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Maya Darjani | SFF author
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#AMMR9 and #RevPit mentee | #indieinkawards finalist | ace | she/her| indie SF author + upmarket spy contemp

ANCIENT AS THE STARS and STAR-CROSSED EMPIRE out now!

Learn more: http://linktr.ee/mayadarjani
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Nominations are open for the @indieinkawards ! Head to indiestorygeek.com to select books and categories. My eligible books are above with a few suggested categories (you're welcome to nominate for other categories as well!)
Logo of the Indie Ink Awards, in collaboration with Indie Story Geek and Inked in Gray. My eligible books are The Star-Crossed Empire and Loyalty to the Max. The Star-Crossed Empire can be nominated for Asian rep and asexual rep, and more. Loyalty to the max can be nominated for disability rep, wittiest character, morally gray character, and more.
November 3, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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And it's a Bookbub deal today!!!
October 28, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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My ebook Ancient as the Stars is available on BookBub for $0.99 for a limited time! Subscribe to BookBub for free to access amazing ebook deals from your favorite authors. Go to the link below to snag Ancient as the Stars before the sale is over!

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Graphic showing The cover of ancient as the Stars by Maya darjani, indicating it is on sale for 99 cents for a limited time, down from $4.99
October 27, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Ace Pride Week mega-bundle on itch!

riyati.ink/acepride2025

Get The Star-Crossed Empire and so so much more for $50!
Ace Pride Week itch.io mega bundle Oct 19 - 25 | 50+ books for $50! Book covers for the following books are listed top left to bottom right: Non-player Character - Veo Corva A Dragon’s Treasure - Elis Madsen The Blood Divide - Zan Lowell The Grand Duke’s Masseur Child of the Forest - Audrey Simmons Wherever the Stars Call - S. Jean How Six Saved the Grogs - Blaine D. Arden City of Strike - Claudie Arseneault In Spite of the Inevitable - Morgan Biscup Structural Integrity - Tabitha O’Connell Of Spells and Love - Odessa Silver Inarora’s Excursion - Astrid E. Abell Puppetry - Nina Waters Sidetracked - S. K. Kelley Lost Blades - Liz Sauco Claimed by the Undead - C. L. Carhart The Star-Crossed Empire - Maya Darjani Triple Strike Threads of Fate - G. M. Grey Curse of Souls - Niranjan Courtly Love - T. D. Cloud Song of the Wolf - T. C. Smith Blood - D. C. Hart Chai and Cat-tales - Lynn Strong The Thirteenth Key - Cara Nox The Dragon Next Door - Vanessa Ricci-Thode Walking the Knife’s Edge - Elise Carlson Yours Celestically - Al Hess Pet - H. S. Kallinger The One He Brought Home - Skye Kilaen Junk Junction - Sara Codair Secondhand Origin Storie - Lee Brontido Riyati Rebirth - Kai Zeal Bridges of Smoke - Julie March The Whisperer in White - Y. R. Liu In the Eye of the Beholder - Beverly Anne Michel Peace in the Sky - Caye Marsh A Spark in Space - Janina Franck Journey Home - May Barros Doce Drosera - Anita The Audacity - Carmen Loup Bloody Space - Brittany M. Willows Enemies to Enemies - Ash Kreider Devil’s Deal - Tessa Hastjarjanto Merchants of Knowledge and Magic - Erika McCorkle A Life in Too Many Margins - S. E. Thomson Where We Converge - A. E. Bross Lantern - Burgundy Athena Pendragon A Designer Magick - Fox N. Locke The Harmony of Falling Snow - Andora Brohaw The Thread That Binds - Cedar McCloud Towers of Nine - Alyssa Louttit All books by ace authors and/or ft. ace characters across a variety of genres! riyati.ink/acepride2025
October 22, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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The Narrates sale starts tomorrow! These are some sci fi books in it, including AATS which is 99c
8 sci-fi book covers from titles on sale including Ancient as the Stars, The Arid Lands, Aurethia Rising, Bisection, Digital Extremities, Kotov Syndrome, Unburnt, and The Warm machine. Text over top reads Book Sale, indiebook.sale, Fantasy, Sci-fi & Horror, August 23-25, $1.99 or less
August 22, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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This Indie August, take a chance on me. Everything is 99 cents!
Promotional image with covers for Maya darjani's novels: the Star-Crossed Empire ancient as the Stars, and loyalty to the max; preorders: The clockwork spy and a stellar spy; and short stories: let our bones be the testament and The secret Life of amalie Chaudhry. Everything is $0.99. The web address is books2read.com/mayadarjani
August 8, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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ARC form is officially open for A Stellar Spy. 🔗 ⏬

Those of you who already have an early copy: this hopefully final version corrected a handful of embarrassing spelling mistakes and tightened up some ridiculous run on sentences. Feel free to reach out if you want it
Trope map of a stellar spy. It can be found at books2read.com/stellerspy. It is an author Mentor match winner. It is le carre in space Science fantasy spy thriller. Tropes include magic in a space-faring society. Accurate-ish tradecraft, the Americans x Scandal, bi spy and space. And morally gray protagonist.
July 20, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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July 8-12 we have a science fiction itch bundle! 29 ebooks for $23.20. normally $105. Save 78%! Go to tinyurl.com/sfitch01
July 8, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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It's Disability Pride month! Max suffers from chronic illness (like me)
Trope map of loyalty to the max, which can be found at books2read.com/lttm. It is also currently on Kindle unlimited. It is firefly x expanse space opera adventure. The tropes include The myth versus the man, guy liner and corsets, schemes within schemes, Max no, Max. Yes. Revolution versus status quo, and being a badass with chronic pain.
July 2, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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Oops the picture for this didn't pop up! I had alt text and everything sighhhh. I'll throw alt text in a comment when I get the chance but I'm running out the door
June 7, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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DRUMROLL. Are you a TOTAL SPY NERD and can handle the confusion of nonlinear storytelling?This is my RevPit winner and is literally the best thing I've written.

Open to earrrly reviews. Coming May 2026. Also available for 99c preorder. amzn.to/3HjWe2W

By Meena Daye
Introducing a clockwork spy. It is a rev pit winner. It has a $0.99 pre-order price. Literary Espionage, non-linear storytelling, unreliable narrator.
June 7, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Coming November 2025! This is A Stellar Spy, and it was an Author-Mentor Match winner. It's up for preorder (99c!), and early reviewers already are holding it in their greedy little hands. Please contact me if you want an early ARC! I liken this to "The Americans" in space
Trope map of a stellar spy. It can be found at books2read.com/stellerspy. It is an author Mentor match winner. It is le carre in space Science fantasy spy thriller. Tropes include magic in a space-faring society. Accurate-ish tradecraft, the Americans x Scandal, bi spy and space. And morally gray protagonist.
June 7, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Next up is my Whorl Chronicles. I have one book out. My WIP (coming Nov 2026) is actually the beginning of a sequel series. These books are romantic space opera but have as much ✨adventure and intrigue✨ as they do love. If you enjoy Lois McMaster Bujold or David Weber....
Trope map of the Star crossed Empire. It is a reader's favorite five star. It is a Vorkosigan x Harrington romantic space opera. It's tropes include a canonically Ace, Desi, headstrong MC. Sexy militants. Red-headed assassin-turned bodyguard. They chaotic but lovable Lord benedik. The bearded emperor with the Honeycutt voice and kind eyes. Plotting nobles. The people demand a revolution and they're right. And conquering Invaders. It can be found at books2read.com/SCE
June 7, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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First up is my Broken Union series, with snark and lots of heart. This is my most popular set of books so far and is great for fans of mass media SF like Firefly, Star Trek, Expanse, Farscape, and BSG
Trope map of ancient as the stars, which can be found at books2read.com/AATS. It is an indie ink award 2024 finalist, a reader's favorite five-star, and an indieverse awards 2025 nominee. It's a firefly x expanse space Opera adventure. Tropes include timey wimey nonsense, disaster bi, burn it all down, ragtag crew of misfits, found family, Ace spec lead, boundless profanity, and Magic dust that makes you immortal Trope map of loyalty to the max, which can be found at books2read.com/lttm. It is also currently on Kindle unlimited. It is firefly x expanse space opera adventure. The tropes include The myth versus the man, guy liner and corsets, schemes within schemes, Max no, Max. Yes. Revolution versus status quo, and being a badass with chronic pain.
June 7, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Do you like sci Fi? Do you like spies? Hi I'm Maya and I write too much.

Read to the end of the thread for a ✨ COVER REVEAL✨
Black and White picture of a much younger Maya at an airport
June 7, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Loyalty to the Max is out TODAY. It's currently on KU, and you can get the print online at any major retailer.

Books2read.com/LTTM

One day I'm gonna put makeup on and not look exhausted in a book photo 😭
Exhausted author selfie with the hardcover version of her book
May 28, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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✨ bundle alert ✨

Strong Women in Speculative Fiction, running on itch.io all month!

itch.io/b/3022/stron...
> Strong Women in Speculative Fiction: itch.io ebook bundles > 2 bundles of 13 books - $16.25 each > > The promo graphic shows 26 book covers, from top left down: > When Mastered, A Graceful Accomplishment - A.P. Howell > Riyati Rivals - Kai Zeal > Hallowed - Y. R. Liu > Yelen & Yelena - C. M. Rosens > Crimson Knight - Zeta K. Pierce > The Biohunter - Ingrid Moon > Fiery Magic - Niranjan > An Uncommon Curse - Devan Barlow > The Rareyn's Fall - Nikky Lee > What May Rise from the Ashes - Susanne Schmidt > The Reverse Tower - Fay Lanark > The Star-Crossed Empire - Maya Darjani > A New World for You - Ku'ua Lara > Cold Blodded - Rohan O'Duill > Riyati Rebirth - Kai Zeal > Bis Rose - T.K. Toppin > The Rarkyn's Familiar - Nikky Lee > Shadows Dark and Deadly - Andrea Marie Johnson > The Reckoning - Natasha O'Connor > Durga - Geetha Krishnan > Moonshadow's Guardian - Dianna Gunn > Child of the Moon - Audrey Simmons > The Whisperer in White - Y. R. Liu > The Stained Angel - Jenn A. Morales > A Born Angel - Jenn A. Morales > Hunt Monsters, Do Magic, and Fall in Love - A.M. Weald
May 18, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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It's AAPI heritage month! Did you know I'm South Asian and so is the MC of The Star-Crossed Empire?
Trope map of the Star-Crossed Empire. Vorkosigan x Harrington romantic space opera. Books2read.com/SCE The bearded emperor with a Honeycutt voice and kind eyes Plotting nobles CANONICALLY ACE, DESI, HEADSTRONG MC. SEXY MILITANTS RED-HEADED ASSASSIN TURNED BODYGUARD THE CHAOTIC BUT LOVABLE LORD BENEDIK PEOPLE DEMAND A REVOLUTION. AND THEY'RE RIGHT CONQUERING INVADERS
May 1, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Whassup?? For this entire month, we've got an itch.io bundle for Mental Health Awareness month! Multiple bundles, in fact!

Ancient as the Stars is in this one:

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Mental Health Awareness Month itchio ebook bundles - 4 bundles 35 books, multiple genres - 59% off - tinyurl.com/2025MHCHP - 35 book covers shown are: The Fealty of Monsters by Ladz Awakened Darkness: Lost Gods Book I by Ezra Arndt The Reverse Tower by Fay Lanark Stars and Soil by Dax Murray His Sacred Heart by Morgan Dante The Daughter She Wanted by Felix Graves Mercy by Ian Haramaki Revenant's Hymn by Elliot Dunstan Our Broken World: The Fourth Nightmare by S R Tudor A Crimson Covenant by Aimee Donnellan How to Save an Ancient Hero by Jeremy Rayne Madness and Gods by V. S. Holmes Community Witch by Ash Kreider Structural Strain by Tabitha O'Connell Masks Legacy by Amara Lynn From the Grave of the Gods by Alan K. Dell Tears in the Water by Margherita As the Light Goes Out by Olive J. Kelley Love in the Liner Notes by Katta Kis Learning Curves by Ceillie Simkiss while the rest of the world dances by Rachel Bowdler/Bryony Rosehurst Dandelion by Merlina Garance Even If We're Broken by A.M. Weald Blood and Sunspots by Vicious Kitten A Promise Broken by S.L. Dove Sidetracked by S K Kelley The Thirteenth Key by Cara Nox Kotov Syndrome by S. Morgan Burbank Bleeding Gold by Niranjan Ancient as the Stars by Maya Darjani A Memory of Blood and Magic by K. N. Brindle How I Became a Therapist in Another World Omnibus by S.E. Robertson / C.A. Moss Chai and Cat-tales by Lynn Strong Stages of Pre-Bereavement by A. P. Howell The End of the Tunnel: book one of the Tunnel Apparati Diaries by the Inmara Fenumera Science Fiction and Fantasy without spice bundle tinyurl.com/2025MHSFF1 A promotional graphic for the SciFi and Fantasy Mental Health Bundle (without spice), which includes 11 books for $13.75. The itchio covers of all books are featured. Those books are: A Promise Broken by S.L. Dove Sidetracked by S K Kelley The Thirteenth Key by Cara Nox Kotov Syndrome by S. Morgan Burbank Bleeding Gold by Niranjan Ancient as the Stars by Maya Darjani A Memory of Blood and Magic by K. N. Brindle How I Became a Therapist in Another World Omnibus by S.E. Robertson / C.A. Moss Chai and Cat-tales by Lynn Strong Stages of Pre-Bereavement by A. P. Howell The End of the Tunnel: book one of the Tunnel Apparati Diaries by the Inmara Fenumera
May 1, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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The #narratessindiesale is still going on, and you can buy bundles on itch.io! My book is in the sci Fi bundle. Check it out:

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A promotional graphic for the Itchio Narratess Science Fiction Bundle, which includes 9 books for $7. The itchio covers of all nine books are featured. Those books are: Chameleon Moon by RoAnna Sylver Yours Celestially by Al Hess The Elitist Supremacy by Niranjan The Star-Crossed Empire by Maya Darjani Wherever the Stars Call by S. Jean The Warm Machine by Aimee Cozza Tionsphere by J.C. Gemmel JUNKER SEVEN by Olive J. Kelley Mechanical Heart by Beverly Anne Michel
April 6, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Here's mine!
Graphic for The Star-Crossed Empire. Blurb: get swept away into a lush and romantic space opera that transcends time, untangles court intrigue, and spans the entire Galactic Whorl
April 5, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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The #NarratessIndieSale is here! Here's a bunch of sci-fi books in the sale

Head to indiebook.sale to check it out, or grab The Star-Crossed Empire on all platforms for 99c at books2read.com/SCE
Graphic for the sale at indiebook.sale from April 5-7. All books free-1.99. sci Fi books include: Genefire, The War Machine, Metanoeia, Wherever Stars Call, From the Grave of the Gods, Digital Extremities, Rusted Synapse, The Elitist Supremacy, The Star-Crossed Empire, and Station in the Sky
April 5, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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For those of you who read with Campfire, both Ancient as the Stars AND The Star-Crossed Empire are on sale for 99c through the app until April 13!
Campfire image with science fiction on sale including ancient as the Stars and the Star-Crossed Empire. Campfire image stating 250 plus books on sale from April 4th through 13th. Go to campfirewriting.com/explore
April 4, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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The #narratessindiesale is coming soon but The Star-Crossed Empire is already on sale on all platforms! Go ahead and jump the gun!

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Cover of The Star-Crossed Empire on the left. On the right, the short blurb: Get swept away into a lush and romantic space opera that transcends time, untangles court intrigue, and spans the entire Galactic Whorl. At the bottom, the logo for the indie book sale at indiebook.sale which will be from April 5-7
April 2, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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From my copyright page:
The author does not consent to any Artificial Intelligence (AI), generative AI, large language model, machine learning, chatbot, or other automated analysis, generative process, or replication program to reproduce, mimic, remix, summarize, or otherwise replicate any part of this creative work, via any means: print, graphic, sculpture, multimedia, audio, or other medium. The author supports the right of humans to control their artistic works. No part of this book has been created using AI-generated images or narrative, as known by the author. TL;DR: Remember, it's only Artificial Intelligence if it's a baby computer named Peggy. Otherwise, it's sparkling plagiarism.
March 20, 2025 at 9:21 PM