Ai Jiang || 江艾|| 🪷☁️An Empire in the Clouds☁️🪷 September 8th

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Ai Jiang || 江艾|| 🪷☁️An Empire in the Clouds☁️🪷 September 8th@aijiang· 1d

In Toronto in September? Pop by Society Clubhouse on September 6th for the launch party for 🪷☁️AN EMPIRE IN THE CLOUDS☁️🪷 and grab a signed copy from @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social 🙆🏻‍♀️🤍 Hope to see y’all there! 🙇🏻‍♀️ . #fyp #booklaunch #bookstagram #book #books

AN EMPIRE IN THE CLOUDS launch party graphic

Ai Jiang || 江艾|| 🪷☁️An Empire in the Clouds☁️🪷 September 8th@aijiang· 5d

see y’all at LA WorldCon (@laworldcon.bsky.social)!! ☀️🌇 *pssstt if you come to my reading/my signing session you may snag an ARC of my forthcoming novel 🪷☁️AN EMPIRE IN THE CLOUDS☁️🪷 (@titanbooks.bsky.social 💫) shout out to @kealakendall.bsky.social for sharing the finessed templates 👀🤍🙆🏻‍♀️

WorldCon Writing Between Worlds: Diasporic Influence in SFF panel graphic featuring T.A. Chan, Elijah Kinch Spector, Peter Adrian Behravesh, Terese Mason Pierre, and me

LA WorldCon panel graphic for The Global Gothic featuring Keala Kendall, Kylie Lee Baker, Micaiah Johnson, Shay Kauwe, Tamika Thompson, and me

Ai Jiang || 江艾|| 🪷☁️An Empire in the Clouds☁️🪷 September 8th@aijiang· 6d

haven’t preordered 🪷☁️AN EMPIRE IN THE CLOUDS☁️🪷 yet? 👀 the finished copy includes a map by @dewiwrites.bsky.social 🗺️📍🤍 preorder goodies will be sent during the last week of the month, so do fill out the form in my bio if you haven’t yet! 🤍 @titanbooks.bsky.social 💫

Map for AN EMPIRE IN THE CLOUDS by Dewi Hargreaves featuring the settings: Opera and Piao

Preorder campaign goodies graphic for AN EMPIRE IN THE CLOUDS

AN EMPIRE IN THE CLOUDS forthcoming graphic with the cover

Ai Jiang || 江艾|| 🪷☁️An Empire in the Clouds☁️🪷 September 8th@aijiang· 18d

may every path we walk bring us closer together 💫 8 years tomorrow 🙆🏻‍♀️

Me and my spouse focus Zhang walking down a lobby in traditional wedding attire

Ai Jiang || 江艾|| 🪷☁️An Empire in the Clouds☁️🪷 September 8th@aijiang· 29d

it seems I have a habit of redoing my hair when I’m stressed about deadlines… 😶‍🌫️

Me with new grey peekaboo and fringe highlights

Ai Jiang || 江艾|| 🪷☁️An Empire in the Clouds☁️🪷 September 8th@aijiang· Jul 8

Happy to be returning to the pages of The Dark Magazine and @havenspec.bsky.social with a short story reprint (“A Thousand Forbidden Weddings and a Song for Dead Darlings”) and a new poem (“The Carcass of the World”) 👀🤍 *preview below and link to both in the next post* 🙆🏻‍♀️🙆🏻‍♀️

Cover of The Dark July 2026 issue featuring a ship on fire sinking and a figure watching from afar on a small boat

Preview of “A Thousand Forbidden Weddings and a Song for Dead Darlings”

Haven Speculative June 2026 issue featuring a skeleton and a figure staring

Preview of my poem “The Carcass of the World”

Ai Jiang || 江艾|| 🪷☁️An Empire in the Clouds☁️🪷 September 8th@aijiang· Jun 24

Character art reveal for 🪷☁️AN EMPIRE IN THE CLOUDS☁️🪷 by the wonderful Huangren (荒人) on Little Red Note 👀✨ (swag form in my bio!) forthcoming with @titanbooks.bsky.social September 8 💫 . @barnesandnoble.com is having a 25% off sale from June 23-26 just use the code PREORDER25 at checkout!

AN EMPIRE IN THE CLOUDS character art featuring a character in Chinese opera attire and a character in black robes with gold accents, both holding up masks to their faces

AN EMPIRE IN THE CLOUDS B&N sale graphic 25% off

Ai Jiang || 江艾|| 🪷☁️An Empire in the Clouds☁️🪷 September 8th@aijiang· Jun 21

look what came in! 👀‼️✨ ft. the ARC of 🪷☁️AN EMPIRE IN THE CLOUDS☁️🪷 with map art by @dewiwrites.bsky.social 🗺️📍 cover designer: Natasha MacKenzie🎨 forthcoming September 8th in hardcover with @titanbooks.bsky.social 💫

Map page by Dewi Hargreaves in AN EMPIRE IN THE CLOUDS

Ai Jiang || 江艾|| 🪷☁️An Empire in the Clouds☁️🪷 September 8th@aijiang· Jun 19

Breaking out with some fancy news on this fine day with @variety.com 👀✨ Honoured to have Matthias Schweighofer and Sascha Rosemann pick this one up! 💫 @shortwavebooks.bsky.social variety.com/2026/film/ne...

Cover of I AM AI and MEMORIES ARE ONLY VALUABLE IF THEY CAN BE LOST: STORIES graphic for feature film adaption option article with Variety

I AM AI and MEMORIES ARE ONLY VALUABLE IF THEY CAN BE LOST: STORIES covers graphic

Text:

I AM AI IS INCLUDED IN
AI JIANG'S DEBUT COLLECTION, MEMORIES ARE ONLY VALUABLE IF THEY CAN BE LOST, AS 1 OF 40 TOTAL STORIES!

Ai Jiang || 江艾|| 🪷☁️An Empire in the Clouds☁️🪷 September 8th@aijiang· Jun 19

🪷☁️AN EMPIRE IN THE CLOUDS☁️🪷 now available to request on NetGalley!! 👀🤍 forthcoming September 8th with @titanbooks.bsky.social 💫 www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

An Empire in the Clouds NetGalley graphic

Ai Jiang || 江艾|| 🪷☁️An Empire in the Clouds☁️🪷 September 8th@aijiang· Jun 18

this is 29 🎈👀✨

me holding up my published books—A PALACE NEAR THE WIND, A RIVER FROM THE SKY, I AM AI, LINGHUN on a backdrop of framed covers of my books and a tea set display

Ai Jiang || 江艾|| 🪷☁️An Empire in the Clouds☁️🪷 September 8th@aijiang· Jun 15

✨COVER REVEAL✨ for my fiction collection forthcoming April 2027 with @shortwavebooks.bsky.social 👀🤍‼️ design by @alandistro.bsky.social 💫 preorder direct here— shop.shortwavepublishing.com/products/mem... 🙆🏻‍♀️

MEMORIES ARE ONLY VALUABLE IF THEY CAN BE LOST cover reveal graphic featuring a young woman with short hair with a colour palette of grey, red, white, beige, pale yellow

Ai Jiang || 江艾|| 🪷☁️An Empire in the Clouds☁️🪷 September 8th@aijiang· Jun 10

A second piece of setting art commissioned from Peng Lu for 🪷☁️AN EMPIRE IN THE CLOUDS☁️🪷 featuring the drowning continent of Opera 🏙️ this will be another one of the art cards included in EMPIRE’s preorder campaign 👀✨(form in bio) forthcoming Sep 8 w/ @titanbooks.bsky.social 💫

Setting art by Peng Lu for the Continent of Opera featuring a pagoda shrouded in mist and bridges leading towards it. In the canal under the bridges is a boat with a figure on it rowing

Ai Jiang || 江艾|| 🪷☁️An Empire in the Clouds☁️🪷 September 8th@aijiang· Jun 8

the final dust jacket for 🎭☁️🪷AN EMPIRE IN THE CLOUDS🪷☁️🎭 forthcoming September 8 with @titanbooks.bsky.social 💫👀‼️🤍 cover designer: Natasha MacKenzie🎨

AN EMPIRE IN THE CLOUDS dust jacket wrap

Ai Jiang || 江艾|| 🪷☁️An Empire in the Clouds☁️🪷 September 8th@aijiang· May 25

where you can find me next week at StokerCon 👀👻✨

Ai Jiang || 江艾|| 🪷☁️An Empire in the Clouds☁️🪷 September 8th@aijiang· May 22

setting art commissioned from Peng Lu for 🪷☁️AN EMPIRE IN THE CLOUDS☁️🪷 featuring the Piāo Empire 🏯 this will be one of the art cards included in EMPIRE’s preorder campaign 👀✨(form below) forthcoming September 8 with @titanbooks.bsky.social 💫 . #fyp #bookstagram #books #art #scififantasy

Art by Peng Li featuring palaces nestled within lotuses

Ai Jiang || 江艾|| 🪷☁️An Empire in the Clouds☁️🪷 September 8th@aijiang· May 19

📘 Book lovers! Spend an hour listening to live #AuthorReadings via Zoom featuring #womenauthors #fictionbywomen #enbyauthors. 6 authors, 8 minutes each - it’s fast, it’s fun, and best of all #FreeBooks! #ScienceFiction, #Fantasy, #Horror, #SWSWQR

STRONG WOMEN STRANGE WORLDS PRESENTS Third Thursday QuickReads graphic

Ai Jiang || 江艾|| 🪷☁️An Empire in the Clouds☁️🪷 September 8th@aijiang· May 5

the gorgeous cover art by @whereiseileen.bsky.social for my forthcoming poetry collection—🎐WE IN/EXHALE ODYSSEYS🎐—with @badhandbooks.bsky.social in 2027!! (available to preorder now 👀✨) badhandbooks.com/purchasedire...

A human figure nestled in between a detailed/stylized set of lungs. The art is done in shades of blue and black.

Ai Jiang || 江艾|| 🪷☁️An Empire in the Clouds☁️🪷 September 8th@aijiang· May 2

Excited to be returning to the pages of The Dark with a reprint, “Red God Waiting” originally published in The Rack II Anthology! 👀‼️ www.thedarkmagazine.com/red-god-wait...

Cover of The Dark magazine issue 132, May 2026 of a girl in a white dress clutching onto her right arm

Ai Jiang || 江艾|| 🪷☁️An Empire in the Clouds☁️🪷 September 8th@aijiang· Apr 28

🌊🌬️⚙️A RIVER FROM THE SKY⚙️🌬️🌊 a lovely smol gift from the team at @titanbooks.bsky.social for RIVER’s release! 🙆🏻‍♀️💫🤍 Post card artworks in the background by Nancy Zhang & @dlbowman76.com 🎨

A RIVER FROM THE SKY pin with surrounding text “Happy Publication Day! From Titan Books” on a backdrop of art cards by Nancy Zhang and David Bowman

Ai Jiang || 江艾|| 🪷☁️An Empire in the Clouds☁️🪷 September 8th@aijiang· Apr 28

🌊🌬️⚙️A RIVER FROM THE SKY⚙️🌬️🌊 is officially out in the world!! 👀🤍✨ this marks the conclusion of the Natural Engines duology—thank y’all for coming on the journey with me! 🥹🤍🌊🌬️⚙️🏰🍃🎐 @titanbooks.bsky.social 💫

A RIVER FROM THE SKY book surrounded by bell-shaped lavender flowers

A PALACE NEAR THE WIND and A RIVER FROM THE SKY books surrounded by bell-shaped lavender flowers

Ai Jiang || 江艾|| 🪷☁️An Empire in the Clouds☁️🪷 September 8th@aijiang· Apr 27

and another!! a big thank you to @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social for hosting the second launch event for 🌊🌬️⚙️A RIVER FROM THE SKY⚙️🌬️🌊, @melisfluous.bsky.social for being such a wonderful in-convo partner, and everyone for coming! 😭🤍🙇🏻‍♀️ 1/2

Me and Melissa ren in conversation at Little Ghosts Books

Little Ghosts Books storefront with sign for A RIVER FROM THE SKY event featuring chalk art of the cover

Ai Jiang || 江艾|| 🪷☁️An Empire in the Clouds☁️🪷 September 8th@aijiang· Apr 20

excited to announce that 🏰🍃🌬️A PALACE NEAR THE WIND🌬️🍃🏰 is a 2026 Aurora Award nominee for Best Novelette/Novella!! Thank you so much to all those for voted and a big congratulations to all my fellow nominees!! 🥺🙆🏻‍♀️🤍 @titanbooks.bsky.social @csffa.bsky.social

A PALACE NEAR THE WIND Aurora award nomination graphic

Aurora award best novelette/novella shortlist graphic

AURORA AWARDS
BEST NOVELETTE/NOVELLA
The First Thousand Trees, Premee Mohamed,
ECW Press
"In the Gardener's Service", Michèle Laframboise, Asimov's, July/August
"The Lure of Stone", Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Uncanny Magazine, Issue Sixty-Six
A Palace Near the Wind, Ai Jiang, Titan Books The River Has Roots, Amal El-Mohtar, Tordotcom
BEST
NOVELETTE/NOVELLA
NOMINEE

Ai Jiang || 江艾|| 🪷☁️An Empire in the Clouds☁️🪷 September 8th@aijiang· Apr 7

today’s the paperback release day of 🍃🎐🌬️A PALACE NEAR THE WIND🌬️🎐🍃 . A powerfully imaginative story of a young woman seeking to save her family and her home a devastating meditation on the destruction of the natural world for an industrial future. . @titanbooks.bsky.social 💫 Natasha MacKenzie 🎨

The spine of A PALACE NEAR THE WIND paperback

Ai Jiang || 江艾|| 🪷☁️An Empire in the Clouds☁️🪷 September 8th@aijiang· Apr 2

looking for special editions of 🌬️🌊A RIVER FROM THE SKY🌊🌬️? 👀🤍🎐 🐦‍🔥flame edges edition @thebrokenbinding.bsky.social 🦋periwinkle edges edition @inkstonebooks.bsky.social @titanbooks.bsky.social 💫

A RIVER FROM THE SKY inkstone and broken binding special editions (periwinkle and flaming orange sprayed edges)

Signed endpapers for A RIVER FROM THE SKY special editions

Ai Jiang || 江艾|| 🪷☁️An Empire in the Clouds☁️🪷 September 8th@aijiang· Mar 31

for those who have been waiting for the HARDBACK LIMITED ILLUSTRATED EDITION of LINGHUN 👀✨🤍 it’s here for the novella’s third year anniversary! 👻🏠🪦 forthcoming May May 26, 2026 🎐 darkmattermagazine.shop/products/lin...

Illustrated edition of LINGHUN
Limited copies
Hardcover | hand numbered | signed

Interior illustrations by Martin Hargreaves

Ai Jiang || 江艾|| 🪷☁️An Empire in the Clouds☁️🪷 September 8th@aijiang· Mar 29

some new author photos 🙆🏻‍♀️🙇🏻‍♀️🥸 📸: Focus Zhang 🤍

Me in front of a wall with a framed photo of a Chinese opera singer

Me in front of a wall with framed photos of my books’ covers

Ai Jiang || 江艾|| 🪷☁️An Empire in the Clouds☁️🪷 September 8th@aijiang· Mar 26

Last day for the @barnesandnoble.com 25% off preorder sale 👀🪷☁️🌊🌬️ @titanbooks.bsky.social 💫

Barnes and Nobles 25% off preorder sale graphic including A RIVER FROM THE SKY and AN EMPIRE IN THE CLOUDS cover graphics

Ai Jiang || 江艾|| 🪷☁️An Empire in the Clouds☁️🪷 September 8th@aijiang· Mar 23

Mark down your calendars 👀‼️ 🍃🌬️🌊A RIVER FROM THE SKY🌊🍃🌬️ events forthcoming— release date: April 28th with @titanbooks.bsky.social 💫

A RIVEE FROM THE SKY BOOK COVER WITH IMAGES OF AI JIANG ANS SONIA URLANDO

Text:
IN CONVERSATION
WITH SONIA URLANDO
BAKKA-PHOENIX BOOKS
SATURDAY APRIL 18TH 3-5PM
84 HARBORD ST
TORONTO
ON M5S 1G5

A RIVER FROM THE SKY BOOKCOVER AND PICTURES OF AI JIANG AND MELISSA REN

Text:
IN CONVERSATION WITH MELISSA REN LITTLE GHOST BOOKS
SUNDAY APRIL 26™H
1-3PM
930 DUNDAS ST W
TORONTO
ON M6J 1W3

A RIVER FROM THE SKY BOOK CIVER AND PICTURE OF AI JIANG

Text:
AI JIANG
BOOK SIGNINGS
APRIL 25™H
INDIGOSPIRIT MAPLEVIEW
900 MAPLE AVE
BURLINGTON, ON L7S 2J8
MAY 2ND
INDIGO SQUARE ONE
100 CITY CENTRE DR #1-706
MISSISSAUGA, ON L5B 3C1
MAY 9TH
INDIGO BURLINGTON CENTER
777 GUELPH LINE M30
BURLINGTON, ON L7R 3N2

Ai Jiang || 江艾|| 🪷☁️An Empire in the Clouds☁️🪷 September 8th@aijiang· Mar 20

watch this space for the forthcoming ☁️🪷🎭AN EMPIRE IN THE CLOUDS🎭🪷☁️ cover reveal on March 25th 👀‼️✨ . out september 8th, 2026 with @titanbooks.bsky.social 💫