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Eshani Surya | PREORDER RAVISHING OUT 11.11.25

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debut novel RAVISHING 💄💉 ✨ coming 11.11.2025 from Roxane Gay Books/Grove Atlantic | disabled & chronically ill | philly-based | surya means sun ☀️ | [email protected] https://linktr.ee/eshanisurya

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Eshani Surya | PREORDER RAVISHING OUT 11.11.25 @eshanisurya.bsky.social · Mar 7

COVER REVEAL ⭐

SO happy to share the cover for my debut novel, RAVISHING💄💉✨! It's a perfect look for a book about the beauty industry, trauma, chronic illness, and being brown.

Huge thanks to @roxanegay.bsky.social, @groveatlantic.bsky.social and the incredible designer, Kimberly Glyder!

Book cover for Ravishing by Eshani Surya! The cover is teal with a pink stripe running through the center. It says Ravishing on the top with a syringe for the first letter I. The bottom says Eshani Surya. In the center there is a ring light with an Indian girl's face in it; she looks fearful and intense.

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Eshani Surya | PREORDER RAVISHING OUT 11.11.25 @eshanisurya.bsky.social · 10d

importantly i have delegated tasks for my book release (asking my parents to buy some balloons that match my book cover)

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The Fiddlehead @fiddlehd.bsky.social · 16d

Disability: The Revolution!

Special Issue Call for Submissions, Deadline November 30, 2025

If you identify as disabled and would like to answer this call, please submit! We would love to hear from you.

See the full call and instructions on how to submit here: thefiddlehead.ca/revolution

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Kristine Langley Mahler @suburbanprairie.bsky.social · 12d

IT'S THE @marchxness.bsky.social ANTHOLOGY! In print at last!!!

Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 12d

Hey @marchxness.bsky.social fans! It's cover reveal + preorders day for HIT REPEAT UNTIL I HATE MUSIC: THE MARCH XNESS ANTHOLOGY, edited by @angermonsoon.bsky.social and @meganc.bsky.social!

Available for preorders (+ ARC requests) NOW, link in our bio or www.splitlippress.com/march-xness-anthology

Now available for pre-order: Hit Repeat Until I Hate Music: The March Xness Anthology, edited by Ander Monson and Megan Campbell, coming with Split/Lip Press on March 31. Image shows a yellow book cover with a dubbed cassette tape, upon which the title of the book has been written.

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Tajja Isen @tajjaisen.bsky.social · 15d

I spent the summer reporting this essay on why it seems harder than ever to sell a book right now—especially if it isn't a debut and comes with the dreaded "sales track." I'm grateful to the writers, agents, editors, publishers & experts who spoke to me for this piece: thewalrus.ca/the-publishi...

The Publishing Industry Has a Gambling Problem | The Walrus

Companies keep betting on the next bestseller. Literature is poorer for it

thewalrus.ca

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Eshani Surya | PREORDER RAVISHING OUT 11.11.25 @eshanisurya.bsky.social · 24d

To be seen by Bustle! A dream!

Full list here for your TBR: www.bustle.com/entertainmen...

Screenshot of the Bustle article title - The Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2025

Screenshot of RAVISHING shout out in article

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · Sep 12

This child was infected with measles before they were able to be vaccinated (under 12 months), likely from someone unvaccinated.

They survived the infection but years later they’re dead. The risk of SSPE for an infant infected with measles is 1 in 600, & it’s 95% fatal. Your vaccine protects others

NBC News @nbcnews.com · Sep 11

A school-age child in Los Angeles has died of a rare complication from measles, years after being infected with the virus.

Los Angeles child dies from rare measles complication years after recovery

The health department said the death is a "painful reminder" of how dangerous measles can be in unvaccinated people.

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · Sep 4

As a sick person, I would like to be perceived less by RFK Jr and the MAHA movement. Never did I think I would be more unhappy with chronic illness becoming more of a topic of conversation.

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · Sep 4

Dear publishers:

Hello! Wanted to say I’m a little tired of dark academia novels set in Ivy League schools and would love to edit an anthology of dark academia set in universities across the world, in local community colleges, and online. I have a PhD and everything! Let’s talk.

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Eshani Surya | PREORDER RAVISHING OUT 11.11.25 @eshanisurya.bsky.social · Sep 4

Aw thank you Daniel!!

Eshani Surya | PREORDER RAVISHING OUT 11.11.25 @eshanisurya.bsky.social · Sep 4

Thank you!!

Eshani Surya | PREORDER RAVISHING OUT 11.11.25 @eshanisurya.bsky.social · Sep 4

Aw thank you Ellen!!

Eshani Surya | PREORDER RAVISHING OUT 11.11.25 @eshanisurya.bsky.social · Sep 4

And full review here: www.publishersweekly.com/9780802164681

Ravishing by Eshani Surya

Surya debuts with an incendiary chronicle of two Indian American siblings who go to drastic lengths to improve their lives. Kash...

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Eshani Surya | PREORDER RAVISHING OUT 11.11.25 @eshanisurya.bsky.social · Sep 4

✨ preorder the book www.eshani-surya.com/books
✨ add it on GR/Storygraph
✨ reach out if you want to review/pitch an outlet about it
✨ tell yr book club to make it the Nov book
✨ ask your library to order it
✨ talk to your local indie bookstore about it
✨ share this post to friends and family

Ravishing — Eshani Surya

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Eshani Surya | PREORDER RAVISHING OUT 11.11.25 @eshanisurya.bsky.social · Sep 4

Thank you also to my community for everything! As a quick reminder, there are lots of ways to continue supporting. You can…

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Eshani Surya | PREORDER RAVISHING OUT 11.11.25 @eshanisurya.bsky.social · Sep 4

I honestly cannot keep it together today after getting a STARRED REVIEW from @publisherswkly.bsky.social! So grateful that this book, made up of hospital visits and literal blood (sweat and tears), is being seen this way by readers.

Book cover with publisher’s weekly star definition

Pull quote from review with syringe graphic and book cover: “an incendiary chronicle of two Indian American siblings who go to drastic lengths to improve their lives”

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Eshani Surya | PREORDER RAVISHING OUT 11.11.25 @eshanisurya.bsky.social · Aug 29

my dream is for someone online to comment to me “you’re right and you should say it”

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · Aug 28

BREAKING: Big moment as CDC staff stage a mass walkout.

They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base.

(🎥 AP)

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Eshani Surya | PREORDER RAVISHING OUT 11.11.25 @eshanisurya.bsky.social · Aug 28

unpopular opinion but i’m tired of the deep and unwavering cynicism in first person privileged narrators of this decade. the way they talk about everything happening TO them when they have the power to shape things!!

Eshani Surya | PREORDER RAVISHING OUT 11.11.25 @eshanisurya.bsky.social · Aug 26

Ironic that I left marketing because I hated selling things but now I’m an author and what’s expected of me is to… sell myself.

Eshani Surya | PREORDER RAVISHING OUT 11.11.25 @eshanisurya.bsky.social · Aug 11

This book is all about community and I’m so grateful for mine. Let’s goooo 11/11/25!

Eshani Surya | PREORDER RAVISHING OUT 11.11.25 @eshanisurya.bsky.social · Aug 11

3 MONTHS TIL RAVISHING IS OUT!

Can’t believe it’s so close now. If you want to keep supporting a chronically ill South Asian author you can:

✨ preorder RAVISHING (www.eshani-surya.com/books)
✨ add it on Goodreads/Storygraph
✨ talk to yr local library about it
✨ tell yr friends and family