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February 13, 2015
Valentine’s Day — What’s the Big Deal about it?
Valentine’s Day is here. Take a look around you. You can’t miss it–not unless you decide to take a trip to the Mars. Marketers go to town trying to sell everything from heart shaped chocolates and flowers to cell phones and pricey romantic dinners for you and your Valentine. Facebook is awash with love messages, with selfies of cootchie-cooing couples and more. Self-proclaimed Agony Aunts and Love Gurus are all over on multiple channels, across multiple media, dispensing wisdom about love, ro...
February 7, 2015
When Bollywood Romance Meets Chick-lit… #Romance15
Romance comes in a myriad cultural flavours. Here’s my post for the Online Romance Festival #romance15….
Originally posted on romance festival:
What can be more fun than bringing together the Bollywood style romance and the chick-lit variety where love and friendship, woes about dating, dresses and those drop-dead shoes find play.
Growing up in Bombay you can’t escape the world of Bollywood. The capital of India’s film industry which is best known for its two-hour-plus song and dan...
How you can get involved in the Romance Festival
Am participating in the Online Romance Festival. If you are a romance writer, blogger, published author, wannabe author, or a reader, come join the fun. Hope to see you there! #romance15
Originally posted on romance festival:
We are very excited to announce our next virtual festival and we’d love you to be involved. For those who took part last time, you will know that we have a program of events on Twitter, Facebook and a few Google Hangouts.
Again we plan for the Saturday to be...
February 3, 2015
Jan Scarbrough — Researching a book can be so much fun!
It gives me great pleasure to showcase my author friend Jan Scarborough’s romance novel Kentucky Blue Bloods. This is the 8th book in her Bluegrass Reunion Series.
Jan is an avid horseback rider and not surprisingly her love for horses finds an echo in her books too. A great opportunity to do research on something you love, right?
Says Jan: “For my birthday gift to myself, I booked a horse farm tour in the Kentucky bluegrass with Unbridled Horse Tours. I reasoned I needed to do first-hand resea...
January 27, 2015
Immaan Dharam – A Fun Flashback to the 1970s
Missy Pugh is a Bollywood film buff and writes a wonderful review of my father, the late Desh Mukerji’s film Immaan Dharam. Hope you all enjoy this post and if you have seen the film, would love to know your thoughts as well…. Enjoy!
Originally posted on The Life and Art of Desh Mukerji:
‘Movies outlive us. You leave behind a piece of yourself when you make a film.’ This was what Desh Mukerji believed in. And he was so right. Nearly 40 years after he directed Immaan Dharam, my Am...
December 24, 2014
2014 Wrap-Up Write-Up
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It’s a bone chilling 9 degrees C in Delhi as I write this. Looking out into my tiny lawn from my writing desk, everything is shrouded in a haze and I can virtually “see” the cold! Even my thirteen-going-on-three-year-old puppy Veeroo hates to venture out in this weather! He loves to be snug as a bug, just like the puppy in the picture!! :DThere is something special about a year-end. If it’s been not a particularly good year, you’re glad to leave it...
December 2, 2014
The Path to Publishing #PlotWriMo Tour and Giveaway
Writing a book (or a screenplay) is not for the faint of heart. Don’t get me wrong–I’m not saying that only a few people have the talent to write. Everyone has stories to tell. But story telling is more than the sum of talent, inspiration, dedication and craft. When I first started down the road of writing a screenplay, it was as if I’d set forth on a journey without a map, car, or even the resources needed to take me from Point A to B, never mind my destination. That’s when I started looking...
November 30, 2014
The 100th Post Milestone… Looking back, looking forward
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With this post I have completed a century of blog posts. Seems like a significant milestone in my blogging journey. And what a wonderful ride it’s been.
Three years ago when I started this blog, I’d often wonder if my interest in the blog would wane after the initial enthusiasm. Would I be able to sustain it week after week, month after month, year after year?
And here I am, 100-posts and some 88-pages (a double celebration, indeed, since the...
November 12, 2014
“Writing and Medicine are inextricably linked”: Author Reet Singh
Everywhere you turn you see people giving up their professions to take up writing. Engineer-turned-authors and corporate honchos with author credentials are quite common these days. But rarely does one come across a writer who is a practising doctor by day and a writer by night. Reet Singh, Harlequin Mills & Boon author is one such writer. I invited Reet to do a guest post on what she loves/hates most about her two jobs…Over to Reet!
A doctor by day and a writer by night — what do you love and...
October 28, 2014
The Bollywood Romance: Interview with Harlequin Author Susanna Carr
Bollywood is no longer just a South Asian phenomenon. It has crossed over into other cultures and is inspiring authors to explore Bollywood themes, South Asian characters and more. One such author is Susanna Carr, who is known for her contemporary romances. Readers throughout the world find Susanna’s stories a delightful escape that has often helped them through difficult times. Reviewers frequently describe her work as “fun”, “sexy” and “a must read.”
I came across Susanna’s Harlequin Mills &...
