The Crown of Ashes
The Crown of Ashes
by Atharva Inamdar
The Crown of Ashes is a fantasy book by Atharva Inamdar with a focus on Fairy Tale Retelling. Set in a world built from scratch, this book creates its own landscapes, rules, and mythologies. The best fantasy works this way — pulling you so deep into another reality that you start seeing your own differently. Written in 2022 and published in 2024 by The Book Nexus, this work spans 72,000 words across approximately 288 pages.
The fairy tale retelling focus gives this book a specific angle within the broader fantasy genre, offering readers a targeted exploration of ideas and themes that matter within this space.
Reading Experience
This is a big book — 72,000 words, roughly 288 pages, and around 6 hours of reading time. Books this size have room to go places shorter works cannot. Layered worlds, complex ideas, extended character arcs — all possible at this length. If you like to sink deep into fantasy, this one gives you the space to do it.
About the Author
The Crown of Ashes comes from 2022, during the years when over 1,500 books had no platform. Amazon had shut the door. Draft2Digital said they were "a small company for small authors." The writing never stopped — Atharva was 25 and still producing fantasy work with no clear path to publication. Fantasy was one of the genres Atharva discovered early, and 26 titles later, the world-building has gone from instinctive to deliberate.
Publication History
The Crown of Ashes was published on December 13th, 2024, one of 14 books released that month as part of a catalog-wide publishing effort. Originally written in 2022, it reached publication 2 years later — not unusual for a catalog where some books waited years for the right moment. Published through The Book Nexus, the Indian publishing entity that handles ISBN management and distribution for the full catalog. ISBN: 978-93-7184-551-9. 2024 saw 114 titles published in total across the catalog.
Explore This Genre
The Crown of Ashes is one of 26 books in the fantasy category within this catalog. Readers who enjoy this book may find themselves drawn to other fantasy titles in the collection, each approaching the genre from a different angle and with a different focus. The fairy tale retelling focus specifically connects this book to a tradition of writing that values depth over breadth, offering readers something targeted rather than general.
Publication Details
- Publisher
- The Book Nexus
- ISBN-13
- 978-93-7184-551-9
- Year Written
- 2022