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Joyce (Wolf) Chng/Ch'ng 🐺

@jolantru.bsky.social

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Werewolves.(Hugo winner) Strange Horizons Articles Senior Ed & Fiction Ed. COS Originals ed. IGDN diversity board. Kidlit. Independent aca-fan. J. Damask. FIRE HEART (2024). COLD STEEL and WOLF'S PATH (2025). Giant Oarfish (imprint). (She/They/Qar)

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Joyce (Wolf) Chng/Ch'ng 🐺 @jolantru.bsky.social · Feb 25

The big 50 looms! Saturday.

And the book of my writing path... is released into the wild.

Joyce (Wolf) Chng/Ch'ng 🐺 @jolantru.bsky.social · Feb 22

1st March is next week!

Wolf's Path is a collection of my stories from the start of my writing path until now. I turn 50 this year.

The collection is unapologetically queer & trans & joyful and angry & painful.

www.atthisarts.com/product/wolf...

Wolf's Path by Joyce Chng

within a running wolf, four-pawed, howling

www.atthisarts.com

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Joyce (Wolf) Chng/Ch'ng 🐺 @jolantru.bsky.social · 5m

I need a stiff drink.

Joyce (Wolf) Chng/Ch'ng 🐺 @jolantru.bsky.social · 13m

His colour is better now. He is just bored.

Joyce (Wolf) Chng/Ch'ng 🐺 @jolantru.bsky.social · 1h

Going to visit dad at the hospital.

Breathe, me, breathe.

Joyce (Wolf) Chng/Ch'ng 🐺 @jolantru.bsky.social · 1h

Going to visit dad at the hospital.

Breathe, me, breathe.

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Joyce (Wolf) Chng/Ch'ng 🐺 @jolantru.bsky.social · 2h

Yeah, I am the nervous one in the extended family. >.< But thank goddess for the doctors. >.<

Joyce (Wolf) Chng/Ch'ng 🐺 @jolantru.bsky.social · 3h

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Joyce (Wolf) Chng/Ch'ng 🐺 @jolantru.bsky.social · 3h

*hugs* Surgery and stress definitely are a horrible combo.

Joyce (Wolf) Chng/Ch'ng 🐺 @jolantru.bsky.social · 3h

Fossilized clam!

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Joyce (Wolf) Chng/Ch'ng 🐺 @jolantru.bsky.social · 3h

Sometimes our lives look like we are just writing and nothing else. And we are just producing books and stories to be read.

But... we are human and mortal. And we are going through a lot.

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Joyce (Wolf) Chng/Ch'ng 🐺 @jolantru.bsky.social · 3h

I lied. I worked on some of the edits.

But I am going to pause for a bit.

Sometimes... actually most of the time... a lot of readers do not know how much duress writers and authors are under.

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KP Upadhyayula @kp11studios.bsky.social · 3h

“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.”

- George Orwell, 1984

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Joyce (Wolf) Chng/Ch'ng 🐺 @jolantru.bsky.social · 4h

Had a long chat with cousin - thank goddess for doctors in the family. He's a senior consultant... so, he reduced my anxiety down a few notches by talking objectively.

No use jumping to conclusions.

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Joyce (Wolf) Chng/Ch'ng 🐺 @jolantru.bsky.social · 4h

Today:
1. Reading edits/editorial notes (my turn as writer).
2. Worried about dad.
3. Still good (though barely).

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curious ordinary @curiousordinary.bsky.social · 5h

What a lovely surprise to find this gorgeous dragon lizard on my front deck this morning.

A large dragon lizard sitting between two pots on a deck.

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Joyce (Wolf) Chng/Ch'ng 🐺 @jolantru.bsky.social · 5h

Thank you. 🫂

Joyce (Wolf) Chng/Ch'ng 🐺 @jolantru.bsky.social · 5h

Me: I have nine pages of edits.
Also me: It's Sunday and I am still stressed (re: dad).

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Joyce (Wolf) Chng/Ch'ng 🐺 @jolantru.bsky.social · 11d

It's now 7 months old and growing strong!

www.atthisarts.com/product/wolf...

Wolf's Path by Joyce Chng

within a running wolf, four-pawed, howling

www.atthisarts.com

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Joyce (Wolf) Chng/Ch'ng 🐺 @jolantru.bsky.social · 1d

Likewise, only for Asia.

Fire Heart (Scholastic Asia).

closetfulofbooks.com/products/fir...

Fire Heart

Written by Joyce Ch'ngpaperback Wehia t’Doniyat, the eldest daughter of a knifesmith’s holding that specialises in ornamental daggers, wishes with all her heart to make a longsword like the one create...

closetfulofbooks.com

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Joyce (Wolf) Chng/Ch'ng 🐺 @jolantru.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, I have a YA fantasy out!

www.snowywingspublishing.com/book/fire-he...

www.snowywingspublishing.com/book/cold-st...

#YAfantasy #sapphic #swords

The promo graphic/banner for the Fire Heart duology. Cover art is by Yasu Matsuoka.

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Claudie @clh2oars.bsky.social · 6h

COMMON BONDS lovers, you can get even more of the good stuff. An entire anthology of short stories and poems that have:
💚 science fiction and fantasy
💚 aromantic MCs
💚 a focus on platonic relationships!

Publication in 2026; preorders through late pledges: www.kickstarter.com/projects/cla...

🌈📚

An orange leafy background with a blue thread of wool passing over it, as well as the occasional autumn leaves. In the centre is the cover for Common Bonds 2 (two friends knitting a sweater within a frame of autumnal leaves). The image says describes this book as “an aromantic SFF anthology” that is coming in 2026 and can be preordered through Kickstarter’s late pledges.

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Joyce (Wolf) Chng/Ch'ng 🐺 @jolantru.bsky.social · 6h

Hello Sunday.

Joyce (Wolf) Chng/Ch'ng 🐺 @jolantru.bsky.social · 18h

🫂

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E.D.E. Bell @edebell.com · 18h

Still getting NetGalley requests for Sexy Garlic, and here's the thing. These stories were all passed on, in one way or another. So putting them out and subjecting them to reviews is ... vulnerable. Even if they weren't really personal.

But I feel good about it. Let the reviews fall where they may.

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Joyce (Wolf) Chng/Ch'ng 🐺 @jolantru.bsky.social · 18h

It has left an indelible memory in my head. >.<

Joyce (Wolf) Chng/Ch'ng 🐺 @jolantru.bsky.social · 19h

I think everyone in our age group remembered all these.

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Queen of Swords Press @qospress.bsky.social · 19h

#Booksky Today! Go visit Michael and other vendors at the always delightful Cream & Amber in Hopkins, MN from 10-2!

Queen of Swords Press @qospress.bsky.social · 4d

#Booksky Upcoming book table! Author Michael Merriam @mmerriam.bsky.social will be at @creamandamber.bsky.social‘s Fall Mini Mart in Hopkins, MN this Saturday from 10/2 with our books and his. Go say hi! creamandamber.com/event/2025-1...

Fall Mini Market

creamandamber.com

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