Flaming Sun: Sundari Venkatraman (Indie Author)
Friday, April 26, 2024
A to Z April Challenge 2024: W for WRITTEN IN THE STARS
Thursday, April 25, 2024
A to Z April Challenge 2024: V for PRINCE VIKRAMASIMHA
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Wednesday, April 24, 2024
A to Z April Challenge 2024: U for UNABASHED DAYANITA
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
A to Z April Challenge 2024: T for TWIN TORMENT
Monday, April 22, 2024
Book Blitz: PRESS RESTART by Sundari Venkatraman
Pritesh Lohia is unhappily married to the wicked Divya. It has been five years and there’s no love lost between the two. He is completely focused on his career as the youngest partner in an investment banking company. While he’s super successful financially, his personal life is in shambles.
Working as Pritesh’s executive assistant, Mahika Rajput falls head over heels in love with him at first sight, unaware that he’s a married man. Does her love disappear when she knows he's tied to someone else? The heart seems to understand no logic.
Pritesh gets to know something about his wife, information which jerks him out of his laid-back attitude to his failing marriage. It also awakens him to the young and beautiful Mahika who not only makes his work life smooth, but just plain adores him.
Their professional lives begin to get more complicated when Pritesh and Mahika make major changes in their personal ones.
Will things be the same ever? Or is Pressing the Restart button the answer?
Sundari Venkatraman is an Indie Author who has 69 books to her credit, the latest book being PRESS RESTART, which is a standalone novel. These books have consistently featured in the Top 100 Bestseller Lists on Amazon India, Amazon USA, Amazon UK, Amazon Canada and Amazon Australia in both romance as well as Asian Drama categories. Her latest hot romances have all been on #1 Bestseller slot in Amazon India for over a month.
These days, the author is independently publishing her novels in paperback format under her banner Flaming Sun, printed and distributed by Notion Press.
Even as a child, Sundari absolutely loved the ‘lived happily ever after’ syndrome and she grew up on a steady diet of fairy tales, Phantom comics and Mandrake comics. It was always about good triumphing over evil and a happy ending after the protagonists surmounted all unexpected obstacles.
Once she entered her teens, Sundari switched her loyalties from fairy tales to Mills & Boon. While she loved reading both of these, she kept visualising what would have happened if there were similar situations happening in India; to local heroes and heroines. And of course, the joy of vanquishing the ubiquitous evil villains! Her imagination soared and she happily ensconced herself in a rosy romantic cocoon for many years.
Then came the writing—a true bolt from the blue! And Sundari Venkatraman has never looked back.
A to Z April Challenge 2024: S for SING FOR ME
Saturday, April 20, 2024
A to Z April Challenge 2024: R for THE RUNAWAY BRIDEGROOM
Well, the story wanted to be told, the characters insisting on having their say; and how could I refuse? I used to write one chapter per week, publishing them every Friday. Even today, in its final form, most of the thirty-eight chapters in this book are brief, all because I had managed to write one chapter every Thursday night, determined not to give up telling my stories.
There was another feedback many readers insisted on giving me: They have only heard of runaway brides, but never of any runaway bridegroom. I’m only thrilled that my tale is unique.
Jokes apart, this story is about child marriage (a taboo subject, but still prevalent in the smallest of villages in India) and I had to tell my version of such a wedding.
The Runaway Bridegroom is also the first book in the Marriages Made in India series which consists of 6 books in all.
Story-in-Brief:
Chanda Maheshwari’s family is shaken when her thirteen-year-old bridegroom Veerendra runs away immediately after the wedding. The eight-year-old child doesn’t even understand the impact on her life. Unable to face their neighbours and friends, the Maheshwaris move from their village to Jaipur and begin a new life in the city.
Fourteen years later, Chanda is studying in a Delhi College. She takes up a temporary job at RS Software Pvt. Ltd. and falls head-over-heels for the boss of the operation. But what about Ranveer Singh? Is he interested in her?
Ranveer’s secretary Shikha is desperate to make him fall for her. All she wants is life-long security with a rich man. But it’s nerd Abhimanyu who keeps getting in the way. Abhi is Ranveer’s second-in-command and Shikha isn’t keen on him as she’s eyeing the main chance.
When Ranveer appears to show interest in Chanda, she’s faced with a new problem. Astrologer Vidyasagar insists that she would get back with her husband Veerendra. Does anyone want to know what she wants?
Chanda feels torn between the man she has fallen for and the family values that have been instilled in her. Will she ever find happiness?