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Nghi Vo

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Spec fic writer. It probably didn't happen, but it should have, could have or might have. Represented by Fox Literary. Cis, queer, she/her.

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(screams myself hoarse)

This one is so much. It's SO MUCH, you don't even know!

09.12.2025 18:26 πŸ‘ 351 πŸ” 65 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 1

Cardinal Pens sells sacs and replacement j-bars and pressure bars. I've purchased repair supplies from them and been very happy! They also do repairs, I believe, if you want to hand the project over to someone else.

24.11.2025 04:03 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If you listen to The Garden too carelessly, it becomes a loop from which you cannot escape.

17.11.2025 00:23 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain The cleric Chih finds themself and their companions at the mercy of a band of fierce tigers who ache with hunger. To stay alive until the mammoths can save them, Chih must unwind the intricate, layere...

Whoa, it's been 5 years since When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain came out on audio!

Check it out for 70% off at the link!

It's sapphic tigers, imperial exams, and telling stories to save your life, all narrated by the incredible @cindykay.bsky.social !

www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...

11.11.2025 18:37 πŸ‘ 46 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 3

There's probably something in there that could become something (no bets on what it might look like after I'm forced to write it down or after I've had breakfast) but there it is!

This happens to me a couple times a day nearly every day, so y'know, here we are.

31.10.2025 17:53 πŸ‘ 36 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

6. Billie Burke acquires new fame as an object of curiosity among Martians.

7. Resurrection among the stars, a star returned to earth, changed, uncanny and still speaking with the cadences of the famous trained Transatlantic accent of early Hollywood.

31.10.2025 17:53 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

5. You know, if there were people living on Mars, this would be a hell of a thing to explain to them.

"Hey, we showed up, walked all over your backyard, and named that one very ancient feature that's been a part of your lives and culture after a 1930s actress."

31.10.2025 17:53 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

2. Oh there's a signature underneath, it's a celebrity endorsement, I wonder who that is... It's Billie Burke, who's that?

3. Oh hey, she played Glinda the Good Witch among a lot of other roles on Broadway, radio, silent movies and talkies.

4. They named a crater on Mars after her.

31.10.2025 17:53 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Once in a while, I get asked "where do your ideas come from?" and this morning I got a mini-version of the process to share.

1. See an ad from 1925 for Tuxedo Tobacco which features a white woman in profile stating "I love to see a man smoke a pipe."

31.10.2025 17:53 πŸ‘ 41 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

we're hosting @nghivo.bsky.social tonight πŸˆβ€β¬› 6pm at the bookstore πŸˆβ€β¬› wander in, clerics πŸ§™πŸ“šβœ¨

16.10.2025 19:39 πŸ‘ 23 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

A Room of One's Own is very special to me- a lot of my protesting as been done in Madison, and when they were on State Street, I used to duck in there when the crowd was getting claustrophobic. Some of my favorite booksellers around!

16.10.2025 17:09 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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A Mouthful of Dust by Nghi Vo

Hey, Wisconsin folks, you around in Madison tonight?

I'm gonna be at A Room of One's Own at 6PM talking about A Mouthful of Dust, #6 in the Singing Hills standalone novella series!

roomofonesown.com/event/2025-1...

16.10.2025 17:09 πŸ‘ 39 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Also scored a copy of Murderbot, Vol. 1, which collects the first three novellas!

12.10.2025 18:38 πŸ‘ 23 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Left a handful of signed copies of Don't Sleep with the Dead at Barbara's Bookstore in O'Hare, F Concourse mear the McDonalds!

12.10.2025 18:38 πŸ‘ 26 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Anyone in Wichita, KS tonight?

I'm on at Watermark Books and Cafe tonight at 6PM talking about Singing Hills #6, A Mouthful of Dust!

watermarkbooks.com/event/2025-1...

11.10.2025 16:14 πŸ‘ 28 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

Actually this is at the Spencer Road Library!!

10.10.2025 23:40 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
10/10- Nghi Vo, A MOUTHFUL OF DUST Main Street Books is an independent bookstore located on Historic Main Street in downtown St. Charles, MO.

Anyone in St. Louis tonight at 7PM?

I'm hanging out at Main Street Books talking about the newest Singing Hills, A Mouthful of Dust!!!

mainstreetbooks.indielite.org/event/2025-1...

10.10.2025 21:39 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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Nghi Vo, author of A Mouthful of Dust, in Conversation with Oli Schmitz Boswell Book Company - 2559 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI

Anyone free in Milwaukee tonight?

Come check me out at Boswell Book Company, where I'll be talking about A Mouthful of Dust, Singing Hills #6, all about hunger, famine, food and the stories we tell about all of 'em!

boswellbooks.com/event/2025-1...

08.10.2025 21:17 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

Chih, with the force of an enormous and long-standing archive behind them, believes that people are always people, that everybody deserves to be fed, kindness is never wasted, and we must always do what we can.

I realized a while ago that I love Chih very much.

Hope you do too!

07.10.2025 16:53 πŸ‘ 33 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

Cleric Chih is too curious, determined to get something like the truth, and trying hard every day.

I'm on tour to promote this one, and as I talk with people about Chih and Singing Hills, I find this curious urge to live up to Chih and what they believe about the world and their purpose.

07.10.2025 16:53 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This one has stories about hunger, the things we do when we're hungry, the things we'll do to never be hungry again, the struggle to survive and the struggle to survive that survival.

It's not a happy story, but I think I played fair, and as always, Chih is still Chih.

07.10.2025 16:53 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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A Mouthful of Dust Hunger makes monsters in this dark new tale in Nghi Vo's Hugo Award-winning Singing Hills Cycle."Nghi Vo is so good."―NPR on The Brides of High HillWanderi...

Happy book birthday to A Mouthful of Dust, standalone novella in the Singing Hlls Cycle, out today!

This time, Cleric Chih and Almost Brilliant the hoopoe memory spirit are investigating the town of Baolin, famous for its pork recipe and its famine.

us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

07.10.2025 16:53 πŸ‘ 118 πŸ” 29 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 6

*No, seriously, someone catch me. I'm a writer, I am not designed to be away from my laptop and my cat.**

**That said, I'm looking forward to seeing people, I hope ya get to come out if you wanna!

06.10.2025 19:32 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm on tour to promote it for the next week or so! Catch* me at:

10/8
Milwaukee, WI
6:30PM at Boswell Books

10/10
St Charles, MO
7PM at Main Street Books

10/11
Wichita, KS
6PM at Watermark

10/16
Madison, WI
6PM at A Room of One's Own

06.10.2025 19:32 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Thit Heo Kho Trung (Vietnamese Braised Pork With Eggs) Thit Heo Kho Trung Vietnamese Braised Pork Eggs

Baolin pork comes a few things, but mostly from a version of this recipe, one I grew up with:

wanderingchopsticks.blogspot.com/2007/01/thit...

06.10.2025 19:32 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This one's about being hungry, things you do when you're hungry and the things you'll do to never be hungry again.

It's also about good recipes, sharing food, things that survive great hunger, and as always, what happens next and the stories we tell about it.

There's a li'l white kitten, too.

06.10.2025 19:32 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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A Mouthful of Dust Hunger makes monsters in this dark new tale in Nghi Vo's Hugo Award-winning Singing Hills Cycle."Nghi Vo is so good."―NPR on The Brides of High HillWanderi...

Hey. Hey.

On sale TOMORROW is my standalone novella A Mouthful of Dust, #6 in the Singing Hills Cycle!

us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

The story-collecting Cleric Chih and Almost Brilliant are headed to Baolin, a town known for its incredible pork and a famine that occurred eighteen years ago.

06.10.2025 19:32 πŸ‘ 156 πŸ” 48 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 10

Any one in Minneapolis this weekend? I'm here for Gaylaxicon!

Friday
1pm-Signing
2:30pm- Bits and Bobs panel
4pm- Blood and Bone
8:30- interview

Saturday
2:30pm- Queering the Classics
4:30pm- reading

Sunday
10am- signing

03.10.2025 18:03 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

1-866-952-4456 to tell Netflix that in no way do you want Elon fucking Musk determining what you watch.

I just called, got through in about 15 seconds, and told them that I strongly support queer inclusion in their programming and that I will cancel my subscription if they cave.

02.10.2025 20:49 πŸ‘ 2910 πŸ” 2379 πŸ’¬ 40 πŸ“Œ 51
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Pre-Gaylaxicon Signing Event - DreamHaven When: 2025.10.02 @ 18:30 Join us for a signing with Gaylaxicon Guests of Honor Nghi Vo, Emma TΓΆrzs and K.D. Edwards (and Greg Ketter) the night before the convention! They will be here at 6:30 pm, ...

I'm in town for Gaylaxicon, but before we kick off, I'm at DreamHaven Books at 6:30PM tonight!

You want to get a copy of the standalone Singing Hills novella A Mouthful of Dust early? This is where ya do it!

dreamhavenbooks.com/event/pre-ga...

02.10.2025 20:05 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0