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V. Ananya 🇮🇳 || Author of The Young Foreigner

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Mages Lorinda and Merlin want to recover magical memory shards to defeat a rising evil across the ocean to an unmapped island.

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December 9, 2025 at 8:21 PM

V. Ananya 🇮🇳 || Author of The Young Foreigner

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New year, new pre-order, different genre from V. Ananya! Stay tuned!! 😉

December 3, 2025 at 5:49 AM

V. Ananya 🇮🇳 || Author of The Young Foreigner

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Myth I used to believe:

WordPress is only a blogging site; you can't make a website on it.

I proved me wrong two months ago.

December 3, 2025 at 2:40 AM

V. Ananya 🇮🇳 || Author of The Young Foreigner

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As I'm going through my book for a second round of edits, I'm finding some inconsistencies with the second installment. Good thing I still have a week before I need to submit the book for approval!

November 24, 2025 at 5:41 PM

V. Ananya 🇮🇳 || Author of The Young Foreigner

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Oh, and did I tell you about the talking horses and the fruits that give superhuman strength??

V. Ananya 🇮🇳 || Author of The Young Foreigner @v-ananya-author.bsky.social · Sep 2

The war is now at their doorstep. A new monarch ready to be crowned. An old villain to face in battle.
But the Call of Thunder brings back old inhabitants of the world. Whose side are they on? How will the outcome change the universe?

📢 Pre-order starts on 4 September 2025! 📢

November 10, 2025 at 6:29 PM

V. Ananya 🇮🇳 || Author of The Young Foreigner

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🎵 The wheels on the bus go round and round... round and round... round and round... 🎶

Yes, that's what's my head's stuck at right now as I attempt to finish my book..🥴

September 22, 2025 at 6:39 PM

V. Ananya 🇮🇳 || Author of The Young Foreigner

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Just saw the KINDLE version of a book on pre-order on Amazon, published by Simon and Schuster. It was nearly 500 pages.

And INR 1000!!!!

WHAT THE FREAKING HECK??

And yes, this author is quite famous.

September 20, 2025 at 1:20 PM

V. Ananya 🇮🇳 || Author of The Young Foreigner

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You cannot compare writing to the construction of a house. Ever. The two activities are completely different to be analogies at all. Please don't embarrass yourself.

September 19, 2025 at 8:53 AM

V. Ananya 🇮🇳 || Author of The Young Foreigner

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Do you want to know how fortunate you really are in life?

You should pick up my epic fantasy series, The Sahara Chronicles, where parents are killed brutally, orphans are abandoned, and magic is unreliable.

The third book is out now for pre-order!
www.amazon.in/dp/B0FPM1RYJ...

September 6, 2025 at 6:11 PM

V. Ananya 🇮🇳 || Author of The Young Foreigner

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The war is now at their doorstep. A new monarch ready to be crowned. An old villain to face in battle.
But the Call of Thunder brings back old inhabitants of the world. Whose side are they on? How will the outcome change the universe?

📢 Pre-order starts on 4 September 2025! 📢

September 2, 2025 at 8:11 PM

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Neha🍉Reader | Writer | Dessert Person

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Aaryana is winning the contest that decides who will be the next Queen/King

But her enemies at Court—which may include her sisters—are about to change that

Epic fantasy
👑royals
🧜‍♀️mermaids
💔forbidden love
💘fake courting
🖤hate-2-love
♥️friends-2-lovers
🤫secrets & lies
⚔️
📚💙
🪐📚
books2read.com/Aaryana1

September 2, 2025 at 7:00 PM

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K Lykkebo 🖤 Fantasy author

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✨ end-of-summer SALE ✨

3 of my books are just 99c until 31st of August!

- book 1 of an epic fantasy trilogy, The Last Airbender and Korra vibes, sapphic lead, drama&trauma

- fun, but dark portal fantasy with a lovable and chaotic MC

- garden-themed horror short stories

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Promo photo with books by K Lykkebo. Text in left corner in pink and black: Ebook Sale, $0.99, Aug 22-31. From left: Cover of Dirt You Shall Become, Five horror short stories with a garden theme. Middle: Winds of Destruction, First in an epic fantasy trilogy. Right: Heir to The Sun, standalone portal contemporary fantasy.

August 26, 2025 at 7:13 PM

V. Ananya 🇮🇳 || Author of The Young Foreigner

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How do you keep a reader engaged throughout your 500+ page novel?

Imagine each chapter as a separate entity that you need to have a dramatic start for. Begin each chapter with a bang. I know this is what keeps me hooked throughout the books I read.

August 10, 2025 at 9:00 PM

V. Ananya 🇮🇳 || Author of The Young Foreigner

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On the occasion of Kargil Vijay Diwas, here is a poem about a man and a woman, deeply in love, separated by war:
open.substack.com/pub/ananyasc...

#KargilVijayDiwas

What He Left Behind

A poem about a man and a woman separated by war.

open.substack.com

July 27, 2025 at 4:57 AM

V. Ananya 🇮🇳 || Author of The Young Foreigner

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FREE PROMO WEEKS!

On account of being the birthday month, from 14 July to 23 July, I'm putting up my books for free, one after the other:

The Young Foreigner: 14-18 July
The Lost Fable: 19-23 July

THE YOUNG FOREIGNER IS CURRENTLY FREE ON KINDLE!!

V. Ananya 🇮🇳 || Author of The Young Foreigner @v-ananya-author.bsky.social · Jul 14

I don't promote my upcoming book enough.

✨ Call of Thunder coming out this year!! Look out for cover reveal, date reveal, and pre-order date!! ✨

All you need as a series starter? This link right here: getbook.at/TheYoungFore...

July 14, 2025 at 2:31 PM

V. Ananya 🇮🇳 || Author of The Young Foreigner

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I don't promote my upcoming book enough.

✨ Call of Thunder coming out this year!! Look out for cover reveal, date reveal, and pre-order date!! ✨

All you need as a series starter? This link right here: getbook.at/TheYoungFore...

July 14, 2025 at 12:22 PM

V. Ananya 🇮🇳 || Author of The Young Foreigner

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The story of The Sahara Chronicles is not for everybody. Not everybody likes to read about detailed scenery at different points in a story or talking horses or magical instruments that seem to have no purpose.

Sahara is a place for the odd, the weird, and the twisted. Like me.

July 8, 2025 at 11:07 PM

V. Ananya 🇮🇳 || Author of The Young Foreigner

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⚠️ Available on KU ⚠️

Why you should read The Sahara Chronicles!

✨ Tolkien-like narration
✨ Dangerous adventures
✨ Slow build-up
✨ Slow-burn romance
✨ Fast-paced action
✨ Morally grey love triangle
✨ Shape-shifters who cannot control their transformations

July 8, 2025 at 7:08 PM

V. Ananya 🇮🇳 || Author of The Young Foreigner

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The grief of losing a soulmate.... I can't even begin to understand it.

June 18, 2025 at 2:07 AM

V. Ananya 🇮🇳 || Author of The Young Foreigner

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In a world that resembles medieval Earth, two heroes lead an army to hold fast the legacy left by their ancestors and chain Chaos a second time, before it's left loose on thousands of innocents.

"A very poetic fantasy" - Amazon review

www.v-ananyawrites.co.in/books-the-sa...

V. Ananya | Books | The Sahara Chronicles

V. Ananya is a multi-genre author who has a laptop full of manuscripts just waiting for their turns to be edited and released to the world. Her first book, The Young Foreigner, a new adult noblebright...

www.v-ananyawrites.co.in

June 16, 2025 at 4:53 PM

V. Ananya 🇮🇳 || Author of The Young Foreigner

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In a world that resembles medieval Earth, three heroes lead a voyage to get to the bottom of defeating an old enemy and stop him from destroying the world.

"A great fantasy novel with characters inspired by fairy tales and folklore." - Goodreads review

mybook.to/TheLostFable