Aaron Chan

Dammit I forgot to wear red today

...does purple count as red 😅

cake has been ordered (cookies n creme)

no one objected so now it's happening

cautiously optimistic after sending the query earlier today 🤞

is it a bad idea to order a vegan ice cream cake and eat the whole thing myself

Someone tell me it's better to have tried and felt like an utter fool than to have not tried

The gay agenda is working 🥳

Author Josh Emmons says, "Aaron Chan's HOUSE OF MIRRORS is extraordinary, full of moving...episodes... Chan calls to mind Ocean Vuong and Ben Lerner, poets moonlighting as prose writers to beautiful effect... I applaud the publisher lucky enough to bring out this book.”

😊😊😊

#bluepit #autofiction

Black and gold mood board. Pictures of Chinese calligraphy, a pagoda-style building, jewelry, and dragon statues. Center reads “This Twisted Eternity” and the quote reads “I’m nobody’s pawn, least of all his.”

In the afterlife of Chinese myth, a dead war general will face an eternity of torture—unless she can fool an immortal court into believing that she and her murderer are lovers.

💕Fake dating your own killer
👑Deadly court politics
🌟Pretty boy x ruthless girl

#BluePit #BluePit 📖 #YA #F #R #W #OV #POC

a spread of hand drawn tarot cards (chapter art by me) - The Fool, The Magician, The Lovers, Death, The Moon, & The Sun, with elemental frames in the background, a fantasy map of the US with swollen coastine, colorful version of tarot cards, and colorful flames elemental magic visions survival skills climate fiction #clifi indigenous futurism plant medicine meditation wilderness permaculture neotribalism community backpacking post-apocalyptic hopepunk

When marauders menace her village, an empath-scholar leads a tarot-themed odyssey across the climate-ravaged former US to retrieve a key to peace, using meditation powers, survival skills, and archaic tech in the race to save her people.

#BluePit #BluePit📖 #Q #A #SP #hopepunk #CliFi #witchsky

#Bluepit

Mass effect x Treasure Planet/ Master and Commander in Space

6 years after the Death of Earth and Humanity's Uplift into the Jada Empire. Elise Clarke is enlisted into the Royal Fleet. Can she overcome her trauma and prove Humanity can find a place in the Galaxy?

#Q #SF #SFF

An agent's guide to Time's Signature.

#agentguide #litagents #amquerying #writingcommunity #bluepit

a Death tarot card I drew titled "What rises from the ashes" with death on a moped, a sun tarot card, a lovers tarot card, a color Hermit tarot card (I did all the art) quotes: "Every end is a beginning" - Tai Gong Diao "Protect your spirit, for you are in a place where spirits get eaten" - John Trudell a variety of photos from my travels (+one dilapidated shack I did not capture myself) of reflective water in various landscapes and urban decay and plants growing through, swamp, fire, bridges tarot cards from my novel, created by me fantasy map of the US post 60 m sea level rise in background over a sunset sky with leaves growing from dead branches elemental magic visions survival skills climate fiction #clifi indigenous futurism plant medicine meditation wilderness permaculture neotribalism community backpacking post-apocalyptic hopepunk

🔥WHAT will GROW from the ASHES?

A young woman's quest across ruins of former US becomes larger than saving her village from raiders. It offers humanity a way forward in a world desperately in need of change.

Nature will reclaim the land🌱We create anew
#CliFi
#Hopepunk
#BluePit
#BluePit📖
#Q
#A
#SP

An image of a classroom over an image of a D&D game with dice. Text reads: Speculative fiction, Anti-Charter Campaign, is Jumanji X Abbott Elementary. Librarian Britt and her teacher colleagues must make the right rolls in a magical RPG to save their school from a charter takeover.

ANTI-CHARTER CAMPAIGN: Speculative Fiction
Jumanji X Abbott Elementary
School librarian Britt and her teacher friends must figure out how to stop a charter takeover of their beloved school.
The strange D&D game they're playing may hold the key.
Querying Soon
#BluePit 📖 #A #W

Book cover for "Mark of the Jester" by B. van Bodegom (author of Dad Bodies). Dark fantasy novel. Features a split jester mask in black and white halves with a red smile on the white half. 'The' runs vertically down the center, with decorative silhouettes of roses framing the mask. High-contrast graphic design in black, white, and red.

THE LIES OF LOCKE LAMORA × BEST SERVED COLD × THE BUTCHER BOY

When a Court Jester snaps and brutally murders the tyrant king, he must perform and slay his way out of a kingdom in chaos, hunted by loyalists, hailed by rebels, while his sanity slips and fractures.

#BluePit 📖 #A #D #F #H #W #DIS

Image: A man in a black cloak and a wide brim western style black hat, holding a revolver; only his eyes as yellow pinpricks are visible. Text: A Novel By Kelton Davis Blood from Stone 112000 Words Adult Gothic Western Fantasy Querying Soon Art: Apocalypse by Oliver Odmark

Title: Pitch Text: In the twenty years since the vampires rose up out of the earth, Corado hasn’t done too bad for himself. He’s still alive, for one, and he’s got a lucrative trade as a nightrunner smuggling people beneath the vampiric horde that blots out the sky each night. It's dangerous work, but enough to get a roof over his head and a bottle in his hand at the end of the day. That’s pretty good for life under the vampires. Then an attack from the horde leaves him stuck in the desert, alone with a newly-orphaned boy, and his luck finally dries up. He resolves to find what remains of the boy’s family and put it all behind him—but instead of taking him off Corado’s hands, his so-called “family” offers a new deal: escort them to the vampiric capital in exchange for a veritable fortune. Corado knows he shouldn’t. It’s a long, dangerous route, and the group has a smack of sedition to them that he knows firsthand to be a quick way to a bloody death. It is a hell of a lot of money, though. Background image: same as first slide.

Title: Comparable Titles Images of the covers of The Devils by Joe Abercrombie, Godkiller by Hannah Kaner, and Red Rabbit by Alex Grecian. Text drawn with an arrow from each image: Found family (from the Devils) Reluctant parent figure (from Godkiller) Western-inspire Gothic setting (from Red Rabbit) Unlikely travel companions (from all). Background image: same as first slide.

SINNERS x THE DEVILS x CASTLEVANIA

There's three rules to surviving as a nightrunner: don't get comfortable, don't be a hero, and don't be unlucky.

Corado's about to break all three.

🤠 Vampire Cowboys
🦇 Monstrous Night Hordes
🏜️ Pueblo Pit Cities

Querying now!
#A #F #Q #BluePit 📖
#amquerying

ID: The Pitch, After a terrorist attack kills his lovers, the sole survivor must hunt the culprit among a crew of spies before he's pinned for reality's unbecoming. A small white hole glows at the bottom of the image.

ID: Echo Judgment trope map; Black Hole Cosmology, cultporate gov., FTL Tech gone wrong, cosmic horror, LGBTQIA+ Characters, Suspects-to-lovers, post-post-post apocalypse, crew as found family, fates worse than death, biopunk, spy-fi, poly characters, "hear me out" hard scifi. Warnings include body horror, gaslighting, arachnophobia, dissociation, war crimes, implied starvation, drug-use, implied alcoholism. Artificial Intelligence Free badge. A spider web wrapped glowing orb sits on the right of the image amid a purple asteroid field.

ID: Chapter I: Irukandji Syndrome Sam hadn’t killed anyone. Well. He had. Four-hundred and ninety-six, his traitorous brain reminded him. He’d looked into people’s eyes, out of sight in some roost, and snuffed out lives he’d never meet. When he could, though his victims would never know, he’d spend their final breaths with them. Watched their lips turn blue, bodies becoming one with the refuse littering Lafayette’s ruined streets. But he hadn’t killed them. Right?

ID: Alien, but the Weyland-Yutani Corp is the gov. Atomic Blonde but mission failure means human extinction. Annihilation but the Shimmer is the entire sky.

Hard Scifi Thriller ft. Cold War-esque espionage, humanity on the brink of extinction, and a poet-turned-sniper who just wants his lovers back.

🪼Poetry meets Particle Physics
🪼Biopunk Cosmic Horror
🪼Earth as a Myth
🪼Interstellar Life

#bluepit📖 #bluepit #W #A #LGBT #ND #SF #T #ND #LGBT

Background photo of several mirrors on a wall with text in front that says House of Mirrors, a collection of hermit crab essays by Aaron Chan

A synopsis of House of Mirrors

Four comps: High-Risk Homosexual by Edgar Gomez (the gay POC experience); In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado (unique and emotional), All Down Darkness Wide by Sean Hewitt (lyrical); and Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong (the Asian diasporic experience)

The first two opening paragraphs of House of Mirrors, a multiple-choice quiz

Hey, #BluePit! Enter HOUSE OF MIRRORS, a collection of hermit crab essays--stories in the forms of preexisting types of writing like a teen mag quiz or newspaper--about the gay Asian experience 🪞

genre-bending🤯
#LGBT🌈
#POC💛
immigrant family dynamics👪
identity 🙎‍♂️

#q #w #OV #autofiction

Dreamed I made out with Hudson Williams while Connor Storrie was present and I'm just grateful I got to experience this in my lifetime

It's my birthday today.

Mom: I got a cake

[noticing it's from Maxim's, a non-vegan Chinese bakery]

Me [knowing full well it's not]: Is it vegan?

Mom: And where am I supposed to get a vegan cake in this area? What a ridiculous thing to say

a young boy is covering his face with his hands while sitting at a table . ALT: a young boy is covering his face with his hands while sitting at a table .

Manifesting for 2026: I will work on season 2 of #HeatedRivalry in some capacity (writing, acting, extra work, etc.)

Thanks!

My birthday is next month and I could really use some good writing news 🤞

Aww, thanks! There may or may not be something in the works 👀 Stay tuned!

PS. If you had questions, you could always ask me anyway :p

If I did a literary AMA at, say, the public library where folks could ask me anything about writing and publishing, would that be a good idea or no?

Got some amazing news last night! Not sure I can share it just yet, but I'm super excited for next year 😊

Thanks!

A few other forms found in my hermit crab essay collection HOUSE OF MIRRORS:

📰newspaper
🚶‍♂️self-guided walks
✈️travel blog
📖folktale
↗️Choose Your Own Adventure
📝rental agreements
📱dating & hookup profiles

Right???