Hello, I’m putting all of the blurbs for Watermyth on this page for now. There aren’t very many blurbs but I treasure each one! And yes, Watermyth is coming. A few months away as I had to push back ALL of my deadlines (personal, creative and academic). Stuff happens, you know?
“Anita Harris Satkunananthan’s novel Watermyth is an amazing hybrid of fantasy, myth, biology in the form of genetic manipulation, and cultures that includes ties to India and Malaysia, all alongside a merkingdom version of the city of Venice. The book is both epic in scope and grounded in the personal. These are characters I care about: their round bodies and their awkward legs, their wings and mertails, their Malaysian and Tamil features, all embraced with true joy. They are a delight. This novel contains a multiverse of realms, all (to me) original, even when they play with elements of mythology and fairytale: a fun-mirror exiled-mer-Prince version of Venice, the oceanic realm of the merpeople, and the painfilled kingdom of fire are just some of the lands you’ll encounter. It’s an immersive read, and one I found incredibly hard to put down!”
— Julie C. Day, author of The Rampant, Publisher (Essential Dreams Press) —
“Watermyth is an intricately-structured and layered tale that challenges Western narrative conventions, and a rewarding read of lush imagination and deftly-controlled prose. It is also a story about stories, which is to say, the best kind of story. “We bleed pieces of ourselves into the telling,” the storyteller in this tale says. Anita Harris Satkunananthan certainly has.”
— Natalia Theodoridou, World-Fantasy Award-Winning Author–
‘Sprawling and wondrous strange, Watermyth is a gothic story to lose yourself in …’
–Angela Slatter, award-winning author of The Path of Thorns–
“Ultimately, Watermyth is a book about storytelling, which is to say it is a book about the heart. In lyrical prose, Anita Harris Satkunananthan has created a lush, complex world spanning cultures and epochs, a place where myth and reality commingle and where transformation is an everyday marvel. At once a tale of oncoming war and a meditation on identity, Watermyth sings its story to the reader much as the watermaiden Regya sings to understand the past—and perhaps, by doing so, create a better future for all.”
— L.S. Johnson, World Fantasy Award FInalist, author of Vacui Magia —