science-fiction, horror writer

ABOUT

C L Chang (she/her), known as Risa online, is a Chinese-Singaporean writer focused on science-fiction, horror and some fantasy. She enjoys writing stories inspired by her unique ESEA culture and mythology whilst tackling heavier topics close to her heart. She was accepted into the Singapore Creative Arts Programme in 2019 and the Write Team Mentorship Programme in 2024.When she's not writing, she's scrambling to complete her legal training or having enigmatic conversations with her dog and pet rooster (very important discussions taking place here).She is represented by Julie Gourinchas at Bell Lomax Moreton.banner by @kuri_huang for onmyoji

ADULT SCIENCE-FICTION HORROR

Our Feast So Divine

❝ Be gay eat god ❞HARROW THE NINTH x GHOST STATION x IRON WIDOWA renowned scientist joins a team of researchers to enter a cursed, abandoned city with the goal of using a god's corpse to create a serum of youth, but he doesn't anticipate hallucinating its tender embrace and reveling in it ... nor craving a taste of its flesh.OUR FEAST SO DIVINE is a science fantasy horror. It combines the unreliable narrator, body horror and corpselust in Tamsyn Muir's HARROW THE NINTH with the isolation horror in S.A. Barnes' GHOST STATION, and the futuristic reimagining of ancient China in Xiran Jay Zhao’s IRON WIDOW.

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ADULT COSMIC HORROR — EDITING

It Tastes Like Home

THE BACKROOMS x DEAD SILENCE x OUR WIVES UNDER THE SEALooking for her missing girlfriend, Leina discovers a familiar door on a deserted spaceship. The rooms within almost feel like home. But home has a soul, and this place does not—she must uncover what connects this space and Elisette’s disappearance before it swallows her whole.IT TASTES LIKE HOME is a sapphic adult sci-fi horror. It combines the liminal dread and nostalgia from the popular internet concept of THE BACKROOMS with the expedition gone wrong plot and isolation horror of S.A. Barnes’s DEAD SILENCE, as well as the haunting atmosphere and sapphic relationship of Julia Armfield's OUR WIVES UNDER THE SEA.

Curious about Risa's other works—past, present and future? Find them below. Projects range from finished manuscripts to early drafts and mere concepts.moodboard by @stelaernis on twitter

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You can find Risa on twitter and instagram.

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YA / ADULT SCIENCE-FICTION — TEMPORARILY SHELVED

Sina Von Solis

GIDEON THE NINTH x THE TRAITOR BARU CORMORANT x EXORDIAIn the midst of an intergalactic war, Bernadette and her estranged childhood friend must find their way off an enemy planet. She left her friend to die once before, now she must decide if she is willing to do so again.

adult cosmic horror — drafting

HANDSWIP

A GAME IN YELLOW x ABOUT A PLACE IN THE KINKI REGIONIn a desperate effort to upgrade her reputation from “loser” to “cool girl”, Janette Dou offers to show a rising star Youtuber around the abandoned locations of her town of Saintand, UK. When they stumble across the ruins of an underground city no one knows about, she thinks they’re about to make the video of the century, and she might finally find a meaning for her existence.But it soon becomes clear they’re being stalked and their very lives might be in danger, Janette must make a decision: turn back now and forfeit the discovery of a lifetime, or die at the hands of who, or what, has put these trails in place.