A love' story

The name Preeti Shenoy can be related  to best-selling books like A Hundred Little Flames, It’s all in the Planets and many more. Starting off as blogger, Preeti has risen to become one of the best-selling authors in the country. 

In her new book, Love a Little Stronger, Preeti revisits one of her earlier books, 34 Bubblegums and Candies.  In her new book, she has written about her own experiences and learning. Explaining, she says, “The book has stories from my life. It is a new version of my old book. There is a mix of funny and inspiring stories, lessons I have learnt writing etc. This book is like a philosophical slice of life.” 

While writing the book, she felt that is was nice to go-down memory lane. “I was already a successful blogger, I wrote the book without expecting it to be published or successful. 10 years later the idea struck that I had new stories and redo a few, “she adds. 

Preeti had a lot more to tell and she had also grown as a writer. This book has over 50 stories that one can read. She goes on say, “It has new content and the old ones have been edited. Once I was done with the book, the old title no longer valid therfore, Love a Little Stronger came into being.” 

Preeti likes to categorise her book into creative non-fiction, a genre of literature that hasn’t been explored a lot. Through this book she wants people to always believe in love.  Adding to this she says, “It doesn’t matter what how down the situation is, you should always believe in love, family and relationships. This book will remind us to love a little stronger no matter what happens.” 

Preeti says that if she couldn’t write she would explode. Adding to this she says, “Writing is everything to me, I write to make sense of the world, express myself. For me writing is as natural as breathing.” This book just recently released and the reactions are still pouring in. “I had person say that she started laughing like a crazy person after reading the book and someone else cried reading the stories,” she adds.

For Preeti, the quality of writing today has vastly deteriorated. “Get published is easy but this doesn’t mean that the stories out there are great. I find a lot of stories lacking depth, very superficial or clichéd romance. The plots have not been explored but there are some Indian authors that I love reading,” 

Preeti is partial to the works of authors like Anita Nair, Manu Joseph and Shinie Antony.  Apart from being a writer, Preeti is also an artist. She has done a year’s course in Portraiture in the UK. “I recently contributed a sketchbook that will be displaced in the Brooklyn Art Library. Art and writing are part of me and it will be impossible for me to isolate one,” she adds.  

In her free time, Preeti is sketching, taking walks, doing yoga, or travelling. She has another full-fledged novel that is lined up to release somewhere in the month of August or September.