Tashan Mehta

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Author. Out now: MAD SISTERS OF ESI (HarperCollins India, 2023) 🐋 Buy: t.ly/2_Y8I

Previous: THE LIAR'S WEAVE (Juggernaut, 2017)

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Website: https://www.tashanmehta.com/

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We are so thrilled to be honoured at the Hugos like this and cannot thank you all enough for your support! This is a really special one for our entire team so thank you so much ❤️

The winner of the Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine is Strange Horizons by the Strange Horizons Editorial Collective. #HugoAwards2024 #Glasgow2024 #WorldconForOurFutures

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Much gratitude to the readers of the Subjective Chaos Kind of Awards for selecting my novella THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAR (@subpress.bsky.social) as Best Novella. Congratulations to all the winners and finalists, including the brilliant @tashanmehta.bsky.social!

The BEST NOVELLA: THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAR by Indra Das (@indrapramitdas.bsky.social)

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Coming to the US next summer!

First up, our subjectively BEST FANTASY NOVEL of 2023 is: MAD SISTERS OF ESI by Tashan Mehta (@tashanmehta.bsky.social)

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I had to get one of my wife's work colleagues to bring me MAD SISTERS OF ESI all the way from India after @interzone.press praised it. Thrilled for its North American release! Guaranteed you've never read anything like it. Congrats to @tashanmehta.bsky.social! reactormag.com/daw-books-an...

A Haunting Tale of Sisterhood: DAW Books Announces Mad Sisters of Esi by Tashan Mehta - Reactorreactormag.com In the devastating chaos of the world, what stories will you choose to tell?

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Absolutely delighted to lose this award to MAD SISTERS! HUGE congrats to @tashanmehta.bsky.social! A US edition will be out soon: here is an excerpt reactormag.com/daw-books-an...

First up, our subjectively BEST FANTASY NOVEL of 2023 is: MAD SISTERS OF ESI by Tashan Mehta (@tashanmehta.bsky.social)

A Haunting Tale of Sisterhood: DAW Books Announces Mad Sisters of Esi by Tashan Mehta - Reactorreactormag.com In the devastating chaos of the world, what stories will you choose to tell?

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Congratulations @tashanmehta.bsky.social !!!!! So well deserved.

First up, our subjectively BEST FANTASY NOVEL of 2023 is: MAD SISTERS OF ESI by Tashan Mehta (@tashanmehta.bsky.social)

Oh what excellent news! I’m on the train out of Glasgow as we speak, so I missed this by an hour, but I am so delighted MAD SISTERS OF ESI won! ✨🥳🎉 Thank you to the lovely judges ♥️

First up, our subjectively BEST FANTASY NOVEL of 2023 is: MAD SISTERS OF ESI by Tashan Mehta (@tashanmehta.bsky.social)

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Yes, so delighted to hear that this marvellous and strange novel will be reaching more readers outside South Asia! Tashan puts one in mind of a desi Calvino or Borges or Susanna Clarke but is very much her own writer.

We are thrilled to help announce Mad Sisters of Esi, a new "meta fantasy" from @tashanmehta.bsky.social coming to North America from DAW Books! Fables, family, ghosts - this is a story you won't want to miss. reactormag.com/daw-books-an...

A Haunting Tale of Sisterhood: DAW Books Announces Mad Sisters of Esi by Tashan Mehta - Reactorreactormag.com In the devastating chaos of the world, what stories will you choose to tell?

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We're thrilled to welcome @tashanmehta.bsky.social to the DAW family, having acquired North American rights to MAD SISTER OF ESI, a stunning meta fantasy about the power of stories, belief, and sisterhood. Learn more on @reactorsff.bsky.social: reactormag.com/daw-books-an...

Some surreal news: MAD SISTERS OF ESI is headed to the US. Thank you to the brilliant Navah Wolfe and to @dawbooks.bsky.social for loving and believing in this novel. Thank you also to the amazing Cameron McClure, who really is the best agent you could ask for. The month of May was a whirlwind.

A Haunting Tale of Sisterhood: DAW Books Announces Mad Sisters of Esi by Tashan Mehta - Reactorreactormag.com In the devastating chaos of the world, what stories will you choose to tell?

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I have been dying to read MAD SISTERS (and have two copies! But they're both back in Colombo, so not quite yet argh.) Tashan's debut LIAR'S WEAVE was wonderful too, do check it out if you haven't read it. Very happy to see our chaos jurors reading and enjoying these books!

FANTASY - @vajra.me, The Saint of Bright Doors - @tashanmehta.bsky.social, The Mad Sisters of Esi BLURRED BOUNDARIES - @adeniro.bsky.social , OK Psyche - Isabel Waidner, Corey Fah Does Social Mobility (2/n)

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Honoured that THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAR (@subpress.bsky.social) is a Subjective Chaos finalist in the Novella category! Congratulations to all the finalists, including fellow South Asians @vajra.me, @tashanmehta.bsky.social & @lavanya.bsky.social:

Our website is now updated with our glorious finalists! You’ll also find there the works we shortlisted and they’re all worthy of your attention. Give authors some love by buying their books / getting them from the library and then spread the word! subjectivechaoskindofawards.wordpress.com/2024-2/

Current yearsubjectivechaoskindofawards.wordpress.com FANTASY FINALISTS Vajra Chandrasekera, The Saint Of Bright Doors (Tor / St Martin’s Press) Tashan Mehta, Mad Sisters Of Esi (HarperCollins India) Nominees Vajra Chandrasekera, The Saint Of Bright Door...

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Delighted that THE TEN PERCENT THIEF is a finalist for the Subjective Chaos Kind of Awards! Congratulations to all the finalists including my fellow South Asians @indrapramitdas.bsky.social , @tashanmehta.bsky.social and @vajra.me across categories 🥳 All gratitude to the jurors for this honour 💜

And our 2024 finalists for the Subjective Chaos Kind of Awards are… SCIFI - @lavanya.bsky.social , The Ten Percent Thief - Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain Gang All Stars - @laurenbeukes.bsky.social , The Bridge (1/n)

MAD SISTERS OF ESI is a Subjective Chaos Kind of Awards finalist! Alongside the brilliant @vajra.me 🔥 Congratulations to all the finalists, and delighted to see fellow South Asians @lavanya.bsky.social and @indrapramitdas.bsky.social here too ❤️

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This week brought us two debuts, and what harmony they made together! D.A. Xiaolin Spires and Tashan Mehta read very different stories—one SF, one fantasy—that examined mother-daughter relationships. It was a beautiful and bittersweet evening. @spires.bsky.social @tashanmehta.bsky.social

Story Hour | The Story Hour was live. | By The Story HourFacebookwww.facebook.com The Story Hour was live.

I am bad with most nomination deadlines, but one seems to be coming up, so here's a small reminder that MAD SISTERS OF ESI is eligible for all 2024 SFF awards and I'd be very grateful if you considered it. #awardseligibility

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The shortlisted works in the fantasy category are: - @vajra.me , The Saint of Bright Doors - Salman Rushdie, Victory City - Moniquill Blackgoose, To Shape a Dragon’s Breath - @tashanmehta.bsky.social , The Mad Sisters of Esi - @shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social He Who Drowned the World

“A literary creation that, once experienced, is unlikely to be forgotten” A truly fabulous review of MAD SISTERS OF ESI in the New Indian Express ❤️ www.newindianexpress.com/lifestyle/bo...

Went for a long walk this morning, wrote by the sea, and came home to find MAD SISTERS OF ESI on the prestigious Locus Recommended Reading List. Today has been a good day. Lovely to share space with so many of the favs: @samitbasu.bsky.social, @indrapramitdas.bsky.social, @vajra.me

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Terrific author’s note from C K McDonnell. Automating a process is stupid if the process is the point. Also, if a book lasts into further reprints, is read maybe, hopefully, into the future, these notes will be valuable, lived history.

So delighted to see MAD SISTERS OF ESI on this list – thank you, @indrapramitdas.bsky.social! "magnificently odd ... Reminded me of Calvino, of Clarke's PIRANESI (but space-faring), of Borges, and I don't make those comparisons lightly."

A bit late, some brief thoughts on books I appreciated in 2023, from that year and others. My brain is frazzled from dystopia, I'm a slow reader now, so apologies to all those writers whose books I wanted to get to but couldn't:

2023 Reads - Indrapramit Dasindradas.com Here are some of the books I appreciated last year, in no order (a couple I actually read the previous year as ARCs, but since they were published in ’23 I’ll include them here): Mariana Enriquez�...

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“MAD SISTERS OF ESI is a rich novel... the stories it tells should be savoured while you’re reading them... stories always change over time, as they are retold or re-encountered.” @niallharrison reviews @TashanMehta (@tashanmehta.bsky.social) locusmag.com/2024/01...@tashanmehta.bsky.social) locusmag.com/2024/01...

Niall Harrison Reviews Mad Sisters of Esi by Tashan Mehtalocusmag.com Mad Sisters of Esi, Tashan Mehta (HarperCollins India 978-93569-94188, 412pp, INR599.00, tp). September 2023. Cover by Upamanyu Bhattacharyya. Towards the end of Tashan Mehta’s scintillating sec…

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New Author Interview - today on the blog talking about their excellent fantasy novel Mad Sisters of Esi is the great Tashan Mehta

Interviewing Tashan Mehta — Runalong The Shelveswww.runalongtheshelves.net

MAD SISTERS OF ESI gets a stunning review in @locusmag.bsky.social by the brilliant @niallharrison.bsky.social. It’s a review that meets the book entirely on the book’s own terms, with no expectation that it be anything that it is not. It gave me so much joy.

Niall Harrison Reviews Mad Sisters of Esi by Tashan Mehta locusmag.com/2024/01...

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On the 10th Day of Solaris Christmas, meet @lavanya.bsky.social's stunning debut novel THE TEN PERCENT THIEF! A fresh, haunting dystopian novel for fans of RED RISING and POSTER GIRL. “A new masterpiece” - SciFiNow geni.us/TheTenPercentT…

Happy New Year, everyone! I’m back at the desk, and here’s what happened with MAD SISTERS OF ESI across the end of December 🧵 ✶ MAD SISTERS OF ESI got longlisted for the KLF Book Awards, along with these incredible books. (1/5)

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Enjoyed putting together a list of my favorite and most memorable reads of the year for the Portalist! ft. work by @samitbasu.bsky.social, @tashanmehta.bsky.social, @indrapramitdas.bsky.social, @lavanya.bsky.social & more!

10 of the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of 2023theportalist.com Here are some of the best speculative fiction reads of the year.

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Hello Evening Crowd! A kindly Womble has a list of Fantasy novels to enjoy for you!

Ho Ho Ho! Santa Womble for the final set of treats delved into the Fantasy novel selection box with lots of suggestions

Santa Womble - Walking in a Fantasy Wonderland — Runalong The Shelveswww.runalongtheshelves.net

This was such a brilliant, brilliant conversation. Thank you, @interzone.press, for having me – it was a true delight.