Birthdays and rosy cocktails and preorder campaigns, oh my!
This is a long-overdue update, lol.
Hello, it’s me… 🫠
After 3 months of ghosting all of you lovely newsletter followers, I’ve decided to pop back into your inbox with some life tidbits and writing updates. Let’s get to it, then?
I turned 28, hooray!
March 21 was my birthday, and it was probably the best one I’ve had as an adult. (Even though I feel SO OLD NOW OH MY GOD)
It’s funny, because I remember my 27th birthday last year when I was newly single and struggling to find someone to celelebrate the occasion with. I was venting to my therapist about how depressing birthdays were, and how much I hated them. I didn’t have enough friends in the city to host a party. My parents have never done the whole cut-the-cake-at-midnight thing. What was I to do?
This year, though…
Why don’t you see for yourself in the video below?
YEP. I invited 5 of my closest friends in the city to the party. (I have friends here now! Woohoo!) We did karaoke, had cotton candy vodka shots, ate my favorite peanut butter chocolate cake, AND made the iconic Whipped Rose cocktails from my book.
Speaking of which…
Get drunk on rosy love by preordering my book
My debut romance novel comes out in a little over 3 months! As a thank you to all my lovely readers who have preordered the book or are planning to, my publisher and I have put together an exciting digital kit of preorder bonuses for you:
💜 Downloadable bookmark
🧡 An exclusive sneak peek at my second book releasing in 2025
💜 Whipped Rose cocktail recipe from Jaiman
🧡 Jia's top 3 tips for finding your "perfect" match
Click this link to fill out the Preorder Campaign form with your proof of purchase. If you haven’t preordered yet, the same page has purchase links available too!💃
Note: This is for US preorders only, open through 5/27. One entry per person.
My next free workshop for fiction writers
Besides alllll this exciting stuff happening so far, I also have something else up my sleeve: my free Polish Your First Pages Zoom workshop. Not only do you get my best tips on how to write the best first chapter, you'll also learn the mistakes I made with my first FIVE manuscripts before my 6th one got a book deal with Penguin Random House.
PLUS, there's a Q&A at the end, and I will also critique one attendee's first pages live on the call. 16 people have already signed up, and I can’t wait to see your name there too! Click here to sign up!
Details of the Zoom workshop:
Date: April 13, 2024
Time: 11 am Eastern Time/8:30 pm India Time
Recording: 48-hour access to the recording in case you can't make it live.
So, that was my first quarter of 2024. How are things going with you? Comment below if you’re on the Substack app or hit ‘reply’ if I’m in your inbox and catch me up on everything! I love hearing from you.
Until next time!
Love hard & dream big,
Swati 💛