The guidelines on the webpage don’t sound officious and guarantee a reply to queries. He started Black Ink, a publishing company, and ran a contest to choose three new authors. Ravinder also wanted to do something to make the lives of aspiring writers easier. Now, his Facebook and twitter handles, which he operates himself, help him stay connected. Feedback poured into his book’s gmail account. Once he learnt his first publisher would not promote his book, he banked on Orkut to do the talking for him.
Ravinder was also one of the earliest authors to tap the power of social media. “And their faith means more than the royalties I get.”
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I’m happy they feel free enough to confide their darkest secrets and fears to me,” he says. They tell me things they have not told anyone else. They asked him all kinds of questions related to love. At the Coimbatore launch, about 200 readers queued up inside the book store, jostling for space. These seeming contradictions endear him to his fans they see themselves in him. He is the son of a priest, but is an atheist. The past must never be denied,” he says.įor someone who writes romance and has a legion of female fans, Ravinder is practical and seeks logic in everything. Even now, when memories of Khushi come up, I talk about them with Khushboo. As for Khushboo, I insisted she see Khushi’s photos, know who she was. Even now, fans wish Ravin, Khusbhoo and Khushi on social media. How did he and Khushboo deal with the memory of Khushi? After all, she brought them together. Khushboo had read his book and prayed he find love again, and he did, in her! Ravinder actually found his wife Khushboo thanks to the book. The book is still flying off bookshelves. I Too Had A Love Story (2008), a tear-jerker about Ravin and Khushi and her death in an accident, enjoyed dizzying success. “I was weeping and could not speak, but it killed me that the story I wrote to keep Khushi alive was treated thus,” recalls Ravinder, who was at Odyssey in Coimbatore to promote his book She told him the story he had written as a tribute to his dead girlfriend and submitted for publication, was probably lying in some Delhi dumpyard, rejected. The seeds of his success story were sown on a Delhi roadside, on a rainy day, as the crushing words of a publisher rang in his ears. And today, he is India’s top-billed romance writer, his books having sold two million copies. Ravinder Singh’s life sounds filmy! He found success after crushing rejection, and found love because of a love lost.
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