Top 5 Life Lessons from Love Swipe Blackmail You Need at Apeejay Kolkata Lit Fest
Let’s face it, life is unpredictable, much like the twists in Love Swipe Blackmail. Who knew that a dating app thriller could double as a guide for surviving a lit fest? As I gear up for the Apeejay Kolkata Literature Festival, I’ve realized there are some invaluable life lessons from my book that are surprisingly […]
A Designer’s Diary: Unveiling the Cover of “Love Swipe Blackmail”
For those of you who have read What’s in a Cover – 2, here is my take on designing the cover. Creating the cover for “Love Swipe Blackmail” was like navigating through a maze of thrillers, mysteries, and tech-savvy twists. As a designer, it’s not often that you get a project that combines the essence […]
Five Hilariously Good Reasons to Not Read “Love Swipe Blackmail”
Warning: This blog has been authored by Mahima Khandelwal, the arch frenemy of Anju Nagpal who wrote Why You Should Swipe Right on “Love Swipe Blackmail”. 1 – You Value Sleep Over Suspense If you prefer your dreams to be peaceful and your nights uninterrupted, then “Love Swipe Blackmail” might not be for you. Indian […]
Why You Should Swipe Right on “Love Swipe Blackmail
In a world where Indian suspense thriller novels are as plentiful as samosas at a wedding, why should you swipe right on “Love Swipe Blackmail“? Well, if you’re tired of the same old chai and chaat routine and craving a spicy twist, this book is your perfect masala mix. Firstly, let’s talk about Indian thriller […]
Her Musing Verse
‘I would love to see what you would come up with in the Sequel!!’ She texted me the above expectation or a challenge, if you will, as a part of her private review of Love Swipe Blackmail. She? A book reviewer, but also a compulsive good-book lover, something that I realised the very next day […]
Reader Not Found!
There are two things that are unique to this reader, not counting the fact that this reader is not to be found! Let me start with the second uniqueness first. She-who-cannot-be-found, talks of the protagonist going from Sofu(n) to Sofu(cked). And (I loved it, when she wrote in her review) that for her, reading Love […]
The Mysterious Message from Ms. D
It was the 19th of March 2022, a Saturday. My Instagram handle notified me that someone has posted a story with my novel Love Swipe Blackmail in their hand, adding the caption, ‘Happy Saturday @AuthorNitishBhushan’. It is usually the author’s place to take their readers on a journey of thrill. Little did I know that […]
What’s in a Cover – 2?
In the previous blog we have already established the difficulty we went through in designing the right cover for Love Swipe Blackmail. Here’s how we had progressed. Like I reported to you in the last blog, Love Swipe Blackmail is a mystery thriller. And we wanted it to be counted amongst the top Indian thriller […]
What’s in a Cover – 1?
In one of the Archies comics that I read as a child, there was an episode where Waldo Weatherbee is playing baseball. He is a plus-sized man and not many take him seriously until they see him hitting home runs. Jughead, who is watching this game, turns towards those who were not sure of Waldo […]
What’s In a Name?
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet.” Nothing would hound me more than this line from the play ‘Romeo and Juliet’ by William Shakespeare, after I had finished writing my first novel and was still struggling for its name! What’s in a name […]