YA fantasy author • next: THE PEACOCK THRONE (Fall 2026) (Delacorte/@GetUnderlined) • out now: MIDNIGHT STRIKES

Joined March 2015
COVER REVEAL 🦚👑💘 THE PEACOCK THRONE, my Mughal Anastasia YA fantasy book about a delulu heroine and her dreams of more, comes out 11/24/26! Preorder: bit.ly/thepeacockthrone GR: bit.ly/peacock-gr Art: Kelly Chong/@ afterblossom_art on ig Design: Angela G. Carlino
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A THOUSAND NIGHTS is finally here!! Happy book birthday to this beautiful anthology 💓🌙✨
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My story, “Your Marvi,” kicks off the anthology with a spin on a folktale from Pakistan that asks: can you ever go home again? It’s so wonderful to be published among so many incredible Muslim women writers! Pick up your copy wherever you buy books now: penguinrandomhouse.com/books…
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New title for THE PEACOCK THRONE incoming
My 2 yo just saw a peacock and called it a chicken butterfly
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⭐️⭐️ ¡¡𝗦𝗢𝗠𝗢𝗦 𝗕𝗜𝗖𝗔𝗠𝗣𝗘𝗢𝗡𝗘𝗦 𝗗𝗘𝗟 𝗠𝗨𝗡𝗗𝗢!! #VamosEspaña | #CopaMundialFIFA
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happy july 17th to those who celebrate
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Watching the Spain-France World Cup semifinal aka the Ivarea bowl
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HISTORY.
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🦚👑💘THE PEACOCK THRONE is now available for request on NetGalley🦚👑💘 If you want to read my epic YA fantasy Mughal Anastasia book a whole 6 months early, check out the 🔗 in my bio to request and discover all the cool things I can’t wait for readers to discover!
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What’s THE PEACOCK THRONE about? I’m so glad you asked 🦚💘👑 My epic YA romantic fantasy about a would-be Anastasia in an Indian-inspired world comes out this November! Preörder your copy and add on GR, all via the 🔗 in my bio!
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It’s the last day of the @BNBuzz preorder sale and I have two (2) options in the running: 💘 my YA epic fantasy Mughal Anastasia THE PEACOCK THRONE 💘 my short story adapting Pakistani folklore in A THOUSAND NIGHTS All available at the 🔗 in my bio!!
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Zeba Shahnaz (THE PEACOCK THRONE Fall 2026) retweeted
In case you’re distracted by the shiny buildings in Kushner’s vision for Gaza, their plan is keep Palestinians in hyper-surveilled prison camps where they’ll eventually provide cheap labor for the resorts/high rises they won’t be allowed to live in, all built atop a mass grave.
🚨 Jared Kushner presented a “master plan” for redeveloping Gaza into a high-tech metropolis during a speech at the Board of Peace charter signing ceremony in Davos, Switzerland, on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum. Watch his full remarks here. We break down some key points in the thread below: 🧵
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THE PEACOCK THRONE, the first book in my Mughal Anastasia YA fantasy duology, comes out in exactly 1 year! November 24, 2026, here we come 🦚💘👑 I can’t wait for y’all to see what we have planned. In the meantime, here’s a taste:
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Zeba Shahnaz (THE PEACOCK THRONE Fall 2026) retweeted
dune machale dune machale dune
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It’s been a long time coming . . . but I’m writing a YA fantasy duology 🦚💘🏰 THE PEACOCK THRONE comes out in Fall 2026 from @Delacortepress/@Getunderlined and I could NOT be more excited!!
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I’ve been dreaming of this story for 10 years: a Desi, Muslim twist on the Anastasia story, with adventure, magic, intrigue, revolution, & romance. It’s a love letter to the South Asian heritage and history I love so much. Can’t wait for you to meet Eshaal and the gang next fall!
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Anaïs Aubanel:
last time i had a crush i killed myself twenty times a day
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🎯I deliberately write with a dramatic flair to hone in on a point I'm trying to make.
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It Happened to Me: didn’t back up the latest version of a chapter, lost it when my computer went haywire, cursing the name of Windows for the rest of the week probably
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