Blast from the past: 22, January, 2014 Reet Singh I am a doctor. A surgeon. Surgeons are trained to observe, to delve, to record. When I won the Passions contest in 2013, I was catapulted into, for me, an uncharted part of the cosmos: the world of Harlequin® authors. Authors, too, are known to observe… Continue reading
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I’m ‘Stirring your Senses’ on the Harlequin Blog
April 23, 2015 Reet Singh Have you ever walked into somebody’s home and been pleasurably assaulted by the smell of brownies cooling on a rack? Or heard the welcome patter of rain as it falls on a parched driveway? How about a bunch of golden kumquats bravely clinging to the branches of a barren tree… Continue reading
The challenge in writing a romance in an Indian setting
In response to a question posed by poet and author, Madhuri Maitra:
The romances I grew up reading revolved around dashing Englishmen, debonair French nobles, ruthless Arab sheiks, swashbuckling Australian ranchers and the like. The stories unfolded in exotic locations. Therefore, when called upon to write a romance in an Indian setting, I imagined it would be difficult. How would I get an Indian hero to do what Englishmen and Frenchmen had been doing in the Mills and Boons of yore?