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Thank you J. Alejandro for featuring an excerpt from 'My Dear Ellie' on his Creative Drive podcast.

You can check out the podcast at this link:
https://idlewy.blog/2020/09/24/cd38-m...

Make sure to check out his other episodes as well!

Hi everyone! 😊

I wanted to share some exciting updates with you this week.

Eleanor’s Travels is now available worldwide here: books2read.com/ELT

This is my contemporary romance, world adventure story. It is the second book in the Love and Friendship trilogy, which can be read as a standalone, where Eleanor goes on an epic trip around the world. She goes to twenty one countries, seven continents. It is a story of self-discovery as well as celebration of the wonderful cultures and people of our world.

Another exciting news (something I spend this week learning), this blog is now available in podcast format. I am slowly transferring my back catalogue of blog posts to this format. You can check it out here: anchor.fm/aisha-urooj

The podcast will be on Spotify, Google podcast, Radiopublic, Breaker, and many other podcast show distributors.

Thank you for reading 😊 I hope you have a wonderful day.

A crush is “a brief but intense infatuation for someone, especially someone unattainable.”

Have you ever told your crush how you felt about them?

Shy Lara Jean Covey did.

If you ever had a crush you would know how intense the feeling can get. Lara Jean bottled all those feelings and wrote them out in letters that she never mailed. Enters her younger sister, Kitty, who does it for her to help her nonexistant love life.

Kitty mails all five letters! The result: Instead of 0 suitors, Lara Jean now has potentially five 😂 including her childhood friend who is her older sister’s ex-boyfriend (and their neighbor) Josh. To avoid talking to Josh, Laura Jean kisses another crush Peter Kavinsky. From there onwards, her love life only gets more complicated including a fake relationship, dealing with Peter’s jealous ex-girlfriend, a fake viral video, and much more.

Perhaps having a crush is more trouble than it is worth or perhaps it is amazing when everything works out right? See the movie to find out.

To all the boys I’ve loved before is a cute movie with a charming cast. There are two more movies after this one but I feel that the first one is the best one and has the most heart.

What do you feel about having a crush? Are they worth it? Inevitable part of life? I feel they are a part of growing as a person.

Have I ever told my crush how I felt?

Yes

How did it go?

💔

If you are battling the fever and madness that comes with having a crush, love yourself and be kind to yourself too. Perhaps there is someone out there who is crushing on you and looking for the courage to tell you how they feel.

Thank you for reading today’s blog post 😊 This blog post will also be available as a podcast on anchor.fm/aisha-urooj

When I joined Twitter nearly a year ago, I learned about #IndieApril. During the month of April, many readers vow to read more books by Indie authors (writers who might be self-published, or work with smaller, independent publishers).

I remember how supported I felt then as a newly published author when other people gave my books a chance 🥰 I am also grateful for all the authors in the writing community who took interest in my books or shared my tweets.

This year (and hopefully from now onwards), I want to dedicate my April blog posts to reviewing Indie books. My first book is going to be The Long View by Mark Hurst.

I chose The Long View because I was captivated by the book description and I loved the mysterious cover. So what is the book about?

They say the Dead don’t tell tales, but it depends on who’s doing the listening. Ever since Sophie Lydon was a little girl she’s been able to speak with the dead, a gift she inherited from her late mother and grandmother. Now it’s just Sophie and her dad, looking after her uncle and the family funeral business.

She tries to carry on her mother’s work, the tradition of guiding lost souls into the afterlife, but it’s hard and sometimes scary without her mother’s guidance. And the latest crop of arrivals in the mortuary have something new to say, bringing her disturbing messages from the place between living and dying, the vast hinterland across which all souls must walk. A killer has been awoken in the town of High Towers, where Sophie lives. A killer with links to Sophie’s past, a killer known to the voice of The Long View… and it’s coming for Sophie..

I have a confession to make… I spook easily and I had no idea how grim this book will get. I hope I don’t get nightmares 😱

I had no preconceived ideas on where the story will head but The Long View surprised me at every turn… and the killer? You could guess who it was but still be surprised.

I liked that the characters in the books are all flawed, struggling, and ordinary, in the best sense, as they are relatable. There are no caped heroes… just ordinary folks with courageous hearts or lost souls trying to make sense of what is wrong or right.

The Long View (where the souls go after death) is a barren, dark place that will have you mesmerized. It is surreal and imaginative; a nightmare too real caught by the writer and stuffed into the pages of this book.

As always, I won’t give away the ending. I hope I have intrigued you enough to give this book a chance. Please consider supporting an Indie author especially during the month of April. There are many gems you will discover. 📚

Thank you for reading! 😊 I hope you have a great day!

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This blog can be found as a podcast at anchor.fm/aisha-urooj