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MieMie Hsu

Stories for anyone brave enough to follow the unexpected.

MieMie Hsu is a traveler, dreamer, and storyteller who believes life is meant to be lived boldly. Her fiction draws on adventure, new cultures, self-discovery, and the unplanned moments that can open the most beautiful chapters of a life.

She joins Nightgrave Publishing under a three-book publishing agreement. Her Tampa psychological-horror novel Suite 813 is now available on Amazon, with The Next Flight to Happiness and Until the Night Takes Us now complete and preparing for publication. Her unreleased novel Seoul Bad Decisions follows four friends into a Seoul getaway gone wrong; no release date has been announced. Her forthcoming supernatural horror novel La Crème de la Dead is complete at 95,000 words.

As Nightgrave’s Co-Owner & Co-CEO · Director of Author Relations and Marketing, MieMie coordinates author information, promotional materials, launch updates, and social media with the house’s authors. Brandon Burnside remains Founder and Co-CEO, leading editorial, design, production, and ordinary publishing decisions. New authors and major business decisions require both partners’ written agreement.

Published title
Suite 813 · Available on Amazon
Forthcoming title
The Next Flight to Happiness · Until the Night Takes Us · The Last Door · La Crème de la Dead
Publisher
Nightgrave Publishing
Agreement
Three books
House role
Co-Owner & Co-CEO · Director of Author Relations and Marketing
Genres
Romance · Psychological horror · Suspense
Status
Suite 813 published · Further titles forthcoming
Suite 813 by MieMie Hsu book cover

Suite 813

At Tampa’s Halcyon House, Suite 813 opens onto lives its guest never lived—and a way out that keeps moving farther away.

Different doors. Different lives. Same price.

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The Last Door — Suite 813 Book Two by MieMie Hsu

The Last Door

Maya Larkin remains trapped inside Halcyon House. Nora Reyes’s apparent checkout was an illusion, and a new door lets the hotel reach beyond its walls. Maya and Dominic must protect Nora without trading another life for freedom.

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The Next Flight to Happiness

Rei boards a spontaneous December flight to Tokyo, hoping to find herself. Winter lights, Ginza luxury, and a reunion with Kenji—the wealthy childhood friend she never forgot—promise a fresh beginning. But Kenji works as a hitman for a criminal syndicate. When his own organization turns against him, their growing love becomes a fight for survival. Caught between passion and peril, Rei must decide whether she can choose a future with him in a world far darker than she imagined.

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About MieMie Hsu

MieMie Hsu writes romance shaped by travel, possibility, and the courage to choose a different direction. Her stories explore the people we rediscover, the places that change us, and the surprising routes by which happiness finds its way home.

“Sometimes the best journeys are the ones you never plan.”

An author and a voice for Nightgrave’s writers.

Hsu’s writing expands Nightgrave’s catalog from romance into psychological horror without leaving behind the qualities at the center of the press: atmosphere, emotional stakes, a distinctive sense of place, and stories that remain with the reader after the last page.

In author relations, she helps Nightgrave writers keep their profiles and promotional materials current, coordinates approved announcements, and connects forthcoming books with readers across the house’s social channels.

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New from Nightgrave

More stories from MieMie.

La Crème de la Dead by MieMie Hsu — official book cover

Complete manuscript · Forthcoming

La Crème de la Dead

By MieMie Hsu

Every year costs a life.

Hollywood, 1994. At forty-five, actress Melissa Wong can still command a room with her wit and charisma. The industry that once celebrated her beauty now studies every line on her face. When her younger lover, actor Brent Phillips, leaves her for rising star and professional rival Carmen Chew, his cruel goodbye confirms Melissa’s worst fear: everyone is ready to replace her.

Supernatural horror · Hollywood noir
95,000 words

Seoul Bad Decisions by MieMie Hsu — official cover

Unreleased · No release date announced

Seoul Bad Decisions

By MieMie Hsu

Four friends. One trip. Too many bad decisions.

Four Asian-American friends travel to Seoul for a K-pop concert and a much-needed escape. A suitcase of cash, a dead man handcuffed to a bed, and a night they cannot fully explain turn their getaway into a murder mystery. As romantic complications and dangerous secrets close in, their friendship may be the only thing they can trust.

Dark comedy · Romantic suspense · Murder mystery
Complete manuscript

Until the Night Takes Us by MieMie Hsu

Until the Night Takes Us

Tampa, 1985. At forty, a Japanese American beauty consultant arriving from New York has almost stopped believing in love. Then a mysterious stranger saves her life. Handsome, gentle, and only ever present after dark, he has been dead since 1935. As their love deepens, she follows the secrets of his murder into a city haunted by stolen lives. Someone is still protecting the truth—and freeing the man she loves may mean losing him forever.

Manuscript complete. Release date to be announced.

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