Official author archive

Stories about scars, systems, myth, and the record left behind.

Cello Kim writes Korean web novels across modern action, urban fantasy, mythic science fiction, and post-human archive fiction. This site is a quiet home for the works: not a loud storefront, but a map.

About

A Korean web novelist building a long archive of connected obsessions.

The works move between assassins and secret societies, wounded places and supernatural relics, algorithms and souls, angel-language grimoires, and civilizations trying to remember humanity after silence.

This hub gathers the public-facing portfolio for Cello Kim. Some titles are complete or already published in Korean; some are being localized into English; some are intentionally running as quiet platform tests before deeper promotion.

The tone is archival on purpose: stories, traces, landing pages, and reading paths gathered in one place without forcing every work into the same package.

Modern actionAssassins, tactics, ancient societies, and the blade left behind to stop kings.
Textured fantasyPlaces as wounds, objects as records, and progression felt through pressure and scars.
Archive SFSystems, memory, machine witnesses, and post-human civilizations reading old traces.
Works

The main shelf.

Cards are arranged by public usefulness, not by a single universe or genre. English links are included where they are already meant to be discoverable.

Modern action thriller

Blade: Assassin Origin

A dark modern action-thriller about an assassin, ancient secret societies, tactical combat, and the blade left behind to stop kings. The Korean title, 블레이드: 어쌔신 오리진, has reached Naver Best League.

Naver Best LeagueAssassin fiction~150 chapters planned
Korean urban fantasy · English localization

Age of Texture: The Butterfly Mark

A broken office worker learns to read the scars of the world — and grows strong enough to face the ancient power feeding on them. A completed Korean urban fantasy now being localized into English for Royal Road.

Completed Korean sourceWorld scarsFound family
Completed backlist · cyberpunk dark fantasy

The Algorithm of Souls: Zero and One

A completed/backlist asset about souls, algorithms, memory, and the boundary between zero and one. Its existing portfolio role is trust: a finished work with accumulated readers and a distinctive archive identity.

CompletedCyberpunkDark fantasy / sci-fi
Quiet test · Royal Road

The Alchemy Grimoire Won't Leave Me Alone

An urban fantasy about angel-language layers, strange manuscripts, and a grimoire that marks the body before the reader understands what language is touching them. Currently kept low-profile while platform fit is tested.

MagicUrban fantasySupernatural progression
Quiet test · post-human archive fiction

Orion: After Humanity Went Silent

A post-human archive story where systems, logs, non-human civilizations, and fragments of old humanity slowly become legible again. Currently running as an isolated baseline test before wider linking.

Post-humanArchive SFSystem witness
Reading notes

Not every door opens at the same time.

Blade, Age of Texture, and The Algorithm of Souls already have public-facing routes. Alchemy and Orion are intentionally quieter for now: their early Royal Road tests are meant to measure fit without cross-promotion noise.