We're rapidly approaching the release date for my first novel. It's such a big milestone! I was plenty excited when Runtime and my short story collection came out, but MACHINEHOOD will be my first book in hardcover and audiobook, plus it's 416 pages long and three years in the making.

I gave an extensive interview to Arley Sorg over at Clarkesworld Magazine. We talked about some of favorite authors, my short story collection, and of course, many facets of MACHINEHOOD. Check it out! 

If you've pre-ordered your copy, you can have it in your hands on March 2. I really appreciate the support, and I hope you love reading or listening to the book. When you do, please leave me a review on Amazon and/or Goodreads, and most of all, please tell your friends and family about it!

The audio version of MACHINEHOOD is narrated beautifully by Inés del Castillo and Deepti Gupta. You can pick up via Audible, Google Play, and other audiobook retailers.

The hardcover and ebook editions are available most anywhere books are sold in the US, including Mysterious Galaxy, Amazon, and Barnes&Noble. Please consider pre-ordering it from your local bookstore to support them!

Here are some early reviews:

From Publisher's Weekly (starred review): "This stunning near-future thriller from Divya (Runtime) tackles issues of economic inequality, workers’ rights, privacy, and the nature of intelligence...her crack worldbuilding and vivid characters make for a memorable, page-turning adventure, while the thematic inquiries into human and AI labor rights offer plenty to chew on for fans of big idea sci-fi. Readers will be blown away."

Locus Magazine's Gary Wolfe says, "There’s a great deal going on in Machinehood, from Divya’s sophisticated critique of a post-privacy gig economy to her evident expertise in AI systems...the economy she describes is sharply imagined and convincingly detailed, and she artfully balances the cybertech thriller chapters involving Welga and the more character-oriented narrative of Nithya and her family, eventually weaving them together in a conclusion both suspenseful and ingenious."

From Kirkus reviews: "Divya has created a richly imagined and eerily familiar world filled with insecure workers cobbling together freelance gigs and families dependent on rapidly designed and home-manufactured vaccines to protect against new bugs. It’s a world without privacy, where every activity is performed for a crowd in hopes of getting tips—and a world confronting urgent questions about humans’ place in a society increasingly run by AIs. Simply taking a tour of this world is well worth the reader’s time, but Welga’s and Nithya’s quests also rocket the plot along toward an unexpected yet satisfying conclusion."

Just For Fun

Want to show your support for the rights of machine intelligences? You can buy t-shirts, bags, stickers, and more at my Redbubble stores!
I have one for the logo + title, as seen above on the left: Machinehood Logo + Title Shop
And another for the logo alone, as in the one I'm wearing: Machinehood Logo Shop