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• “The heartache they feel is unique to their situation, and without revealing too much, largely steeped in the concept of overcoming past trauma and learning how to be comfortable with your whole self.”

• E.M. Anderson (The Remarkable Retirement of Edna Fisher) Recommends Five Fantasy Books & Shares Five They’re Excited To Read

• “Retell, not remake became my mantra throughout the writing process. I wanted my version to be close enough to the source material…but I also wanted it to be unique enough”

• “Seeing our ancestors in stories, especially those who made important strides, empowers us.”

• “Writing about grief is supposed to be difficult, but…it was ready to be told. All the love I have for my dad and watching his struggle with cancer, it wanted to be on the page.”

• Mihir From ‘Fantasy Book Critic’ Recommends Six Must-Read Fantasy Books That Use Indian Mythology

• Maya Prasad Shares The Recipe For Romance: A Charm Spell & Also Recommends Rom-Com Books

• “In the context of exotic vistas, I seek to be a humble merchant of tales, eager to give the world a glimpse of our desi riches”

• “There have definitely been ups and downs, but I always remind myself that first and foremost, [writing] has to bring me joy in order to keep doing it”

• 10 New SFF Books of May 2022 To Read

  

• Salma Hussain Recommends Twelve Canadian Writers Creating Stories Around Muslim Characters

• “If dark academia is meant to be about the darkness of academia…what is darker than structural or institutional racism?”

• “It has been a pleasure to craft…an embrace of warmth and acceptance around a young brown girl”

• “I hope that young queer Muslim readers understand that you’re perfect just the way you feel”

• “As an adult they seem incongruous, but as children we knew seemingly opposite things can co-exist…as long as we made the space”

• “Both [my] characters soon come to realise that, like everything that ascends, they must come down eventually where their problems still remain”

• “As a writer, I believe it’s extremely important to try and create, as much as possible, diverse stories about a community”

• “I wanted a brown kid at the center, the protagonist of her own life, abolishing the misconstructions society has of Desis and Muslims”

• “I wanted to explore Aafiyah’s denial, acceptance, and guilt…but also show that she is much more than a bad habit”

• “Faith is not a static thing; it may ebb and flow, and I attempted to illustrate the same fluctuations”

• “I honestly don’t think it’s possible for me to write a story that doesn’t have a healthy dose of family drama”

• “The shape of the trauma may be different, but the taste of tears on their tongue is the same”

• “An Urdu phrase I loved including was ‘aaj jaane ki zidd na karo,’ which…loosely translates to: today, don’t insist on leaving”

• 12 Adult SFF Books of 2022 By Authors of Colour You Can’t Miss

  

• “Every time someone connects with Michie I feel like I’ve given a voice to this thing that no one really talks about”

• 10 Reasons Why I Love Reading Fiction Books So Much

• Guest Post: Writing A Medieval India-Inspired Fantasy World [Tanaz Bhathena]

  

• Interview: Phil Stamper, author of The Gravity Of Us

  

• Interview: Sophie Gonzales, author of Only Mostly Devastated & Perfect on Paper

  

• Q/A with Camryn Garrett on LGBT+ Black Teens and Taboo Topics in YA—Author of Full Disclosure

  

• Interview: Linden A. Lewis, author of The First Sister

  

• “I hope it means that queer South Asian teens don’t have to feel the way I did when I was younger: that they don’t think about their race and nationality being in conflict with their sexuality”