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Tashan Mehta

@tashanmehta.bsky.social

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Author. MAD SISTERS OF ESI (DAW Books, 2025 | HarperCollins India, 2023),THE LIAR'S WEAVE (Juggernaut, 2017) Mostly on Instagram. Website: https://www.tashanmehta.com/

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Tashan Mehta @tashanmehta.bsky.social · Aug 5

It’sss pub day! MAD SISTERS OF ESI is now out in the US and Canada.

To celebrate, Alap and I took a series of truly ridiculous photos at Brooklyn Bridge Park. My baby* is now in New York!

(*Technically an ARC of my baby. The final is a beautiful, beautiful hardcover.)

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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 9d

Since I'm spending a lot of time doing everything except what I need to be doing, here's one thing I've been meaning to do: This is the link for my upcoming book tour for Queen Demon, the sequel to Witch King, 2nd book in the Rising World. Tour starts Oct 6.

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Martha Wells: Queen Demon - Macmillan Publishers

Join the bestselling author of the Murderbot Diaries Martha Wells for a discussion of her next book in the Rising World series, Demon Queen.

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Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 17d

Thrilled! Goldsmiths Press/Gold SF will publish ALSTON MOOR in Autumn 2026. Epic eco-fiction with two entwined storylines, 500 years apart!
I’ve adored every minute of research for this novel.
@goldsmithspress.bsky.social @goldsf.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social @sarahsuch.bsky.social

Goldsmiths Press to publish my latest novel Alston Moor - Anne Charnock

I am totally thrilled that Goldsmiths Press will be publishing my novel Alston Moor in the Autumn of 2026 as part of the press’s Gold SF feminist series.

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After leaving Vienna, and long before you come to Budapest, @megapolisomancy.bsky.social · Dec 30

Always have a map in your fantasy book. Have every character contradict the map, in contradictory ways. Include a timeline and have events contradict the timeline. Include a glossary and have societies and religions interpret the glossary in contradictory ways.

Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · Dec 30

Today's unpopular take: not all fantasy worlds need extensive world-building. Some books are just fine without maps.

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Tashan Mehta @tashanmehta.bsky.social · 22d

I am so delighted you enjoyed it! Thank you for such a a beautiful review.

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Jamedi @jamreads.com · 22d

Mad Sisters of Esi, by @tashanmehta.bsky.social (pub by @dawbooks.bsky.social) is an excellent novel, one that plays with metafiction to deliver a really emotional journey to the attentive reader.

Full thoughts:
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In JamReads you will find content about books, and why you should read them more. This content may include reviews, interviews and occasionally, some news of the literary world

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Samit Basu @samitbasu.bsky.social · 28d

My story "DISRUPTION" is featured in WE WILL RISE AGAIN: Speculative Stories and Essays on Protest, Resistance and Hope, edited by @older.bsky.social @drkarenlord.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social, out from @sagapressbooks.bsky.social on December 2nd. Thanks to Sareena Kamath at Saga! preorder!

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Tashan Mehta @tashanmehta.bsky.social · Sep 9

Haha, we were going to add the “The” too! But it became too many words to squeeze onto a book cover, so we happily dropped it 😅

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Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · Sep 7

@tashanmehta.bsky.social's incredible, wild, and mend-bending THE MAD SISTERS OF ESI; feels a little like Borges, a little like Calvino, and is 100% rewiring my brain

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Tashan Mehta @tashanmehta.bsky.social · Sep 8

Yay! I'm so delighted you're enjoying it!

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Jamedi @jamreads.com · Sep 2

139.- Mad Sisters of Esi, by @tashanmehta.bsky.social (pub by @dawbooks.bsky.social)

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DAW Books @dawbooks.bsky.social · Aug 29

August was winding down summer with these fantasy novels that will have you yearning for more:

🐋 MAD SISTERS OF ESI by Tashan Mehta
❤️🔥 HOUSE OF DUSK by Deva Fagan
👑 THE NAVIGATOR’S CHILDREN by Tad Williams

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · Aug 28

Tashan Mehta's lush prose reads as a hazy fairy tale; its ruminations on setting and sisterhood, pieced from different narrators across different formats, earns Mad Sisters of Esi its position as one of Reactor's most highly anticipated novels of the year:

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Mad Sisters of Esi by Tashan Mehta Feels Like a Lucid Dream - Reactor

An ever-shifting fever dream of a slipstream story.

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Tashan Mehta @tashanmehta.bsky.social · Aug 26

Happy pub day to the lovely @devafagan.bsky.social and HOUSE OF DUSK!

Deva Fagan @devafagan.bsky.social · Aug 26

Today is THE DAY. You can now actually order for-real copies of my adult fantasy debut HOUSE OF DUSK in hardback, ebook and audio format pretty much anywhere books are sold! Lots of links and blurbs here: devafagan.com/house-of-dusk/

Photo of Deva, a white woman with straight brown hair and large black cat-eye glasses, holding a finished copy of House of Dusk and smiling.

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Tashan Mehta @tashanmehta.bsky.social · Aug 25

I wish we could have talked more too!! I am so glad I ran into you though, and I am so excited for LESSONS IN MAGIC AND DISASTER!

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · Aug 24

Srsly I've been grabbing everyone I know and urging them to read The Mad Sisters of Esi by @tashanmehta.bsky.social

Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · Aug 24

My latest sff book review column is up, including a wonderful vampire novel, an interesting near future memory-sharing dystopia, and the best book I've read in ages

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Three delightfully strange new sci-fi and fantasy books

These novels by Yiming Ma, Tashan Mehta and Cheon Seon-Ran explore mental censorship, a universe inside a cosmic whale and a vampire who preys on the lonely.

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Tashan Mehta @tashanmehta.bsky.social · Aug 25

Aaa, this is incredible!! Thank you!!

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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · Aug 22

“At its core, THE LADY, THE TIGER AND THE GIRL WHO LOVED DEATH is a story about stories.” @mondyboy74.bsky.social reviews @manuscriptgal.bsky.social

The Lady, the Tiger and the Girl Who Loved Death by Helen Marshall: Review by Ian Mond

The Lady, the Tiger and the Girl Who Loved Death, Helen Marshall (Titan 978-1-80336-951-8, $18.99, 368pp, tp) June 2025. I’m a big fan of Helen Marshall’s fiction, both short and long, including he…

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