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Swati Hegde

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Swati Hegde is the author of Can’t Help Faking in Love and Match Me If You Can. She is also a freelance editor, mindset coach, and self-proclaimed coffee shop enthusiast who lives in Bangalore, India, and can often be found at the nearest café with a hot mug of tea or singing her favorite songs off-key at karaoke night. She looks forward to a long career bringing Indian stories and voices to light.

Swati is represented by Rachel Beck at Liza Dawson Associates. Her romance novels Match Me If You Can and Can't Help Faking in Love are out now from Penguin Random House, with forthcoming books As Long As You Loathe Me releasing on March 31 and Love Beyond Reasonable Doubt slated for May 12.

Find her on Instagram @SwatiHegdeAuthor.
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Swati Hegde Thank you for asking this amazing question! There are two reasons for this very conscious decision on my part: first, Match Me If You Can is inspired …moreThank you for asking this amazing question! There are two reasons for this very conscious decision on my part: first, Match Me If You Can is inspired by Jane Austen's Emma, so I wanted to maintain that Emma-esque spoiled rich girl personality for Jia, too. And second, we see far too many examples in the West of India as a poor, third world country full of struggle. I wanted to counter that and show the more cosmopolitan and urban side of Mumbai.(less)
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Of burnout and broken hearts.

It’s been a hot minute since I’ve graced your inbox with my presence, hasn’t it? I’d love to tell you it’s because I’ve been on a book tour talking about my bestselling romance novels with hundreds of readers who are obsessed with my work, but the reality is, I’ve simply been too burnt out and dejected to even function.

And that doesn’t just include updating my newsletter or writing my third adult

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