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Leah Ning @leahning.bsky.social · 7h

In the Tongue of Unbanished Ghosts:

🏜️ A desert full of war
🔪 A mother whose secrets lead to her murder
🩶 A clueless, clumsy widower who forges watches with soul
🩵 A war criminal who is, unfortunately, very attractive
🏍️ And there was only one dirt bike

#dvpit #f #a

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Ai Jiang || 江艾|| 🍃🌬️🏰A Palace Near the Wind Out Now! 🏰🌬️🍃 @aijiang.bsky.social · 1d

sometimes I think about books and readers etc in terms ice creams and it makes me feel less anxious about it all 🥹:

some like strawberry ice cream, some like chocolate, some are lactose intolerant and enjoy sorbets instead, and some perhaps don’t like the cold at all

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Leah Ning @leahning.bsky.social · 11h

Gay JOHN WICK x MAD MAX FURY ROAD + soul magic

When his ma’s murdered, Noah embarks on a cross-desert hunt for answers—w/ an annoyingly attractive war criminal offering help. As Noah’s suspicion turns to feelings (ugh!), secrets from his companion’s past threaten to destroy them both. #dvpit #a #f

A mood board of eight pictures: reddish dunes, the wheel of a dirt bike, two silhouettes of men, silhouettes in a nightclub, a truck driving through dust, tents in a desert, and a lone house on flat sand.

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Ai Jiang || 江艾|| 🍃🌬️🏰A Palace Near the Wind Out Now! 🏰🌬️🍃 @aijiang.bsky.social · 1d

😂 Tis a sign to grab some!

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Pauline Chow (My gothic fantasy is Chasing Moonflowers!) @paulinechow.bsky.social · 1d

✨ Critiques & limited 1:1 sessions with the incredible contributors of Coven of the East are live!
Connect with @aijiang.bsky.social, @wenwenyang.bsky.social, @sarasurani.bsky.social, @leemurray.bsky.social, @muteddragon.bsky.social, and co-editors → www.kickstarter.com/projects/ang...

Coven of the East

An anthology of essays and fiction reimagining Asian women's magical histories.

www.kickstarter.com

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Ai Jiang || 江艾|| 🍃🌬️🏰A Palace Near the Wind Out Now! 🏰🌬️🍃 @aijiang.bsky.social · 1d

sometimes I think about books and readers etc in terms ice creams and it makes me feel less anxious about it all 🥹:

some like strawberry ice cream, some like chocolate, some are lactose intolerant and enjoy sorbets instead, and some perhaps don’t like the cold at all

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Pauline Chow (My gothic fantasy is Chasing Moonflowers!) @paulinechow.bsky.social · 2d

Why Support Coven of the East? 🔮
✨ Representation with teeth — Asian women’s voices centered
✨ A new pov: Magic & identity intertwined
✨ Uplifting Community & craft

Get a reading with @benebell or Mudang Jenn, grimoire, classes, and more #witchcraft → www.kickstarter.com/projects/ang...

Coven of the East

An anthology of essays and fiction reimagining Asian women's magical histories.

www.kickstarter.com

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Ai Jiang || 江艾|| 🍃🌬️🏰A Palace Near the Wind Out Now! 🏰🌬️🍃 @aijiang.bsky.social · 2d

Twas lovely to see you!! 🙆🏻‍♀️

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Hamilton Public Library @hamiltonlibrary.bsky.social · 7d

Kick off October with tomorrow night's (October 2) FrightFest Horror Author Panel! 🎃
Meet Andrew F. Sullivan, Ai Jiang, and Emily Weedon as they join host Emily Kellogg for a chilling night at Central Library, starting at 6:30pm.
www.hpl.ca/author-series #HamOnt

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The Pixel Project @thepixelproject.bsky.social · 6d

DVAM 2025: For Domestic Violence Awareness Month 2025, we present the 1st in our series of interviews with Read For Pixels poets. In this interview, we talk to Ai Jiang who contributed her poem "A House Unhaunted" to our 1st charity poetry collection, UNDER HER EYE:

tinyurl.com/AiJiangDVAM2...

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Ai Jiang || 江艾|| 🍃🌬️🏰A Palace Near the Wind Out Now! 🏰🌬️🍃 @aijiang.bsky.social · 7d

You as well!

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Titan Books @titanbooks.bsky.social · Aug 18

Calling all reviewers! 📣

You can now request 2026 titles from Titan Books by filling out this form: bit.ly/2026TitanARCs

We update this form regularly, so make sure you check back if you don't want to miss any books! 💙

Request a 2026 ARC from Titan Books! ✨

If you would like to request an ARC for a 2025 title, please use this form. You must be 18 or over and based in the UK, Republic of Ireland, United States of America or Canada. Please note that subm...

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Ai Jiang || 江艾|| 🍃🌬️🏰A Palace Near the Wind Out Now! 🏰🌬️🍃 @aijiang.bsky.social · 8d

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

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TriCon @tricon-hfx.bsky.social · 14d

Introducing TriCon! ✨May 15-17, 2026 in Kjipuktuk | #Halifax. Celebrating spec fic, we couldn't be prouder to have @amalelmohtar.com @englelaird.bsky.social and @kurestinarmada.bsky.social joining us as our Guests of Honour. Earlybird tickets available now! 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/tricon-the...

Blue graphic stating that Earlybird Tickets for TriCon: The Trident Conference for Soeculative Fiction are on sale now. Lower right corner says Kjipuktuk | Halifax, May 15-17 2026

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Shortwave Publishing @shortwavebooks.bsky.social · 8d

Out today! 101 Horror Stories: Shortwave Publishing Collected Stories Vol 1

Featuring stories from nearly 90 authors, this eBook box set contains our previous anthologies and the new anthology Dark Frequencies (stories from our magazine and chapbooks).

shortwavepublishing.com/boxset/short...

A graphic featuring the cover art of 101 Horror Stories: Shortwave Publishing Collected Stories, Vol. 1 below the text: "Out Today! 101 Horror Stories from nearly 90 Authors including Nat Cassidy, Adam Cesare, Hailey Piper, Clay McLeod Chapman, Ai Jiang, Eric LaRocca, Gabino Iglecias, Johnny Compton, Laurel Hightower, Brian Keene, Tanya Pell, Jamie Flanagan, Mae Murray, and many others..."

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Ai Jiang || 江艾|| 🍃🌬️🏰A Palace Near the Wind Out Now! 🏰🌬️🍃 @aijiang.bsky.social · 8d

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!)

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Ren Hutchings @voidcricket.bsky.social · 10d

My surreal roadtrip novella is out soon! Enormous thanks goes out to the brilliant SFF authors who read this weird little book & gave it such heartfelt blurbs.

Please follow them & check out their books! (Tagging them below)

🧭 THE LEGEND LIMINAL is out Sep 30th from @starsandsabers.bsky.social 💫

A stack of books piled up on a wooden desk with a blue cosmic backdrop. THE LEGEND LIMINAL by Ren Hutchings is facing out. Books in the stack are: Down in the Sea of Angels by Khan Wong, A Palace Near The Wind by Ai Jiang, The Iron Children by Rebecca Fraimow, City of Shattered Light by Claire Winn, We Who Hunt The Hollow by Kate Murray.

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Ai Jiang || 江艾|| 🍃🌬️🏰A Palace Near the Wind Out Now! 🏰🌬️🍃 @aijiang.bsky.social · 9d

Yis 😂‼️

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Kelsea Yu @anovelescape.bsky.social · 9d

Thank you to the incredible @aijiang.bsky.social for this stunning blurb! 🥰😭🖤🫶

DEMON SONG comes out TOMORROW in hardcover, ebook, and audio, wherever books are sold!! 😱😱😱

@titanbooks.bsky.social 🖤

Blurb tile for DEMON SONG which reads as follows: “Demon Song is a fast-paced exploration of the power of performance and the cost of desire by the queen of thrilling murder mysteries, twisty red herrings, and complex mother-daughter relationships.”

—Ai Jiang, Ignyte, Bram Stoker, and Nebula Award-winning author of Linghun and A Palace Near the Wind

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Ai Jiang || 江艾|| 🍃🌬️🏰A Palace Near the Wind Out Now! 🏰🌬️🍃 @aijiang.bsky.social · 10d

the best reading company 🥹🤍🙆🏻‍♀️

Me sitting on a staircase with a book laughing with two cats accompanying on the steps

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Ai Jiang || 江艾|| 🍃🌬️🏰A Palace Near the Wind Out Now! 🏰🌬️🍃 @aijiang.bsky.social · 9d

Thank you 🥹🥹

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Ren Hutchings @voidcricket.bsky.social · 10d

Thank you to these incredible authors who blurbed THE LEGEND LIMINAL 🥹

@khanwong.bsky.social
@aijiang.bsky.social
@rebeccafraimow.bsky.social
@clairewinn.bsky.social
@katemurray.bsky.social

Check out these SFF books for your TBR! Image: book covers arranged against the backdrop of an empty nighttime highway. The books are Down in the Sea of Angels by Khan Wong, A Palace Near The Wind by Ai Jiang, The Iron Children by Rebecca Fraimow, City of Shattered Light by Claire Winn, We Who Hunt the Hollow by Kate Murray.

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Ai Jiang || 江艾|| 🍃🌬️🏰A Palace Near the Wind Out Now! 🏰🌬️🍃 @aijiang.bsky.social · 10d

the best reading company 🥹🤍🙆🏻‍♀️

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Ai Jiang || 江艾|| 🍃🌬️🏰A Palace Near the Wind Out Now! 🏰🌬️🍃 @aijiang.bsky.social · 11d

Currently here at The Word on the Street—If y’all are around and keen to join a scavenger hunt 👀‼️✨

Run by: Diaspora Dialogues 👀✨

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Dianna Gunn Does (Fictional) Murders 🇨🇦 @diannalgunn.bsky.social · 11d

Next up is the very first blurb we got for #ChoicesAnthology, from the magnificent @aijiang.bsky.social

Preorder today to be just as horrified - and just as moved - as she was books2read.com/u/3JYo9Q

Red paint background with the cover for Choices: An Anthology of Reproductive Horror on the left. The cover lists the editor, Dianna Gunn, the author of the foreward, Alex Woodroe, and the names of the authors: R Haven, Ondine Mayor, Enoli Lee, Ash Vale, Justine White, Kelli Etheridge, Ava Victoria Black, Allay Rei, Soyam Siddha, Sam Rosewilde, A.H. Davison, Meg Calendaria, KT Wagner, Anne Wilkins, Bogi Takacs, Amanda Cecelia Lang, Elise Scott, Mia Dalia, Raluca Balasa.

The right side says: "CHOICES: AN ANTHOLOGY OF REPRODUCTIVE HORROR is filled with tales of rage, vengeance, bitter regret about bodily anatomy, generational trauma, prejudice and injustice, confines and constraints of gender. Each and every narrative is transformative in its own way, brutal yet honest, horrific and heartrending in their reversals and subversions. This powerful collective brings to light all my worst fears and desired liberations." ~ Ai Jiang, Author of Linghun

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