A SWEET NOTE

                                                                                                4th Oct' 23

I recently had a strange, but very sweet experience during my book promotion tour in Bangalore and I wanted to share that experience with you. 

We writers are generally very comfortable and at home, in our writing process. Be it continuing an ongoing WIP or plotting the rough mind-map of our next work. That is our happy place. At least when we have just started our journey, like in my case. The toughest part is "Marketing" the book once it is published.... especially so if you have self-published your work in India 😅. I know many of my fellow Indian authors will agree with this. 

So there I was, being a busy-bee and approaching people with my debut novel A SENSE OF BETRAYAL and telling them about it and trying to find readers who might be interested to give it a try. This was in a mall in Bangalore during a recent #lockthebox event and I had left my phone on my table for charging. When I returned to pick up my phone after a while, I was very surprised to find a folded chit under it. My heartbeats suddenly sped up with feelings of apprehension and curiosity and I picked it up nervously not knowing what I was gonna find inside. ....

And this is what I found......I am sharing the pic of the written note over here. I was overwhelmed with the kindness of this compassionate stranger who understood the effort it took me, to do what I was doing. His/her sweet note was such a boost of motivation to me that I don't have enough words to express my gratitude. So, I am writing this piece to express my happiness and also gratitude for his or her compassion and kindness in motivating me, when at times it's really hard and disheartening as the "promotion" of one's book is not going as planned.

Thank you for the beautiful note dear kind stranger.