Readers are reporting their paperbacks are finally arriving in the mail! Do you have your copy yet?
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Readers are reporting their paperbacks are finally arriving in the mail! Do you have your copy yet?
dancingstarpress.com/product/the-...
Lock the doors, snuggle into the covers, and escape our world for another, where two people who should not know each other end up changing each other's lives."
Thank you so much for the kind words!
The full review:
"I had the luck to publish Tanvir's short story "A Dervish Among the Graves of Ghazni," so was highly delighted to discover he had something longer coming out. The Night Sweeps the Mountains Away is dark, lyrical, and haunting, a disconcerting journey you won't regret taking.
Promotional image for The Night Sweeps the Mountains Away by Tanvir Ahmed Contains the cover image for the book, which features a woman in a headscarf, a white dog at her side, seated on hill overlooking a valley, the mountains and the night sky in the background. Text in image: “The Night Sweeps the Mountains Away is dark, lyrical, and haunting, a disconcerting journey you won't regret taking. Lock the doors, snuggle into the covers, and escape our world for another, where two people who should not know each other end up changing each other's lives.” — E. Catherine Tobler, editor at The Deadlands Cover Design by Guoldu Dancing Star Press
@ecatherine.com, Editor at @thedeadlands.com, has been an early champion of The Night Sweeps the Mountains Away, and wrote this lovely review!
So I have thoughts about this book and I will be processing them for a long time. Bravi. BRAVI. Do you need to scream? Go get it from @dancingstarpress.com. #BookSky
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😍😍😍 So excited to read Tanvir Ahmed's gorgeous debut!!
A small stack of paperback copies of The Night Sweeps the Mountains Away by Tanvir Ahmed.
LOOK WHAT FINALLY ARRIVED! 👀
All paperback orders should ship out tomorrow!
(to me, anyway.)
The status of my big shipment of books has been updated from printing to packing! It is unlikely that my hope of receiving the books this week will come true, but maybe still technically possible?
Get LOTS more ideas here:
(sadly, nearly all the ideas on the list are more timely now than ever)
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Most libraries in the United States will have a place somewhere on their website letting you know how to suggest purchases. Libraries want to know what their patrons want to read! If you aren't already a member of your local library, sign up today!
The Night Sweeps the Mountains Away by Tanvir Ahmed is now (finally!) listed on Hoopla! This means it is even easier for your local library to add it to their catalog.
If it isn't currently listed at available at your library, you can suggest it as a purchase!
Want another story of an incredibly powerful woman?
Try A Ruin of Shadows by L.D. Lewis
Want another story of a woman who has had to pay an unbearable price?
Try She Who Hears All Whispers by DaVaun Sanders!
Want another story of a woman able to reclaim parts of her identity she long thought herself estranged from forever?
Try A Feast for Flies by Leigh Harlen!
Want another sweeping fantasy, with a heroine exiled from all she knew of her life before?
Try Bride of the River God, by Sarah A. Macklin!
The good news is, while you will still have to wait a little longer for these books to come in, now that the preorder period is over, you can now save on shipping while bundling with some of our older books!
Cover image of The Night Sweeps the Mountains Away by Tanvir Ahmed. The illustration is of a woman in profile, wearing a dark headscarf, sitting on the ground with a lantern on her left and a dog at her right. The dog is white, with long legs and a long, curved tail. They are seated on a hill overlooking a valley, with mountains and the night sky in the distance.
While the pre-order sale is now over, and I still can't tell you exactly when I will have the physical books in hand, the ebook orders are going out now!
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A pile of shiny rainbow-reflective Dancing Star Press logo stickers. The logo image is of a feather star, a marine invertebrate organism related to sea stars.
Today is publication day for The Night Sweeps the Mountains Away! Because the paperbacks are STILL held back by greater than anticipated shipping delays, I ordered some VERY shiny (and rainbowy!) stickers to include with all the delayed copies...
One day more!
For us to double-check the final versions of the files are uploaded everywhere they are supposed to be uploaded, to double-check shipping and website settings.
And one more day for you to take advantage of the pre-order sale! 30% off when you order through the press website!
Also tagging @traumbooks.bsky.social into this convo.
I cannot say enough good things about this book. Truly outstanding writing from Tanvir Ahmed. It's a vampire story that is unlike anything else I've read.
I am so looking forward to sharing this wonderful story with all of you!
Tiny presses struggle to get their books to the kind of saturation where potentially interested readers see the book enough times to decide to check it out, so every little boost is helpful! Thanks for all you do to support independent publishing & marginalized authors!
If your library picks it up, check it out! Support the library's decision to take a chance on a tiny publisher, and you get to read the book for free!
If you like it, please post a review wherever you talk about books!
