Author Shweta Kumar grows in stature with third book

Pakistan News & Features Services

Shweta Ganesh Kumar has been acclaimed as a versatile writer and travel columnist. Her recently published third book and first novella, 'A Newlywed's Adventures in Married Land,' is another feather in her cap. The book is now available worldwide from Toronto-based publishers Indireads.

An alumnus of the Symbiosis Institute of Mass Communication, she has worked as Communications Officer for Greenpeace India and as a correspondent with CNN-IBN, before dedicating her life to writing. 

Her second novel ‘Between the Headlines-The travails of a TV reporter’ was released in May 2012 and is still available in bookstores and online stores. 

Her first novel ‘Coming Up On The Show… The Travails of a news trainee’ sold more than 10,000 copies within the first two months of its release in May 2011 and was also listed on multiple bestseller lists. 

A mother herself, she writes on the joys and trials of being a parent in a five day a week bulletin called 'The Times Of Amma - the motherhood bulletin with badly-drawn cartoons.' The New Indian Express, One Philippines and Geo (Indian edition) have published many of her travel columns. RobinAge, a leading children’s newspaper features her pet and travel columns for children. ‘Kiski Kahani – The Ramayana Project’, an Open Space initiative, features her essays on the diversity of the Ramayana. 

Her non-fiction pieces have been featured in Chicken Soup for the Indian Spiritual Soul, Chicken Soup for the Indian Soul – On Friendship and also in CBW’s India’s Top 42 Weekend Getaways eBook. Women's Web has featured her feminist columns and Mahindra's Mom and Me - her columns on being a new mother. 

Her short fiction has been published in Indian Voices- an anthology, Shades of Love (An Anthology of Short Stories), Winds of Change (An Anthology), Australian Women Online, Single Solitary Thought, Pothiz, Damazine and the Asia Writes Project.

Shweta Kumar turns digital with A Newlywed’s Adventures in Married Land

Pakistan News & Features Services

Bestselling author and columnist Shweta Ganesh Kumar has come up with her third book titled ‘A Newlywed’s Adventures in Married Land’ now available worldwide via Indireads, a Toronto based Publishing house that brings out books on the vibrancy and intensity of modern South Asian life.

‘A Newlywed’s Adventures in Married Land’ is a novella and an eBook which can be downloaded off the site in less than five minutes. Her first two books, ‘Between the Headlines’ and ‘Coming up on the Show’, were paperbacks but she decided to go for the eBook format this time around to make it easily accessible to readers even from the comfort of their homes, no matter where in the world they may be. 

 'A Newlywed's Adventures in Married Land' is all about Mythili who has followed the love of her life, her brand new husband Siddharth to a distant land. Far away from her world, she feels like she has fallen down a rabbit hole into a completely new land, complete with distinct personalities. 

The book explores whether their once long-distance love now stand the test of living together and whether this real life Alice ever embraces her Wonderland. The book is available in multiple digital formats to be read on laptop, Kindle, Nook, iPad, mobile phone or any such device. 

The author reckons that ‘A Newlywed’s Adventures in Married Land,’ is for everyone who has chosen to make a leap of faith by saying ‘yes to a proposal’, ‘yes to moving to a distant land’ or simply ‘yes to meeting new people and making new friends’ and has felt a little shaken and a little lost till they found their footing in their new situation in their new metaphorical land. 

In order to encourage her friends to get them read the book, Shweta Kumar has offered a discount coupon for exclusive use within her network which can be used in case of buying more than a single book and the scheme lasts until July 12.