Ai Jiang || 江艾|| 🍃🌬️🏰A Palace Near the Wind Out Now! 🏰🌬️🍃

A birth announcement for a book! Including the book cover, the size of the book (14 by 12) and weight of book (567 grams). There are faint, blue starts surrounding the book which is displayed against a light blue, watercolour background.

A.D. Sui (caucasian person with short, brown hair) is wearing a grey top coat and jeans, pointing to The Iron Garden Sutra on a bookstore bookshelf and smiling.

and we're live, folks!

THE IRON GARDEN SUTRA is now out everywhere books are sold! if you pre-ordered a copy, you should be receiving it soon (or already have) and if not, it's not too late to purchase the yellowest book in all of history!

A plain white background. At the top of the image reads: “TBR” in purple text, and below it reads: “What we’ll read” in blue text. Underneath are book covers and the month they’ll be read in: March - “The Empire” by Susanna Fournier. April - “Bird Suit” by Sydney Hegele. May - “A Palace Near the Wind” by Ai Jiang. June - “Green Fuse Burning” by Tiffany Morris. July - “The Dragonfly Gambit” by A.D. Sui.  August - “Chrysalis” by Anuja Varghese. September - “Split Tooth” by Tanya Tagaq. October - “Gods of Jade & Shadow” by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. November - “Blackheart Man” by Nalo Hopkinson. December - “Moon of the Crusted Snow” by Waubgeshig Rice. Below it reads: “Small towns, glorious fantasies, intimate relationships, space opera drama, and heart-wrenching horror—the Augur Bookshelf will explore it all this year.” At the bottom of the image reads: “Join the Book Club - Link in Bio” in black text with a black border around it.

Our full TBR👇
March - “The Empire” by Susanna Fournier
April - “Bird Suit” by @sydhegele.bsky.social
May - “A Palace Near the Wind” by @aijiang.bsky.social
June - “Green Fuse Burning” by @tiffmorris.bsky.social
July - “The Dragonfly Gambit” by @thesuiway.bsky.social

& more 👇

A noir-toned background image of a rainy city skyscape, birds flying with a backdrop of smeared neon lights, with a detective standing on a rooftop in long coat and hat with one arm raised. Right-justified text on the image reads "open call for novellas, opens: 4.01.26, closes: 4.30.26." The Ruadán Books logo is centered above the text.

We're opening to novella manuscripts on 4/1/26! We're looking for dark thrillers, crime noir, & dark speculative fiction—if you've got a complete novella (25k-40k words) that fits, we want to hear from you.

Submission guidelines coming soon: links.ruadanbooks.com/cfs

#WriterSky #AuthorSky

Ex Partum is a dystopian novella reminiscent of The Giver while exploring parental anxieties and exhaustion, invasion of privacy, sacrifice for choice, unlearning and relearning, corporate greed, and over-confidence and reliance on tech. burnett delivers a heartrending story that illuminates the flaws of every society as well as ourselves. —Ai Jiang, author of Linghun and A Palace Near the Wind; image shows surreal depiction of a repetitive interior. Ex Partum by emma burnett, sci-fi novella, coming June 2026, Atthis Arts, Detroit Michigan

Ex Partum by @slashnburnett.bsky.social 🔥 - Watch this space for pre-orders, coming soon! #BookSky

So exciting!!! 👀‼️ I hope you enjoy the read! 🥺

I received so many ARCs of my most anticipated reads! Are any of these one’s you’re looking forward to too?

The Last Contract of Isako by @fondalee.bsky.social - out from @orbitbooks.bsky.social in May!

The Inn at the Foot of Mount Vengeance by @chiarab.bsky.social - out from Del Rey UK in July!

I hope March treats you and yours well as well!

Story Hour Every week, an hour of speculative fiction short stories, narrated by the authors. From horror to weird to hard SF and everything in between; from newly published authors to seasoned pros and multiple...

“A matchmaker hands the elder your death certificate.”

@aijiang.bsky.social this week on m.youtube.com/@StoryHour2020

Excellently spooky, and with a beating heart. Go ahead and watch!

February 25, 2026 Story Hour: Ai Jiang and Cynthia Gómez YouTube video by Story Hour

This Story Hour, Ai Jiang and Cynthia Gómez showed us what horror stories can do. We started with a heartbreaking ghost story and ended with hard-hitting social horror. You can still watch! @aijiang.bsky.social @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social youtu.be/QLbAuC6vQOI

Need a little something for your #TBR? Ai Jiang shares 5 books at Big Indie Books that share themes with #anOtherNemesis (coauthors Eugen Bacon, Angela Yuriko Smith & Maxwell I. Gold. It is SUPERB!)

https://smpl.is/ahohg

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Tomorrow, friends! Catch me and @aijiang.bsky.social reading at @storyhour.bsky.social -- 7 p.m. Pacific time :)

www.instagram.com/p/DVJ6CrJkjje/

Head-and-shoulders color photo of author Cynthia Gómez, a woman with fair skin and clear light-brown eyes. Her long, curly hair, which dark and threaded with silver, is parted on the side. She wears a purple tank, long earrings, and minimal eye makeup. She stands in front of a plastered wall and looks directly into the camera with a faint smile.

Head-and-shoulders color photo of author Ai Jiang, a woman with fair skin and dark eyes. A breeze stirs her long, glossy hair, which is dark with a dyed light-blue streak and parted on the side. She wears a windbreaker that might be dark green and stands in full sunlight, with water behind her and a few trees in the distance. She looks to the side and slightly down, grinning at what she sees.

Ready for some spooky stories? Cynthia Gómez and Ai Jiang have you covered! Join us for Story Hour Wednesday at 7:00 p.m. PST! @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social @aijiang.bsky.social www.storyhour2020.com

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I'll be reading a series of flash pieces, including my dark feminist revenge tale, "A Girl Goes on a Date Alone at Night."

Digital artwork of a young white woman with black hair braided around her head and grey eyes wearing a quasi-historical midnight blue dress with a low neckline and flared sleeves embroidered with stars. She’s holding a rose up to her chest. The image is accompanied by the words “WOMAN OF SORROW AND BLOOD explores unwavering faith and unsettling devotion through a blue beard-esque narrative. Gunn weaves a tale of fear, obsession, immortality, addiction and the choiceless circumstances we are often thrown into and how difficult escape may be. - Ai Jiang, author of Linghun”

I was terrified to ask authors I admire to blurb Woman of Sorrow and Blood

But I did it, and they LOVED the book!

Check out this blurb from @aijiang.bsky.social & then go preorder WoSaB on Itch: diannagunn.itch.io/wosab

Or elsewhere: books2read.com/u/m0p0kW 🩸📖🖋️ #HorrorSky #BookSky

This Wednesday, folks!

Story Hour promo graphic with a picture of me and Cynthia Gómez!

Coming this Wednesday at 7pm PST/ 10pm EST on @storyhour.bsky.social with @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social 👀‼️🤍 Join us for some spooky stories 👻

Yis!! 👀‼️

Story Hour promo graphic with a picture of me and Cynthia Gómez!

Coming this Wednesday at 7pm PST/ 10pm EST on @storyhour.bsky.social with @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social 👀‼️🤍 Join us for some spooky stories 👻

the natural engines duology complete 👀🤍🏰🌊🍃🌬️

🍃🌬️🏰A PALACE NEAR THE WIND🏰🌬️🍃
🌊🌬️A RIVER FROM THE SKY🌊🌬️

@titanbooks.bsky.social april 2025 & april 2026🌿

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#naturalengines #fantasy #bookstagram #apalacenearthewind #ariverfromthesky

Blog Tour Banner & image of Ai Jiang and anOther Nemesis book cover

Blog Tour Banner & image of Ai Jiang and anOther Nemesis book cover

Ai Jiang pays a visit to Michael Coulombe's Substack on the next stop of the anOther Nemesis #BlogTour! This is a fantastic interview so be sure to stop by!

https://smpl.is/ahj4v

Thanks so much, Rick!! 🥺

I hope you enjoy RIVER as well!! 🥺

Thank you!!!

the natural engines duology complete 👀🤍🏰🌊🍃🌬️

🍃🌬️🏰A PALACE NEAR THE WIND🏰🌬️🍃
🌊🌬️A RIVER FROM THE SKY🌊🌬️

@titanbooks.bsky.social april 2025 & april 2026🌿

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#naturalengines #fantasy #bookstagram #apalacenearthewind #ariverfromthesky

For those who have been waiting for the special ed 👀‼️

ohhhh!

AI Jiang I find it very difficult to break my time up to write long form and find it most effectively when I draft in one go.

New Substack interview with @aijiang.bsky.social — Bram Stoker & BFSA winner.

We talk An Opera of Salamanders and the upcoming poetry collection anOther Nemesis from @meerkatpress.bsky.social

mcoulombewrites.substack.com/p/ai-jiang

#writer #horror #poetry #substack

You as well!!