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Shall we dance, Mr.Koshy?
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh!!!Ok!
One
more time now!
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh!!!
Oh!
Yes!! I did it.
Feels so damn good and I want to shout and scream. My
dream has come true ‘cause I never gave up on it.
For all the writers out there who are dreaming to get
published dream big and chase it.
My book “Shall we dance, Mr.Koshy?” is out. For all the people
who couldn’t get enough of Abe and Candace, sorry to have kept you waiting. But
hey!! They are here now, go and grab them at any big store nearby you. If it is
not there, place an order with them. For those who are not in India, place your
orders through www.amazon.com.
Most importantly, here are my acknowledgements.
My mom, thanks for wading through an alien manuscript.
That alien script was, of course, mine. I can’t thank you enough. Thank you Frog Books, for accepting it.
In no particular order A big thank you with loads of hugs to my extended family at Rediff Iland whose support has been invaluable to me. Especially Tina Rohra (for asking more, all the time), AJ (my energizer bunny, thanks a ton for calming me), Pavement Freud, Madhavan P.K. (thank you for giving me all that information and your time), VT, Keya, Kanksha P, Swati Nitingupta, FG, Saakshee I, Vatsala, Kanchan Bhattacharya (thanks for lending me your poem), Savita Dutta (thanks for lending me your poem), Rajiv S (I’ve finally understood your blog on spiritual eros), Giftson (no halwa this time),Monu (get well soon), Sahil Banga, Yogesh, Kushie (you are the best), Bad Angel (my soul Sistah, go find your dream, girl!) and everyone who has read my work on Iland. Thank you for your brickbats, too.
Mahesh Suvarna, thanks for doing what you did.
Rahul, thanks for being supportive and for never giving up on me.
Ranjani, thank you for everything and for always asking me to follow my heart.
Priya, thank you for being my agony aunt and also for inspiring the ending of the story.
Xavier, thank you for asking me to read more. Now, this will warm up your heart during Delhi’s cold winter nights.
Advitya Thapa and Deepak Spurgeon Daniel, for sharing your shopping experiences with me.
Zakka Jacob, thank you for inspiring me to build Abe.
Bobby John, thank you for being the proto Abe but I bet that you will never know this.
Finally, a big thank you for all the painful mails that I had received while working as a merchandiser.
Finally, finally a big, big thank you to Headlines Today for keeping me sane most of the time. At the end of it all, I am truly grateful for the fact that the universe has conspired to see my book out. Now go on, make a wish to the universe, see it come true.
Do read my book and you can write to me at bronzegoddess_bright@rediff.com.
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