Nghi Vo

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.

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.

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."

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.

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."

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

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!

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...

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

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!

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...

Actually this is at the Spencer Road Library!!

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...

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...

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!

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.

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.

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...

*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!

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

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...

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.

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.

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

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.

Pre-Gaylaxicon Signing Event - DreamHaven When: 2025.10.02 @ 18:30 Join us for a signing with Gaylaxicon Guests of Honor Nghi Vo, Emma Törzs 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...

There is no better time to open up my Dragon Age Origins Circle Mage playthrough than 11 hours before I have to be on a plane!

I always hear this in Homer Simpson's voice from a Treehouse of Terror episode-it's got the most addictive cadence!

Actually, 6, it's number 6, 7 is something else.

A Mouthful of Dust is Singing HIlls #6, and there's pork, a very cute kitten, some famine, some cannibalism, lots of stories, and damnit, I need to do a proper promotional post.

For my covid-conscious friends, Gaylaxicon has masks required in all convention spaces! I'm so pleased!