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#Marketing101: 5 Simple Marketing Tips for Every First Time Author
Identify other authors in your niche and ask if you can guest blog for them, while they guest blog for you. This way both of you would gain exposure to each other’s audience and gain the interest of potential new readers as well.
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Writer’s Corner: How to Writer Better Characters
When you’re writing a story, one of the key focus should be, besides the plot, the characters. Too often good stories fall short of being great because the characters were not three-dimensional. It is super important to get your readers to become invested in your characters. Because more often than not, they are reading the story to see if the character they are rooting for succeeded. Tip 1# Make your characters likeable. There’s a fine line between a likeable character and an unlikeable character. Contrary to popular belief, you can write antagonists who are likeable. For example, in my story The Backyard Tales, Shekar’s dad Mr. Roy is a likeable…
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#Review: No Illusions in Xanadu
It was our first encounter with Professor Shantanu Bose and he doesn't fail to impress. We were reminded so strongly of Agatha Christie's works while reading this novel, that we believe we had began to draw parallels with a lot of the murder mysteries we previously consumed.
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#AuthorInterview: Purvi Mehta, Author of When Fate Conspires
Make a PIE ( P= perseverance, I = Imagination, E= Emotional quotient ) out of your desire to write. Be it anything that you aspire to write, make sure you bake the right PIE 😉Write your emotions, you never know when they will spring to life through a book. It is not my emotions in particular, but my ability to emote the emotions of other characters and put them on paper in the right way that had definitely amazed me. I didn’t know I would be able to bring to life the emotions that belonged to my characters and not me.
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#Review: When Fate Conspires by Purvi Mehta
Something I’ve always struggled with in both writing and reading are love triangles. This conflict has been well done in When Fate Conspires. Neel is torn between his growing affection towards Rashi and his sense of duty towards Tia, who he is in a long distance relationship with.
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#Review: BTW I Want My Cat Back By Saurabh Sharma & Divya Anandani
Our verdict: this is a perfect weekend read and you should add it to your Kindle library. Read it on your web browser or your phone. It would be the perfect story to binge on when you’re travelling somewhere for an hour or so and don’t want to be disturbed.
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#Story: How to say ‘I love you’ out loud
“You know, if you’d told me I’d be living in Mumbai on my own even a year ago, I would’ve laughed at you,” I told my stepbrother Riley, as we walked the length of Marine Drive, sipping on our chai. “Hey, one year ago I didn’t believe anything would’ve made you give up your beloved café and your hometown,” he admitted, “But I’m super glad you’re here, sis. I was beginning to feel lonely.” I linked my arms with his and leaning slightly into him said, “And that is why I decided to give my half of the business back to my mother and make a fresh start.” It has…
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#Review: Urban Chronicles I by Nita Bajoria
This is a fun and happy read, to make a Sunday afternoon fun while sipping on your cup of chai. It’s a comfort read for sure. We cannot wait to read the next two installments for Urban Chronicles.
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Young Adult Novelist, Sandhya Menon, in conversation with BUZZ!
Hello Sandhya, thank you so much for taking the time out to talk to me. Thank you for having me! 1. Tell us, how did you take up writing? I’ve been a writer since I could string sentences together. As I got older, teachers and relatives began to notice that I had a knack for storytelling (or maybe for lying, haha) and encouraged me to keep doing it. 2. And what was your very first attempt at creative writing? My very first attempt was probably a very badly written, rhyming poem! I don’t remember specifics, but I do remember filling notebooks full of poems and, as I got older, short…
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The Rules of Writing a Short Story
Some Thoughts About When You Write A Short Story I have been doing a lot of thinking lately. Even a couple of months back, when someone would come up to me – tell me they read my work, congratulate and launch into the story of their own struggles with writing – it would irk me just a little bit. Writing was after all my comfort zone. The safe spot, as most of my cats would put it. But over time, I realized, there are more than enough stories for all of us to tell. There is more than enough ways to tell same tale too. In fact, it would actually…
