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July 18, 2014
Review of Scarlet Revenge: High-octane Action
Scarlet Revenge by Ann McGinnis
The Blurb
The FBI doesn’t know what to do with Analyst Caycee Scarlet. She’s brash, brilliant & brutally relentless when tracking a serial killer. But she also has a temper, problems with authority figures and recognizing the chain of command. Things go sideways for Caycee when she uncovers a lead that saves the Omega Killer’s latest victim. Rather than working the system and making nice with her pompous boss, sparks fly and she gets into an altercation with the...
July 17, 2014
Tornado Giveaway: Presenting Author Jennifer Faye
The Tornado Giveaway is a global initiative by The Book Club to bring before readers the works of 23 authors from across the world — India, USA, UK, Australia, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Today’s author is Jennifer Faye whose wonderful romances have won her many fans.
By entering in the rafflecopter below you could win her book Return of the Rebel along with books of other authors participating in the giveaway. 200 e-books are waiting to be grabbed! What are you waiting for? :)
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July 12, 2014
Saturday Snippet: Trouble Has a New Name
Trouble Has A New NameIt's time to share a juicy tidbit from my new book #TroubleHasANewName. This one is about my heroine Rayna Dutt, who has a tendency to get into scrapes... for no fault of hers! Read on..and do share your thoughts or leave behind a commentFootwear gaffe equals a disastrous day ahead!
Not only would she arrive late for a flight transporting some of the Who's Who of the city to the grandest wedding of the decade, but she was also set to make a cringe-worthy entrance. She hoped there would be no press photographers around to shoot hotshot model Rayna Dutt boarding a chartered flight to the Andaman Islands in pink teddy-bear-topped flip-flops. Maybe she should just hop off, hail a cab, go home and fall unconscious with the help of some more tequila shots?
July 8, 2014
The Indian Tycoon… is Book of the Day on Tornado Giveaway!
Hello Readers!! The Tornado Giveaway, hosted by The Book Club, is featuring 23 books by as many authors from all over the world. And I’m honoured that my book, The Indian Tycoon’s Marriage Deal, has been selected as the Book of the Day!
It indeed is a double celebration for me. My new book Trouble has a New Name which releases internationally on 29th July is currently available for pre-order on Amazon.com.
So, go ahead, join in on the celebrations, and enter the Rafflecopter contest. I’m giving...
June 28, 2014
Meet Romance Author Jan Scarbrough
I first met Jan Scarbrough in an online writing workshop a couple of years ago and have stayed in touch ever since. I’m always fascinated by authors who multi-task and keep at their writing come shine or rain.
Jan is one of those writers who continues to inspire me with her prodigious output and talent.
A technical writer by day, Jan spends her nights writing romance. She is a member of Novelist, Inc. She has written for Kensington and ImaJinn Books and currently writes for Resplendence Publi...
June 22, 2014
Ladakh – The Colours of Life
Leh: in the shadow of the Zanskar range
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away. – Hilary Cooper
Breathless in Ladakh
When I landed in Leh, with a gang of twenty women out to spend five days in the highest desert on earth, I was literally gasping for breath. The air is thin and we needed to acclimatize ourselves. Not just to adjust to the oxygen-deprived atmosphere. But also to de-acclimatize from our frenetic, urban ways. A road sign th...
June 2, 2014
Dear Author's Review of "The Indian Tycoon..."
The Indian Tycoon's Marriage Deal"....This is the fourth M&B India release I’ve read, and while they each have their problems, they also have plenty to recommend them, not least of which is authenticity of setting and character.
The Indian Tycoon’s Marriage Deal is a marriage of convenience story. This is a trope that is hard to pull off in a contemporary, but India’s enduring tradition of arranged marriages makes it more plausible. Krish is the son of a tycoon, and he is trying to avoid an arranged marriage that will bring together two family businesses. Maya is a landscape gardener whose father became an alcoholic after he lost his job and his wife (Maya’s mother) was killed. She holds Krish’s father responsible, although Krish doesn’t know any of this.
So Krish and Maya become engaged for very different reasons and without knowing anything about each other. It’s a well-trodden plot path, but I enjoyed their characterizations, and the bickering didn’t get out of hand. After the wedding the couple go to a country house in the foothills of the Himalayas and get to know each other a bit, and I really enjoyed this part. Krish and Maya both care about their work, not just for ambition’s sake but as fulfilling careers, and they seem well matched...."
Read the rest of the review here...
May 31, 2014
June Celebrations
June. Mid-year madness time. Yellow and violet laburnum blossoms exploding with colour on slender trees; their brightness dulled only by the heat and dust. Soaring temperatures bolstered by raging storms. As you count the days down to monsoons breaking on distant coastal shores to bring some respite from the fiery summer winds.
Hot. Hot. Hot.
But this June is proving to be a scorcher in more ways than one. This June, The Indian Tycoon’s Marriage Deal releases in North America. I intend to ramp...
May 29, 2014
Book Release Announcement
Super excited about the release of my debut romance, The Indian Tycoon's Marriage Dealin North America on 2 June.
To celebrate the launch of my book as part of #HarlequinE's "new Bollywood inspired collection", I have lined up a host of giveaways. Hope you'll join me in my celebrations at my Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/AditeBanerji...
Best wishes,
Adite
April 29, 2014
Collaborating to tell stories: the Harlequin India initiative
Hollywood has a long tradition in adapting stories. “Probably half the movies made are adaptations of one sort or another,” writes screenwriter John August in his blog. “The original source material might have been a novel, a short story, an article or even a 1970′s TV show,” In India, too, the trend for adapting began in the early 1950s with the Bengali classics being the most popular source materials. The trend continues till date though the emphasis has shifted from classics to popular fic...
