Thank you Renan!! 🥺

WE OUT HERE!! Congrats to you too fren!! 😭‼️✨

Thanks so much Sarah!!!

Thank you!! 🥺🥺

Congrats to FFers @aijiang.bsky.social @tiffmorris.bsky.social @jyzh.bsky.social and @brandoncrilly.bsky.social on being named Aurora finalists!

www.csffa.ca/awards-infor...

Thank you Rick!!!

Thanks myna!! 🥺

Heh thank you!! 😭🤍🙇🏻‍♀️

BUILDING a CAREER ACROSS GENRES 📚
Ep. 199 airs tomorrow, with guest author @aijiang.bsky.social telling co-hosts @adrianmgibson.bsky.social & Greta Kelly how she has built her writing career across multiple genres.

Available April 21 in audio/video:
linktr.ee/SFFAddicts
youtube.com/@FanFiAddict

Thank you David!!!

Thank you so much John!! 😭🤍

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

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

Thank you so much!! 🥺

😭‼️‼️

Thanks so much Ariya!! 🥺

Thank you fren!! 😭✨

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

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

Thank you Paul!!! 🙇🏻‍♀️🙇🏻‍♀️🙇🏻‍♀️

You as well! 🙇🏻‍♀️🙇🏻‍♀️

Congrats to the 2026 Aurora Award finalists @csffa.bsky.social
www.csffa.ca/awards-infor...

Congrats
@silviamg.bsky.social
@julieczerneda.bsky.social
@tanyahuff.bsky.social
@guygavrielkay.bsky.social
@premeemohamed.com
@aijiang.bsky.social
@jdnicoll.bsky.social
and all the finalists!

NEW MASTERCLASS INCOMING! Ep. 199 airs on Tuesday, with guest author @aijiang.bsky.social and co-hosts @adrianmgibson.bsky.social & Greta Kelly doing a deep dive writing masterclass on PUBLISHING IN DIFFERENT GENRES.

Available April 21 in audio/video:
linktr.ee/SFFAddicts
youtube.com/@FanFiAddict

Want to know more about genre and how it relates to both writing AND publishing? Then don’t miss our next @sffaddictspod.bsky.social masterclass with the amazing @aijiang.bsky.social when it airs on April 21!

A pile of books in a bookshop. The books are: Bee Speaker by Adrian Tchaikovsky; The Expanded Earth by Mikey Please; A Widow's Charm by Caitlyn Paxson; The Reaper by Jackson P Brown; The Tricky Business of faerie Bargains by Reena McCarty; A Palace Near the Wind by Ai Jiang; Year of the Mer by L D Lewis; Clockwork Boys by T Kingfisher; Strixhaven: Omens of Chaos by Seanan McGuire; Lore of the Tides by Analeigh Sbrana; Gifted & Talented by Olivie Blake; The Magician of Tiger Castle by Louis Sachar; Season of Fear by Emily Cooper

Just a few of the lovely new #SFF paperbacks out so far this month!

💙📚🪐
#NewBooks

You as well!!

Ohh I’m excited to see the limited editions 👀✨‼️

This Saturday my Toronto and GTA frens 👀‼️✨

Ad poster for the 'Normal People Scare Me: Abnormality in Horror' panel at Can*Con Virtual, April 18th from 11 am to 11:50 am EST. Featuring Suzan Palumbo, David Demchuk, Ai Jiang, and Kelly Robson.

SATURDAY SATURDAY SATURDAY: Can*Con Virtual

Join @daviddemchuk.com, @aijiang.bsky.social, Suzan Palumbo, and @kellyrobson.com for a discussion of why normal people scare them and abnormality in horror!

Register at the website! If you're not at least a little scared by David you win a prize*!

That’s good to hear!!

Ohhh I hope the beta reading goes well!!

And heh, here’s to hoping! 🙇🏻‍♀️🙆🏻‍♀️🤍

On a side note, just wanted to mention I love Baronfig and have five of the pens sitting on my desk!