"Alchemised" by SenLinYu hit No. 1 on The New York Times bestseller list. "Alchemised" was originally the fanfic "Manacled," based on "Harry Potter" and "The Handmaid's Tale." SenLinYu also landed a ...

SenLinYu's debut novel "Alchemised" is officially here, a publishing journey nearly seven years in the making. Like many popular books, "Alchemised" has its roots in fan fiction. But unlike many, the ...

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Of the 12.5 million works currently hosted on the fan fiction hub Archive of Our Own, SenLinYu’s Manacled ranks as the second-most-read on the entire site—but you won’t be able to read it there for ...

“I’m a person who prefers to underpromise and then, hopefully, overdeliver,” author SenLinYu tells me on a sunny June afternoon. Seven years ago, when Sen was a stay-at-home parent composing a ...

"Harry Potter" fan fiction went mainstream in 2025. In 2023 and 2024, fan fiction about Draco Malfoy and Hermione Granger — or Dramione, to their fans — went viral. Stories long beloved by the fic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "Alchemised" by SenLinYu hit No. 1 on The New York Times bestseller list. "Alchemised" was originally the fanfic "Manacled," based ...