Tashan Mehta, author of "Mad Sisters of Esi", shares her advice for speculative fiction writers looking to publish their work. 🔮 - #SouthAsian #SpeculativeFiction

MAD SISTERS OF ESI is coming in French! This is the first work of mine that’s been translated, and it’s been an incredible experience. Mathilde Montier did an astonishing job; her skill, care and artistry blew me away. It just made me so excited for language and writing all over again.

Congratulations to Vajra Chandrasekera (@vajra.me), recipient of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for Rakesfall! Chandrasekera's book was chosen by authors Matt Bell, Indra Das, Kelly Link, Sequoia Nagamatsu, and Rebecca Roanhorse.

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. us.macmillan.com/tours/martha...

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

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.

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: jamreads.com/reviews/mad-... 💙📚

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!

@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

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

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

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: reactormag.com/book-review-...

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

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

“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

Such a lovely WorldCon. I wore all black everyday, like a ninja; met my agent in the flesh; hung out with some amazing people; and got to see MAD SISTERS OF ESI out in the wild. Also, my fellow panelists were incredible; I took so many notes!

Tashan Mehta shares with all of us why you should pick up her newest release, Mad Sisters of Esi. If you haven't already gotten yourself or your friends and family a copy of this stunning meta fantasy filled with rich wonder, what are you waiting for? buff.ly/xNsvKVe

Thrilled to see INTERSTELLAR MEGACHEF on this fabulous new list from Book Riot 🌈✨ Thank you Addison Rizer and @bookriot.bsky.social for including my work in such phenomenal company! Everyone go get all the books! Pack a snack and enjoy the read 🍩🚀 bookriot.com/immersive-ne...

I’m at WorldCon! I have a table talk from 12-1pm today - come say hi?

Look what arrived in my mailbox! Preorders ftw! @tashanmehta.bsky.social

😁Perfect for fans of : 🐋 Mind-bending fantasy with nested, cosmic worlds 📜 Rich mythmaking, folktales, and fables 🌌 Highly original fantasy that lingers long after the last page @dawbooks.bsky.social @tashanmehta.bsky.social #booksky #Fantasy

MAD SISTERS OF ESI has a review in the Wall Street Journal (!) and it’s good (!!)

3 Favorite Things about Mad Sisters of Esi? Yes please -- tell me MORE! The Honey Pop covers this brilliant new meta fantasy, which is out today 🤩 Article: buff.ly/SMjy9zm Book: buff.ly/KNOWSCi

Congratulations!!

Glorious book, this one.

It has a whale on the cover so obviously I had to go find it and it sounds GREAT and I caught it before it went live on the library website so now I’m first in line 💅. Link in case you also need it!

Americans happy publication day to the excellent Mad Sisters of Esi by @tashanmehta.bsky.social which is a glorious trip of fantasy to get hold of www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2023/12...

Been eagerly awaiting this! Can't wait for my copy to arrive from @bookshop.org

Happy book birthday to this gorgeous, dreamy book that was one of my favorite (non-podcast) reads last year!

Mad Sisters of Esi by @tashanmehta.bsky.social is finally out today! Susanna Clarke's Piranesi meets Italo Calvino's If On a Winter's Night a Traveler in this stunning meta fantasy about the power of stories, belief, and sisterhood ✨🐋🌸 buff.ly/KNOWSCi

The is a very wild book and I recommend it amzn.to/4moxzt3

Congratulations and happy US book day @tashanmehta.bsky.social ! 🥳💜 MAD SISTERS OF ESI is a wondrous, beautiful book. I had the pleasure of reading an ARC (and chatting with Tashan about ESI at a ton of events), and every word shines with her brilliance. You’ve got to go read it NOW! I

Happy book day to @tashanmehta.bsky.social, whose THE MAD SISTERS OF ESI is an uncategorisable wonder of a novel, a cosmic fantasy threaded with Calvino, Borges, (Susanna) Clarke, but ultimately Tashan's own singularity of story. So delighted for it to reach a larger readership.

I had the pleasure of chatting with Tashan via email about this gorgeous book, the nature of stories, fantastical worldbuilding, the pain and pleasure of creation, and more. You can read it in full here: writeordiemag.com/author-inter... @dawbooks.bsky.social

An enchanting, strange novel - my thoughts on it here: 0tralala.blogspot.com/2024/03/mad-...

You need to read this wonderful book!!

I read a review of this in Interzone when it was first published only in India and got a colleague of my wife's to bring me a copy when he went back to visit family. The book is fantastic. Now that it's easily available in Canada and the US, you owe it to yourself to grab a copy.

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.)

So delighted to be on this amazing list!

Five days left until Mad Sisters of Esi is out, and here’s a collection of the nice things that have happened to the sisters: 🧵

“I have a crush??? On this book??? I have a crush on this book. Mad Sisters of Esi is the hot girl I heard about at a party … and then fell head over heels for upon first meeting. The prose is so breathtakingly beautiful, it’s no wonder at all that this one is the talk of the town.” THIS REVIEW!!

out today in paperback! all the cool kids are reading THE WEST PASSAGE! all the cool kids are getting friends and family to read THE WEST PASSAGE! all the cool kids are standing at their windows at midnight whispering THE WEST PASSAGE in voices not their own!

I'm never exactly sure what the "right" way to review a book is, so they just end up being stream of consciousness that I feebly try to make coherent—for a change, that feels perfect. Thanks to @tashanmehta.bsky.social for the journey. We could all do with a little more madness in our lives.

If you were planning to preorder MAD SISTERS OF ESI, the B&N sale is back till July 11th and it’s the last one before the sisters head out into the world. You get 25% off on all preorders (it’s free to become a rewards member) 🐋✨ We’re getting so close to publication day!

A beautifully written, defiantly strange novel that fans of genre boundary-breaking should seek out with purpose.

One month left for MAD SISTERS OF ESI! To celebrate, here are some of my favourite reader lines (🧵). Names redacted for privacy; all the reviews are public.

Here is a flatlay of some pink books, and what else comes to mind but, “On Wednesdays, we wear pink” 💖🎀🌷 Featuring a book you need to preorder now: Mad Sisters of Esi by Tashan Mehta. Nothing says dreamy, stunning, and cosmic like this book! buff.ly/1nB7A8o

Want to know what I’m reading now? In this post I talk about everything from Francis Spufford and @nickharkaway.com to Kathleen Jennings @tanaudel.bsky.social and @tashanmehta.bsky.social #GreatReads #OnMyShelf www.nerds-feather.com/2025/06/6-bo... @titanbooks.bsky.social @princejvstin.com

Lovely thread on what intention (or as named here, sincerity) can do to a text and to the reading experience