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Lawyer | Comic | Author of SONS OF DARKNESS 🇮🇳's first grimdark fantasy. Please buy it for I owe a lot of gold to goblins ⬇️

Mumbai, India
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BLESSED! Barnes & Noble is rolling out the red carpet for SONS OF DARKNESS with an *exclusive limited edition* for its US Release on Jan 9 2024. TY, folks! For tickets to Ancient India with deliciously dark & desi antiheroes as your guides, PREORDER at
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ONLY 1 WEEK LEFT UNTIL SONS OF DARKNESS! Here is the Malazanish cast of this Mahabharata Retelling EXPLAINED BADLY: 🧵 (Points for correct guesses)
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Do you know the tale of a tiny Indian Boss Lady whose wrath clipped the sails of a mighty naval Empire? If not for this Rajput Princess-turned-Mughal Queen, Indians might have had to snatch their freedom from the Portuguese instead. Meet Jodha - the Empress of Hindustan.
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Sanderson has earned his due. Rose from rejections. His FREE YT vids (which most charge $$ for) have helped so many writers. And JKR, Maas & Bardugo make bank as well. I'm a brown author waiting for my Cindrella-turn but labeling Sando as a "rich white guy" feels damn reductive.
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Keanu Reeves has a girlfriend. First step towards World Peace. #KeanuReeves #AlexandraGrant
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Just saw in a Daniel Greene interview that Sanderson has 50 Beta Readers, 10 Alpha Readers, 1 US Editor and 1 UK Editor. I’ve got a post-it note that says 'You got this!'
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I saw this dream nine years ago. It wasn't a dream. It was the future.
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Seems a few of you stumbled upon my corner of X (thanks, algo overlord), so let me introduce myself. I’m Gourav, 🇮🇳 author of SONS OF DARKNESS (asoiaf X ancient south asian poem X grimdark X wodehouse). The sequel DANCE OF SHADOWS plays Feb'25. Thank you for joining me🙏
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In conclusion, I guess I will end this by asking a favour. Hey, would you be kind enough to spread the word about my new epic Indian grimdark fantasy book? Would you buy a copy please? :) Available everywhere books are sold
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🚨3 Days to go!🚨 Are you ready to court the Damsels-Who-Cause-Distress from Ancient India? 😍 Order SONS OF DARKNESS here: ⚔️
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For this thread, it would be polite to picture me Archimedesing unhinged through Narnia. I'm infernally thrilled to shout *clears throat* INDIA'S 1ST GRIMDARK EPIC FANTASY, SONS OF DARKNESS, WILL NOW SAIL FOR WORLD'S END UNDER THE BANNER OF @HoZ_Books What a daydream it has been
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. @HoZ_Books has signed Sons of Darkness by lawyer and comedian @MohantyGourav7 , a grimdark fantasy reimagining of the Indian epic the Mahabharata (£)
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Never meet your heroes Ft. George R. R. Martin
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I finally have the @binding_broken edition of my book ! BEST SELF GIFT EVER 🎅🎄 <Tiktok is banned in India. So I thought I would share this with you guys here on Twitter>
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A sexist character's sexist opinion in a book of fiction is NOT the author's personal opinion. Issued in public interest.
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I have always known I can't travel to the US to meet you guys at signings (perhaps, ever) or geek n grin out at those amazing Cons BUT seeing this photo my cousin sent me from her nearest Barnes & Noble has me begging for a portal! An entire freaking Wall of Darkness! TY, B&N🥲
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The Broken Binding Book Magic: A Thread ( @binding_broken )
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SHOCKED. SADDENED. FURIOUS! Disheartening to see people praying for my book's failure and celebrating its low visibility. Sure, everyone is entitled to their opinion but to wish its downfall because the book highlights issues of CASTEISM (🇮🇳equivalent of SLAVERY) is SHITTY AF!
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@JaipurDialogues You need to relax. It did not say Mahabharata states it. The movie has ASHWATTHAMA saying it - he will obviously side with his team, won't he?
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Why can't filmmakers dive into new fantasy worlds (Sanderson, Fonda, Erickson et) and create the next LOTR success story rather than redo something that is already canon 😶
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WB and New Line struck a multi-year deal with Swedish company Embracer Group AB, which allows the studios to make more adaptations of Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. The deal includes "multiple" films.
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SONS OF DARKNESS debuts in the US at freaking Rank #11 in Publisher Weekly's Hardback Fiction Bestseller List!!!!! The lawyer in me is freaking out at seeing John Grisham two rows above Gourav Mohanty! THANK YOU bookstores and booksellers-you are the absolute best! And, of
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No one does doors better than Medieval Indians #hodor
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#8 way of putting a yellow sweater to use 🌞 So Midwest Book Review thinks Sons of Darkness "presents the rich tastes and smells from the world of ancient India in an entertaining bloody adventure". Would you perhaps like to sample this indie saga :)
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"...the vision and the world he has created is fascinating and breathtaking. The Indian Fantasy Genre finally comes of age with this book." Anand Neelakantan, Award Winning- Bestselling author of Asura and the Bahubali Series. :) Thanks, Sir! Preorders available on Amazon.
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Diwali, 🇮🇳 Festival of Lights, is all about gifting, and what better gift than the @binding_broken edn of SONS OF DARKNESS Simply: 1. RT this tweet; & 2. Join my mailing list (link in comment) to stand a chance to win a spl edition that is cooler than a polar bear in RayBans.
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Hats off to you #JusticeMuralidhar for standing tall amongst Titans. History will remember you and applaud you for your conviction.
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I landed in India last night. There are so many memories to absorb, assimilate and marinate in. So many people to thank and so many kind comments to reply to. I will get to each of them. But before that I just wanted to share something. I went to Worldcon excited, knowing I
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Endangered species in England w @PetrikReads (I am so so happy I finally met Petrik! Having chatted so often it did not at all feel like we were meeting for the first time!) Worldcon for the Win.
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How it Started Vs How it's Going? @LordGrimdark My book has always been right beside Joe's on my shelf since I got published... and now, I had a whiskey with the man himself talking about Glokta and Shakuni. MANIFESTING is real ! Worldcon 🙏
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Tried clicking an aesthetic picture of the book with my phone camera ... And in the process, fell in love with my cover again.
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Friends, some news: I've canceled the contract W Leadstart for SONS OF DARKNESS. For some time the Vedic Saga will be on pause till it finds a new home. All I can say is I didn't take the decision lightly, and that I took it for the future of the entire series. It was difficult.
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Comfortable in both saree and in ringmail, Satyabhama (War Mistress of Mathura) rides her griffin🦅 to war. This painting by @PhantomRin9 of a scene from SONS OF DARKNESS is one of the most BADASS DESI CHARACTER ART ever 🇮🇳 Yes, we can scream together!
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The Book World is full of kindness but I can safely say that if there were an award for it, it would be called the Matt Award. Many at Worldcon owe their hangover-free mornings to this man, who kept feeding us pizza while simultaneously treating us to more pints. But what many
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I finally have a hardcover of my book ! Oh, you beauty 🤗
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Can I add this to my back cover? Source: @PhilipChase90 Channel
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India, unlike the rest of the world, rarely witnesses hardbacks in fiction (far less in SFF). TBB & B&N painted my hardcover dream but intercontinental shipping and currency conversion kept Indian readers at bay. Not anymore! RBF India brings to the shore a sinful special
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I wonder if every writer wishes at least once that they knew how to draw character art?
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Did you know Aristotle warned Alexander not to be afraid of India's kings, but of its venomous virgins? Who were these lethal assassins of Ancient India who inspired Poison Ivy and Lady Viper? Meet Vishkanyas: The Damsels-who-caused-Distress.
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The endpapers for @binding_broken Special Hardback Limited Edition of Sons of Darkness have finally been signed. Happy to announce my right hand is now useless. You can check out the medical mishap here:
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In direct contrast to modern day civilizations, Ancient India was a safe haven for the queer sapien 🌈
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GUESS WHOSE VISA FINALLY GOT CONFIRMED? Mine. GUESS WHERE AM I GOING? My first CON ever! WORLDCON! 🧙‍♂️🎉 None of the friends in my circle read the genre but BookTwt has been a surrogate squad over the last two years. I'm so excited to geek out with all you, SFF fans!
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It is Women’s History Month, and tis only fitting for y’all to meet the Shae-meets-Arya Stark-turns-Cersei Lannister-dies Olenna Tyrell of Medieval India: Begum Samru. A petite dancing girl who grew to be a legendary mercenary-queen, this is her-story. TW: Epic Badassery.
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Barnes & Noble's faith turned Sons of Darkness into a US Bestseller. So to the anonymous fairy godmother from B&N who read my book and convinced the higher ups to do an exclusive special edition, I lit a 🪔for you in the temple here. Thank you!
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So I signed a few books today and spoke about fantasy as a genre + why it needs to be resurrected in India. This is my happy face after perfecting my signature. It finally gives off a little Neil Gaimanish vibe.
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The greatest tragedy in Indian History that toppled us from the Golden Era to the Dark Ages was the Burning of Nalanda: the World’s Oldest University (427 CE-1190 CE): A Thread🧵
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HAPPY PAPERBACK BIRTHDAY TO ME! If you fancy a multi-POV epic where you risk a dark desi wedding, conspire with a pirate princess, root for your favourite archer, charge city walls on four tusked🐘or run from flying exploding🐷, this is your ticket.
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LIFE UPDATE ✨ YOU CAN NOW PREORDER SONS OF DARKNESS. YES, I MIGHT BE SCREAMING.
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SONS OF DARKNESS releases in TWO WEEKS, y'all!📚✨ Thrilled to reveal that The Brothers Gwynne will cut the virtual ribbon on The Broken Binding. Join us by the virtual hearth at 7pm BST (11.30pm IST) on 6th July. Expect fireworks from this fireside chat🔥🗣️. Namastey 🇮🇳
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Can I just say I look the part alongside the woman who Wiki calls the @queenofgrimdark #Worldcon
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Who is ready for WorldCon?!
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Step into a world of delicious brutality with #SonsofDarkness , a grimdark reimagination of an ancient Indian poem filled with the most decadent pairings you've ever seen! 📚🌶️ Are you ready to dive into this South Asian adventure extraordinaire🔥 Preorder
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Time to order Biryani and Whiskey to celebrate this 🥃🍚 Thank you @PetrikReads for spiritually sponsoring this.
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Sons of Darkness by @MohantyGourav7 y'all... Read it. That's all! "Mahabharata imbued with A Song of Ice and Fire, The First Law, & Malazan Book of the Fallen, Sons of Darkness is the best fantasy debut of 2022." Blog: YouTube:
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WHY DOES FANTASY STILL NEED SOUTH ASIAN REP, YOU ASK? Maybe because Worldcon @Glasgowin2024 does not even mention "India" in the List of Countries (or for that matter any other South Asian nation). We're all "NONE OF THE ABOVE." So much for being "World"Con.
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I am sharpening my sword & polishing my shield for a fun 30 minute Instagram Live with Pakistani-American Fantasy Author @zamakhtar . Swim in his Indo-Persian cyberpunk world & my Vedic-Indian medieval world as we answer salacious Qs about our books in a rapidfire🏹
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SONS OF DARKNESS finally lands on the US shores in 3 DAYS! Why should you grab your copy, you ask? HEAR from the FANTASY QUARTET themselves. [Thank you, you titans, for giving this book a chance when it was still an unknown indie thing from India🙏]
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I just finished drawing the map for Book II and the conclusion is the same: Drawing sigils over your kingdom names at reduced opacity is paint therapy. PS The image below is the river map I drew for Sons of Darkness. In Book II, we travel EAST to the Tree Cities. I'm EXCITED!
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The SONS OF DARKNESS Menu🍽️ 🇮🇳: First Indian Epic-Grimdark Fantasy Saga ✨: How to Murder using Yoga & Chakras ⚔️: Damsels-who-cause-Distress Ft. Pirate Princess, Swordswoman and Assassin ☠️: Arson & Archery, Swordfights & Siege Deliciously Desi🧑‍🍳
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🔥✨IT'S RELEASE DAY IN THE US✨🔥 If you're seeking something grimdark, a little historical, something magical and deeply mythological, then this book is for you🦚 Antiheroes from Ancient India wait eagerly within its pages to treat you with courtesy and cruelty [Links below]
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1 year
To you freaking wonderful people who turned July 6 into SONS OF DARKNESS DAY, I am as grateful to you as Gondor was to the Rohirrim. Obliged AF. I promise to work even harder to b̶r̶e̶a̶k̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶r̶ ̶h̶e̶a̶r̶t̶s̶ fill your hearts with wonder.
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Gourav Mohanty | ⚔️PREORDER DANCE OF SHADOWS⚔️
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11 months
I loved this 2 star review on Goodreads ⭐️⭐️
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Gourav Mohanty | ⚔️PREORDER DANCE OF SHADOWS⚔️
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10 months
Umm? my book? is an Amazon Editor's Pick for Best SFF in January? what a way to kick-start '24 🇮🇳 Releasing in the US on January 9
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Gourav Mohanty | ⚔️PREORDER DANCE OF SHADOWS⚔️
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2 months
The happiest of birthdays to @maedbtwnpages who is such a tattooed bundle of electricity, elegance and eel spines!
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Gourav Mohanty | ⚔️PREORDER DANCE OF SHADOWS⚔️
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Proof copy of Dance of Shadows is here littered with the ruins of empires that believed they were eternal. PS: The image of Bellatrix standing over Dumbledore's ruins may or may not have something to do with the theme of the book. One writing advice -
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Gourav Mohanty | ⚔️PREORDER DANCE OF SHADOWS⚔️
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@AkkisAckermann Thank you for "sharing" my video from Instagram 😂
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Gourav Mohanty | ⚔️PREORDER DANCE OF SHADOWS⚔️
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8 months
When it comes to the Gilded Age🪙 the Lannisters got nothing on Indians.
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10 months
It is kind of cool that I get to wear a black cape in my day job ⚖️
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Gourav Mohanty | ⚔️PREORDER DANCE OF SHADOWS⚔️
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11 months
Best Served Cold (Joe Abercrombie) meets The Last Samurai (Tom Cruise). Best Animated Show after Arcane. #BlueEyeSamurai
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Gourav Mohanty | ⚔️PREORDER DANCE OF SHADOWS⚔️
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5 years
I think George Martin is knowingly not helping the writers of GOT so that everyone is forced to still buy his books despite knowing the ending #GOTS8E5
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Gourav Mohanty | ⚔️PREORDER DANCE OF SHADOWS⚔️
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2 years
Sons of Darkness Starter Pack. +1 Immersive worldbuilding based on ancient Indian maps +2 characters range from Pirate Princess, Assassin's Apprentice to Torturers and Lawyers 😅
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Gourav Mohanty | ⚔️PREORDER DANCE OF SHADOWS⚔️
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2 years
🥂 Got promoted in India's top law firm 🏃 Left to indie publish my book 🎙️ Returned to my hometown and became a stand up comic ⚖️ Started my own independent practice in law ✨ Book Series picked up by Hoz/Bloomsbury 🙏 Thank you, Fates, for the privilege.
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Gourav Mohanty | ⚔️PREORDER DANCE OF SHADOWS⚔️
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11 months
The Broken Binding Black Friday Sale is here! The gorgeous signed edition of SONS OF DARKNESS is available for £17.50 GBP (straight down from £25.00 GBP). Link below @binding_broken
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Gourav Mohanty | ⚔️PREORDER DANCE OF SHADOWS⚔️
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2 years
"Conscience is nothing but a front for cowardice" - Mati, Pirate Princess of Kalinga. She has absolutely no conscience filter and is as unforgiving as a plague. Villanelle meets Atremisia & Cersei Lannister 🐍 Character art for #SonsofDarkness by the incredible @PhantomRin9
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Gourav Mohanty | ⚔️PREORDER DANCE OF SHADOWS⚔️
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4 months
Jennifer Connelly as Daniella in Dark Matter is one of the greatest casting decisions of this decade. She screams volumes with her silent eyes - oh, to crush on her all over again after Top Gun is a delight !
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Gourav Mohanty | ⚔️PREORDER DANCE OF SHADOWS⚔️
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6 months
Something surreal about being a staff pick in a bookstore. Special folks who - surrounded by so many friends on their shelves, waving their pages at them - take the time out to write something special to rec your book... knowing the world takes them at their word. PEAK. TY B&N
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Gourav Mohanty | ⚔️PREORDER DANCE OF SHADOWS⚔️
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2 years
Sons of Darkness is overwhelmed with the support it received after @PetrikReads called it the Best Fantasy Debut of 2022 #kingmakerindeed Here is a picture of the book beaming like Buzz Lightyear after lights out. Hat Tip to @motion_kitty for the beautiful animation.
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Gourav Mohanty | ⚔️PREORDER DANCE OF SHADOWS⚔️
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2 months
Worldcon Wardrobe Game has been good this year 🇮🇳
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1 year
Wow, no way! It meant that ?! Who would've guessed?
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2 years
Flipping over these bookmarks #TheLadiesofDarkness
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4 months
Are you even an epic fantasy author if you haven't relied on this sheet to define your swords?
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Gourav Mohanty | ⚔️PREORDER DANCE OF SHADOWS⚔️
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2 years
#MapMonday : I'd cartographer-ed this map for Sons of Darkness on @inkarnaterpg . Cool software for writers to use. The art itself is based on ancient Indian maps sourced from historical archives. Can check out the detailing here:
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Gourav Mohanty | ⚔️PREORDER DANCE OF SHADOWS⚔️
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5 months
Book II has come back from the Editor. I have been warmly given a little more than a week to check it out. Now I am going to take it as a compliment and assume the edits are far and few in between rather than believe that my publisher has me confused for Sanderson the Swift.
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Gourav Mohanty | ⚔️PREORDER DANCE OF SHADOWS⚔️
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2 years
I miss my book. Over the last month, I drew warmth from posting copies to readers who had reached out. Today, I sent the last copy I had on me to a kind reader from Iceland🥺 SoD will be back soon, yes, but knowing something will return does nothing to stop you from missing it.
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Gourav Mohanty | ⚔️PREORDER DANCE OF SHADOWS⚔️
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2 years
Friends, some news: I've canceled the contract W Leadstart for SONS OF DARKNESS. For some time the Vedic Saga will be on pause till it finds a new home. All I can say is I didn't take the decision lightly, and that I took it for the future of the entire series. It was difficult.
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Gourav Mohanty | ⚔️PREORDER DANCE OF SHADOWS⚔️
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Thank you Gauri for this beautiful handmade gift that had people twirling me around all night long in Glasgow 👜 Showstopper stuff !
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Gourav Mohanty | ⚔️PREORDER DANCE OF SHADOWS⚔️
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1 year
US Readers 🇺🇸 Sons of Darkness crosses the Atlantic only next year but you now have a chance to hoard an exclusive copy from @ShelfAwareness in the #ShelfGLOW galley giveaway now! CLICKETY CLICK the link below:
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Gourav Mohanty | ⚔️PREORDER DANCE OF SHADOWS⚔️
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1 year
Do you ever pull out the phone to look at the date but you have to do it again because you forgot to look at it? Please don't tell me that I'm the only one.
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Gourav Mohanty | ⚔️PREORDER DANCE OF SHADOWS⚔️
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2 months
Fae-Librarian Mihir introduces me to @Mark__Lawrence P-II. Part I had him sneaking my book last year into Mark's hands leading to this GR gem from the great one: "While it basically takes GRRM to make a book like this one swallow me up, Mohanty came closer than anyone else"🤯
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Gourav Mohanty | ⚔️PREORDER DANCE OF SHADOWS⚔️
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2 years
It is official: @eksmo_live is going to translate Sons of Darkness into Russian! I can't believe the words I wrote to build a world will be available in another language. Ty, Eksmo! #dream Also grateful that the local newspapers found the deal cool enough to report & support.
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2 years
⚔️ SERIES NAME ANNOUNCEMENT ⚔️ Finally I get to unveil the name of India’s first epic grimdark series ➡️ set on course by #SonsOfDarkness . I have been waiting so long for this. *Takes a deep breath* The Raag of Ṛta Read this thread for the surreal meaning behind this name
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10 months
Merry Christmas from the Mohanty Brothers 🌲🎁 #sweaterweather
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2 months
Ariana is right. I "Run Forrest Run" myself more than a mile to meet the man who changed the course of my life @GRRMspeaking For HIM to know that there is an "Indian Game of Thrones" and hand me a Westerosi coin with the promise of checking my book out was EVERYTHING.
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What's missing from this is Gourav running up the road in a panic, desperate to make it in time to have this conversation. Where's that part of the video, @MohantyGourav7 ??? I was just casually there to deliver a message from my mother to GRRM.
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2 years
So that happened 🏆 *Prays my acceptance speech turned out to be as funny as Brad Pitt's or Phil Dunphy's*
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Gourav Mohanty | ⚔️PREORDER DANCE OF SHADOWS⚔️
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2 years
The Fantasy Genre is dead in India. At least it has been so for decades which makes me sad considering I believe ancient India to be the birthplace of fantasy. From flaming weapons in Astras to Interstellarish concepts of time, from Cross-Realm travel to magical races (Nagas-
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Gourav Mohanty | ⚔️PREORDER DANCE OF SHADOWS⚔️
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Princess. Pirate. Lover. Adulterer. Arsonist. Murderer. Presenting the Black Swan: Mati of Kalinga.
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hayley ☼ ☽ buy THIS RAVENOUS FATE
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11 months
why are the female rage book recs always literary fiction and never fantasy books about women who instead of being the hero become villains and do the most unhinged things
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@theskindoctor13 @Somnambulist90 I do not believe this is correct. In fact there is a clear scene where Sonakshi Sinha's character speaks about turning her manor into a red light manor-Ustad Ji objects to it saying that is not what Heeramandi is. Tawaifs to Devadasis - they were all reduced to sex workers by 🇬🇧
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I am fulfilling my lifelong dream - Of taking my mother outside India on a vacation. Even as a law student, I journalled this one wish on my Things to Do before 30 but when I finally managed *to book* her tickets, the pandemic hit. Plan cancelled. It sucked. I then quit my—
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Colonialism may be dead but it continues to reap dividends. Yet another historical treasure pilfered from my country being "auctioned" off to decorate someone's private study. This belongs in an Indian museum!
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Ira Mukhoty
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1 year
Tipu Sultan’s ‘Bedchamber Sword’, with its exquisite gold calligraphy and royal umbrella marking, looted after the fall of Seringapatam in 1799 goes on sale at auction on the 23rd of May Asking price 1.5-2 million pounds
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If you are headed to the London Book Fair, keep an eye out for an Indian Swordswoman and a vengeful Wolf. Go say Hi. They won't stab.
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For those who survived the Worldcon Weekend, I will be signing in Hall 4 at 1130 today and handing off these awesome bookmarks (quite limited in stock I am afraid). Come, say Hi even if you already own a signed copy or don't have the book on you.
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1 year
How to explain to the men that 99% of ladies will not choose you.
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Gourav Mohanty | ⚔️PREORDER DANCE OF SHADOWS⚔️
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2 years
Going to add this on my Bumble Bio 🍟 Thank you @AdAstraFiction and @HoZ_Books for raising my market value in my hometown. Preorder Sons of Darkness to read India's first epic-grimdark fantasy saga ⚔️
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Gourav Mohanty | ⚔️PREORDER DANCE OF SHADOWS⚔️
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2 years
but there are times you have to put yourself first, even if you are an author or rather, especially if you are an author. I want to thank each and everyone of you for supporting this indie book on its journey with your review and reshares and love.
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