Her book is currently starring as Book of the Month at Harlequin India home page. She is an amazing writer who loves to write intense emotional tender stories. Her author page on facebook is full of her fans. You can check her book on flipkart or may visit her author page on Goodreads.
Let us all welcome Ruchi Vasudeva and have a detailed chat with her.
Please share some of the best memories of your
childhood.
I think most
people must love to reminisce about their childhood. For me it holds charming
memories. Running around and playing without restraint till you're called home.
Never even worrying about whether you’ve eaten. I like to especially recall the
role playing I and my friends used to do as small kids...acting lots of
characters ranging from doctors to shop lifters and fashion divas to pirates.
It used to be great fun.
Tell us about your education.
I'm MBBS, MD.
I did my post graduation in Physiology which happened after a gap during which
I got married and had kids. With two tiny tots it wasn’t easy to hassle with
studies and the day I finished exams, I swore I wouldn’t touch books ever
again! J
What
career did you plan during your education days?
I wanted to be
a doctor since childhood, to be exact since when I was two years old and
playing those role-play games I told you about. However during pre med years
(+1 and +2) I began to dream of studying English literature and becoming a
writer. However I managed to fulfill my earlier expectation first.
What is
your biggest source of inspiration in life?
For writing?
It's the everyday experiences, random tidbits I gather in conversation or while
travelling. I think everything is inspirational if you're in the write or
should I say, right mode, pun intended. J
I'm also
inspired by others' achievements. Especially by stories of people beating the
odds and coming out winning. Reader's Digest has a section like that which is
called Everyday Heroes that just fills you with determination. I’m friends
online with many authors and they are inspiration in themselves, struggling
with day jobs while making time to write.
What
hurts you most in this world?
People who
can't or won't give your efforts recognition/credit when you deserve it. People
who think their growth is better when they are down putting and stunting others’
progress. Which is the reverse of what actually happens. These people only harm
themselves in the end.
What is the biggest challenge you have faced?
Were you able to overcome it? How?
Hmm I think it
was when I began writing. It became difficult to juggle my work, writing and
family life. So family time used to suffer. However after several storms in the
tea cup, the grumbles subsided, though they are still audible sometimes. Actually
I had no idea I would become so absorbed in writing. It took a while to find
some balance. I’m working on balancing it even more in future. It’s all a
matter of setting your priorities.
If you had to live a day of your life as one of
the living or dead personality, who would it be and why?
Maybe Shakespeare.
I would like to know what way his Muse worked :)
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What is
your favorite genre and why?
Romance and
mystery. That's two I know but when I get enough of reading one, I switch to
the other. For my writing, it's contemporary romantic fiction at the moment.
What is the purpose of your writing?
That's a tough
one! Does fiction writing have a purpose other than it's spontaneous frothing
of imagination which has to be spilled on paper? That said, the reason does
begin to get defined gradually.
When I began
to write to be published, it used to be for myself. To fulfil my own dream. Now
that sword of Damocles is off, one obvious purpose that emerges is to
entertain...which is why I read. Another is to express...to delve into
characters and find answers to questions that their conflict brings up. I find
these questions are relatable to our everyday. For instance in my book
Bollywood Fiancé for a Day, the heroine has mixed feelings towards her step
sister who has run off with the heroine's fiancé. She wants to be the dutiful
sister but at the same time she's feeling cheated and sidelined. So what should
she do? Haven't all of us faced similar situations when loved ones seem to be
careless towards us? So what can be the answer to such a situation? Several
other issues come up in the book as the heroine meets the hero who is a wordly
actor in complete contrast to her own humdrum routine of being a medico. So
it’s all about exploring fiction with the compass of reality in hand.
Sorry to go so
long about it!
Which of your work has been published so far?
My first book will be released early in
August. Anyone interested can follow its release on the Harlequin MBIndia’s
facebook page. Here’s the link to follow:
https://www.facebook.com/MNBIndia
What are your forthcoming writings?
My second book will be out in December.
It's about a Rajput prince who's dealing with past hurts and meets a girl who's
divorced and searching for her new life. Like the first one, it's also being
published by Harlequin. In other news, I've been chosen for an anthology
through a contest by Harper Collins India, which should be out in December as
well.
What are your future plans?
To continue
writing contemporay romantic fiction exploring relationships and how they
effect people. I might bring out a paranormal on of these days.
What four top most things you take care of while
writing a book?
Well, when you're writing you're winging
away with a story, so reality takes a back seat but when you focus and go back,
you see how many holes are there. So foremost for me is to make the motivation
of my characters reasonable and convincing. Secondly, are the characters
someone I would like to spend time with? Are they what is called three
dimentional – with faults and past sins yet humaneness and integrity? Does the
book have lighter moments?
Your dream destination on Earth?
Mmm somewhere near water. Like Costa
Smeralda, northern Sardinia, Italy.
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Thank you so much for
hosting me, Jaideep. I had great fun answering your very in-depth questions.
Now, I'll leave you with the blurb of book.
The man of her Bollywood dreams
Winning the chance to meet the ultimate
Bollywood heart-throb, Zaheer Saxena, is just what Vishakha needs to take her
mind off her recent humiliation—being jilted the week before her wedding! And
when gorgeous Zaheer offers to be her fake fiancé, the chance to save face with
her family is just too tempting…
It’s a deal that benefits them both—Zaheer is
warding off any unwanted female attention until his next film is finished—but
can Vishakha trust herself not to hope that her dream fiancé for a day will be
her forever man?
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