Eshani Surya

@eshanisurya.bsky.social

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debut novel RAVISHING 💄💉 ✨ out now from Roxane Gay Books/Grove Atlantic | disabled & chronically ill | philly-based | surya means sun ☀️ | eshani.surya@gmail.com https://linktr.ee/eshanisurya

Screenshot of the first few paragraphs of the Substack post, placed on top of Edward Hopper’s Automat (in which a sad white woman looks down at her coffee)
Poster for event on Nov 11 at 6:30 pm.
A shipping notification from a package from Lucy’s Confections
Screenshot of the article title: Antimemes and Nanobot Beauty Scams: November’s Best Sci-FI and Fantasy Books
Screenshots of the Booklist logo, the Star by the book title and the book cover
Brown woman (me) smiling and holding up her book and LAKEWOOD by Megan Giddings. Text reads Megan’s blurb for RAVISHING: “Ravishing is an incredible accomplishment. Surya writes a heartfelt and engaged novel of ideas that examines familial love, friendship, and complicated relationships to our bodies. There’s so much to praise here, but nobody writes bodies—in sickness, in health, in love—with such empathy and care like Surya does. A brilliant debut.”
A photo of a smiling Indian woman holding her book and Josh’s. The text is the blurb which reads: ““Incisive, resonant and full of compassion, Eshani Surya’s riveting debut examines our cultural obsession with beauty and technology, taking us to the limits of what it means to control our own bodies. Ravishing will, cell by cell, reshape your understanding not only of the beauty tech industry, but of the human heart."—Josh Riedel, author of Please Report Your Bug Here
My book RAVISHING next to a cup of coffee
Screenshot of the Bustle article title - The Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2025
Book cover with publisher’s weekly star definition
Photo of RAVISHING on a bed surrounded by open makeup and tissue paper with kiss stains on it
Screenshot of the headline of the article
A photo of my book, RAVISHING, held up in front of a tree and a cityscape
Ad for my Tin House class. It features a headshot of me in a gray coat smiling at the camera in front of a bunch of yellow leaves. It also states the day as Sunday August 10 from 1 pm to 4 pm PST and explains that the class is called "Big Thinkers: Writing Characters with Ambitious Ideas with Eshani Surya"
Graphic promoting the Barnes and Noble sale. RAVISHING's book cover is displayed prominently. Text reads that the book is 25% when you preorder at Barnes and Noble between now and July 11 with code PREORDER25
A photo of the DOCILE paperback in my lap. I’m wearing a red skirt and am sitting on the deck.
Me at my ALA panel, smiling. There’s a stack of books in front of me.
The book WANTING on a pink cloth with two pink flowers next to it on either side
A picture of IT’S ME THEY FOLLOW by Jeannine A Cook, THIS IS THE ONLY KINGDOM by Jaquira Diaz and THE MAIDEN AND HER MONSTER by Maddie Martinez
Graphic for my ALA events. It has a picture of my book and my headshot, as well as notes about the book being about chronic illness, South Asian stories, literary speculative fiction and adult/YA crossover. It also says I'll be at the First Novels panel on Sunday June 29 at 2:30 PM (Convention Center, Room 121A) and that you can find out more about my book at the Grove Atlantic Book at Booth 1333A.
A graphic with a picture of RAVISHING out in a field. It also says that you can get the book for 15% off from an indie bookstore with the code PARTY2025. It also lets you know that you can submit your receipt for a chance to win prizes through @Authors4IndieBookstores on Instagram.
Screenshot of the beginning of the Debutiful Most Anticipated (Part 2) list
A picture of me, balding. I am still wearing make up and smiling
Photo of me smiling at the camera
A bookmark with blobs of pink, yellow and green on top of the RAVISHING galley
Photo of me in the woods, smiling broadly, hair in my face
Smiling brown girl in front of brick wall
Photo of my book RAVISHING outdoors with the words “happy independent bookstore day!”
RAVISHING book cover alongside text that reads "25% off when you pre-order online at Barnes & Noble now through April 25 with code PREORDER25"
Substack cover image - the title is “You are your best advocate: and what that really means.” Background image is me looking haggard because I have a fever.
a tabby cat with an extremely shellshocked look on her face
Book cover for Ravishing by Eshani Surya! The cover is teal with a pink stripe running through the center. It says Ravishing on the top with a syringe for the first letter I. The bottom says Eshani Surya. In the center there is a ring light with an Indian girl's face in it; she looks fearful and intense.
Me holding up a matcha with green fingernails
A strawberry matcha iced latte
Text message from Penn Medicine stating that there will be a texting program to guide me through colonoscopy prep
A photo of hunched over kids walking through a rainbow as if in pain. Text in upper left reads in rainbow font: they should invent a body. Text in lower right reads in rainbow font: that doesn’t keep the score
Brown woman with green eyeshadow sticking out her tongue and giving peace sign
A Substack generated image for my newsletter post. The background is a chart about black and white vs critical thinking. The title of the post is “My OCD Really Doesn’t Want Me to Write.” Subtitle is “But I’m speaking anyway.”
A half moon of images (books, my writing desk, my tabby cat with books, my arm with an IV in it) around the text “RAVISHING PREORDERS 25% OFF AT B&N code preorder25, feb 5th to feb 7th.” Background is teal
NYT newsletter text that reads: “When, in years to come, people are asked about pop music in the 2020s, the names Chappell Roan and Sabrina Carpenter are likely to come to mind. So rapid was Roan’s rise that the venues her team booked the year before her tour could not accommodate her fans. And so ubiquitous was Sabrina Carpenter’s criminally catchy “Espresso” that it prompted conspiracy theories about the Spotify algorithm. Their successes were a long time coming: Carpenter, a former Disney child star, released her sixth album last year. And Atlantic Records first signed Roan, 26, when she was just 17. There are many such cases in the best new artist category. At least three other nominees — the British singer Raye, the country artist Shaboozey and the band Khruangbin — have been releasing music for a decade or more. A “breakthrough in public consciousness,” as the Recording Academy puts it in the eligibility requirements, appears to have little to do with how long someone has been making music.”
Screenshot of the title of the article which is “Reads for the Rest of Us: The Most Anticipated Feminist Books of 2025.” The image is a collage of book covers. Then it shows the first 2 paragraphs of the article.
Brown woman in a scarf and green coat, smiling slightly/knowingly at camera
A plushie colon sitting up against the wall
Text message exchange 1st gray bubble says “literally laughing out loud” 2nd one is a voice memo with the text saying “oh my gosh ok also I love listening to a fiction writer aka you tell a story, I was like the plot is plotting. There is some plots. There is backstory the rise of action. Amazing.” Blue bubble says: Wow I needed this today!!! 3rd gray bubble says: I was riveted.
Toomi, a tabby cat, tucked up under a gray blanket, resting her face on her paw, looking like a sleeping human.
Eshani with gray coat, face slightly in shadow
Claussen pickle jar full of almond pieces
A tabby cat in a blue cube - the only thing visible are her inquisitive eyes and ears
Indian woman with gray coat smirking at camera
Tabby cat snuggling on gray patterned skirt
Still of Brittany Murphy and Dakota Fanning in Uptown Girls. BM dressed in a denim dress looking like a hippie art teacher, DF in a prim school girl outfit frowning at her. BM extends a hand to DF who does not take it.
Indian woman and white man smiling at camera
School picture of Eshani (young Indian girl) wearing black dress with lace color, pearl necklace and unfashionable glasses, and staring at the camera like WTF. Purple stars in the background feel like they are mocking her
Sims on the computer; behind that, a concerned looking cat; behind that a TV with a woman taking a large bite of her meal
Eshani (Indian woman) with 70s curtain bangs smirking at the camera
Picture of tabby cat staring at camera while sitting on couch - her head is closed to the camera and out of proportion big
Hand holding up pumpkin oat muffins with chocolate chips, in the background a tray of more of them
A threads post that says “cheating on someone you live with is absolutely insane” and the reply is “first clue… sitting in the bathroom for a long time. I noticed.”
Toomi the cat with her paws covering her face, not looking at me