Rasana Atreya

Rasana Atreya is an Indian English-language author. Her debut novel Tell A Thousand Lies was shortlisted for the "2012 Tibor Jones South Asia prize."[1] She is also the India ambassador for the Alliance of Independent Authors.[2]

Rasana Atreya
Born
Bangalore, Karnataka, India
EducationM.S (computer engineering)
Alma materOsmania University, Hyderabad
Marquette University, US
OccupationWriter
Known forTell A Thousand Lies, Temple Is Not My Father
Websiterasanaatreya.com

Biography

Rasana completed her schooling at Kendriya Vidyalaya schools across the country and has a B.E. in Instrumentation engineering from Osmania University, India, and M.S. in Computer engineering from Marquette University, Milwaukee, United States. She is also a trained 'Volunteer Rape Crisis' counselor by Bay Area Women Against Rape organization. She is the founder of The India Readathon,[3] a platform which aims to introduce readers to self-published books (ebooks and audio) set in the Indian subcontinent (India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Burma, Nepal and Maldives). Her other novels include Temple Is Not My Father, 28 Years A Bachelor, and Valley Isle Secrets (a Kindle Worlds novella based on Toby Neal's Lei Crime Series).

Critical acclaim

Tell A Thousand Lies was shortlisted for the 2012 Tibor Jones South Asia Award.[4] While her first three novels handle woman-centric issues, with Valley Isle Secrets, she has ventured into thriller genre.

Rasana declined a traditional publishing contract in order to self-publish.[5][6] She has been interviewed on self-publishing by many major publications in India.[7]

Workshops and panels
  • Panelist, Navigating the Road to Self Publishing, Times Lit Fest. 4 December 2016 (with Neal Thompson, Director of Author and Publishing Relations, Amazon)[8]
  • Workshop. The Art of Self Publishing at the Hyderabad Lit Fest, 24 January 2015.[9]
  • Panelist on publishing, Hyderabad Literary Festival 20 January 2013 (with Kulpreet Yadav)[10]
  • Panelist on publishing, Jaipur Literary Festival 24 January 2013 (with Meru Gokhale, Editor-in-Chief, Random House, UK; Alexandra Pringle, Editor-in-Chief Bloomsbury; Rick Simonson, Artemis Kirk)[11]

Bibliography

References
  1. "SHORTLIST ANNOUNCED FOR THE FIRST ANNUAL TIBOR JONES SOUTH ASIA PRIZE". Tibor Jones Official Website. 16 December 2011. Retrieved 20 May 2016.
  2. "What our Member Say – ALLi". ALLi. Retrieved 20 May 2016.
  3. "About". The India Readathon. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
  4. "Tibor Jones South Asia Prize shortlist". The Hindu. 31 December 2011. Retrieved 20 May 2016.
  5. "Aspiring authors take e-route to success". Times of India. 5 October 2014. Retrieved 20 May 2016.
  6. "New breed of writers take to digital self-publishing". Hindustan Times. 21 July 2014. Retrieved 20 May 2016.
  7. "Ebooks help out-of-print classics and pulp fiction return on e-readers". The Economic Times. 9 September 2014. Retrieved 20 May 2016.
  8. "Lit Fest Schedule". Times LitFest. 4 December 2015. Retrieved 20 May 2016.
  9. "Decoding Hyderabad Literary Festival 2015". Times of India. 1 February 2015. Retrieved 20 May 2016.
  10. "Hyderabad Lit Fest 2013". Welcome to Muse India. 2013. Archived from the original on April 14, 2016. Retrieved May 20, 2016.
  11. "Jaipur Lit Fest 2013" (PDF). jaipurliteraturefestival.org. 27 January 2013. Retrieved 20 May 2016.
  12. "My self-publishing Journey". The Hindu. 5 August 2012. Retrieved 20 May 2016.
  13. "Book Review". Whackk: Magnet to Madness. 8 November 2012. Retrieved 20 May 2016.
  14. "Book Review". Mouthshut.com. 4 March 2014. Retrieved 20 May 2016.
  15. "Tell A Thousand Lies". Goodreads. 8 March 2012. Retrieved 20 May 2016.
  16. "Book Review". Mouthshut.com. 22 September 2014. Retrieved 20 May 2016.
  17. "Temple Is Not My Father". Goodreads. 11 July 2014. Retrieved 20 May 2016.
  18. "28 Years A Bachelor". Goodreads. 31 October 2014. Retrieved 20 May 2016.
  19. "Valley Isle Secrets". Goodreads. 20 December 2015. Retrieved 20 May 2016.
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