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A new #cover and an excerpt from @AuthorReet’s #Romance – Take One Fake Fiance

Posted on by Reet Singh

To cheer myself up – yes, we contracted COVID but are in the recovery phase thankfully – I decided that my first ever romance novel needed a face lift and I am more than delighted to introduce Mita and Tanay in their new avatars.
I am also sharing a scene from their love story which starts in Mauritius, but then they go to India where a lot of the dramatic action takes place.

@AuthorReet’s Blueprint for a Beguiling #Blurb: or, how to grab #readers’ eyeballs

Posted on by Reet Singh

When I’m book hunting and I find an intriguing title, I’ll definitely look at the cover.
Irresistible? All right, so then I’ll read the blurb.
The few words written on the back of the book will either convince me to buy/borrow it, or will compel me to return it to the shelf.
That’s how important a blurb is.
It has the onerous responsibility – now that the title and the cover have played their roles – to get the reader to clutch the book to her chest, totter off to the nearest couch, and start reading.

Blast from the past: Meet Mita from “Take One Fake Fiancé” – the book is featured on @Author_Devika’s blog

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Introducing Mita – the spirited female lead in Reet Singh’s “Take One Fake Fiancé”

‘I won’t do it, Mama.’ Mita glared at her mother through eyes as black as thunder clouds. ‘You’ll have to be the one to tell Uncle Raja. I refuse to speak to your interfering brother.’
She fled the room before her mother could get a word in, and left behind a faint bouquet of jasmine, a strong whiff of displeasure, and a distraught mother. The front door banged loudly, its old timber creaking in protest at such ill-treatment and Radhika sank into the nearest chair.
Would her only child shun marriage forever? It wasn’t fair to blame Mita’s father, Deepak, but if he…