Last week you helped me narrow the cover concept for Love Comes Later a novel I’m working on The book is a meditation on love, set in Doha, Qatar (with the plot taking readers back and forth to London as well). I’m sharing an excerpt of the prologue below so you get a feel for [...]
Does Love Come Later?
I grew up as a South Indian girl in North Florida. Needless to say, I was presented with a variety of ideas about the best conditions under which love could flourish. My parents, cousins, everyone in the Indian community over the age of thirty, said that love came after the wedding. You chose a partner [...]
A Life Lived Five Years at a Time
January 2012 marks my return to a place I prepared for academically but never mentally: teaching university students. I went from undergrad straight into graduate school and then on to finish a PhD. Along the way I lost sight of what I really wanted because of the grumpy academics that lined the walls of the [...]
Voluntary Foot Binding: The Millennial Edition
After saying I needed another account like I need exposure to Ecoli, I signed up for Pinterest. Call it peer pressure, or my mind’s need to indulge in the very visual after hours of wrestling with words, I’ve been pinning my heart away. My boards (the groupings of images I select) reflect my interests or [...]
My Ratio is Off. Is Yours?
My ratio is off. And I’m not talking about the 34-26-34 measurements that rapper Sir Mix-A-Lot made so famous (though I could very well be but that’s another blog post for another time) . I’m talking about my positivity ratio. Dr. Barbara Fredrickson, a woman who has spent twenty years researching the effect of thinking [...]
Savory Summer Blog Hop 2012
Middle of January may seem a bit early to be looking towards summer. Call it post vacation blues, but plans are underfoot, both for family travel as well as blog content (amongst a range of other things including the publication of more books! As part of my resolve in 2012 to keep upping my game [...]
Indie as Publishing Style, not Marketing Strategy
In September of 2010 I took the plunge and become an “independent” or self published author. I took short stories I wrote ten years ago during a Master’s program (never having found an agent) and two blogs in different genres, found a graphic designer, and created an Amazon.com author page as well as one on [...]
Does God Watch American Football?
You don’t have to be into American football to know that this season a 24 year old named Tim Tebow is taking the field — and airwaves and blogsphere and Twitter — drawing unprecedented coverage (if you’ll forgive the pun) from sources as far flung as the BBC World Service. And not just for his [...]
Your Best Year Ever?
There’s a lot of hemming and hawing about New Year’s resolutions: the last few years it’s become fashionable to be against them. Ninety percent of them are broken, experts say, and gyms love January as a month they rake in more income than at any other time of year. If that’s what you’re looking for, [...]
The Year According to Em
Earlier in the year I hosted Emlyn in the Writer’s Studio to talk about her book, Farsighted. She’s a writer and also the powerhouse behind Novel Publicity, a multi-service company that organizes blog tours, promotes indie books, and provides free information about the world of publishing. This year has been full of back to back tours: I’ve gotten emails from [...]
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