My DEBUT NOVEL - Cover Reveal + Pre-Order Link!
MISSY is here and I can't wait for you to meet her.
The day has finally arrived! You can pre-order my book!
So many moments have accumulated to this one. I’m teetering between reflective and overwhelmed.
Here is the Pre-Order LINK for a number of retailers, including Waterstones & Amazon UK. Please note that the Amazon links may send you to weird places depending on where you are accessing it from. You may be better off purchasing from Waterstones or Blackwells.
If you are interested in pre-ordering a copy (and I hope that you are!), please note that since my book’s rights have so far sold only in the UK, Commonwealth, and India, if you are purchasing from the U.S., you may incur additional shipping costs.
The book officially releases in September and will ship out then but pre-orders mean a lot and I’d greatly appreciate your material support.
Finally, I can divulge all this information! I can’t wait for readers to meet Missy. Further along in this post, you can read a synopsis.
What This Means To Me:
Obviously, this is the culmination of many years of work. But it’s also a beginning. I have to thank all my loved ones, as well as, Hera Books, my UK publisher, and my peerless agent Priya Doraswamy of Lotus Lane. There’s many more people to thank, too, but that’s what the Acknowledgments page in the book is for.
Today, simply put, I’m happy. Happy that finally I don’t have to say “You will be able to buy it soon” and instead I can say “Yes! You can order your copy right now! And then in late summer, you’ll get it and can leisurely read it by the beach, in a hammock, on your couch, in bed, on the train, on a plane, in your garden, in a park, in a bar, in a coffee shop.
Synopsis
She’s chosen her own future.
Madras, India: The orphaned girls of St Ursula’s convent are destined to be nuns or servants but seventeen-year-old Savi dreams of escape. Responsible and good with languages, she’s taken on as governess for the wealthy Nandiyar family at their country estate.
The horrific events of a single night force Savi and her love, Ananda, into a dangerous journey, re-emerging in America under new identities, their homeland forever in their rearview.
But the past is never far away.
Forty years later, Savi, known to all as Missy, is the embodiment of the American dream – successful business owner in Chicago, pillar of the South Asian community, and mother to two brilliant, stubborn young women, Mansi and Shilpa.
Until Varun, a charming doctor, enters their lives, setting off a chain of events that puts Missy’s carefully constructed world in jeopardy with the revelation that you can never truly outrun your secrets…
Share This Information
Obviously, buying copies means the world to me. If you are interested to know how you might support me even further, if you are so inclined, the best thing to do is share the pre-order link with friends who you think might enjoy MISSY.
Pre-order link: https://geni.us/nHlIB
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Thank you all for your support. Increasingly, book marketing and promotion have become the purview of authors, though it is not our natural skillset. Its readers and lovers of literature and future-readers and possible-readers who keep the industry alive and bring new debut authors into print. Please continue to support writers.
As ever
Raghav
PS: It’s tradition for debut authors to share their Publisher’s Marketplace announcement on social media. Well, substack is my chosen platform. So here I’m sharing it below. Thank you for including me as part of your information diet.
FUCK YES RAGHAV!!!! What an incredible feat — I say this as a writer who has trouble making deadline for like 800 words. Can't wait to read this in my infinite time in unemployment <3
Heck yes Raghav! Good on you!