Sonali Dev's Blog, page 5

I recently finished revising The Bollywood Bride and as usual my beta readers were pure gold. It’s amazing what you don’t see about your own writing and your own story when you’ve been buried in it for months, for sixteen hours a day. Having a good support system of talented critical eyes can help you not […]

There are those who love new things, fresh, untouched things. I am a keeper of old things. Fraying edges, yellowing paper, threadbare fabric. The speaking eyes of black and white pictures do things to me I could never explain. If I lived inside a paranormal novel, I would be the person ancient things spoke to. It […]

This week I started a new job: Unpaid Chauffeur to the Teens. Skills involve logging an insane number of driving hours and recieving innumerable texts that read “Mom, pick me up.” My older one, a PG Wodehouse fanboy, follows each of these texts up with recurring instances of “Mother?” until I actually pull up in front of him, […]

Thank you so much, Dyanne Davis, for inviting me to share my writing process. Not only is Dyanne a multipublished, award winning author, but she also hosts this wonderful  local cable show about writing in her hometown of Bollingbrook, IL. She invited me to be on her show last year and I showed up thinking it […]

I’m off this week to the Chicago Spring Fling Writer’s Conference and my level of excitement just crossed over from song-in-my-heart levels to jump-at-the-teens-and-hug-them-for-no-good-reason levels. Plus, my hyphenation is out of control, which is never a good sign. Or then the best sign ever. “It’s just a conference,” you’re thinking. But no, it’s really not. […]

I lost my grandma, my Aji, this week. One of my greatest gifts was to have all four of my grandparents well into adulthood. She was my last grandparent to go and although she was ninety-five and lived a healthy and full life she took with her an entire generation, my connection to an entire era, an entire chunk […]

BBC News – Author suggests JK Rowling stop writing adult fiction. I’m no cricket fan (and no I’m not turning in my Indian card, sorry) but some of my most wonderful childhood memories are of watching cricket with my family. Especially with my grandparents. My grandma and her band of sisters turned into a full-blown […]

The Greatest Gift of All I’ve been accused of being many things. But being totally thrilled with myself is probably the accusation I cherish most. And because it came from a friend whom I love dearly, I know it has little to do with lack of humility. She din’t so much accuse me of being […]