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Tasha Suri @tashasuri.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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Tasha Suri @tashasuri.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Finally, finally moving my newsletter from Substack (where it hasn't been updated since 2024) to a new platform. Phew.

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Tasha Suri @tashasuri.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

handed in the copy edit of the lady of thorns, which is a delight

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

when ai leaves u behind

7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2:
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4:
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6:
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy.
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”

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Usman T. Malik @usmantm.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

it is a travesty that the brilliant Indrapramit Das is not more widely known in fantasy and horror fandom. The way Indra pulled South Asian history, politics, monstrosity, and queer love together in one book is a thing to behold

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 17/09/2026

I mean, yes, obviously, no shit

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

as a reader of historical romances i have to say the thing where she makes him give up his elaborate revenge plot to prove his love?? baffling. unrealistic. girl this is a group project now

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Tasha Suri @tashasuri.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I miss TV shows with 20+ episodes. I miss filler episodes. I miss side stories that mean nothing, and other ones that turn out to be the most brilliant storytelling you've ever seen. Perhaps I am old, but so much made now just tires me.

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Tasha Suri @tashasuri.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

working on a new idea and just loving immersing myself in the world + the tragic nature of the love story.

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Tasha Suri @tashasuri.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

when I was growing up, I imagined writers sat at desks and wrote in aesthetic spaces. anyway, I'm lying on the floor listening to nightcore with my laptop in front of me at 11pm

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/08/2026

This is the coverage of Arday **just in the Telegraph** in the UK. This is only the first four pages of results, just in one outlet.

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Jason Arday found dead
2 hours ago — Mr Arday was found •unresponsive• at an address in Battersea. south London. on Froy
afternoon. He was uter pronounced dead at the scene. A Read rnore
Jason Arday says he was an illiterate, mute child. His .
6 hours ago — Jason Arday says he was an i&erate. mute child. Cambridge's youngest-ever black
professor in 2023. Arday attended from the age of four to 11
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A PhD is no longer a sign of brilliance — take it from Dr Arday
1 day aeo — Juon Arday resigns from the Unwersity of Cambrdge after The Telegraph reports he had
falseb• claimed to have pubåshed a book
We are all Jason Arday now
S days ago — Jason Arday resons from the University of Cambridge after The Telegraph reports he had
falsew cGimed to have published a book Aug 7.2028. Read more
Cambridge professor claimed he was on Seven Up..
2 Aug 2026 — He was not bom until 1985. Prof Arday is at the centre of a row about academk
plagiarism after The Tekgragh that he had been accused
The Jason Arday 'memoir' that now appears to be more .
7 days ago — Instead of tales of triumph over adversity. the now-fomer Cambridge professors
autob"qraphy is a case study in self-rnythobgising,
Arday failed to mention 'months-long coma' in autobiography
8 days ago — Jason Arday toz publishers he was k•ft a three-month coma fohwhg a car gash. but
never wrote about the ordeal his memoirs_
Jason Arday is living proof that you reap what you sow
6 Aug 2028 — The Cambridge professor feed plagiarism alegations and made fantastical clä'ns about
his life. so what did he expect woUz happen? Read rmre
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Arday 'accused student of Miite privilege' after she
4 days ago — Forrner Cambrdge professor alleged* htplied that Roehamptm student was racist after
cornplaint about essay SOOre.
Jason Arday is rnerely a symptom of the Leffs corruption
Aug 2026 — Lab-curs on school standards is on the same toxic assumptions that created his
academic career.
Cambridge hired Arday after 'listening to black stu…

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Tasha Suri @tashasuri.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

thank you to porch light by noah kahan for finishing this edit from hell with me, glad me and the song I've listened to on loop for eight hours have made it through together

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Tasha Suri @tashasuri.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I think I'm going to need to buck the trend and say I loved The Vampire Lestat

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Tasha Suri @tashasuri.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

very excited that LitPins&Co are doing a special edition set of the Burning Kingdoms trilogy!!! it has original covers, printed hardcovers, sprayed edges, endpapers and overlays, which is all wildly fancy and lovely it's limited edition and available here: litpinsandco.com/collections/...

three book set of the burning kingdoms trilogy, with images of two indian women on each cover

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Tasha Suri @tashasuri.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

'oh no korra is evil after all' my friend have you ever engaged with a narrative before. have you considered we may be being misled. perhaps there is a secret we must uncover as the story progresses.

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Sarah Rees Brennan @sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Friday 24 July at Forbidden Planet with THEEE @tashasuri.bsky.social and Amy Coombe talking dark obsessions and doom to cozy ever after. I will of course be on the side of dark obsessions and doom. #booksky

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Tasha Suri @tashasuri.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

getting to the point where an eldritch being would absolutely get my soul if they just offered me one portable air conditioner

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Tasha Suri @tashasuri.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I love when the agony and doubt of editing gives way and you suddenly realise what the hell the novel IS, underneath all the words you've already written.

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Tasha Suri @tashasuri.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

so, without giving details, I saw some art of my own characters today and I literally got teary. it's unbelievable that I wrote a thing and someone loved it so much that they made art! their own art! and in the process of loving it made it bigger than I ever could have by writing it alone

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Tasha Suri @tashasuri.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

[mild spoilers for vox machina season four] this is a pike fan account, all my cool friends cry about how much they love pike

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 26/06/2026

Hey THE FEYWILD JOB is out in less than a week but if you haven't preordered this is a great time to do it no matter where you like to shop for books. I hear B&N is having a sale, I think that's cool, and it's hardcover so a discount could be nice there is also an audiobook release too! VICO ORTIZ!

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Tasha Suri @tashasuri.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

there is for sure an essay somewhere in the venn diagram between romantasy, the ambiguously brown male romance novel love interest, wuthering heights and sheikh romances - but writing it would be like handling a lit fuse

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Tasha Suri @tashasuri.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

My little announcement - I have a new book in 2027, and this is the cover!

cover of THE LADY OF THORNS by Tasha Suri, cathedral arches surrounding the title, covered in flowers and thorns, overlooking a castle against a dark blue sky

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Tasha Suri @tashasuri.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Every time I watch adverts on a subscription service I already pay money to access a part of me withers and sharpens with rage.

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Tasha Suri @tashasuri.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

announced this on IG so I'm saying it here too! a reveal is coming to Instagram Live, @/orbitbooks_us on IG, on the 23rd June. what could it possibly be, so mysterious, etc

image of sleeping women surrounded by fairytale briars with the words: a reveal is coming... Tuesday 23rd June, 11am ET, orbitbooks_us on Instragram Live

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Tasha Suri @tashasuri.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

There is no gentle or kind way to say this: I cannot respect your writing if you use AI. It's shameful. The hard graft is the price you pay for creating art.

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Sarah Rees Brennan @sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Last year in London I did a Knightly Event with @tashasuri.bsky.social @toribovalino.bsky.social & @hollyrace.bsky.social in which we talked honour & love & chivalry & disgrace! #booksky Should I… do it again with more chaos?

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 08/06/2026

I think every politician who proposes to ban anything on the internet for teens should be required to propose, as an alternate, a free and accessible and all weather space for teens to hang out in their own hometown

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Tasha Suri @tashasuri.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Anthony Head dying is genuinely devastating. He was a brilliant actor, and so very kind to his fans.

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Tasha Suri @tashasuri.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

currently have a friend convincing me to play god of war 2018, and I have to admit I'm very easily convinced

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Tasha Suri @tashasuri.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Fraudsters are AI-mincing books and republishing them onto Amazon. This was done to The Isle in the Silver Sea - I assume in the hope people would accidentally click on it. It's been removed, but this is a warning of something to look out for, to my fellow authors.

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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 28/05/2026

Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes

Because the truth is, tech doesn't have an image problem. It doesn't have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What's wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn't successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What's wrong is that he's trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that's designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn't that you haven't told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them. (
There are things in the world that are more important than money. The fact that you seem not to believe this, that you seem to think any motive beyond ruthless acquisitiveness is fake, dishonest, or childish, is the heart of your problem. Your attitude is not by any means unique to tech, but the

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Tasha Suri @tashasuri.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

one of my rabbits recently had a toe amputated which is about as fun as it sounds. but bless him, he had the energy to thump at me in anger and hatred today, so I do think he's on the mend.

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Tasha Suri @tashasuri.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

sometimes it makes me sad that I have never done any events in the USA. genuinely pondering trying to do an event in Canada when my next book releases - or perhaps going to Vancouver WorldCon

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Tasha Suri @tashasuri.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Ah, my imminent deadline-- One of my rabbits: I have a limp. All the vets are closed. Good luck, mother.

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Tasha Suri @tashasuri.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

lesbians own the moon I don't make the rules

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Tasha Suri @tashasuri.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

I've missed lesbian visibility week!! but happy lesbian visibility from Simran and Vina, and Malini and Priya. And also me, the queer lady that wrote them.

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Tasha Suri @tashasuri.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

there's a reason in The Isle in the Silver Sea one of the main villains was a british asian collaborator with state violence. we've got a community problem. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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‘This is not the country I moved to’: the British Indians showing support for Nigel Farage

Savitha Prakash, a first-generation immigrant running in local elections in Harrow, says Reform UK aims to ‘put Britain first’

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Feminists for ages: we are not just vaginas and baby making parts. A trans woman enters the room. Those same feminists: we are only vaginas and baby making parts. Fucking clowns.

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Tasha Suri @tashasuri.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

I have no one to talk to about how hot adult Zuko is. What am I meant to do with this.

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Tasha Suri @tashasuri.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I just think we're sleeping on space opera romance as a subgenre.

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Tasha Suri @tashasuri.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

today I ignored my work and built new outdoor rabbit runs with my spouse, then played with my bunnies in the sunshine. I am covered in mud and I am really happy

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Sonia Sulaiman @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

My contribution to the book sky discourse is that the United States is doing war crimes in Iran. Israel is ethnic cleansing Lebanon and Palestine.

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Tasha Suri @tashasuri.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

the duke made me understand why some readers adore alphahole heroes. turns out I just needed that, but a woman.

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