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Ai Jiang || 江艾|| 🍃🌬️🏰A Palace Near the Wind Out Now! 🏰🌬️🍃
@aijiang.bsky.social
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🇨🇳🇨🇦 | she/her | Changle -> Toronto | Ignyte, Bram Stoker, Nebula Winner | Hugo, Astounding, Locus nominee | Odyssey ‘23 | BA,MSc | rep: UTA & The Tobias Literary Agency | A PALACE NEAR THE WIND (Titan Books ‘25)

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✨2025 Awards Eligiblity Post✨

if anyone needs a copy of anything for awards consideration, do reach out! 🙆🏻‍♀️🤍🙇🏻‍♀️
2025 Award Eligibility — Ai Jiang Novella A PALACE NEAR THE WIND (Titan Books) Novelette "All the Names You Didn't Choose" (YOU, Human Vol. 2 Anthology) select short stories "Memories Are Only Valuable if They Can Be Lost" (Clarkesworld) "Shadows Below Seaway Trains" (Apex Magazine) "All the Men Who Cried Wolf" (HOWL: An Anthology of Werewolves from Women-in-Horror) "Unsewn" (ROOTS OF MY FEARS: Terrifying Stories of Ancestral Horror) "The Heaven That Tastes Like Hell" (Silk & Sinew Anthology) "Red God Waiting" (The Rack II: More Stories Inspired by Vintage Horror Paperbacks) "On the Bridge Above the River" (And One Day We Will Die Anthology) "A Thousand Forbidden Weddings and a Song for Dead Darlings" (The Earth Bleeds at Night Anthology) Select Poetry "the bud of a dead dream" (Uncanny Magazine)
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cynthiapelayo.bsky.social
My friend reached out who is working on their PhD dissertation on horror. They wanted recommendation for- "horror that is either personal, historical, or societal."

Some recs I gave & will share here-

The Ballad of Black Tom
The Reformatory
All the Hearts You Eat
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
Linghun
November 14, 2025 at 7:02 PM
aijiang.bsky.social
the wholesomeness that is my badminton friends attempting to make a bookclub for PALACE 🥹🤍🙆🏻‍♀️
November 14, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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aijiang.bsky.social
for the paperback readers 👀‼️

*links for preorder in my bio*

A PALACE NEAR THE WIND paperback forthcoming April 2026 🌬️🍃🎐🏰

@titanbooks.bsky.social
A palace near the wind paperback preorder graphic with the cover of the book
November 14, 2025 at 7:58 PM
aijiang.bsky.social
for the paperback readers 👀‼️

*links for preorder in my bio*

A PALACE NEAR THE WIND paperback forthcoming April 2026 🌬️🍃🎐🏰

@titanbooks.bsky.social
A palace near the wind paperback preorder graphic with the cover of the book
November 14, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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augursociety.bsky.social
Missed murmurstations EP 8 with @aijiang.bsky.social?🎙️🎧

Listen back as Sonia and Ai talk about pushing creative boundaries and Ai’s love of blending genres like sci-fi, fantasy, and horror to craft stories that are jarring and refreshing. 📚

Check it out NOW on Spotify and Apple! 🔗 Link in bio!
augursociety.bsky.social Augur Society | Augur Issue 8.1 is NOW LIVE ! @augursociety.bsky.social · Jun 19
MURMURSTATIONS EPISODE 8 with @aijiang.bsky.social is NOW LIVE!🚨

Join Sonia Urlando and @aijiang.bsky.social as they discuss the strange, uncanny, and horror in Ai's story, "On Land We Drown," from Augur Issue 5.2! 🎣🌊
The background is the murmustations graphic of a woman with blue eyes and fair skin. Surrounding her are shades of pink and purple feathers. The background has an overlay of purple. At the top of the image is a pink bar that has a blue microphone and beside it reads: "New! Podcast Episode Release" in white text and next to it is the augur logo in white. Below it reads: "Episode 08: Ai Jiang” in white text. Underneath that reads: "murmurstations" in white text. On the left side is purple text box and inside of it reads: "Join Ai as she explores the unexpected ways humans interact with the non-human—nature, climate, technology, and spirits. Ai also discusses how she uses familiar settings to depict strangeness and ambiguity in her works including On Land We Drown." in white text. To the right side of the image is a iPhone graphic with the murmurstations graphic with the play, pause, and forward buttons. At the bottom of the image is a white rectangular bar with the graphics of a green Spotify logo and a red Apple logo inside that reads: "Listen now" in black text.
November 13, 2025 at 10:25 PM
aijiang.bsky.social
Tonight!! 👀‼️
electricsheepsf.bsky.social Electric Sheep @electricsheepsf.bsky.social · 11d
Electric Sheep Reading Series – SpecPo Hugo Edition!

November 12
8 pm (US Eastern)

Guest Host: Holly Lyn Walrath
Guest of Honor: Marie Brennan, 2025 Hugo Winner for Best Poem

Readers:
Brian U. Garrison
Ai Jiang
Oliver K. Langmead
Angela Liu
Mari Ness
Brandon O’Brien, Poet Laureate 2025 WorldCon
November 12, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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therisingtithes.bsky.social
Don't miss this awesome poetry event on Wednesday evening!
electricsheepsf.bsky.social Electric Sheep @electricsheepsf.bsky.social · 4d
Did you know WorldCon had its first-ever poet laureate this year? Now you know -- it's Brandon O'Brien and you can hear him read his work at our event Wednesday night! Register now!
@therisingtithes.bsky.social
electricsheepsf.bsky.social Electric Sheep @electricsheepsf.bsky.social · 11d
The event is free to all but space is limited!
November 11, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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aijiang.bsky.social
a title change for the debut novel forthcoming with @titanbooks.bsky.social in 2026 👀‼️

🎭🪷☁️AN EMPIRE IN THE CLOUDS ☁️🪷🎭

a Chinese-inspired science fantasy set on a drowning continent of royal siblings striving to survive in a climate of murder and corruption.
AN EMPIRE IN THE CLOUDS Backdrop of waves and clouds with koi fish, lotus, Chinese opera mask icons SEPTEMBER 2026 TITAN BOOKS Backdrop of waves and clouds with koi fish, lotus, Chinese opera mask icons
November 10, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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aijiang.bsky.social
✨2025 Awards Eligiblity Post✨

if anyone needs a copy of anything for awards consideration, do reach out! 🙆🏻‍♀️🤍🙇🏻‍♀️
2025 Award Eligibility — Ai Jiang Novella A PALACE NEAR THE WIND (Titan Books) Novelette "All the Names You Didn't Choose" (YOU, Human Vol. 2 Anthology) select short stories "Memories Are Only Valuable if They Can Be Lost" (Clarkesworld) "Shadows Below Seaway Trains" (Apex Magazine) "All the Men Who Cried Wolf" (HOWL: An Anthology of Werewolves from Women-in-Horror) "Unsewn" (ROOTS OF MY FEARS: Terrifying Stories of Ancestral Horror) "The Heaven That Tastes Like Hell" (Silk & Sinew Anthology) "Red God Waiting" (The Rack II: More Stories Inspired by Vintage Horror Paperbacks) "On the Bridge Above the River" (And One Day We Will Die Anthology) "A Thousand Forbidden Weddings and a Song for Dead Darlings" (The Earth Bleeds at Night Anthology) Select Poetry "the bud of a dead dream" (Uncanny Magazine)
November 9, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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teresa-ardrey.bsky.social
Book 205: Linghun by Ai Jiang. Digital. 149 pages.
Cover art by Mateus Roberts.
November 6, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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thetobiasagency.bsky.social
In case you missed them, here are 3 book deals we announced in October.

So many great releases to come!

#booknews #bookdeals #literaryagency
Book deals coming soon to your TBR Book Deal Publishers Marketplace DINOSAUR TIME By Amy Garrett and Josh Lewis Amy Garrett's DINOSAUR TIME, about a young girl who knows how to make mealtime meltdowns go extinct because when it's time to eat, she gives a roar and chomps down on her dinner like a dinosaur, illustrated by Josh Lewis, to Elizabeth Stranahan at Random House Children's, for publication in summer 2027, by Courtney Paganelli at Levine Greenberg Rostan for the author, and by Natascha Morris at The Tobias Literary Agency for the illustrator (world). Book Deal Publisher's Marketplace VIEWS FROM THE OVERLOOK By Jamie Flanagan Fiction: Horror October 14, 2025 Screenwriter Jamie Flanagan's VIEWS FROM THE OVERLOOK, an anthology of new tales set in the infamous hotel from Stephen King's THE SHINING, prior to events of the novel, featuring writers such as Michael Bailey, Chelsea Cain, Johnny Compton, Mike Flanagan, Christopher Golden, Justina Ireland, Ai Jiang, Alma Katsu, Brian Keene, Daniel Kraus, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Chuck Palahniuk, and more, to Anna Kaufman at Vintage, with Ellie Pritchett editing, at auction, by Lane Heymont at The Tobias Literary Agency (NA). Book Deal Publisher's Marketplace THE GLITCHED HOUSE By Ben Farthing Digital: Fiction: Horror October 31, 2025 Author of The 31ST TRICK-OR-TREATER Ben Farthing's THE GLITCHED HOUSE, volume one of a trilogy of haunted house novels, to Rhett Bruno at Aethon & Vault, with Andrew Najberg editing, in a very nice deal, in a three-book deal, for publication in 2026, by Lane Heymont at The Tobias Literary Agency (world).
November 6, 2025 at 8:31 PM
aijiang.bsky.social
a title change for the debut novel forthcoming with @titanbooks.bsky.social in 2026 👀‼️

🎭🪷☁️AN EMPIRE IN THE CLOUDS ☁️🪷🎭

a Chinese-inspired science fantasy set on a drowning continent of royal siblings striving to survive in a climate of murder and corruption.
AN EMPIRE IN THE CLOUDS Backdrop of waves and clouds with koi fish, lotus, Chinese opera mask icons SEPTEMBER 2026 TITAN BOOKS Backdrop of waves and clouds with koi fish, lotus, Chinese opera mask icons
November 10, 2025 at 7:29 PM
aijiang.bsky.social
✨2025 Awards Eligiblity Post✨

if anyone needs a copy of anything for awards consideration, do reach out! 🙆🏻‍♀️🤍🙇🏻‍♀️
2025 Award Eligibility — Ai Jiang Novella A PALACE NEAR THE WIND (Titan Books) Novelette "All the Names You Didn't Choose" (YOU, Human Vol. 2 Anthology) select short stories "Memories Are Only Valuable if They Can Be Lost" (Clarkesworld) "Shadows Below Seaway Trains" (Apex Magazine) "All the Men Who Cried Wolf" (HOWL: An Anthology of Werewolves from Women-in-Horror) "Unsewn" (ROOTS OF MY FEARS: Terrifying Stories of Ancestral Horror) "The Heaven That Tastes Like Hell" (Silk & Sinew Anthology) "Red God Waiting" (The Rack II: More Stories Inspired by Vintage Horror Paperbacks) "On the Bridge Above the River" (And One Day We Will Die Anthology) "A Thousand Forbidden Weddings and a Song for Dead Darlings" (The Earth Bleeds at Night Anthology) Select Poetry "the bud of a dead dream" (Uncanny Magazine)
November 9, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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electricsheepsf.bsky.social
Ai Jiang was one of our early discussion group guests & we're thrilled to welcome her back for the SpecPo reading!

Join us to hear Ai read “We Drink Lava,” a Hugo finalist originally published in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social !

@aijiang.bsky.social
November 8, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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electricsheepsf.bsky.social
Check out the poem!
@aijiang.bsky.social in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social
We Drink Lava - Uncanny Magazine
We, the rebirthed gods, drink their past, we drink their anger, and we feel the ashes scrape against our lips, the heat boiling our skin, snaking its way in and its rough texture, cooling against our ...
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November 8, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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badhandbooks.bsky.social
We're having another nice round of sales of @garnetonwinter.bsky.social's SILK & SINEW. Named one of the best horror books of 2025 by the NY Public Library, the anthology features @aijiang.bsky.social @leemurraywriter.bsky.social @geneveflynn.bsky.social & more!

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Silk & Sinew: A Collection of Folk Horror From the Asian Diaspora
A Collection of Folk Horror From the Asian Diaspora
bookshop.org
November 6, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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electricsheepsf.bsky.social
Electric Sheep Reading Series – SpecPo Hugo Edition!

November 12
8 pm (US Eastern)

Guest Host: Holly Lyn Walrath
Guest of Honor: Marie Brennan, 2025 Hugo Winner for Best Poem

Readers:
Brian U. Garrison
Ai Jiang
Oliver K. Langmead
Angela Liu
Mari Ness
Brandon O’Brien, Poet Laureate 2025 WorldCon
November 4, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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electricsheepsf.bsky.social
The event is free to all but space is limited!
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Electric Sheep Reading Series - Poetry Edition!. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Guest Host: Holly Lyn Walrath, Speculative Poetry Initiative Guest of Honor: Marie Brennan, 2025 Hugo Winner for Best Poem Readers: Brian U. Garrison, SFPA President Ai Jiang, Hugo Nominee Oliver K. ...
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November 4, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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reactorsff.bsky.social
We’re thrilled to announce Poppy Creek, the debut novel by Ivy Fang!

This darkly funny twist on a haunted house tale follows Laurel Meng, a Chinese American con woman posing as an exorcist, and will be published by Tor Nightfire in 2027.
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Announcing Poppy Creek by Ivy Fang - Reactor
A tense, atmospheric horror novel arriving in 2027 from Nightfire
reactormag.com
October 30, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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hornsandrattles.bsky.social
We had a fantastic discussion in October! Next, we're reading Linghun by Ai Jiang! Join us Tuesday, November 11th, at 7pm.
Background: Black edged with spiders and spiderwebs. Against the background, the following text: Horror Book Club Linghun by Ai Jiang Tuesday, November 11th, 7pm Heirloom Rustic Ales, 2113 Admiral Blvd, Tulsa, OK 74110
October 31, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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writerjencrow.bsky.social
This story is amazing! Want to spend the days leading up to Halloween with some ghosts? This is an excellent option.
October 29, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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aijiang.bsky.social
looking for your next spooky season read? 👀👻🏡
Cover of Linghun with the following text on the graphic: Looking for your next spooky season read? Welcome home… WELCOME HOME. Follow Wenqi, Liam, and Mrs. in this modern gothic ghost story by Chinese-Canadian writer and immigrant, Ai Jiang. LINGHUN is set in the mysterious town of HOME, a place where the dead live again as spirits, conjured by the grief-sick population that refuses to let go.
October 29, 2025 at 12:11 AM
aijiang.bsky.social
looking for your next spooky season read? 👀👻🏡
Cover of Linghun with the following text on the graphic: Looking for your next spooky season read? Welcome home… WELCOME HOME. Follow Wenqi, Liam, and Mrs. in this modern gothic ghost story by Chinese-Canadian writer and immigrant, Ai Jiang. LINGHUN is set in the mysterious town of HOME, a place where the dead live again as spirits, conjured by the grief-sick population that refuses to let go.
October 29, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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librukie.bsky.social
"Solo hay una razón por la que alguien caminaría a través de los árboles custodios para llegar a HOGAR: no para buscar nueva vida, sino para satisfacer el anhelo de los muertos"
October 26, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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apexmag.bsky.social
A FINAL ROUND of Kickstarter add-ons are here! 🔮🌙

Grab an ebook from author @aijiang.bsky.social or a critique and SIGNED COPY from @ivygrimes.bsky.social, author of Violet Lichen's upcoming folk horror THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR. Available only on Kickstarter!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
a final round of Kickstarter rewards are here!! Author critiques, ebooks, and signed copies of the first novella from sister imprint, Violet Lichen! Ebooks from Author Ai Jiang! One each of A Palace Near the Wind I am Ai and Linghun. Last Chance Add-Ons! 5 signed copies of new Violet Lichen title The Cellar Beneath The Cellar by Ivy Grimes and 1 critique from the author. Available only on the Apex Magazine 2026 Kickstarter!
October 25, 2025 at 10:18 PM