Dinesh Thiru

Today is the day—I’m a published author! INTO THE SUNKEN CITY, my debut novel, is out in hardcover, audio, and ebook with HarperCollins. It’s received 3(!!) starred ⭐️⭐️⭐️ reviews from Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, and BookPage. I’m glowing :-) THANK YOU, THANK YOU… (1/2)

@MJG_Write @KinkaidSchool Amazing! Looks like a really special visit.

Amazing school visit to @KinkaidSchool in Houston, Texas. I visited two upper school English classes and a middle school creative writing class. I also got to present before the school assembly where I talked about my journey to get published. So amazing!

@KaitlynAbdou @frostedsparrow Love it! Congrats Katie!!

COVER RELEASE DAY!!! Thank you so much @frostedsparrow for this stunning cover!!!

PS - Check out all the new covers @simonteen is sharing at simonteen.com/2025/10/17/you…

The cover for MY KILLER FAMILY REUNION is here! Knives Out meets Never Have I Ever in this hilarious and twisty YA mystery-comedy about an Indian American teen whose family reunion falls into chaos after her grandma is attacked. Out Aug 11th, 2026 with S&S!

@AbbyDewsnup @francescaali5 @WMEBooksUK Amazing news! Congrats!!

Dusting off my little account to share that I am now represented by @francescaali5 at @WMEBooksUK 🎉🧚🏼💫 I couldn’t be more thrilled to have met Francesca and for her incredible talent and vision for RABBIT HEART. Excited is truly an understatement!

@MJG_Write Congrats Marc!!

Publisher's Marketplace official, too!

@PerkinsLibrary @jerrypallotta @CaroleLindstrom @itspeterbrown So glad y’all liked Into the Sunken City!!

Our younger readers can celebrate #EarthDay with these #RecommendedReads that talk about ways we can help preserve our planet. 🌎 Who Will Plant a Tree? @JerryPallotta 🌎 We Are Water Protectors @CaroleLindstrom 🌎 The Wild Robot @ItsPeterBrown 🌎 Into the Sunken City @Dinesh9

I sold another book!! This one is inspired by all the Indian family reunions I went to as a kid (where there was tons of attempted murder!). It’s ridiculous, heartwarming, humorous and the 1st draft poured out of me. I hope y’all love it! PS - For fans of Dial A for Aunties!

@montoyasangel Amazing!! Happy early pub day!

My second book comes out tomorrow, and I'm feeling a whole lot of feels. Mostly I just feel grateful. I've met some of the best humans on earth while on this writer journey, and honestly, that has been my favorite part of this entire process.

@KesheWrites @Spotify Yes!!! Congrats Keshe!

The girl with no reflection is on of @Spotify ‘s best audiobooks of 2024, as an editor pick! I honestly didn’t expect this - I was actually scrolling to see if any of my friend’s books were on there 🤯🤯🤯 #WritingCommunity

@jtewwrites @sljournal @GetUnderlined @JoyRevBooks @randomhousekids @jenazantian Masterpiece???? You’re on fire!!!

⭐️ THIRD STARRED REVIEW ⭐️ Thank you so much to @sljournal for this phenomenal review! Can’t believe this is the third starred review for The Dividing Sky. I never could have imagined such a warm reception for this book. Forever grateful. Less than 3 weeks to go now!!

@clarewonders Congrats Clare!!!!

@bhootbabe @simonteen @simonkids_UK @SimonSchusterCA @simonYAbooks @SimonAudio @FolioJr @FolioLiterary Yeah!!! This sounds amazing!

🍃 NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT 🍃 Fall in love at a sweepingly romantic Bangladeshi tea garden in my next YA romcom, ALWAYS BE MY BIBI, out summer 2025 from @simonteen! ✨ Clueless x Crazy Rich Asians ✨ Siblings’ wedding ✨ Brother of the groom 👀 Add to GR: goodreads.com/book/show/2180…

@KesheWrites @GetUnderlined @PenguinBooksAus @PenguinTeenAus @DelacortePress @authorblogger Wahoooo!!!! Happy pub day!!

It’s HERE 🎉🥳 After three years of work, countless drafts, lots of late nights and bottomless tea The Girl with No Reflection is PUBLISHED (well, in the US & Australia at least)! How surreal to think that yesterday I was an unpublished author and today I am a published one!!

@jtewwrites @PublishersWkly @jenazantian @JoyRevBooks @GetUnderlined You’re on fire!!! Congrats!

🌟 ANOTHER STARRED REVIEW 🌟 Huge thanks to the team @PublishersWkly for this review of The Dividing Sky. You made this book sound so cool, I can’t believe I wrote it! Check out Goodreads for a chance to win one of fifteen personalized ARCs! Preorder: penguinrandomhouse.com/books/736783/t…

@SSCBookDiva @LaekanZeaKemp @SteveSheinkin @mariekeyn @tommygreenwald @JeffStrand @TessaAfshar @JoannaHoWrites @EWein2412 Ooo, thanks for highlighting Into the Sunken City. It’s in good company!!

Looking for suggestions for Summer Reading? Here are my high school recommendations!! It’s got a mix of poetry, graphic, historical, nonfiction, fantasy, sci-fi, humor, sports, romance! @LaekanZeaKemp

@CJBell_Writes Yay!! Congrats Crystal!

THE LAMPLIGHTER is here! 🖤🥳🖤🥳🖤🥳🖤🥳🖤🥳🖤 I've been writing for over 14 years with the hopes this day would someday come. And it finally has. Thank you to everyone in this stunning community. Readers and writers alike. It's a good day.

@byjennihowell @FierceReads @francesthewren @ellwhitt @clairefriedman8 @katemeltzer Good god. This is stunning. Dating myself, but I’m getting cruel intentions vibes.

Beyond. Excited. To reveal the cover of my YA dark academia thriller, BOYS WITH SHARP TEETH coming out Winter 2025 with @FierceReads!! @francesthewren’s art and @ellwhitt on design absolutely SLAYED. I want to EAT MY COVER🔥 Preorders open!! barnesandnoble.com/w/boys-with-sh… blurb👇🔥

@MJG_Write Yes!!! Congrats Marc!

Read about it here: deadline.com/2024/05/skys-e…

@gaganbiyani It was wild. Bunch of kids had read the book, and at one point I was signing books, taking photos, even signing scraps of paper as if I was some kinda celebrity person. Very weird.

@dinesh9 Amazing - and very cool to see Kristi's comment about Into the Sunken City!!

I had the best time chatting with 7th graders today about writing! They had non-stop questions after my author talk, and I joined their writing club, shared a prompt, and had the hardest time picking a winner bc their writing samples were too good!