Resurfacing

Let's pretend I haven't spent a year away

Okay, significantly more than a year away. But we’re two months away from the publication of The City Inside,

Samit Basu @samitbasu

The City Inside, now inside the city! Thanks so much @TorDotComPub @jruoxichen @Sanaa_AV @dianafox

Which means I am in a state of general tension/anticipation/furniture-chewing. I’m trying to think of things that happened over the course of my year away from this newsletter, and, let’s see:

Finished another novel.

Had an Omicron to start the year. Lucky, wasn’t harsh.

War with pigeons continues.

Had a film option that I haven’t announced renewed. Another one I haven’t announced expired.

Wrote a story for UNICEF and Global Health Futures

Governing health futures 2030 @GHFutures2030

When Potol’s father has a heart attack, his social media followers come to the rescue. Read Langchas by @samitbasu Part of the #MyFutureMyHealth anthology from @GHFutures2030 & @UNICEF governinghealthfutures2030.org/imagining-heal…

Interviewed David Mitchell for JLF

Samit Basu @samitbasu

Interviewed @david_mitchell for JLF

youtube.comUtopia Avenue: David Mitchell in conversation with Samit Basu | Jaipur Literature Festival 2022Utopia Avenue: David Mitchell in conversation with Samit BasuPresented by The Week.Bestselling author David Mitchell’s spectacular new release is a definitiv...

Learned a new publishing term - a pop chart. This is a pop chart, kids.

Tordotcom Publishing @TorDotComPub

“The City Inside by @samitbasu is one of the most horrifyingly plausible near futures I have ever read. It's also funny, relatable, supremely clever, and deeply political. Highly recommended.”— @KateElliottSFF, New York Times bestselling author

Promo season is about to begin, which means I must emerge from my cave and be very upbeat

Samit Basu @samitbasu

But there are things to be upbeat about!

The City Inside has been gathering some really exciting anticipated-books-of-2022 buzz, at places like Polygon, Book Riot, The Washington Post, Bookbub, The Portalist, tor.com , Lawyers Guns and Money, and Fantasy Book Critic

The City Inside links:

Preorder page

Netgalley

Goodreads

Digital preview/sneak peak

Shoutouts

Great news from Lavanya Lakshminarayan

Lavanya Lakshminarayan @lavanya_ln

It’s official on Publisher’s Marketplace! I get to build new worlds and write more books, and I can’t wait to share them with you. But first, I’ve got to go find my 8-year-old self, who first dreamed this dream for me. We’ll bouncing around the room if you need us ✨

And Prashanth Srivatsa

Prashanth Srivatsa @prashatsa

So, this happened. It's been my greatest dream for over a decade and I cannot believe it is going to be realized so beautifully. My debut fantasy novel, The Spice Gate, will be published next year by HarperVoyager.

And Sharanya Manivannan

Samit Basu @samitbasu

The ridiculously talented @ranyamanivannan has gone and made a graphic novel now. Congratulations!

And SB Divya

News9 @News9Tweets

The first ever South Asian writer to be nominated for the #NebulaAward for Best Novel, SB Divya (@divyastweets) tells News9 about the world in which her book, 'Machinehood', is set. @sfwa | #scifi | #sciencefiction | #books

news9live.comNebula Award nominee SB Divya on her novel Machinehood, and why sci-fi has her in thrallThe engineer-turned-author is the first ever South Asian writer to get nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel.

And Charlie Jane Anders

Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak is OUT NOW!!! 🌟🌟🌟 @charliejane

DREAMS BIGGER THAN HEARTBREAK, the sequel to VICTORIES GREATER THAN DEATH, is out today!!! 🌟cyborg princesses wearing amazing couture 🌟did I mention the princesses are SPIES? 🌟bohemian artists on a quest outside the universe 🌟gods, demons, fascists, secrets, betrayal, LOVE 💝

And Malka Older

Matt Wallace @MattFnWallace

A new novella from Dr. @m_older aka one of my favorite SFF authors!

tor.comAnnouncing The Mimicking of Known Successes, an SFnal Murder Mystery by Malka OlderTordotcom Publishing is thrilled to announce that Brent Lambert has acquired the novella The Mimicking of Known Successes—a science fiction gaspunk murder mystery pitched as A Master of Djinn meets…

Here is a duck I enjoyed

M. A. Zavala (elden ring brainrot) @MegZavala

seeking the great goot

I’ll be back soon! I mean it, I really will.

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