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Nisha Sharma writes YA and adult contemporary romance. She likes to tell stories about messy brown girls with complicated feelings. This is her open newsletter that she's often put together in her Notes App on her phone at 3AM.
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Best of the Best, Bollywood dance, and the economy of being perceived in the Desi diaspora. (opens the original)
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There was a time.In 2020, my novel RADHA & JAI’S RECIPE FOR ROMANCE released quietly into the pandemic void. The story is about a classical Indian dancer and a Bollywood dance team lead who pair up to win a competition. They obviously fall in love along the way. The book wasn’t a bestseller although it did hit a ton of Best Of lists and gathered a following of diaspora South Asians who were seeing themselves in the pages of a romance novel (which honestly made the whole experience so worth it).I
Substance, “smut”, and the real literacy crisis. (opens the original)
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I wasn’t going to write another academic article so soon after my Dolly piece, but someone on Threads pissed me off because they equated reading “smut” with lack of substance, and somehow to them that meant literacy crisis. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BgYV!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8033b1a6-21f0-40ce-8ac9-176e7d10aa12_1262x428.png" target
What Dolly taught us about solidarity and systemic allyship. (opens the original)
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I committed to writing one academic article a month, but I missed August. Normally, I would be really upset over arbitrary deadlines because as a Taurus, I am my own worst hater. But, it’s 3:38AM, my baby is fast asleep on my chest after a rough bout of teething, and I’m here to say that in my head, this came out in August and I am doing the best I can do. Now, onto Dolly (and Gloria).Did you know the name ‘Dolly’ has been adopted by Punjabis, and is now just as common as Gurpreet, or Parminder?
Love those "silly little romances" (opens the original)
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If you are a romance head like me, then you’ve probably been watching the way Amazon Prime is killing it with book-to-screen adaptations. The production powerhouse has really tapped into the wants and needs of the book community to the point where they’ve even invited some of our favorite BookTok influencers to movie sets and given them opportunities to make shared content w
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