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The SCARLET BALL RELEASES TOMORROW! And I'm on tour to promote it! Want to listen to me talk about the debutantes and demons of the Gilded Age? This is where ya do it!

Graphic in gray with red text: NGHI VO ON TOUR

Inset: small round portrait of Nghi Vo

Book Cover: The Scarlet Ball by Nghi Vo, featuring an Asian woman in a red dress holding a white skin mask as ghostly hands reach for her.

White text on a smoky gray background

NGHI VO
ON TOUR

OCT 6
HARVARD BOOK STORE
WITH CASSANDRA KHAW

OCT 7
DUNGEON BOOKS AT WELCOME TO CHINA TOWN
IN CONVERSATION WITH CINDY PHAM
NEW YORK, NY

OCT 13
BOSWELL BOOK COMANY
WITH JIM HIGGINS
MILWAUKEE, WI

OCT 17
SALT LAKE CITY BOOK FESTIVAL
SALT LAKE CITY, UT

OCT 23
ANDERSON’S BOOKSTORE
AT COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN CHURCH
IN CONVERSATION WITH KATEE ROBERT
NAPERVILLE, IL

NOV 7
TWIN CITIES BOOK FESTIVAL
ST. PAUL, MN

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Nghi Vo @nghivo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Come see me today in Decatur, GA!

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Nghi Vo @nghivo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Sometimes I daydream about having an aestheric author life. It's why I bought a teacup. The teacup was 2 bucks from a yard sale. The tea is 30 hour-old coffee donated to me out of pity. I'm living some kind of author life, anyway.

A blue and white teacup sits on a matching saucer on a leather blotter. It's filled with old coffee that hopefully looks like tea.

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Nghi Vo @nghivo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Wanna come see me (and get a chance to buy THE SCARLET BALL before release day!) this weekend? I'll be at the Decatur Book Festival in Decatur, Georgia this Saturday (10/3, 12:15PM) with Bel Banta!

Promotional flyer, featuring a green grass hill with figures in the foreground reading, picnicking, playing among the trees and presenting on a small stage.

White text against a blue sky: DECATUR BOOK FESTIVAL

Informational graphic picturing two authors and their books: Bel Banta with The Court of Venus, and Nghi Vo with The Scarlet Ball

DECATUR
BOOK
FESTIVAL

COURTS, BALLROOMS, AND BLOODSHED
with Bel Banta & Nghi Vo

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Nghi Vo @nghivo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I AM A JEOPARDY CLUE!!!! Err, not me, Jordan Baker is. But that's my book!!!

White text on blue screen: "THE CHOSEN AND THE BEAUTIFUL" REIMAGINES THIS GOLFER FROM "THE GREAT GATSBY" AS A VIETNAMESE WOMAN

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Nghi Vo @nghivo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Wanna try before you buy? Check out The Scarlet Ball here, and if you dig it, pre-order it before release on OCT 6! Reactor not only gave us a fun selection to read, but also an audiobook sample as well, which, incredible because the audiobook is read by the incredible @natalienaudus.bsky.social!

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Nghi Vo @nghivo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

THE SCARLET BALL, my dark fantasy novel due out on OCT 6, is set in an 1890 that never existed. During the 1890s, dip pens were still king, but the modern fountain pen was beginning to appear. This, I suspect, is a Beekman fountain pen from the late 1890s.

Hardback book, The Scarlet Ball, resting on a wooden table with a black fountain pen laid across it diagonally.

The Scarlet Ball features an Asian woman in a red dress holding a white skin mask as shadowy hands reach for her. The text on it reads:

THE SCARLET BALL
USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR
NGHI VO

The pen is black, with no clip or cap bands.

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Nghi Vo @nghivo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hey, want to see me talk about my new novel THE SCARLET BALL? Wanna see me in person? Check out my tour dates!

Smoky gray graphic with text:

NGHI VO
ON TOUR

10/6 - Harvard Book Store
with Cassandra Khaw

10/7 - Dungeon Books
with Cindy Pham

10/13 - Boswell
wiht Jim Higgins

10/17 - Salt Lake City
Book Festival

10/23 - Andersons
with Katee Robert

11/7 - Twin Cities
Book Festivals

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Nghi Vo @nghivo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

On at 6pm tonight at the Portage County Public Library in Stevens Point for this one, come out, say hi, buy a copy of The Scarlet Ball a week before anyone else dirs!

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Nghi Vo @nghivo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

What're folks up to in Stevens Point, WI this Saturday? I'm in Stevens Point for the Central Wisconsin Book Festival, doing a reading at 6PM EST at the Portage County Public Library, so come hear me read from The Scarlet Ball!

Graphic promoting the Central Wisconsin Book Festival, featuring the event name, the cover of The Scarlet Ball (Asian woman in a red dress, holding a white mask as shadowy hands reach for her), and the round face of the author, Nghi Vo.

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Nghi Vo @nghivo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

While I didn't love my grade-school scantrons returning errors because my last name was too short, it's turned out to be an advantage in recent years. Sending out signed copies of The Scarlet Ball, out October 6, to @literatibookstore.bsky.social this week!

Three stacks of hardcover copies of the book, The Scarlet Ball, sitting on a steamer trunk while one book is opened to the title page with the author's name signed inside.

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Nghi Vo @nghivo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Come find me online at flights-of-foundry.org this weekend! I'm so excited and honored to be the Flights of Foundry GOH for Prose this year!

Brown, tan and beige graphic describing a schedule:

Nghi Vo

Flights of Foundry

Fri
9/18
2PM EST

The End
panel

Fri
9/18
7PM EST

Chill-n-Chat with Nghi Vo
fountain pens? food? sewing?

Sat
9/19
12PM EST

Keynote Interview
with Rosemary Jones

Sun
9/20
8PM EST

Ignytes on the Ignytes
panel

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Nghi Vo @nghivo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This was a awesome time! If you missed this one, you can watch it here, courtesy of Library of America!

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Nghi Vo @nghivo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Whatcha up to in a few hours? I've been looking forward to this one for a bit!

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Nghi Vo @nghivo.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Singing Hills #8! Wandering cleric Chih and perfect hoopoe companion Almost Brilliant arrive at the imperial palace for a celebration of the life of the Empress of Salt and Fortune, where the food's amazing, the service is exemplary, and the clothes? Well, the clothes are just to die for. :P

A book cover on a tan background. The cover features a red kingfisher draped with a scrape of blue fabric, with a mirrored design on the lower corners of a threaded needle, and shears on the verge of cutting a twisting ribbon.

Text:

The Judgement of Needles
Hugo Award-Winning Series
Nghi Vo
"A remarkable accomplishment."
-NPR on The Empress of Salt and Fortune

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Nghi Vo @nghivo.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

For anyone on the @tbrcon.bsky.social panel who was wondering, this is the statue of Sexy Leif Ericson that stands in both Milwaukee and Boston. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leif%2C...

en.wikipedia.org

Leif, the Discoverer (Whitney) - Wikipedia

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Nghi Vo @nghivo.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

On in 15, assuming the storm doesn't knock my connection out!

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Nghi Vo @nghivo.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I'll die on the hill that fashion is narrative (and propaganda and politics and history and...) and this video spells it out beautifully. If you're writing stories, watch this video for a great explanation of language, both how you can use it and how it's used to control you.

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Nghi Vo @nghivo.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Happy Pride Month and Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, everyone! Have a good time, stay hydrated, read some cool books, experience some weather!

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Nghi Vo @nghivo.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Faintly hungover from finishing a lot of work and a book release, I ended up outside of the sadly closed This Is It!, formerly Wisconsin's oldest continually open gay bar. Happy Friday, have some graffiti!

Black Sharpie on the edge of a white wooden frame:

we Don't forget

Black Sharpie on a warm red brick wall beside an wooden window edge, decorated with small black heart:

A+J

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Nghi Vo @nghivo.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

It's release day for A LONG AND SPEAKING SILENCE, #7 in the Singing Hills Cycle of standalone novellas! Watch Cleric Chih fall flat on their face as they navigate being young, broke and alone in a new town! us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

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A Long and Speaking Silence

From USA Today bestselling author Nghi Vo comes a beautiful new tale in the Hugo Award-winning Singing Hills Cycle, drawn from the earliest days of Chih's ca...

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Nghi Vo @nghivo.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

A LONG AND SPEAKING SILENCE, Singing Hills #7, is out tomorrow! On the edge of the rainy season, the town of Luntien struggles with a refugee crisis, and one very young cleric and their hoopoe bird companion try to get the story. Which story? All of them. us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

us.macmillan.com

A Long and Speaking Silence

From USA Today bestselling author Nghi Vo comes a beautiful new tale in the Hugo Award-winning Singing Hills Cycle, drawn from the earliest days of Chih's ca...

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Nghi Vo @nghivo.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Next Tuesday, 5/5, we've got the release of Singing HIlls #7, A LONG AND SPEAKING SILENCE! It's the start of the rainy season, and one very young cleric is waiting tables, listening to stories, and trying to help a refugee population in the river town of Luntien! us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

us.macmillan.com

A Long and Speaking Silence

From USA Today bestselling author Nghi Vo comes a beautiful new tale in the Hugo Award-winning Singing Hills Cycle, drawn from the earliest days of Chih's ca...

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Nghi Vo @nghivo.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

I was about to say "I need another fountain pen like I need another hole in my head" and then I was distracted by realizing I actually do want another 3-4 ear piercings. This was like the least productive chain of thoughts, just conclusions at net zero.

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Nghi Vo @nghivo.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Next Tuesday, 5/5, we've got Singing Hills #7, A LONG AND SPEAKING SILENCE! us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

The cover for a A Long and Speaking Silence, by Nghi Vo.

The cover features the title in elegant cursive script in pale green on a black background. Below, there is a symmetrical design featuring two whales. Above is a ship cradled by enormous hands. On the ship, very tiny, are a goat and a chicken.

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Nghi Vo @nghivo.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Saw a discussion about why we need to keep our cats indoors, with someone saying something like "cats do not get to eat native species," and my brain immediately supplies, "Well if I can't eat an Eastern whip-poor-will, Ripley sure as hell isn't allowed to."

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Fantasy Cafe, aka Fantasy Book Cafe @fantasycafe.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

"Books begin and end with words on the page, and they really don’t care how they get there." A LONG AND SPEAKING SILENCE author @nghivo.bsky.social discusses writing routines in "No Wrong Schedules." www.fantasybookcafe.com/2026/04/wome... #Books #BookSky 📚💙 #Fantasy #SpecFic 📚🪐

Cover of A LONG AND SPEAKING SILENCE by Nghi Vo, showing two hands raised at the top and two sets of waves with whales curled in them mirroring each other at the bottom. It's mostly purple and green with a black area with the text between the top and bottom images.

Additional Cover Text:

"Hugo Award-Winning Series!"

"A remarkable accomplishment." - NPR on The Empress of Salt and Fortune

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Nghi Vo @nghivo.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Anyway, if you catch me sitting on the ground in some airport, typing away and muttering angrily about what the hell an act two climax is anyway, please be aware that this is my native environment and that I'm likely fine!

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Nghi Vo @nghivo.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

The question I want answered by every member of the Senate and the House is "what did you do in the last 8 hours?" That's it. I don't need spin, I sure as hell don't need a story. I just want a list. What the fuck did you do today?

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L. D. Lewis, Sea Witch Apologist 🧜🏾‍♀️ @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 07/04/2026

UK paperbacks arrived while I was doing my US launch event! 😍 Happy YOTM Day!

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Nghi Vo @nghivo.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

www.blackgate.com/2026/03/22/p... The interviews where folks just let me talk and for some reason don't stop me are always fun. Thank you, Ismail!

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Portrait of an Artist: A Chat With Nghi Vo – Black Gate

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Nghi Vo @nghivo.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Morning, everyone! I'm panelling at the Tucson Festival of Books today at 10AM and 5PM today! tucsonfestivalofbooks.org?action=displ...

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Tucson Festival of Books | Nghi Vo

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Nghi Vo @nghivo.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Hey, fountain pen fans at the Tucson Festival of Books! I got this little a5ish notebook in my author's grab bag and the paper seems really fountain pen friendly! Thank you so much, Tucson Festival of Books, I love it!

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Nghi Vo @nghivo.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Anyone free in Tucson this weekend? I'm in town for the Tucson Festival of Books!!! tucsonfestivalofbooks.org?action=displ...

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Tucson Festival of Books | Nghi Vo

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Nghi Vo @nghivo.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

NEW COVER NEW COVER NEW COVER! I've been dying to show off this incredible piece of art by Martina Fačkova, and here it is! On October 6, 2026, you're all going to meet Judith Ban, and I cannot wait.

Book cover for the forthcoming book The Scarlet Ball, by Nghi Vo. An Asian woman in a red Gilded Age ballgown faces the viewer defiantly holding a mask made to resemble a white woman's face. There are dark smoky hands reaching for her out of the darkness, grabbing her arms and caressing her face.

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Nghi Vo @nghivo.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

(screams myself hoarse) This one is so much. It's SO MUCH, you don't even know!

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Nghi Vo @nghivo.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

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...

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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...

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Nghi Vo @nghivo.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

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."

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queer & trans bookstore @roomofonesownbooks.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

we're hosting @nghivo.bsky.social tonight 🐈‍⬛ 6pm at the bookstore 🐈‍⬛ wander in, clerics 🧙📚✨

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Nghi Vo @nghivo.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

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...

roomofonesown.com

A Mouthful of Dust by Nghi Vo

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Nghi Vo @nghivo.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

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!

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Nghi Vo @nghivo.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

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...

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Nghi Vo @nghivo.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Actually this is at the Spencer Road Library!!

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Nghi Vo @nghivo.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

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...

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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.

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Nghi Vo @nghivo.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

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...

boswellbooks.com

Nghi Vo, author of A Mouthful of Dust, in Conversation with Oli Schmitz

Boswell Book Company - 2559 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI

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Nghi Vo @nghivo.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

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...

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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...

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Nghi Vo @nghivo.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

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.

us.macmillan.com

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...

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Nghi Vo @nghivo.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

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

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Nghi Vo @nghivo.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

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.

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