Ai Jiang || 江艾 || is a smol chaos 🌑
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🇨🇳🇨🇦• she/her • Hugo, Astounding, Locus, BSFA nom • Ignyte, Stoker, Nebula winner • Odyssey ‘23 • A PALACE NEAR THE WIND ( @Titanbooks ‘25) • rep: KC&A + UTA
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Cover Reveal + Excerpt and the full announcement for A PALACE NEAR THE WIND forthcoming April 2025 with
@TitanBooks
is now live on
@reactormag
!!
Preorders are now also available everywhere 👀🤍
Big big thank you to
@missnatmack
for the beautiful cover! 😭🫶🏼🔥
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Contract signed, Publisher’s Market announcement live! I’m happy to announce my debut novella is forthcoming April 2023 w/
@dark_matter_mag
! I couldn’t have asked for a better home. I have so much gratitude for Rob and the DM team for their trust in me 🥺🤍
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2022 has been wild 🥺
- Got a book deal
- wrote two novellas
- Got literary & film agents
- wrote ~32 stories & a handful of poems
- ~ Got 66 shorts/poems acceptances (incl. solicited pieces)
- ~58 shorts/poems pubbed
- received ~ 395 rejections
- sent out ~ 488 submissions
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Been keeping this under my belt for a bit, but… I couldn’t help but vague tweet today 🥹
Ya girl has an agent and just went on sub with her debut short story collection 😭🤍
Bring your flashlights and keep an eye out for the formal agent announcement coming soon! 🫣
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My mom texted me and…
She made a Goodreads account just to post this review for LINGHUN🥹🤍
She put the entire novella through google translate & read it through twice, and I can’t express enough how much it means to me that she gone through such efforts to support me 😭🤍🫂
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Linghun is a shrine, and it’s ready for your visit ⛩️🕋
It is officially
#Linghun
’s release day!! It truly makes me so emotional 😭 Thank you so so much everyone for supporting! Without y’all, this book would not be here🥺🤍
Keep your flashlights, torches, candles close 🫣🔦
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I’m happy to announce I have a two-book deal w/
@TitanBooks
!! Coming 2025 is a novella duology that is a blend of scifi, fantasy, & horror 🫣
🏰A PALACE NEAR THE WIND🌬️
&
⚙️NATURAL ENGINES⚙️
A big thank you to
@CathTrech
and Titan as well as my agent
@LisaAbellera
😭🙏🏼🤍
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I've been asked whether or not I might change my name given the current landscape of things, but no, I will not be changing my name, and I do hope y'all continue to support smol ai, as in me, regardless of what I share names with 🥹🫂
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I am so so excited to share the cover for my forthcoming debut novella LINGHUN (April 4, 2023)! 😭👻 🤍🥺
Preorders are also now available! 👇🏻 (and keep your eyes peeled for more info on limited edition hardcovers 👀)
🧵🪡🧶
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your smol bean won a smol bram stoker award haunted house—a big thank you to everyone for supporting my smol book and congratulations to all!! 🥹🫣🤍
stokercon pictures to come with all the lovely Halloween frens 👀👻🫶🏼
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Contract signed! An acceptance from
@thedarkmagazine
for my second person flash piece turned short story, “We All Fall Down”, about a town where people age if they stand in the rain 👀🫣
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a smol bean won a thing 😭 thank you again to all my flashlights in the dark 🥺🤍🔦
Congratulations to the winner of the 2023 Nebula Award for Novella, Ai Jiang for “Linghun” (Dark Matter Ink)
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I’m now an “Award-Nominated Ai” & in the current landscape… 🥹🫣
Puns aside, I owe my immense gratitude to everyone for supporting smol me 😭🤍 Thank you all for believing in me and my strange, chaotic stories 🥺🙏🏼
@sfwa
#NebulaAwardFinalist
(“Give Me English”
@fandsf
)
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The Chinese title for “writer” (zuo jia) also sounds the same as the Chinese words for “sit at home” (zuo jia), where the only difference is the zuo character in each.
My dad likes to make jokes like
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I AM AI—my novelette about a cyborg named Ai, who is pretending to be an AI, written by me, Ai, will be published by
@ShortwaveBooks
! 🥺🤍
The cover will be collab: Artist x Ai x
@AlanDistro
(where the artist is my mom and the Ai is me 🫣)
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So I’ve spoken previously about how my family urged me to see writing as a hobby and not to take it too seriously. It’s been a long journey, and just the other day, my father asked about marketing my book and when it would be the best time to promote it to all his friends 1/3
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we survived 🥹🙇🏻♀️🤍🫶🏼✨
(peek at my vows on IG 🫣)
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I can’t be the only person who tries to read five books at once, right? 🫣😳👀
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Submissions to the Institute of Wilted Pages are now open! Please note your deadlines & we look forward to welcoming you all 👀🔥🥀
March 1-31— Underrepresented voices
March 8-24 — General submissions
Cover Reveal & Kickstarter forthcoming 🤍
Guidelines & Our Institute Crest👇🏼
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Just got my first ever royalties statement, and I’m feeling very authorly 🥹
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LINGHUN is officially a Bram Stoker Award nominee 😭🤍 A big thank you to everyone who read and voted for and supported the smol thing, and to my publisher and editors (
@dark_matter_magazine
, Rob Carroll,
@anna_madden_
) for helping me bring the book to life,
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Today, Focus and I are celebrating our 1-year marriage anniversary, and I feel extremely fortunate that the two of us are together because we are so flawed, yet we understand that about each other and always strive for self improvement a little at a time 🥺🤍
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It is done. The first novel is done. I have officially experienced exactly what a laptop must feel when they overheat 🥹😶🌫️ Wrote ~20,000 words since Monday, and I am ready to sleep for two days now 🫠🫣
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Cover reveal for my forthcoming novelette I AM AI (June 20th—
@ShortwaveBooks
)!
The cover art was hand painted by my mom Chun Yan Zhang, then edited by me using procreate, and the final design is by
@AlanDistro
—an Artist x Ai x Publisher collab! 👀
PREORDERS LIVE👇🏼🥺🤍
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So we are spreading word that short novels are in yes? 👀🫣 (me staring at my firsy novel and estimating that I may not cross the 65K words mark 🥹)
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I was looking back at my stats, and from late 2020 to the end of 2022, I had sent around 1,400+ submissions and published ~70 stories + some poetry and received ~100 acceptances (w/ pro/paid sales making up the majority), & that is absolutely wild even for me to think about👁️👄👁️
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Caught word that LINGHUN has crossed 700 copies sold—not including author copies I’ve been peddling 😭🙏🏼 This is absolutely wild, & I just wanted to thank everyone for their support in posting, talking about, reviewing the smol thing 🥺🤍Truly could not have asked for more 😭🫂🤍
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I have made it frens. I am finished. I have graduated officially 😭 and I am continuing my legacy as the slightly above average but never outstanding student 🤓🥹✊🏼
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From our pre-wedding shoot 👀
📍The Writers’ Museum, Edinburgh
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This is the first award win of my writing career so far 👁️👄👁️
A big thank you to the Ignyte Awards team, everyone who has voted for the smol thing, and Jean-Paul L. Garnier at Star*Line for publishing the poem! 😭🤍🙏🏼
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Contract signed! One of the first stories I've ever written, "A Sea of Grey," finally found a home after 7 drafts and ~85+ rejections, some of which said it was too dark/grim 🥹🤍 Eyes peeled for the darling I could never manage keep in my graveyard folder in
@from_between
!
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This is my first ever Hugo nomination & to have it be a v personal piece w/ my name in the title & shared w/ the MC. What a time it is to be named Ai 🥹🫶🏼🫂
I’m also astonishingly on the Astounding Award for Best New Writer final ballot 😭🙏🏼
Thank you for everyone’s support!🥺
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Contract signed!! Happy to announce that my experimental story “Ashes Like Tea Leaves, Lava Like Honey” will be forthcoming in
@LightspeedMag
!! 🥺🤍🙏🏼
*This was a piece I’d written for/during
@OdysseyWorkshop
👀
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Contract signed! I have another creepy little story forthcoming in
@thedarkmagazine
! Keep your eyes peeled for “Xiǎo Èmó—Little Demon” a folkloric supernatural horror 👀🤍
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IT IS DONE. THE NOVELLA IS COMPLETE. Needs revision, BUT IT’S DONE.
And some forthcoming news to keep an eye out for… 👀
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I must say, I’ve become a far happier person after I began writing horror. A part of me knows that putting fear on the page helps lessen its hold on me 🥺
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Contributor copies have arrived!! Thank you once again to
@fandsf
and
@blackpotmojo
for giving “Give Me English” such an amazing home! 🥺🤍
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A pitch: to have bookstores normalize having a specialized novella section in the store (or online store) so more people will know about them
And hopefully they’ll become more common/more in demand 👀
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Contract signed! A smolette (flash) acceptance from
@UncannyMagazine
for my story “Yinying—Shadow” 🥺🤍
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Came away from APIpit with one agent like and got news in the inbox that I was one of the ones chosen for the 2022 SFWA Nebula Conference Scholarship 👀🤍
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this is your gentle reminder to keep your heads up, keep going, and don’t lose courage frens 🥺🤍🫂 Brought to you by one of my stories that received 85+ rejections before getting accepted 🥹🫶🏼
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This is wild 👁️👄👁️
Ai Jiang (
@AiJiang_
) is the sixth-youngest author ever shortlisted for the Best Novelette
#HugoAward
.
One of the 25 youngest authors ever shortlisted in any of the prose categories (novel, short story, novelette, novella, or series).
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one of the rare moments when I’m in a dress 🥹🫣🙇🏻♀️
(from the Nebula conference)
📸 by Richard Man
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The problem with sharing a name with the discourse enemy at the moment is that all the work and art I generate will technically be “Ai-generated” 🥲
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Contract signed!! Happy to say my demon gourd story “Your Ballad From Within His Gourd” will be forthcoming in
@dark_matter_ink
’s MONSTER LAIRS Anthology edited by
@anna_madden_
🥺🤍🔥
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Today is LINGHUN’s official launch, and me and my spouse just cried in the car while listening to the Linghun playlist. It’s been such an emotional journey—not just for the book, but my writing journey as a whole so far, and I just wanted to thank everyone again 😭🤍
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27 y.o. today, still a smol bean, and yes that’s a dinosaur hat on my head. 🙇🏻♀️🥹🫶🏼🤍
now vs then 🫣
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Since I’ve been given the go-ahead 🥺 I’m happy to announce that I’ve been accepted to Your Personal Odyssey (
@OdysseyWorkshop
) this year with the Fresh Voices Scholarship! Thank you so much once again to Jeanne and the judges for choosing my sample 🤍
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Y’all, I just got a FULL MS REQUEST😭 I can’t breathe right now I swear 🥺
#amquerying
#WritingCommunity
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“Are you a zuo jia (an author) or a zuo jia (someone who only sits at home) or a zuo jia who zuo jia (an author who only sits at home)” 😭🥹
(He says all this is in Mandarin, but I’ve tried my best to translate it in a way that makes sense 😂)
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Found three of my stories mentioned in
@locusmag
’s Year-In-Review and was named a “writer to watch” by
@fandsf
🥺🤍🙏🏼
The stories:
“Fisheyes” in
@thedarkmagazine
“Tooth, Teeth, Tongue” also in The Dark
“Come In, Children” in
@hexagonmagazine
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it’s been wild frens 😭🤍
a big thank you to everyone who has voted for my works. it’s an incredible honour to not only have one but two works on the Nebula Award final ballot 😭🫶🏼 and a big congratulations to all my fellow finalists!! 🥺🫶🏼🫂
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Contract signed! I’m happy to say I’ve finally sold a story to a market that I really love ever since they opened 🥺🤍 Keep your eyes peeled for “Come In, Children” forthcoming in
@hexagonmagazine
’s Issue 10! 👀
Be prepared for 🧙🏼♀️🌆🌳📜
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sometimes all a writer needs to keep going is a kind reader telling them that their work has made a difference to their lives. Do take a moment to write to the writer of a piece you’ve recently enjoyed 🤍 sometimes when I can, I tend to message with a play-by-play reaction 🥹🫶🏼
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I am eternally grateful for all the love and support everyone has been showing me for Linghun and its smol launch day 🥺🤍🫂 It’s truly the best feeling to hear that your work has touched others 😭🤍
And now I shall present y’all once more with Owl🦉🥹
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It’s officially release day for UNQUIET SPIRITS: Essays by Asian Women in Horror, and I can’t be more honoured to share these pages with my unquiet sisters with my essay "The Unvoiced, The Unheard, The Unknown, The Unquiet"🥺🤍
If you haven’t yet ordered 👀🙏🏼👇🏼
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Sept. 2021-Sept. 2022 Writing Stats:
Acceptances: 77 (SFWA/HWA Pro Sales: 24 | Other Paid Sales: 41 | Unpaid: 12)
Published: 53
Rejections: 578
Total Submissions Sent: 797
Overall Acceptance Rate: ~9.7%
Full blog post below!⬇️👀
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Forthcoming in May… It do be a big month 👀🤍
“Give Me English” in
@fandsf
“Roaches” in
@dark_matter_mag
“In Water We Survive” in
@thedeadlands
“Return Policy” in
@RadonJournal
“Until There Were None” in
@shacklebound
’s Maelstroms Antho
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Contract signed! I’m extremely happy to announce the acceptance of a piece very close to my heart, “Where the Grass is Always Whiter,” inspired by my family’s immigration—about a neighbourhood where everyone else’s lawn has white grass—forthcoming in print in
@InterzoneMag
🥺🤍
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Just caught word that my story “Give Me English” in this month’s issue of
@fandsf
has made its way onto the 2022 Nebula Reading List!! 🥹🤍🔥✊🏻
This is the first time I’ve ever been on the first. Thank you to whoever recommended the smol thing 😭🙏🏻
If you haven’t read it… 👀👇🏻
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Currently, I have one single submission for a short story out, and looking back at my stats, it’s absolutely wild to think that I’d sent out 1500+ submissions since late 2020 and had 80+ shorts and ~30 poems published (not including reprints). What a journey this has been. 🥹🙇🏻♀️
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My first novella LINGHUN won both the Bram Stoker & Nebula awards, some smol things I’ve written were also nominated for the Hugo, BSFA, and Aurora awards for the first time, wrote a new book, some new shorts, and am still surviving and still processing 😭🫶🏼🙇🏻♀️🤍
✨ WRITERS! ✨
We're at the half year mark! Tell me all that you've accomplished. It's time to BRAG about YOU! 🙌
Let's goooooo 💥
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Get your stories ready frens
🔥👁️👄👁️🔥
We’ll be looking for the historical, the futuristic, and of course… the horrific! 🧙🏼♀️🤖👻
All voices and backgrounds welcome! Open sub guidelines & already invited author announcements coming soon 🥺🤍
New Anthology Announcement!
WILTED PAGES: An Anthology of Dark Academia, edited by
@AiJiang_
&
@ChristiNogle
, is set to publish in August 2023!
Open submissions, invited authors, cover reveal, and more are all forthcoming spring 2023!
For more info:
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Alright, but could we make novellas more popular so I can become a novellaist in the future? 🥺
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For those wondering how I’m celebrating the completion of my first novel 🥹:
*yes my desktop is a hot mess 🤣
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Thanks to everyone for dropping by my table today and grabbing some books! 🥺🤍 If we look a photo together, please do send them along 👀🫶🏼
@StokerCon
#StokerCon2023
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I have discovered I’ll be eligible for the 2023 Astounding Award for Best New Writer (?) 🥺✊🏻
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January has been an absolute wild ride! I received 6 acceptances (2 at pro rates), a conversation invite from a writer I admire, and an anthology invite to write an essay on a topic I’m VERY keen about!
But behind the scenes, I also received 58 rejections so far this month 👀🔥
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THIS IS NOT A DRILL, LINGHUN IS OUT IN THE WILD FRENS 😭🔥🔥🔥
*me waiting to do the unboxing video because Focus won’t let me open my copies until he gets home so he can also be excite with me 🥹
Guess who snagged an early copy of LNGHUN by
@AiJiang_
😃 Mysterious town where the dead live again? Yes, please!
Jealous? Preorder from
@dark_matter_ink
before release on 4/4!
#horror
#ghosts
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I have officially completed my rite of passage as an author in receiving my first one-star ⭐️😶🌫️🔥👀
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Happy to say I have an essay forthcoming in
@FantasyMagazine
titled “What Language Do You Think In?: On Being Lost in Translation” on language use/presentation and multiculturalism in fiction, fantasy, & media in general! 👀🙏🏼
Thanks again to
@arleysorg
for the opportunity 🥺🤍
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Frens it’s happening. The plan is to go on sub with the first novel sometime in April 😭 I am ready to fall down. Someone pls just let me hit the ground so I know it’s not a dream 😭🤍
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Contract signed! An acceptance from
@thedarkmagazine
!! This will be my 7th appearance, and perhaps the darkest appearance 👀
Keep your eyes open, bring a flashlight, and read with caution when it’s live 👁👄👁
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—Half Year Writing Reflection (January-June 2022)—
Submissions Sent: 354
Rejections: 270
Acceptances: 40
Solicited work: 4
*I noticed in January I somehow managed to send out 101 submissions (mix of no sim + sim subs), and it still boggles my mind how I had the energy 🫣
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It is here; it is live! The poem I cried while writing, and the same one inspired by my mother (& also inspired a story that is forthcoming with
@InterzoneMag
in print 🥺🤍)
“I Am A Little Hotel” 🏨 now out in
@UncannyMagazine
If you have a quick second—sneak peek+link👇🏼🥺🙏🏼
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I must say, my entire writing career thus far and the opportunities I’ve received are almost entirely built upon short stories, and I’m sure there are many other writers in similar boats. Do support magazines when you can frens 🥺🤍🫂
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I have an interview up with Horror Writers Association this month 👀🤍
Asian Heritage Horror Author Interview with Ai Jiang.
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Contract signed 👀🫣 my smol flash piece “Ancestor Code Error” will be forthcoming with
@LightspeedMag
!
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Given that the Nebula Award nominations are open today (and to keep smol me in mind for other awards 🥺🙏🏼), I wanted to offer my top 3 favourites of the ~35 stories I had published this year for consideration 🤍
Y’all know I don’t ask, but any boosts would be appreciated 🥺🤍
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I’ve found my champion ⚔️🛡 I am now represented by
@LisaAbellera
from
@K_C_Associates
! 😭🤍
Thank you for believing in my writing, my strangeness, & for liking my
#PitDark
tweet!
Watch out editors we’re coming with Tea Party for the Living & Other Stories 👀
I am very excited to welcome
#Pitdark
author
@AiJiang_
to the
@K_C_Associates
team! I could not put down her collection of horror and dark fantasy stories inspired by Chinese and Fujianese folklore and mythology. I can't wait to share it with the rest of the world!
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Them: don’t be too complex when writing your first novel
Me: *inserts first person, second person, first person plural, non-linear timelines, and dual pov* 🥹🫣
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Signed a thing. Some big news coming soon 👀🔥
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Just got off a call with my agent. Got a game plan going and long form projects to finish this year and going into the next year. Be prepared frens 👀
One is shaping up to be a duology, and the other being a cyberpunk novel of a favourite short story of mine 🫣
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Contract signed! Happy to say my experimental first-person plural POV story, “We Are A Little Hotel,” inspired by the poem I have forthcoming in
@UncannyMagazine
(“I Am A Little Hotel”) will be appearing in
@InterzoneMag
!!
Thank you so much again to
@intrmultivrsal
! 😭🙏🏼🤍
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Today is the last day of
#StokerCon2023
and also my 26th birthday, and I couldn’t have asked for a better way to spend my weekend than to be with the horror fam 👻🫶🏼🥺🤍
#IamAI
(
@ShortwaveBooks
) is out in two days, so I shall be shouting about it as soon as I get home🫣🙏🏼🥹
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My spouse caught COVID, my dissertation is due in 2 days, and I have to leave for Europe in 4. Please send some luck this way 🫣😨
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Contract signed! Happy to say my story “Where Is The Milk?” will be forthcoming in The Antihumanist!
A smol but strange literary piece 👀
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LINGHUN is officially three months old today!! Thank you to everyone’s continuous support for the smol thing 🥺🤍
To celebrate—A GIVEAWAY! 👀🔥
a signed copy of LINGHUN will be winged along to someone randomly chosen at the end of today 🔥 (like + retweet) 👀
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What a wild time it’s been. With the two Aurora Awards noms this means I’ve officially received 8 award nominations across 4 different categories this year (Novella, Novelette, Poetry, Best New Writer) and I cannot even fathom this fact right now (????) 👁️👄👁️
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My cousin messaged me today, telling me not to be discouraged having not won, but the experience of the nebs itself has made me feel more encouraged than ever—to be surrounded by like-minded individuals and to realize just how far we’ve all come. I’m no stranger to loss,
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