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January 15, 2020
Pump Up Your Book Blog Tour – We Of The Forsaken World by Kiran Bhat
WE OF THE FORSAKEN WORLD
By Kiran Bhat
Literary Fiction/Metaphysical Fiction
The Internet has connected – and continues to connect – billions of people around the world, sometimes in surprising ways. In his sprawling new novel, we of the forsaken world, author Kiran Bhat has turned the fact of that once-unimaginable connectivity into a metaphor for life itself.
In we of the forsaken world, Bhat follows the fortunes
of 16 people who live in four distinct places on the planet. The gripping stories include those of a man’s journey to the birthplace of his mother, a tourist town destroyed by an industrial spill; a chief’s second son born in a
nameless remote tribe, creating a scramble for succession as their jungles are destroyed by loggers; a homeless, one-armed woman living in a sprawling metropolis who sets out to take revenge on the men who trafficked her; and a
milkmaid in a small village of shanty shacks connected only by a mud and concrete road who watches the girls she calls friends destroy her reputation.
Like modern communication networks, the stories in, we of the forsaken world connect along subtle lines, dispersing at the moments where another story is about to take place. Each story is a parable unto itself, but the tales also expand to engulf the lives of everyone who lives on planet Earth, at every second, everywhere.
As Bhat notes, his characters “largely live their own lives, deal with their own problems, and exist independently of the fact that they inhabit the same space. This becomes a parable of globalization, but in a literary text.”
Bhat continues: “I wanted to imagine a globalism, but one that was bottom-to-top, and using globalism to imagine new terrains, for the sake of fiction, for the sake of humanity’s intellectual growth.”
“These are stories that could be directly ripped from our headlines. I think each of these stories is very much its own vignette, and each of these vignettes gives a lot of insight into human nature, as a whole.”
we of the forsaken world takes pride of place next to such notable literary works as David Mitchell’s CLOUD ATLAS, a finalist for the prestigious Man Booker Prize for 2004, and Mohsin Hamid’s EXIT WEST, which was listed by the New York Times as one of its Best Books of 2017.
Bhat’s epic also stands comfortably with the works of contemporary visionaries such as Umberto Eco, Haruki Murakami, and Philip K. Dick.
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TEASER
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EXCERPT
“My people. Now speaks the man destined to make the great cats bow to feet, now speaks the man who will lock eyes with the sun. I have found our new land. Take your canoes and follow me. A new time for our tribe has come.”
Not a single man found it in himself to raise a weapon, nor did a single wife open her mouth. The eyes of the eternal shone not from the skull but from the eyes of our chief’s first son. We believed that the spirits had bestowed him with our future. He had the eyes of life and death and life once more.
(Bhat, we, of the forsaken world… p. 191)
A Word From The Author
The Inspiration Behind we of the forsaken world
we, of the forsaken world… came to me in 2011, when I was on a bus between Dubrovnik and Zagreb. A tall, brunette woman with a lingering stare sat down next to me on one of the stops. We began to talk about a host of things I can’t remember now, but the one thing that she told me which did remain in my head was the following: Croatia is one of the poorest countries in the world. Something about that sentence inspired my imagination. After we reached the bus station, I had to sit on one of the metal benches for a few hours, and write. I was starting to imagine different countries, completely imagined in my head. One was a half-rich half poor megalopolis, the sort found in most third-world countries. Then, there was a town that wasn’t so different looking from my grandmother’s place, the southern Indian city of Mysore. There was a tribe in the middle of nowhere, not to mention a town of great touristic importance, destroyed by an industrial spill. I also imagined hundreds of voices. Though, over the course of time, those two hundred-so voices became around sixteen; the most distinct and boisterous of the lot.
The tale of how I got published is equally as much of a complicated one. I had finished the book in 2016. One of my friends, who was an editor at a small press in New York, gave me a list of agents to contact. Most of them responded stealthily and quickly, but after some months, they did not find my book – experimental, ambitious, overtly literary – to be a quick fit for the market. They had to turn it down. After about a year of waiting for these agents to respond, I started submitting to small presses. It was in 2019 that I got a response from an editor at Iguana Books. They were interested in publishing the book. I told them that I was still waiting for some other publishers to respond, so I asked them to wait for some weeks so that I could get some responses. Within two weeks, this same editor emailed me, asking me to follow up. He really liked this book, and wanted to publish it. Before my work with Iguana Books, I hadn’t had a publisher respond to me so positively. Admittedly, Iguana Books is a hybrid press. This means that they vet every book project that they take on, but they ask the author to take on the financial burdens of publication. This still did not mean that they had to care so much about my writing. They did a lot of work, from the editorial stages, to the design of the cover, and the maps that I asked to have tailored onto the book itself, to make sure that the book was aesthetically enriched. They spent a lot of time with me talking on the phone, making sure all of my needs were met, from last-minute changes to a sentence or two, to having my books flown to Hong Kong or Delhi for the sake of book festivals. I do not think having been published by a hybrid press has downgraded the quality of my work in any way; if anything, I am glad to have had people who believe as fondly in my vision as I do. It makes me look forward to later publications, as well as the future of my career.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Kiran Bhat was born in Jonesboro, Georgia to parents from villages in
Dakshina Kannada, India. An avid world traveler, polyglot, and digital
nomad, he has currently traveled to more than 130 countries, lived in 18
different places, and speaks 12 languages. He currently lives in
Melbourne, Australia.
Website → http://iguanabooks.ca/
January 14, 2020
Unicorn Reader Tee Shirt Collection – Awesome
Unicorn Reader Tee Shirt Collection
What is a Unicorn Reader?
It is someone who relishes reading anything that sends the mind soaring to new realms. It is someone who dives so deeply into their books that they imagine themselves the main character of every fantasy they read – whether they’re flying with dragons, riding unicorn steeds or sailing through the cosmos in gleaming quantum ships. Are you a unicorn reader?
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It is someone who relishes reading anything that sends the mind soaring to new realms. It is someone who dives so deeply into their books that they imagine themselves the main character of every fantasy they read – whether they’re flying with dragons, riding unicorn steeds or sailing through the cosmos in gleaming quantum ships. Are you a unicorn reader?
Unicorn Readers Are Awesome
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January 13, 2020
Kids Did It and Mommy Island – Roaring Twenties Giveaway Hop
Unicorn Reader Tee Shirt Collection
What is a Unicorn Reader?
It is someone who relishes reading anything that sends the mind soaring to new realms. It is someone who dives so deeply into their books that they imagine themselves the main character of every fantasy they read – whether they’re flying with dragons, riding unicorn steeds or sailing through the cosmos in gleaming quantum ships. Are you a unicorn reader?
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The Kids Did It and Mommy Island
The Roaring 20’s
January 2020 Giveaway Hop
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January 12, 2020
Unicorn Reader Tee Shirt Collection – Dare Disturb
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What is a Unicorn Reader?
It is someone who relishes reading anything that sends the mind soaring to new realms. It is someone who dives so deeply into their books that they imagine themselves the main character of every fantasy they read – whether they’re flying with dragons, riding unicorn steeds or sailing through the cosmos in gleaming quantum ships. Are you a unicorn reader?
You Dare Disturb A Unicorn Reading?
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What is a Unicorn Reader?
It is someone who relishes reading anything that sends the mind soaring to new realms. It is someone who dives so deeply into their books that they imagine themselves the main character of every fantasy they read – whether they’re flying with dragons, riding unicorn steeds or sailing through the cosmos in gleaming quantum ships. Are you a unicorn reader?
You Dare Disturb A Unicorn Reading?
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January 9, 2020
Unicorn Book Feature – The Deadly Unicorn By Spencer Lackey
Sybrina’s Unicorn Book Pick
Unicorns! How we love them. . .Luckily for all of us unicorn lovers there are hundreds of unicorn books available for all age groups. I have gathered information about as many as I can find and have placed them here for you on my blog.You can also find many more for all ages at Sybrina’s Blue Unicorn Book Store.
Today’s Unicorn Book Feature is
The Deadly Unicorn
A Weird City Mystery
By Spencer Lackey
2039. A place affectionately known as Weird City. Old-fashioned private eye, Nate Flynn, is hired by a spoiled heiress dressed as a princess to find her family’s missing pet unicorn. It sounds absurd, but he’s just desperate enough to take the case. What begins as a simple investigation, however, turns into something quite a bit more complicated as Nate gets caught up in the deadly secrets of the girl who hired him, her two beautiful, up-to-no-good sisters and their delusional mother. When he stumbles upon evidence of a grizzly murder, everyone’s a suspect, from the family’s robot butler to an incompetent nightclub owner with something to prove. In Weird City, even the unicorn isn’t above suspicion.
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Unicorns! How we love them. . .Luckily for all of us unicorn lovers there are hundreds of unicorn books available for all age groups. I have gathered information about as many as I can find and have placed them here for you on my blog.You can also find many more for all ages at Sybrina’s Blue Unicorn Book Store.
Today’s Unicorn Book Feature is
The Deadly Unicorn
A Weird City Mystery
By Spencer Lackey
2039. A place affectionately known as Weird City. Old-fashioned private eye, Nate Flynn, is hired by a spoiled heiress dressed as a princess to find her family’s missing pet unicorn. It sounds absurd, but he’s just desperate enough to take the case. What begins as a simple investigation, however, turns into something quite a bit more complicated as Nate gets caught up in the deadly secrets of the girl who hired him, her two beautiful, up-to-no-good sisters and their delusional mother. When he stumbles upon evidence of a grizzly murder, everyone’s a suspect, from the family’s robot butler to an incompetent nightclub owner with something to prove. In Weird City, even the unicorn isn’t above suspicion.
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January 7, 2020
Unicorn Reader Tee Shirt Collection – Unicorn Readers
Unicorn Reader Tee Shirt Collection
What is a Unicorn Reader?
It is someone who relishes reading anything that sends the mind soaring to new realms. It is someone who dives so deeply into their books that they imagine themselves the main character of every fantasy they read – whether they’re flying with dragons, riding unicorn steeds or sailing through the cosmos in gleaming quantum ships. Are you a unicorn reader?
Unicorn Readers Rule
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What is a Unicorn Reader?
It is someone who relishes reading anything that sends the mind soaring to new realms. It is someone who dives so deeply into their books that they imagine themselves the main character of every fantasy they read – whether they’re flying with dragons, riding unicorn steeds or sailing through the cosmos in gleaming quantum ships. Are you a unicorn reader?
Unicorn Readers Rule
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January 6, 2020
Unicorn Book Feature – Split Infinity by Piers Anthony
Sybrina’s Unicorn Book Pick
Unicorns! How we love them. . .Luckily for all of us unicorn lovers there are hundreds of unicorn books available for all age groups. I have gathered information about as many as I can find and have placed them here for you on my blog.You can also find many more for all ages at Sybrina’s Blue Unicorn Book Store.
Today’s Unicorn Book Feature is
Split Infinity
Book One: The Apprentice Adept
By Piers Anthony
On the technological, decadent world of Proton, someone was trying to destroy Stile, serf and master Gamesman. His only escape lay through a mysterious “curtain” revealed by a loving robot.Beyond the curtain lay Phaze—a world totally ruled by magic. There, his first encounter was with an amulet that turned into a demon determined to choke him to death. And there, he soon learned, his alternate self had already been murdered by sorcery, and he was due to be the next victim.
Get It At Amazon.
Find hundreds of unicorn books for all ages at Sybrina’s Blue Unicorn Book Store.
Unicorns! How we love them. . .Luckily for all of us unicorn lovers there are hundreds of unicorn books available for all age groups. I have gathered information about as many as I can find and have placed them here for you on my blog.You can also find many more for all ages at Sybrina’s Blue Unicorn Book Store.
Today’s Unicorn Book Feature is
Split Infinity
Book One: The Apprentice Adept
By Piers Anthony
On the technological, decadent world of Proton, someone was trying to destroy Stile, serf and master Gamesman. His only escape lay through a mysterious “curtain” revealed by a loving robot.Beyond the curtain lay Phaze—a world totally ruled by magic. There, his first encounter was with an amulet that turned into a demon determined to choke him to death. And there, he soon learned, his alternate self had already been murdered by sorcery, and he was due to be the next victim.
“Know thyself!” the infallible Oracle told him. But first he must save himself as he shuttled between worlds.
On Proton, his fate depended on winning the great Games.
On Phaze, he could survive only by mastering magic.
And if he used any magic at all, the werewolf and the unicorn who were his only friends were determined to kill him at once!
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January 5, 2020
Unicorn Reader Tee Shirt Collection – My Next Read2
Unicorn Reader Tee Shirt Collection
What is a Unicorn Reader?
It is someone who relishes reading anything that sends the mind soaring to new realms. It is someone who dives so deeply into their books that they imagine themselves the main character of every fantasy they read – whether they’re flying with dragons, riding unicorn steeds or sailing through the cosmos in gleaming quantum ships. Are you a unicorn reader?
My Next Read Is Gonna Be A Unicorn Fantasy
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What is a Unicorn Reader?
It is someone who relishes reading anything that sends the mind soaring to new realms. It is someone who dives so deeply into their books that they imagine themselves the main character of every fantasy they read – whether they’re flying with dragons, riding unicorn steeds or sailing through the cosmos in gleaming quantum ships. Are you a unicorn reader?
My Next Read Is Gonna Be A Unicorn Fantasy
Tee Shirt
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Unicorn Reader Tee Shirt Collection – Bedtime Stories
Unicorn Reader Tee Shirt Collection
What is a Unicorn Reader?
It is someone who relishes reading anything that sends the mind soaring to new realms. It is someone who dives so deeply into their books that they imagine themselves the main character of every fantasy they read – whether they’re flying with dragons, riding unicorn steeds or sailing through the cosmos in gleaming quantum ships. Are you a unicorn reader?
Little Unicorns Love Bedtime Stories
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What is a Unicorn Reader?
It is someone who relishes reading anything that sends the mind soaring to new realms. It is someone who dives so deeply into their books that they imagine themselves the main character of every fantasy they read – whether they’re flying with dragons, riding unicorn steeds or sailing through the cosmos in gleaming quantum ships. Are you a unicorn reader?
Little Unicorns Love Bedtime Stories
Tee Shirt
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January 4, 2020
Amazon Author Page Hop Giveaway – Hosted by NYE
Amazon Author Page Hop Giveaway
New Year 2020
Hosted by NYE Amazon Giveaways
It’s a new year and a new giveaway to start the year off.
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New Year 2020
Hosted by NYE Amazon Giveaways
It’s a new year and a new giveaway to start the year off.
NEW YEAR GIVEAWAY
Runs: 01/01/20-01/10/20
For your chance to Win a $160 Amazon GC, follow the authors in the rafflecopter entry form on their individual Amazon Author Pages.
Good Luck!
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Click here to begin: http://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/display/77deea09115/?
