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Author of romance trilogy on her creative process, and switching genres
Updated On: 26 February, 2023 09:09 AM IST | Mumbai | Aastha Atray Banan
She used writing as therapy after losing family to COVID. Bengaluru-based author Andaleeb Wajid’s three-part romance series is her way of sharing love
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Forty books later, Bengaluru-based author Andaleeb Wajid has decided to tell more love stories. “I like oscillating between genres—I even wrote horror a few years ago—but I knew I wanted to write a full-fledged romance novel.” Prolific as she is, she has ended up writing not just one, but three books as part of the just-released Jasmine Villa series. The books follow three sisters and their romantic journeys, and are titled One Way to Love, Loving You Twice, and Three Times Lucky. “Each book takes one character’s life and expands on it; these are inter-connected modern love stories,” says Wajid, over a video call.
The 45-year-old writer lives with her two sons Saboor and Azhaan, aged 20 and 16, and usually spends her mornings writing her multiple books. The last two years have been hard on Wajid—she lost both her husband and mother-in-law to COVID in 2021, during the second wave of the pandemic. “There was a time I was tweeting about my husband, and all that happened afterwards. I felt like I needed to put it out there, not for anyone else to see, but for myself.” What came across was Wajid’s love story, sometimes in a picture shared, or just thoughts. That her love series is out for readers and fans to pick up, seems almost cathartic. Giving heft to Meryl Streep’s famous line of “take your broken heart, and make it into art”, Wajid says she used writing as therapy. “I had been writing even when both of them were in the hospital, and I felt like all our/my plans had come undone suddenly. My brother just told me ‘do what makes you feel better’. And so I wrote.” Support also poured in on social media. Wajid says that the best part of being online has been that people know her already. “But it also means they assume they know more about me than what I show. So now, I use it only for work. My rants go into stories that only my close friends lists can see.”
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