Check out my books below!
My Gothic horror novel, A Song at Dead Man’s Cove is now available for pre-order in e-book format! Paperback and hardcover formats will be releasing June 2, 2025.
Never turn your back on the ocean…
2023. Another person has disappeared at Dead Man’s Cove in coastal Washington. Jaded from her job at the historic Irving Hotel, Zarya wanders to the scene of the tragedy. She has heard her Russian mother’s tales of rusalki—vengeful spirits that have died unclean deaths near a body of water—and never paid them much attention. But now, on a misty headland beside an abandoned lighthouse, Zarya locks eyes with the rusalka and is chosen to be the next victim. She must unearth the siren’s tragedy before Rusalka Week, a period in early summer when water-spirits roam freely on land.
1850. Josephine has just joined her newlywed husband in Washington, in the lighthouse erected by local businessman Hurley Irving. Marriage is not quite what she expected, and her melancholia grows over the course of the winter. The medic prescribes pregnancy as the antidote. What he doesn’t realize is how far Josephine is willing to go in order to become a mother.
“There’s a quiet elegance to Yudin’s prose that elevates the novel beyond typical genre fare. The writing, often cinematic, captures salt-tinged air and flickering lantern light with equal finesse.”
—The Chrysalis BREW Project
“If every story is a kind of song, A Song at Dead Man’s Cove is the kind you don’t hum—you remember. Its melody is melancholy but never despairing. It’s a story about what lingers: in towns, in water, in us.”
—The Bookish Magazine
“It reminds us that not all hauntings come from ghosts. Sometimes, they come from memories, and the human desire to make sense of what cannot be named. And perhaps that’s what makes this novel quietly extraordinary—it doesn’t try to solve the mystery. It lets it breathe. In a market often crowded with noise, Ana Yudin’s work whispers. But for those who listen, it sings.”
—The Narrative Voyager
“There’s real power in how this book handles emotional weight. Grief isn’t treated like a plot twist. It’s part of the landscape. Part of the ritual. It shapes how people move, what they say, what they avoid. Yudin understands that sometimes the scariest thing isn’t what’s lurking in the ocean—it’s the way people pretend nothing’s wrong. The way entire towns learn to live with a lie because the truth is too sharp to hold.”
—The Pinnacle Review
“There’s something uncanny about the way Yudin builds atmosphere. The town in this novel isn’t just a setting—it’s a mood.”
—Voyages of Verses
My debut novel,
The Curse in Their Veins
Early one morning, in an old Romanian town known for its healing waters, eight-year-old Adela sees a witch outside her window. She rushes to tell her sister, a girl named Veronica who everyone says looks just like their dead grandmother. Together, the sisters embark on a fascination with witchcraft that follows them into adulthood. For a while, they seem to grow in opposite directions. Adela is haunted by night terrors, while Veronica is haunted by the legacy her grandmother left behind. Everyone says their grandmother was a cruel woman, and Veronica can tell she has more in common with the woman than just her looks. It is not until the sisters find themselves in a cave by the Celtic Sea that they discover the reason: there is a curse running through their family bloodline. In order to break it, they must dive into the past and learn from the mistakes of their ancestors.
Are we doomed to become like our forefathers and foremothers? Why is it that, once in a while, a child is born who bears an uncanny resemblance to a malevolent ancestor? The Curse in their Veins explores what it means to break the intergenerational curse of narcissism. It weaves together Romanian culture, Paganism, sisterhood, Jungian psychology, and the sacred relationships between crones and granddaughters.
Journaling Workbooks:
Contains 75 journaling templates for 75 different situations including emotion regulation, planning for the future, debriefing painful experiences & more.
A Season of Life
A daily journaling practice designed to boost feelings of joy, gratitude and connectedness using positive psychology techniques.
Get It Done
A quarterly productivity planner designed to help you stay motivated and productive using evidence-based techniques such as goal-setting, and visualization.
NEW!
Living in Alignment with Nature’s Cycles
A journal designed for nature-based spirituality, to help you stay in tune with the seasonal and lunar cycles throughout the year. Designed for the Northern Hemisphere.
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