"Sometimes choices get taken away from you by the world."
"Then you find new ones."
Somewhere In The Deep is out today!
Seventeen-year-old Krescent Dune is buried under the weight of her dead parents’ debt and the ruinous legacy they left behind. The only way she can earn enough money to escape her unforgiving island is by battling monstrous creatures in an underground fighting pit. After a fight goes terribly wrong, she’s banned from the pits. Now hopeless, she is offered a deal: in exchange for the erasure of her debts, she must join and protect a hunting party for a rescue mission deep within the mining caves beneath the island.
Krescent is determined to keep her head down and fulfill her role as the dutiful bodyguard, even though she is trapped underground with her childhood enemy and a company of people who would gladly kill her if they knew who her parents were. As they come across creatures she believed only existed in legends, it becomes clear they are in far more danger than she could have imagined. But someone doesn’t want her to make it out alive. And she’ll have to figure out who before she’s left alone… in the dark.
From the author of Monsters Born and Made comes an action-packed South Asian inspired fantasy that will have your heart racing at every turn.
Somewhere in the Deep is finally here.
If you want to know what you can do to support me and the book during this launch week, here are a few things:
if you’ve already read it, via an advanced review copy or if your final copy got shipped early, please consider leaving a review on goodreads, barnes & noble, and/or amazon. this little action from you goes a long way by way of the algorithm etc etc.
please consider buying the book this first week, if you’re able to. first week sales are one of the most important factors for a book’s longevity. you can find a bunch of links to choose from here.
if you like the book, please consider recommending the book to fellow fantasy readers, whether online or offline!
I have talked a lot about SOMEWHERE IN THE DEEP this past year. Its inspirations which include Lord of the Rings, especially the Mines of Moria, characters like Inej Ghafa and Ciri of Cintra, Dante’s rendition of hell, Cthulhu (but not quite), and as always my love of dragging bizarre sea creatures on land and making them even more awful.
As with Monsters Born and Made, there is the exploration of casteism and classism, this time in relation to the land we inhabit.
SOMEWHERE IN THE DEEP is set on a mining island where the streets are ash, skies are stormy, and cinderblock buildings and spires of stones threaten everything, where dust and embers dance in the air, and basalt towers lock in the island. And on this land, there are those who command and those who serve.
This is a story led by Kress Dune, who will descend into darkness and madness, who will fight monsters seen and unseen, and who will choose to fight.
I love Kress, in lots of ways she’s the antithesis of Koral from Monsters, she’s angry at the world in different ways for different reasons. And I hope, like Koral, she reaches those who need her story.
virtual launch
i will be in a virtual conversation with NYPL’s librarians Tabrizia and Whitney, for Pelham Parkway-Van Nest, discussing somewhere in the deep later today starting 3.30 PM ET. you can register HERE. hope to see you there!
THANK YOU SO MUCH, ONCE AGAIN, FOR ALL YOUR SUPPORT!
love and light, take care <3
Happy release day!!