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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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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 5h

15 US states and territories have formed a new Public Health Alliance, which will counter the absence of federal leadership by tracking outbreaks, issuing guidance, buying vaccines and more.

Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.

Map: Governors Public Health Alliance
* Guam is also a member of the alliance
Updated October 15, 2025
Map: @luckytran • Created with Datawrapper

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Center for Racial and Disability Justice @crdjustice.bsky.social · 11h

DisCrit examines how racism & ableism intersect to shape systems of power that marginalize disabled people of color. It challenges “normalcy” & calls for collective action toward justice. Check out the video, one-pager, & other resources at crdjustice.org. Created by summer intern Mary Yoon. [1/13]

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Eshani Surya | PREORDER RAVISHING OUT 11.11.25 @eshanisurya.bsky.social · 15h

A million thank yous to @joshriedel.bsky.social for this incredible blurb for RAVISHING!!

And if you haven’t read his book PLEASE REPORT YOUR BUG HERE, go pick it up from your local indie ASAP!

A photo of a smiling Indian woman holding her book and Josh’s. The text is the blurb which reads: ““Incisive, resonant and full of compassion, Eshani Surya’s riveting debut examines our cultural obsession with beauty and technology, taking us to the limits of what it means to control our own bodies. Ravishing will, cell by cell, reshape your understanding not only of the beauty tech industry, but of the human heart."—Josh Riedel, author of Please Report Your Bug Here

Josh’s book and my book on a wicker table outside

A quote card that reads “Incisive, resonant and full of compassion”

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Eshani Surya | PREORDER RAVISHING OUT 11.11.25 @eshanisurya.bsky.social · 15h

A million thank yous to @joshriedel.bsky.social for this incredible blurb for RAVISHING!!

And if you haven’t read his book PLEASE REPORT YOUR BUG HERE, go pick it up from your local indie ASAP!

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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 · 28d

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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Eshani Surya | PREORDER RAVISHING OUT 11.11.25 @eshanisurya.bsky.social · 2d

RAVISHING comes out in less than a month and all I can do is hope she finds the readers she’s dedicated to 💗💗

My book RAVISHING next to a cup of coffee

The inside of my book (dedication page). It reads “for all the sick girls”

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Stefan Fatsis @stefanfatsis.bsky.social · 5d

My new book, UNABRIDGED, published by @groveatlantic.bsky.social, is out! It took a long time to report and write and I'm proud of it and would be grateful if you bought it and would love to see people when I'm traveling to promote it. Consider this an official book thread

Jacket cover of Stefan Fatsis's new book, Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat to) the Modern Dictionary

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Aubrey Hirsch @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social · 1d

Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math

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BOO!ky Robison 👻 @rebb003.bsky.social · 1d

Amber is great! Buy Amber’s book!

Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 1d

My book comes out today! It’s sad and funny and a little spooky and a lot mysterious and very weird, and you can buy it wherever fine books are sold in indie stores bookshop.org/p/books/happ...

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Eshani Surya | PREORDER RAVISHING OUT 11.11.25 @eshanisurya.bsky.social · 2d

who could’ve guessed that going to a trendy curly/wavy hair salon would’ve been a rip off with a side of ugly ass bangs

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Chris Gonzalez @livesinpages.bsky.social · 2d

I think more people should be reading the short story collection I'M NOT HUNGRY BUT I COULD EAT 🤭

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 2d

Authors shouldn’t need day jobs

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Eshani Surya | PREORDER RAVISHING OUT 11.11.25 @eshanisurya.bsky.social · 2d

RAVISHING comes out in less than a month and all I can do is hope she finds the readers she’s dedicated to 💗💗

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Eshani Surya | PREORDER RAVISHING OUT 11.11.25 @eshanisurya.bsky.social · 14d

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 · 20d

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 · 16d

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

Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 16d

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 · 19d

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 · 28d

To be seen by Bustle! A dream!

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

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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.

nbcnews.to

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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!!