapses*
A neon purple, pink, and blue column of light has the cover of Psychopomp on it with checkered yellow and green squares behind it. The cover of Psychopomp, art by Katerina Belikova, shows a woman named Young in a spacesuit/miner's suit. The book cover text reads: author of Liar, Dreamer, Thief Maria Dong "Science Fiction at its best" - Yume Kitasei, author of The Deep Sky and The Stardust Grail. PSYCHOPOMP. The quote reads: "Bleak, beautiful, and timely in ways I wish it wasn't, PSYCHOPOMP mines grief and trauma to sing of hope. As your bestie, all I can say is...What the actual fuck, Maria?"
March 24, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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PSYCHOPOMP Blurb 14 comes to us from @yumewrites.bsky.social, whose books THE DEEP SKY and THE STARDUST GRAIL had me weeping uncontrollably on an American Airlines flight:
A neon purple, pink, and blue column of light has the cover of Psychopomp on it with checkered yellow and green squares behind it. The cover of Psychopomp, art by Katerina Belikova, shows a woman named Young in a spacesuit/miner's suit. The book cover text reads: author of Liar, Dreamer, Thief Maria Dong "Science Fiction at its best" - Yume Kitasei, author of The Deep Sky and The Stardust Grail. PSYCHOPOMP. The quote reads: Psychopomp is science fiction at its best...propulsive and twisty and atmospheric as hell. Get in the space elevator, loser. We're going for a ride."
March 24, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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PSYCHOPOMP Blurb 13 comes to us from @renanbernardo.com, Nebula and Ignyte finalist author of The Disgraced Return of Cap's Needle:
A neon purple, pink, and blue column of light has the cover of Psychopomp on it with checkered yellow and green squares behind it. The cover of Psychopomp, art by Katerina Belikova, shows a woman named Young in a spacesuit/miner's suit. The book cover text reads: author of Liar, Dreamer, Thief Maria Dong "Science Fiction at its best" - Yume Kitasei, author of The Deep Sky and The Stardust Grail. PSYCHOPOMP. The quote reads, "Maria Dong is clearly a master of the craft, skillfully infusing science fiction with the harsh realities of work exploitation, mental breakdown, and gaslighting."
March 24, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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PSYCHOPOMP Blurb 12 comes to us from @patrickbarb.bsky.social, author of the chilling Helicopter Parenting in the Age of Drone Warfare and JK-LOL:
A neon purple, pink, and blue column of light has the cover of Psychopomp on it with checkered yellow and green squares behind it. The cover of Psychopomp, art by Katerina Belikova, shows a woman named Young in a spacesuit/miner's suit. The book cover text reads: author of Liar, Dreamer, Thief Maria Dong "Science Fiction at its best" - Yume Kitasei, author of The Deep Sky and The Stardust Grail. PSYCHOPOMP. The quote reads: "A tale of the irresistible power of truth and connection. Intimate and epic in equal measure, PSYCHOPOMP won't let you go."
March 23, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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PSYCHOPOMP blurb 11 comes to us from @octavia-cade.bsky.social, author of You Are My Sunshine and Other Stories and the (absolutely stellar) The Impossible Resurrection of Grief:
A neon purple, pink, and blue column of light has the cover of Psychopomp on it with checkered yellow and green squares behind it. The cover of Psychopomp, art by Katerina Belikova, shows a woman named Young in a spacesuit/miner's suit. The book cover text reads: author of Liar, Dreamer, Thief Maria Dong "Science Fiction at its best" - Yume Kitasei, author of The Deep Sky and The Stardust Grail. PSYCHOPOMP. The quote reads: "Horrfying--and oddly hopeful...a claustrophobic, tightly-plotted thriller."
March 23, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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PSYCHOPOMP blurb 10 comes to us from @jenniferhudak.bsky.social, who I will forever be referring to as NEBULA FINALIST JENNIFER HUDAK CONGRATULATIONS!:
A neon purple, pink, and blue column of light has the cover of Psychopomp on it with checkered yellow and green squares behind it. The cover of Psychopomp, art by Katerina Belikova, shows a woman named Young in a spacesuit/miner's suit. The book cover text reads: author of Liar, Dreamer, Thief Maria Dong "Science Fiction at its best" - Yume Kitasei, author of The Deep Sky and The Stardust Grail. PSYCHOPOMP. The quote reads: "Psychopomp thrums with moments of transcendent beauty. This is a book that will have you helplessly reading deep into the night, burrowing into its pages."
March 23, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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PSYCHOPOMP Blurb 9 comes to us from @elianeboey.bsky.social, author of the truly excellent (and very stylish) Club Contago:
A neon purple, pink, and blue column of light has the cover of Psychopomp on it with checkered yellow and green squares behind it. The cover of Psychopomp, art by Katerina Belikova, shows a woman named Young in a spacesuit/miner's suit. The book cover text reads: author of Liar, Dreamer, Thief Maria Dong "Science Fiction at its best" - Yume Kitasei, author of The Deep Sky and The Stardust Grail. PSYCHOPOMP. The quote reads: "Unflinching...PSYCHOPOMP is a riveting story about courage, and ultimately, self belief."
March 22, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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PSYCHOPOMP blurb 8 comes to us from Elaine U Cho, author of Ocean's Godori (and fun fact, also my agent sibling!)
A neon purple, pink, and blue column of light has the cover of Psychopomp on it with checkered yellow and green squares behind it. The cover of Psychopomp, art by Katerina Belikova, shows a woman named Young in a spacesuit/miner's suit. The book cover text reads: author of Liar, Dreamer, Thief Maria Dong "Science Fiction at its best" - Yume Kitasei, author of The Deep Sky and The Stardust Grail. PSYCHOPOMP. The quote reads, "A visceral psychological foray. Psychopomp is a visceral psychological foray...there's no better author than Maria Dong to both bring us into the labyrinth of the human mind and bring us back out again."
March 22, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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PSYCHOPOMP Blurb 6 comes to us from World Fantasy Award winner @csecooney.bsky.social, of whom I am a very much extreme fangirl, (if you have not read The Twice-Drowned Saint, seriously, quit your job and go read it right now, I'll wait):
A neon purple, pink, and blue column of light has the cover of Psychopomp on it with checkered yellow and green squares behind it. The cover of Psychopomp, art by Katerina Belikova, shows a woman named Young in a spacesuit/miner's suit. The book cover text reads: author of Liar, Dreamer, Thief Maria Dong "Science Fiction at its best" - Yume Kitasei, author of The Deep Sky and The Stardust Grail. PSYCHOPOMP. The text next to the book cover reads, "Fierce, febrile, austere, and melancholy, Psychopomp keeps your rooting (and afraid) for Young until the very end."
March 20, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫
An image of the libgen search engine tool produced by the Atlantic, showing that the book liar dreamer Thief by Maria Dawn was scraped by metas stupid AI monstrosity
March 20, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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PSYCHOPOMP Blurb 5 comes to us from Belicia Rhea, author of the stunning novella Voracious:
A neon purple, pink, and blue column of light has the cover of Psychopomp on it with checkered yellow and green squares behind it. The cover of Psychopomp, art by Katerina Belikova, shows a woman named Young in a spacesuit/miner's suit. The book cover text reads: author of Liar, Dreamer, Thief Maria Dong "Science Fiction at its best" - Yume Kitasei, author of The Deep Sky and The Stardust Grail. PSYCHOPOMP. The text next to the book cover reads, "Haunting, atmospheric, gloom-tinged with a crystalline beauty. A gut punch...psychopomp is a fever dream and a pioneering science fiction triumph."
March 20, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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PSYCHOPOMP Blurb 4 comes to us from @angelasylvaine.bsky.social, author of the screamingly funny (and scary!) Frost Bite:
Swirling stars streak the night sky in the background, colored in shades of purple. The cover of Psychopomp is overlaid on it with checkered yellow and green squares behind it. The cover of Psychopomp, art by Katerina Belikova, shows a woman named Young in a spacesuit/miner's suit. The book cover text reads: author of Liar, Dreamer, Thief Maria Dong "Science Fiction at its best" - Yume Kitasei, author of The Deep Sky and The Stardust Grail. PSYCHOPOMP. The text next to the book cover reads: "Psychopomp is a gripping deep space thriller packed with tension and inhabited by complex characters ... readers will hurtle headlong through this story."
March 19, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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PSYCHOPOMP Blurb 3 comes to us from @amandacecelia.bsky.social, author of the horror-filled and oh-so-fun Saturday Fright at the Movies!
Swirling stars streak the night sky in the background, colored in shades of purple. The cover of Psychopomp is overlaid on it with checkered yellow and green squares behind it. The cover of Psychopomp, art by Katerina Belikova, shows a woman named Young in a spacesuit/miner's suit. The book cover text reads: author of Liar, Dreamer, Thief Maria Dong "Science Fiction at its best" - Yume Kitasei, author of The Deep Sky and The Stardust Grail. PSYCHOPOMP. The text next to the book cover reads: "Psychopomp is brutal, intense, and breathtakingly introspective. Beautifully written and full of cosmic and emotional gravity...gritty, unforgettable."
March 18, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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PSYCHOPOMP Blurb number 2 comes to us from @aimeeogdenwrites.com. If you haven't checked out Aimee's nebula finalist novella, Sun-Daughters, Sea-Daughters, you're so missing out!
Swirling stars streak the night sky in the background, colored in shades of purple. The cover of Psychopomp is overlaid on it with checkered yellow and green squares behind it. The cover of Psychopomp, art by Katerina Belikova, shows a woman named Young in a spacesuit/miner's suit. The book cover text reads: author of Liar, Dreamer, Thief Maria Dong "Science Fiction at its best" - Yume Kitasei, author of The Deep Sky and The Stardust Grail. PSYCHOPOMP. The text next to the book cover reads: Maria Dong waves tension in thread by thread until the story is taut and ready to snap...a smart, sharp book whose dark vision of the future feels mirror-perfect to our current system--and equally ready to be shattered." The attribution reads: Aimee Ogden, author of Nebula Award Finalist novella Sun-Daughters, Sea-Daughters
March 17, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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PSYCHOPOMP Blurb number 1 comes to us from @aijiang.bsky.social! Eeeeeeeeeeeeee! Please check out Linghun if you haven't already (and if you're cool, you probably have!)
Swirling stars streak the night sky in the background, colored in shades of purple. The cover of Psychopomp is overlaid on it with checkered yellow and green squares behind it. The cover of Psychopomp, art by Katerina Belikova, shows a woman named Young in a spacesuit/miner's suit. The book cover text reads: author of Liar, Dreamer, Thief Maria Dong "Science Fiction at its best" - Yume Kitasei, author of The Deep Sky and The Stardust Grail. PSYCHOPOMP. The text next to the book cover reads "Secrets unravel piece by piece in this richly drawn and complex, ache and angst-driven sci-fi thriller." The attribution reads, "Ai Jiang, Nebula and Bram Stoker award-winning author of Linghun"
March 17, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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BTW, in an effort to be kind to my ADHD brain (btw, if you, too, have ADHD, boy, do I have a psychological sci-fi suspense for you, and also a bunch of other books and...I should probably get back to it), I scheduled these posts via a service. So if they all post at once or s/t, I'm sorry.
Swirling stars streak the night sky in the background, colored in shades of purple. The cover of Psychopomp is overlaid on it with checkered yellow and green squares behind it. The cover of Psychopomp, art by Katerina Belikova, shows a woman named Young in a spacesuit/miner's suit. The book cover text reads: author of Liar, Dreamer, Thief Maria Dong "Science Fiction at its best" - Yume Kitasei, author of The Deep Sky and The Stardust Grail. PSYCHOPOMP
March 16, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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*klaxons klaxons*

WELCOME TO THE PSYCHOPOMP HYPE THREAD!

Feel free to mute, because every day, for the next ten days (until the book drops on March 25th!) I'll be sharing awesome blurbs, dropping factoids and behind the scenes content, and just generally making a fool of myself!
Swirling stars streak the night sky in the background, colored in shades of purple. The cover of Psychopomp is overlaid on it with checkered yellow and green squares behind it. The cover of Psychopomp, art by Katerina Belikova, shows a woman named Young in a spacesuit/miner's suit. The book cover text reads: author of Liar, Dreamer, Thief Maria Dong "Science Fiction at its best" - Yume Kitasei, author of The Deep Sky and The Stardust Grail. PSYCHOPOMP
March 16, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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13 days to preorder the book @yumewrites.bsky.social called "Science fiction at its best"
A picture of the book psychopomp by maria dong, being held in front of a very messy living room
March 12, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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@tricksterink.bsky.social I think there has been an error; have you perchance recently received 20 copies of PSYCHOPOMP? Because I just got this:
A box full of max Random and the zombie 500 books
March 7, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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So I finally dragged my existential burnt out working toddler parent behind in front of the camera to do a book unboxing and uh this happened 😂😂😂😂😂😂💀💀💀💀💀💀
A picture of 20 copies of Max Random and the zombie 500
March 7, 2025 at 12:20 AM