Hera has snapped up the "mesmerising" debut novel by Raghav Rao entitled Missy. Publisher Keshini Naidoo acquired UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding audio and translation, from Priya Doraswamy at Lotus Lane Literary. Missy will be published on 19th September 2024 simultaneously in e-book and hardback.

"Raghav Rao’s masterful debut captivates in its prose and keeps us at the edge of our seat as we experience the tumult of Missy’s life in India, the UAE and the United States", said Doraswamy.

Spanning decades, Missy follows Indian woman Savitri who is taken into the service of an ultra-wealthy family. However, events one night force her to flee and years later becomes Missy Royce, a mother and successful business owner in Chicago.

Eric LaRocca's “THINGS HAVE GOTTEN WORSE SINCE WE LAST SPOKE AND OTHER MISFORTUNES”, takes place in the internet chat-rooms of the early 2000s—in which two broken souls come together in a pact of extreme body horror and emotional degeneration. If that sounds fun, well, it isn’t. Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke pulls not a single punch, offering perhaps the single most upsetting scene to be found on this list.

Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke, Eric Larocca’s AT DARK, I BECOME LOATHSOME, about a widower who constructs a grim ritual to cleanse those who are suffering and consequently becomes entangled in a vicious game of cat-and-mouse with one of his disturbed clients, to Josh Stanton at Blackstone Publishing, in an exclusive submission, for publication in spring 2025, by Priya Doraswamy at Lotus Lane Literary.

THE BANGALORE DETECTIVES CLUB, the first in an effervescent new mystery series by the ecology professor Harini Nagendra, makes “The NYT Book Reviews Best Books since 2000” list.

Filmmaker Laura Lee Bahr’s THE LIAR, pitched as Shirley Jackson’s WE HAVE ALWAYS LIVED IN THE CASTLE meets Alice Sebold’s THE LOVELY BONES, following a family of sisters in the 1980’s who take matters in their own hands when the oldest traps a man she claims is a child killer in their root cellar, to Chantelle Aimee Osman at Lake Union Publishing, for publication in September 2025, by Priya Doraswamy at Lotus Lane Literary.

After a year on the awards circuit, culminating with an Academy Award nomination, this harrowing documentary by director Nisha Pahuja is finally available through Netflix. Executive produced by Priya Doraswamy, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Dev Patel, Mindy Kaling and Rupi Kaur.