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Thenmozhi Soundararajan/Dalit Diva ✨️is querying✨️ @dalitdiva.bsky.social · 5h

Thanks Will I appreciate the compliment so much! Let's get this!!!

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Thenmozhi Soundararajan/Dalit Diva ✨️is querying✨️ @dalitdiva.bsky.social · 9h

Good luck want to see how you explore your delicious theme

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Thenmozhi Soundararajan/Dalit Diva ✨️is querying✨️ @dalitdiva.bsky.social · 11h

A 85K #SpaceOpera ✨WE SANG DOWN THE EMPIRE✨
Washed-up alien musician Nesamma Abbas joins a rebel rock band to take down the Human Empire with a martial art of sound. She must confront her pain, master her powers & choose between revolution or redemption.
#WOC #SouthAsian #Asian #A #SFF #DVpit !

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Thenmozhi Soundararajan/Dalit Diva ✨️is querying✨️ @dalitdiva.bsky.social · 11h

A 85K #SpaceOpera ✨WE SANG DOWN THE EMPIRE✨
Washed-up alien musician Nesamma Abbas joins a rebel rock band to take down the Human Empire with a martial art of sound. She must confront her pain, master her powers & choose between revolution or redemption.
#WOC #SouthAsian #Asian #A #SFF #DVpit !

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Thenmozhi Soundararajan/Dalit Diva ✨️is querying✨️ @dalitdiva.bsky.social · 12h

Hi Krystal! Thank you I had been adding them to everything but I think Bsky did not register the ones I put in for this one. This is so important and I will continue to keep adding them. Thank you for flagging this for me!

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Thenmozhi Soundararajan/Dalit Diva ✨️is querying✨️ @dalitdiva.bsky.social · 12h

LOVE THIS! I want Thali now!

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Thenmozhi Soundararajan/Dalit Diva ✨️is querying✨️ @dalitdiva.bsky.social · 12h

You had me at grey gardens and the once-opulent space station. We need this published NOW!

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Thenmozhi Soundararajan/Dalit Diva ✨️is querying✨️ @dalitdiva.bsky.social · 13h

Awwww thank you!!

Thenmozhi Soundararajan/Dalit Diva ✨️is querying✨️ @dalitdiva.bsky.social · 14h

WE SANG DOWN THE EMPIRE 85,000 Word #Spaceopera
🛸 Nesamma Abbas, a washed-up alien musician,
🎸 joins a rebel rock band to take down the Human Empire
✨with a martial art of sound ⚡🎶
.😢She must confront her pain,
🧘‍♀️ Master her powers
⚔️ & choose: revolution
❤️ or redemption
#WOC #Asian #SFF #DVpit

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Thenmozhi Soundararajan/Dalit Diva ✨️is querying✨️ @dalitdiva.bsky.social · 15h

This is happening for me to is tho the technical glitch?

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Thenmozhi Soundararajan/Dalit Diva ✨️is querying✨️ @dalitdiva.bsky.social · 15h

I want this now!!!

Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 15h

GREY GARDENS in space:

A fledgling documentarian gets overly entangled with two deposed Imperials in exile on a once-opulent space station.

He must choose: launch his career as a truth-teller, or protect these people from the judgment of a hostile audience.

#DVpit #A #SF #LGBT #TV #novella

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Thenmozhi Soundararajan/Dalit Diva ✨️is querying✨️ @dalitdiva.bsky.social · 16h

The hijinks in the zeppelin really get me

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Thenmozhi Soundararajan/Dalit Diva ✨️is querying✨️ @dalitdiva.bsky.social · 18h

#DVPit: ✨Welcome to WE SANG DOWN THE EMPIRE✨ Washed-up alien musician Nesamma Abbas joins a rebel rock band to take down the Human Empire with a martial art of sound. She must confront her pain, master her powers and choose between revolution or redemption.
#WOC #SouthAsian #Asian #A #SF #SFF #POC

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Thenmozhi Soundararajan/Dalit Diva ✨️is querying✨️ @dalitdiva.bsky.social · 19h

Dear #litagents, I'm happy to present an #agentsguide for a revised version of WE SANG DOWN THE EMPIRE an 85K word Adult #SPACEOPERA. This will be pitched for #DVpit!

#WOC #SouthAsian #Asian #A #SF #SFF #POC
ALT

A Speculative Fiction Space Opera
85,000 Words
Freeing the Galaxy
Begins with Healing Yourself

This features an ethereal image from Joshua Mays with a woman holding a globe of sound magic. The pitch is:

Washed-up alien musician Nesamma Abbas joins a rebel rock band plotting a galaxy-wide uprising against the Human Empire. As the rebellion hurtles toward its final battle, she must confront her past, master the ancient martial art of sound, and choose
between revolution and healing the galaxy.

This is the comparisons page showcasing books with similar themes to WE SANG DOWN THE EMPIRE
The First Book is Rebecca Roanhorse's Black Sun with this text: Epic in scale
Explores generational trauma
Dazzling System of Magic

The next book is Space Oddity by Catherynne Valente with this text:
Distinctive Worldbuilding
And Marvelous Alien Races

The Last book is A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers with this text: Soothing Narrative Philosophical and Poignant Exploration of Healing

This is just an excerpt of WE SANG DOWN THE EMPIRE:
Everyone can recall the first time they heard or saw Nesamma. Mine was outside a café in New Jerusalem. Her wide eyes, rimmed with golden kohl, her bronzed java skin, lean, quick frame, and her hair that cascaded like liquid onyx past her hips—I remember it all.

I never knew what I was missing until I heard the longing in hers. Raw and husky, with the timbre of truth, such a voice comes once in a generation, once in a galaxy.

Even now, in certain alien districts on Earth, they whisper her name like that of a prophet who offers mystical proofs. Was she not trained by Oopan Brass, the last singing-warrior monk of Lethaa? A genius in his own right, blending the arts of war and song. The monks of Lethaa stood at the forefront of each battle, their fierce drums and songs the single force capable of turning the tide in their favor.

Before her final performance, Nesamma began with a quote from their holy book: “A song is a thing of both physics and psyche, for the right song can slice glass as easily as it can open an opponent’s heart.”

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Thenmozhi Soundararajan/Dalit Diva ✨️is querying✨️ @dalitdiva.bsky.social · 1d

ohhhh! the yearning here really gets to me! I hope you finish this soon

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Thenmozhi Soundararajan/Dalit Diva ✨️is querying✨️ @dalitdiva.bsky.social · 1d

So important there is so much trauma, loss, and grief that does not get discussed. I hope the writing for it is healing for you and the future readers.

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Thenmozhi Soundararajan/Dalit Diva ✨️is querying✨️ @dalitdiva.bsky.social · 1d

This is so cute and so needed. It really is so poignant

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Thenmozhi Soundararajan/Dalit Diva ✨️is querying✨️ @dalitdiva.bsky.social · 1d

#MG #HF set in the shadow of the Akron rubber strikes & featuring Victor Lustig's infamous prison escape. This is so different and unexpected!

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Thenmozhi Soundararajan/Dalit Diva ✨️is querying✨️ @dalitdiva.bsky.social · 1d

Day 6 of #DVParty My next book is WE DRUM FREEDOM:
🧘Jemina Brass is the first nun in Lethan’s warrior order
💔The monks haze her brutally.
✨The One Sound leads her to a secret mystic network
🪄Jemina learns to wield sound as power
🌟Now she must choose: tradition or a bolder future for all. #DVPit

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Thenmozhi Soundararajan/Dalit Diva ✨️is querying✨️ @dalitdiva.bsky.social · 1d

Day 6 of #DVParty My next book is WE DRUM FREEDOM:
🧘Jemina Brass is the first nun in Lethan’s warrior order
💔The monks haze her brutally.
✨The One Sound leads her to a secret mystic network
🪄Jemina learns to wield sound as power
🌟Now she must choose: tradition or a bolder future for all. #DVPit

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Thenmozhi Soundararajan/Dalit Diva ✨️is querying✨️ @dalitdiva.bsky.social · 2d

Because I did it on accident :)

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Thenmozhi Soundararajan/Dalit Diva ✨️is querying✨️ @dalitdiva.bsky.social · 2d

Really like the vietnamese recs! They really bring the vibes!

Thenmozhi Soundararajan/Dalit Diva ✨️is querying✨️ @dalitdiva.bsky.social · 2d

Good night Jinn sounds wonderful will the jinn be scary or friendly? Or do we have to wait to read it to find out

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Thenmozhi Soundararajan/Dalit Diva ✨️is querying✨️ @dalitdiva.bsky.social · 2d

Awww thank you!! It was so heart opening for me I’m glad it moved you

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Thenmozhi Soundararajan/Dalit Diva ✨️is querying✨️ @dalitdiva.bsky.social · 2d

I hope so if it ever gets adapted to another medium it would be perfect for it! Bu this is definitely a novel and not a libretto. Thank you for asking!

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