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#Read about Guest #Author Dr. Sweety Shinde

29 Wednesday Jul 2015

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I got an opportunity to grace Chris Graham’s platform for authors. Here it is…

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Perfect quote – It aptly sums up the motive to pen my novel.

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Why write at all?
You cannot inhale and not exhale.
You cannot eat and
not poop.
You cannot read and
not write. (Did I just equate writing with pooping?) Yin & Yang. Reading is a passive, pleasant passion. Writing is challenging, invigorating, and pathologically addictive!

Profession vs Passion: I’m a Pathologist by profession. I dissect dead bodies and diagnose live diseases under the microscope. But human beings hold deeper mysteries beneath the visible surface. Mind, emotions, and idiosyncrasies – those are beyond the scalpel, but not beyond the pen’s might!

I decided to use my profession 2 ways. One, to fund my passion. Two, to stimulate both halves of my brain – the rational and the creative. Yin & Yang again. 

Flexing the muscles of Time: ‘Work expands to fill the time required to complete it.’ As a…

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Download Free Excerpt (pdf). Arjun: Without A Doubt

11 Monday May 2015

Posted by dr sweetyshinde in Download Free Excerpt (pdf)

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Proof of the pudding is in the eating, right? So get a whiff, dip into a test taste.

Click for a pdf download of first 4 sample chapters. ABSOLUTELY FREE.

CLICK HERE   OR Click on image below.

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And oh yes, I have a Goodreads Giveaway on till 23rd May 2015. Applicable to Indian readers only. Apply via link : https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24466957-arjun

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