Preeti Shenoy's Blog, page 30

What fun stuff do you do with your friends? (post 6)

 All good friends have a favourite thing they do. It's their thing.

Ayan and his friend quote random movie dialogues to each other. One who fails to guess the name of the movie gets beer for the other.

What fun stuff do YOU do with your close friends? Tell me in comments, I would love to know.

And I'l be back ;-) 
(which movie?) :)



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How to get signed copies of my new book A Hundred Little Flames (post 5)

This morning I did a Facebook Live, where I had an announcement about A Hundred Little Flames.
As you can see from the above video, it was a lot of fun, as so many of you interacted so warmly with me. Thank you for that!

If you want signed copies of A Hundred Little Flames , go to http://preeti.io/a100lf and place an order there. You can be sure it will be signed, provided you pre-order it (on Amazon).



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Are you guilty of this? #AHundredLittleFlames (post 4)

Hi there,
Hope you had a great Diwali!
For those who joined me late, I am doing a  hundred little blog posts to celebrate  my new book A Hundred Little Flames.

This means a new little blog post every day, till I reach a 100 :)
Today is day 4.

Sometimes, couples in love forget about everyone around them. They don't care what others think or feel, as they are so engrossed in each other, and their happiness. They also think that theirs is the greatest and the best love-story. They may not mean to do it. But they do so inadvertently.
Ayan finds it annoying.

Do you know any such couples? Has anyone you know acted that way?

Tell me in comments!
A new post tomorrow.
Love
Preeti

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Have you ever said never? #AHundredLittleFlames

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A Hundred Little Flames --2

Ayan has a domineering father. Ayan is a guy who has made some mistakes in the past, like failing to clear his class twelve exams, the first time.
He has worked hard since then, but his father cannot see that. His father controls him, and helps him all the time. Ayan hates it. But he is too terrified of his father to speak up.

Meet Ayan in A Hundred Little Flames

And if you know any parent(s) like Ayan's father, tell me about them in comments.


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A Hundred Little Flames --1 (a novel by Preeti Shenoy)

Hi there,

The cover of my new book A Hundred Little Flames was released in UK, at the Birmingham Literature Festival. The entire event was telecast live on facebook. In case you missed it, you can view it HERE.
It has got 148K views so far!

To celebrate the book, I had asked on my Facebook Author page if you wanted to see lines from the book. I had said that I would start a new project called A Hundred Little Blog-posts, where I reveal one  line  from the book (or a few lines) every single day, for the next 100 days! The response was an overwhelming YES.

So as promised,  here is the first post in the series.

 
 This is how the book begins! :)

Like it? Please share it and show me some love.

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Also tell me in comments if there has been any one single incident which has completely changed your life? (There have been many in my life.)

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A hundred little flames--new novel from Preeti Shenoy.

Greetings from Birmingham. I type this with a stunning view of the boating canals in Birmingham.


 We had the cover launch of my new novel yesterday at Birmingham, as a part of the Birmingham Literature Festival.

The event was in association with DesiBlitz, which is an award winning web magazine, in UK  for British Asians.
They had carried a lovely interview with me some days back. DO READ it.

The entire event of yesterday, was telecast live on Facebook. I have read from my new novel! :)

 I have also read from It's All In the Planets. If you watch the whole telecast, you will see how different the writing approach and the writing styles are in the two books.

I am grateful that the event was a roaring success and that people turned up in  large numbers.

Meanwhile at @LibraryofBham @preetishenoy signs many, many books after her event. #BLF17 pic.twitter.com/Aw3ISbHA14— Birmingham Lit Fest (@BhamLitFest) October 7, 2017

If you have missed the live telecast you can watch it on my author page.
I am also embedding it here.




 The book is called A Hundred Little Flames

Here's a close up of the cover.

 
 You can pre-order the book here.

This is what the back blurb says:

Sometimes, a journey back is a step forward.

When 26-year-old Ayan is sent to live with his grumpy old grandfather Gopal Shanker, in a tiny village, in Kerala, he is understandably devastated. What can a sleepy, idyllic village without even Internet connectivity offer a young man?
To make matters worse, Jairaj, Ayan’s domineering father has his own plans and is determined to have his way. Soon, Ayan has to come to terms with the hard realities of life and the blindness of greed as he and Gopal Shanker learn that life can sometimes unravel in unanticipated ways.
A young man, whose life lies ahead of him. An old man, whose life is all in the past. And a few months that change everything. A Hundred Little Flames is a charming account of a relationship across generations and also a meditative look at the issues of old people.
Preeti Shenoy’s foray into new fictional terrain is an absolute triumph!

If you order it straight away, you get a discount of 36 percent as it is the festival sale. It is unlike anything I have ever written!! I can't wait for you to read it.

I am off on a short vacation, with one of my closest friends in the UK.
Will blog again soon.
Till then, take care, and keep smiling!
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Preeti Shenoy--New novel releasing soon!

Preeti Shenoy--Cover releaseCountdown
There's some exciting news for you :) My new novel is releasing in November. The pre-order link will be up on October 7th.

The cover  (and the title) will be unveiled for the very first time in Birmingham UK.
I am a keynote speaker at the Birmingham Literature Festival.



Desi Blitz which is Britain's  award winning, leading  Asian web-magazine, has been co-ordinating the whole event, and have been corresponding with me and my publishers over the last many months to make this happen.




I am very very excited about it. I will be travelling to UK in October. I used to live in UK, and one of my novels features Norwich, the place where I used to live.
(Yes, I will be travelling to Norwich too, later, after the cover release).

You can watch the unveiling of the cover --LIVE by following my Facebook author page. (Hover over 'like' and enable 'see first' to not miss any notification)
You can also follow the page as there will be a lot of fun stuff happening there, leading to the cover release.

I can promise you, this is my best work so far. It is VERY different from all my other books.
 My early readers said 'It is of the next level', and one of my editors said 'I couldn't tear myself away from the book; it is such a book, which I can read over and over again.'

I have written about something very close to my heart. I have drawn from my own experiences, and my own life.

I will tell you more about it, after the cover release.
You will be with me, won't you? (tell me in comments please)

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Meanwhile, there are my other 8 books to read. :)





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Become a book fairy! Brighten someone's day :)

Hi there!


Am off to become a book fairy :)

Wondering what a book fairy is?
Read this article (written by yours truly)  which explains it. (click on image to enlarge)

You can also read the above article here.

I shall come back and update this post.
Till then stay tuned :)
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Goodbye--till we meet again (post 31)

 For the last 31 days, I have been putting up a new post every single day! PHEW!! I have received many mails from all of you, and some of you have been supporting me solidly by leaving a comment, on each post of mine. Deepti Tanna, Sanjay Dua and Prathima Joishy are some of the names I am now so familiar with, in my comment box.