To not reinvent the wheel, this blog has been updated to be my author newsletter.

In case you missed it, my debut novel, The Jinn Daughter, is coming out! Published by Hoopoe, the pub date is slated for April 2, 2024!

More updates coming. In the meantime, follow me on instagram, which is the only place besides this newsletter I’ll be giving updates.

A bit about, The Jinn Daughter:

Nadine is a Hakawati jinn tasked with one job: telling the stories of the dead. She rises every morning to gather pomegranate seeds – the souls of the dead – that have fallen during the night. With her daughter Layala at her side, she eats the seeds and tells the stories of the dead. Only then can the departed pass through the final gate and into eternal peace.

But when the seeds stop falling, Nadine knows something is terribly wrong. All her worst fears are confirmed when she is visited by Kamuna, Death herself, who reveals she wants the one thing Nadine treasures above all: her daughter Layala.

With Layala’s fate hanging in the balance, Nadine will do anything to keep her daughter safe. But Kamuna is angry and ruthless, and she will do anything to get what she wants. Nadine must sacrifice everything and travel to the underworld and do the unspeakable to save her only child.

Rooted in Middle Eastern mythology, Rania Hanna deftly weaves subtle, yet breathtaking, magic through this vivid and compelling story that has at its heart the universal human drive to love and to grieve.