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O. A. Bhatti, Author
@oabhatti.bsky.social
Author of the recently released horror novel Veilrender and the sci-fantasy novel, The Unlinked Prince.

He/Him. Pakistani-American writer of weird sci-fantasy & horror books. May It never awaken!

https://linktr.ee/oabhatti
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I’m taking a cue from the geniuses from the weekly #SFFChat and offering a free (pretty large 7-chapter) excerpt from my debut novel. The Unlinked Prince! Find it here: oabhatti.com/82-2/.

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Downloadable Works
The Unlinked Prince Chapters 1-7 An excerpt from my debut novel, The Unlinked Prince! If you like it, consider checking out the full release! (To save to a location of your choice, right-click/long…
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Almost to the end of Eternal Strands, super excited to see where the characters end up. Though it does make me think that some of the reviewers who complained about the main characters being “too nice to each other” just have never been in an affirming space. 🥲
November 14, 2025 at 3:48 AM
But not on android 😭😭😭
November 13, 2025 at 2:05 AM
“Did you enjoy the week off?” The week off in question:
November 12, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Real question, if you’re a witch going into the woods at night, obviously you want to be barefoot to better connect with nature. But what if it’s snowing?
November 11, 2025 at 1:36 AM
So I just finished what might be my new favorite book, @alixeharrow.bsky.social’s The Once and Future Witches, then within the same hour receive news we’re gonna get hit by a kind of storm called, and I quote, “thundersnow.” Coincidence? 🤨
November 9, 2025 at 11:16 PM
In honor of the release of Philip Pullman’s The Rose Field today. Found this last night when I was reading to my kid (original art by Tao Nyeu, from the picture book “Squid and Octopus Friends for Always”)
October 23, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Child-rearing is great for hearing very eloquent, yet stark answers to universal human experiences. I.e. Do you want the light off? “No. Then I’ll see scary eyes and bodies. And scary mouths!”
October 9, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Watching all this BTS Weapons stuff coming out to promote the digital and blu-ray, and Amy Madigan isn’t in any of them?! Did she have a clause in her contract to not promote the movie?! Need. More. Gladys. Lore.
October 7, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Nothing like starting a new project to make you forget that videogames exist. Sorry Nier Automata, you’ll have to traumatize me some other night!
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October 2, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Was talking to a friend trying to figure out why we don’t like sports, and we compared them to the only “real” sport, Pro Wrestling. We figured out it came down to storytelling: wrestling tells great stories with stakes, but other sports have to “fake it”
October 1, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Starting the exhausting process of querying for agents, but I just finished @melissacaruso.bsky.social’s Last Soul Among Wolves and now I’m feeling like writing a critical analysis of the interplay of American political power dynamics and the events and mythology of the Echo Archives books (halp?)
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September 24, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Yo why didn’t anyone tell me how good the Discworld books are?! You know, besides all the people that did…
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September 24, 2025 at 2:40 AM
That moment where one of your favorite hardcore bands drops an album, but you can’t get an overproduced pop hit put of your head and keep spinning that instead… 😔
September 19, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Had to pause listening to @melissacaruso.bsky.social’s Last Soul Among Wolves at work because the idea of someone smacking something that looks like this (in my mind anyway) with an oar, then scolding it like a naughty dog to get it to go away was just too freaking funny 🤣🤣
September 16, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Check out my horror debut, Veilrender!

books2read.com/u/mvENO8

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September 13, 2025 at 7:44 PM
“Don’t you ever want to make bad people hurt for making the world a hard place to live?”

Seems an apt quote for the time. If it strikes a chord, consider checking out my new book, Veilrender (books2read.com/u/mvENO8).

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Available now at your favorite digital store!
Veilrender by O. A. Bhatti
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September 9, 2025 at 10:13 PM
A group of amateur ghost hunters. A fundamentalist group in hiding. A long-suffering child with latent psychic abilities who summons a…ren fair pirate to help her?

Sound interesting? Check out my book, Veilrender, out now! (Link in bio)

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September 6, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Just dropped my first horror novel, Veilrender! Now available on Amazon (a.co/d/8AXIXZ8) and (soon) on Kobo! If you like trippy paranormal thrillers with anti-authoritarian themes, this one’s for you!

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September 2, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Aaand after two hours of finalizing my cover design and three straight hours of final edits, I’m ready to move onto compiling the manuscript! Now for lunch… at 3pm?!

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August 29, 2025 at 8:07 PM
After months away from promotion, spending my ~1 hour a day of writing time on revisions is finally going to pay off! The release of my horror novel, Veilrender is right around the corner! Just gotta do all the release things…

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August 29, 2025 at 1:07 AM
My hard copy of @stevewestenra.bsky.social’s TETK arrived! I figured the erstwhile hero would appreciate the shag. (Also dang these colors pop in person)

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May 28, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Reposted by O. A. Bhatti, Author
Oh boy, I love when I am a transfem robot in space and everything is fine! Let me just open this book...
Can't believe I almost forgot - happy birthday to A Quiet Universe!

That's one full year of Fleets, Fabricants, dramatic lesbians, gender horror, and everything being completely fine 😉

Check it out here if you haven't yet:
tinylesbianrobot.itch.io/a-quiet-univ...
www.amazon.com/dp/B0CWVHH69J
May 4, 2025 at 11:14 PM
So, I tried a personal challenge where I read and review a piece of short fiction in a day, and… I didn’t quite make it… and it was two days ago… all of which is to say that I just posted a review of @franjames.bsky.social’s Bite Radius! Go read it, it’s great! frandirekt.itch.io/bite-radius
Bite Radius by Francine James
A Werewolf Horror Novelette
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April 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM
#SFFChat Q4: Cutting this one a bit short to avoid spoilers, but I like this bit because there’s a lot going on worldbuilding-wise.
April 24, 2025 at 1:16 PM
#SFFChat Q2: There’s nothing more that the titular Unlinked Prince, Kabir, would love more than to go out into the wilds and re-enlist in the Empire’s beast-control division, the Hunter Corps (their equivalent of what we’d call a military). If only he could shake those damned visions…
#SFFChat Q2: What is your MC (or another character)'s relationship with the natural world?
April 24, 2025 at 12:55 PM