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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)

https://aijiang.carrd.co/
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for the paperback readers 👀‼️

*links for preorder in my bio*

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

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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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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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✨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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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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more from the banff science fiction residency 2025!

📸: Abigaile Edwards, Banff Centre 2025
Me reading from my iPad in front of a mic Me reading from my iPad in front of a mic Me reading from my iPad in front of a mic Me speaking to a residency attendee
October 23, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Bookmark and Bookplate reveal for 🌬️🌊⚙️A RIVER FROM THE SKY 🌬️🌊⚙️

April 21, 2026 from @titanbooks.bsky.social

If you preorder A RIVER FROM THE SKY and fill out the form in my bio, you can get a bookmark & bookplate along with the art cards!! (Indie bookstore preorder campaign info coming soon!)
A River from the Sky bookmarks with the cover art A River from the Sky signed bookplate with cover elements as the design
September 30, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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the best reading company 🥹🤍🙆🏻‍♀️
Me sitting on a staircase with a book laughing with two cats accompanying on the steps Me sitting on a staircase with a book laughing with two cats accompanying on the steps
September 28, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Currently here at The Word on the Street—If y’all are around and keen to join a scavenger hunt 👀‼️✨

Run by: Diaspora Dialogues 👀✨
September 27, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Twas an absolute honour getting to serve as faculty for the @banffcentre.bsky.social’s first science fiction residency!! 🥺✨‼️
Group photo of the 2025 Banff Center for Arts and Creativity Science Fiction residency Banff Center for Arts and Creativity Science Fiction residency faculty group photo
September 23, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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Map card reveal for 🌬️🌊⚙️A RIVER FROM THE SKY 🌬️🌊⚙️

April 21, 2026 from @titanbooks.bsky.social

If you preorder A RIVER FROM THE SKY and fill out the form in my bio, you can get a map card illustrated by @dlbowman76.com !!
Map art card by David Bowman for A RIVER FROM THE SKY book A RIVER FROM THE SKY cover
September 19, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Art card reveal for 🌬️🌊⚙️A RIVER FROM THE SKY 🌬️🌊⚙️

April 21, 2026 from @titanbooks.bsky.social

Preorder the next/last instalment in the Natural Engines duology, you can get this setting art card illustrated by Nancy Zhang (preorder campaign form in my bio) 👀✨‼️🤍
A RIVER FROM THE SKY art card by Nancy Zhang featuring wheel tracks leading to a large water wheel engine A River From the Sky book cover featuring a being in a beige robe with hair rising as though in water, framed by koi fish. Colour palette is orange and light blue.
September 16, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Another announcement you say? 👀 I’m excited to say that my short story collection 💭MEMORIES ARE ONLY VALUABLE IF THEY CAN BE LOST💭will be forthcoming with @shortwavebooks.bsky.social spring 2027, and will include I AM AI as well! 🙇🏻‍♀️🤍
Screenshot of the publisher’s marketplace announcement of MEMORIES ARE ONLY VALUABLE IF THEY CAN BE LOST by Ai Jiang, a collection on hauntings, loss, and diaspora, across fantasy, dystopian, and horror fiction, sold to Alan Lastufka at Shortwave by Lane Heymont and Danai Christopoulou from The Tobias Literary Agency
August 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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so excited to announce that my debut poetry collection 🌬️WE IN/EXHALE ODYSSEYS 🌬️will be forthcoming in 2027 with @badhandbooks.bsky.social 👀‼️✨
A translucent ancient China style gate graphic with a ring around it, surrounded by clouds. Text inside the pergola: WE INHALE EXHALE ODYSSEYS, Ai Jiang, 2027 Bad Hand Books A translucent ancient China style gate with a ring around it, surrounded by clouds with a publisher’s marketplace announcement at the Center for a debut poetry collection titled WE IN/EXHALE ODYSSEYS.
August 19, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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🍃🌬️🏰A PALACE NEAR THE WIND🏰🌬️🍃 audiobook is forthcoming April 14, 2026 on @tantoraudio.bsky.social 👀‼️✨

narrator: Katharine Chin

rbmediaglobal.com/audiobook/97...

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A PALACE NEAR THE WIND audiobook graphic with the cover amid floating clouds
August 5, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Ya smol bean’s first story in @clarkesworldmagazine.com is here! 👀✨‼️

A sneak peek of “Memories Are Only Valuable If They Can Be Lost” below 🙆🏻‍♀️🤍

Full story: clarkesworldmagazine.com/jiang_08_25/
Clarkesworld Issue 227 cover Screenshot of the opening of “Memories Are Only Valuable If They Can Be Lost”
August 1, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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of course we forgot to take a photo on our anniversary so here’s a picture of some rocks we painted instead 😂🤍🙇🏻‍♀️🙆🏻‍♀️

here’s to 4yrs married & 7yrs together 💍👥
two rocks, one painted like Eva but in Venom style (painted by Focus), the other is No Face after eating a lot (painted by me)
July 26, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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the real author—I’m just her ghost writer 😂🫣👻🤍
a light champagne highland lynx cat sitting next to vase of flowers on a table a light champagne highland lynx cat sitting next to vase of flowers on a table
July 11, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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the squad together all lined up 🌊🌬️🦾👻
covers of A RIVER FROM THE SKY and A PALACE NEAR THE WIND in frames on the wall covers of A RIVER FROM THE SKY, A PALACE NEAR THE WIND, I AM AI, LINGHUN in frames on the wall
July 10, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Contributor Anthology Mail! 👀✨‼️
Me holding a copy of The Earth Bleeds At Night anthology “A Thousand Forbidden Weddings and a Song for Dead Darlings” story page in The Earth Bleeds At Night Anthology” Me holding up a copy of You, Human Vol. 2 anthology “All the Names You Didn’t Choose” story page in You, Human Vol. 2 anthology
July 4, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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tis confirmed—I’m a 🍂🍁fall🍁🍂 type of gal after all 🥹😶‍🌫️🫣
me trying to avoid the water on top on three floaties—one yellow ring, one pink ring, and a ring shaped like a flamingo
July 3, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Contract signed! After 30 submissions, ya girl is finally going to have a story forthcoming in @clarkesworldmagazine.com for the first time!! 😭🙇🏻‍♀️🤍
Screenshot of the Clarkesworld submissions system showing the Closed Submissions tab
July 1, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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ICYMI — the cover for A RIVER FROM THE SKY🌬️⚙️🌊, the second book in the Natural Engines duology after A PALACE NEAR THE WIND 🏰🌬️🍃👀✨🤍🙇🏻‍♀️

forthcoming April 2026 — @titanbooks.bsky.social

cover artist: @natmack.bsky.social
the cover of A RIVER FROM THE SKY with a front facing being, gear, koi, and water elements, and a blue and orange colour palette framed on a wall the cover of A RIVER FROM THE SKY and the cover of A PALACE NEAR THE WIND side by side in frames (A PALACE NEAR THE WIND features a being with flowing black hair side profile with wind elements and a green and gold colour palette
June 30, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Cover Reveal for A RIVER FROM THE SKY (the second book in the Natural Engines duology) forthcoming April 2026 with @titanbooks.bsky.social is now live with @thefantasyhive.bsky.social 👀‼️🌊🌬️⚙️

Eternally grateful to Natasha Mackenzie for once again creating such a gorgeous cover! 😭🫶🏼🔥
Cover of A RIVER FROM THE SKY featuring a being with billowing black hair in a beige robe with wind and water design elements. Koi fish, flowers, and heads float around their head.
June 27, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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incredibly honoured to see A PALACE NEAR THE WIND (@titanbooks.bsky.social ) included in this @nytimes.com article by @marthawells.com 😭‼️✨
screenshots of Martha Well’s NYT article “Want to Escape Reality? Try One of These Books.” Screenshot of A PALACE NEAR THE WIND mention in Martha Well’s NYT article “Want to Escape Reality? Try One of These Books.”
June 26, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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a day trip to Montreal for an event at @joiedelivresmtl.bsky.social with @sofiaajram.bsky.social 🥺✨‼️

and a writer’s first on the bingo sheet to have so many copies of PALACE placed on a store window display! 😭🤍🙇🏻‍♀️
Me in front of a store window display of A PALACE NEAR THE WIND A collage of photos of me and Sofia at Joie de livres A collage of photos including me signing copies of A PALACE NEAR THE WIND and a interior shot of Joie de livres with pink shelvings A collage of photos of me holding a mic, signing copies of A PALACE NEAR THE WIND, and me and Sofia in conversation with Mathieu hosting
June 24, 2025 at 2:35 PM