Riya Iyer
Riya Iyer is an Indo-Canadian author of contemporary romances featuring South Asian characters. Her love for books and Bollywood are at the root of her stories. An incurable romantic at heart, she weaves indulgent tales of missed connections, fated meetings, steamy chemistry and epic love, always with a happily ever after.
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She is a co-founder and co-host of That Desi Spark podcast, one of the largest independently run South Asian podcasts in the world. She currently lives in New York City while juggling her writing and podcasting careers. She is a lover of endless conversations, college football, social justice, traveling, books, all things related to England, dancing, superhero movies, -
Kacey Sophia
Kacey Sophia is a young, British/Mauritian indie author with a love for Jane Austen and Bridgerton. She owns three cats and is often found with her nose in a good romance book. Her An Artist series is available on Amazon, these books follow the romance of Kaia and Maverick who both have been on a tough journey.
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Her fourth book Love Undercover is due to be published late 2025, part of The Duttas series. The series follows four siblings who are extremely supportive of one another- much like the relationship Kacey has with her own sisters. Kacey explores mental health within her books and writes about diverse and loveable characters who keep you on your toes.
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Nisha Sharma
Nisha Sharma is the critically acclaimed author of YA and adult contemporary romances including My So-Called Bollywood Life, Radha and Jai’s Recipe for Romance, The Singh Family Trilogy and the If Shakespeare was an Auntie series. Her books have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Cosmopolitan, Entertainment Weekly and more. She lives in Pennsylvania with her Alaskan husband, her cat Lizzie Bennett and her dog Nancey Drew. You can find her online at Nisha-sharma.com or on TikTok and Instagram @nishawrites.
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Shilpa Suraj
Shilpa Suraj wears many hats - corporate drone, homemaker, mother to a fabulous toddler and author.
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An avid reader with an overactive imagination, Shilpa has weaved stories in her head since she was a child. Her previous stints at Google, in an ad agency and as an entrepreneur provide colour to her present day stories, both fiction and non-fiction. -
Kajal Rai
Kajal Rai lives in Mumbai, India, and holds a postgraduate degree in literature. Storytelling has always been her true calling. Her debut novel, Since You Came Along, marks the beginning of her journey as an author, and she is already working on the second book in the Ever Since series.
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Her love for words extends beyond novels. She has published poetry, micro-fiction tales, and short stories. She has also co-authored the novella On a Journey of Life. A hopeless romantic at heart, Kajal firmly believes in happily-ever-afters, which is why she just can’t seem to write any other way.
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Victoria Lum
Victoria is a lover of all things romance, including movies, books, and television shows. A hopeless romantic since childhood, she is always dreaming up stories and happily ever afters. Caramel lattes are her fuel in the morning and she can usually be found reading anything she can get her hands on. She lives with her family and a beautiful Siberian husky in sunny California.
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Aarti V. Raman
Hi, there I’m USA Today Bestselling Romance Author Aarti V Raman. I write all shades and forms of romance or will in the future because I suffer from writing attention deficit disorder. I must tell all the stories! So, my romances range from romantic comedy, chick lit to romantic suspense and dark romance starring tortured billionaires and suffering military types!
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Before I turned to writing and telling these stories full-time, I was a teacher, business journalist and editor for close to fifteen years. So my heroines are career-minded, city-living, strong-willed hot messes who still have their lives together. I believe in writing what I know and I know me best so most of these heroines are Indian (South Asian women of color).
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Sakshama Puri Dhariwal
Sakshama Puri Dhariwal is the critically acclaimed author of 'The Wedding Photographer'.
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She was born in New Delhi and raised in a loud Punjabi family on whom she often bases (and blames) her characters.
Before she started writing romance, Sakshama worked in marketing. She now lives in California with her husband, two kids, and about eleven copies of Pride and Prejudice.
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N.M. Patel
N.M. Patel is a passionate author who writes romance novels inspired by her love of Bollywood movies. Her books are filled with humor, steam, and plenty of love, featuring strong heroines and swoon-worthy heroes. Get ready to be transported into a world of desi culture, unforgettable characters, and a romantic escape that will leave you feeling warm and fuzzy inside.
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Bhavini K. Desai
Bhavini K. Desai is a literary fiction author whose debut novel ‘The City of Pillars’ ranked in the top 10 on Amazon. She has worked as a copywriter, a content editor, and more recently, as a creative strategist. But she found her true calling in stitching words together and telling epic stories.
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Her passion for contemporary issues and a teenage obsession with romance novels translated into her first novel, a love story set in the enchanting backdrop of Kashmir. And unlike your regular genres, she broke the rules by weaving a tale of romance, drama, adventure, and politics.
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Radhika Agrawal
Radhika Agrawal is a romance novelist, lifestyle journalist and a storyteller at her core. Her love for romance as a genre comes from the innumerable Meg Cabots and Sophie Kinsellas she devoured as a teenager, and it’s heavily influenced by the epic love story of her own parents. She lives, dreams, and writes love stories with a vengeance, and believes that she can help romance get the respect and attention it deserves as a genre.
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Aarti V. Raman
Hi, there I’m USA Today Bestselling Romance Author Aarti V Raman. I write all shades and forms of romance or will in the future because I suffer from writing attention deficit disorder. I must tell all the stories! So, my romances range from romantic comedy, chick lit to romantic suspense and dark romance starring tortured billionaires and suffering military types!
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Before I turned to writing and telling these stories full-time, I was a teacher, business journalist and editor for close to fifteen years. So my heroines are career-minded, city-living, strong-willed hot messes who still have their lives together. I believe in writing what I know and I know me best so most of these heroines are Indian (South Asian women of color).
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Anna P.
Since she was a child, Anna has lived in a world of imagination—teaching in a classroom to being an astronaut, she’s done it all.
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Anna has a Masters in Creative Writing, and a love for music and writing got her jobs with Rolling Stone India and Sony Music. After a couple of years of selling her soul to advertising, she’s finally following her dream of writing books.
Currently living in South India, she rocks out to Foo Fighters and reads 300 romance novels a year. She works as a copy consultant and book editor, while sipping on copious amounts of black tea. -
Kajal Rai
Kajal Rai lives in Mumbai, India, and holds a postgraduate degree in literature. Storytelling has always been her true calling. Her debut novel, Since You Came Along, marks the beginning of her journey as an author, and she is already working on the second book in the Ever Since series.
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Her love for words extends beyond novels. She has published poetry, micro-fiction tales, and short stories. She has also co-authored the novella On a Journey of Life. A hopeless romantic at heart, Kajal firmly believes in happily-ever-afters, which is why she just can’t seem to write any other way.
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Bhavini K. Desai
Bhavini K. Desai is a literary fiction author whose debut novel ‘The City of Pillars’ ranked in the top 10 on Amazon. She has worked as a copywriter, a content editor, and more recently, as a creative strategist. But she found her true calling in stitching words together and telling epic stories.
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Her passion for contemporary issues and a teenage obsession with romance novels translated into her first novel, a love story set in the enchanting backdrop of Kashmir. And unlike your regular genres, she broke the rules by weaving a tale of romance, drama, adventure, and politics.
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N.M. Patel
N.M. Patel is a passionate author who writes romance novels inspired by her love of Bollywood movies. Her books are filled with humor, steam, and plenty of love, featuring strong heroines and swoon-worthy heroes. Get ready to be transported into a world of desi culture, unforgettable characters, and a romantic escape that will leave you feeling warm and fuzzy inside.
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Victoria Lum
Victoria is a lover of all things romance, including movies, books, and television shows. A hopeless romantic since childhood, she is always dreaming up stories and happily ever afters. Caramel lattes are her fuel in the morning and she can usually be found reading anything she can get her hands on. She lives with her family and a beautiful Siberian husky in sunny California.
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Jessica Carrasquillo
Meet Jessica Carrasquillo, an attorney turned captivating storyteller. Rooted in the vibrant cultural mosaic of South Florida, her work beautifully intertwines her Latina heritage, professional background, and explorations of moral ambiguity and justice.
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With an immersive literary style that blends romance, drama, and (often dark) humor, Jessica's narratives are both engaging and thought-provoking. Her debut novel, "The Manchineel," tackles provocative subjects and shares vivid, multidimensional characters who navigate complex ethical challenges while blurring the boundaries of morality. -
Radhika Agrawal
Radhika Agrawal is a romance novelist, lifestyle journalist and a storyteller at her core. Her love for romance as a genre comes from the innumerable Meg Cabots and Sophie Kinsellas she devoured as a teenager, and it’s heavily influenced by the epic love story of her own parents. She lives, dreams, and writes love stories with a vengeance, and believes that she can help romance get the respect and attention it deserves as a genre.
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Sundari Venkatraman
Sundari Venkatraman is an Indie Author who has 72 self-published books to her credit. These books have consistently featured in the Top 100 Bestseller Lists on Amazon India, Amazon USA, Amazon UK, Amazon Canada and Amazon Australia in both romance as well as Asian Drama categories. Her latest hot romances have all been on #1 Bestseller slot in Amazon India for over a month.
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These days, the author is independently publishing her novels in paperback format under her banner Flaming Sun, printed and distributed by Notion Press.
Even as a child, Sundari absolutely loved the ‘lived happily ever after’ syndrome and she grew up on a steady diet of fairy tales, Phantom comics and Mandrake comics. It was always about good triumphing over evil and a ha -
Ruchi Chandra Verma
Ruchi Chandra Verma, is working in IT industry. She is a painter, an artist, and an avid healthy baker, who’s passion is to write poetry, articles and stories and reads anything fiction, she can get her hands on. She currently lives in Bangalore with her husband and child.
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She wrote her first story at the age of 9 years, but never got around to finishing it. The focus those days being on studies and sports much more than story writing. She re-discovered her love for writing during her engineering college days and has been writing ever since. It all started with writing a few couplets, poems, mainly to channelize her thoughts or feelings but soon, became a better way of expression and imagination started seeping in.
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Anna P.
Since she was a child, Anna has lived in a world of imagination—teaching in a classroom to being an astronaut, she’s done it all.
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Anna has a Masters in Creative Writing, and a love for music and writing got her jobs with Rolling Stone India and Sony Music. After a couple of years of selling her soul to advertising, she’s finally following her dream of writing books.
Currently living in South India, she rocks out to Foo Fighters and reads 300 romance novels a year. She works as a copy consultant and book editor, while sipping on copious amounts of black tea. -
Jessica Carrasquillo
Meet Jessica Carrasquillo, an attorney turned captivating storyteller. Rooted in the vibrant cultural mosaic of South Florida, her work beautifully intertwines her Latina heritage, professional background, and explorations of moral ambiguity and justice.
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With an immersive literary style that blends romance, drama, and (often dark) humor, Jessica's narratives are both engaging and thought-provoking. Her debut novel, "The Manchineel," tackles provocative subjects and shares vivid, multidimensional characters who navigate complex ethical challenges while blurring the boundaries of morality. -
Vani Kaushal
Praise for Vani's latest novel:
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"Vani takes us through a roller-coaster journey" - Hindustan Times
"Neat characterization and simple language" - The Hindu
"Interesting and entertaining" - The New Indian Express
"Like a three and a half hour movie" - Anandabazar Patrika
"Entertaining read with well-etched characters"- Business Economics
"Vani's simple yet effective style does keep the readers gripped until the very end" - Malayala Manorama
"A refreshing change from the stories flooding the popular Indian fiction market" - netindian.in
"Smart story" - The Tribune
Vani is a former business journalist who has seamlessly transitioned into a vibrant career as a novelist, columnist, energy healer, psychic, Akashic reader, past life regression therapist, a -
Zeec Rustom
Zeec Rustom is a voracious reader and a dreamer who loves and lives for stories. She has loved reading since she was a child. She has penned a few short stories during her school days as a hobby, but those were never shared with anyone. She loves trying new things and has a lot of crazy new ideas she loves to try out. She spends her free time doing anything from sketching, painting, embroidery and even singing off-key karaoke songs. But above all is her love for books. Like she loves saying,
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“Hail Crazy Impulsive delusions of the fertile mind.”
She lives in a quaint little village in India, with her two kids. She is a homemaker by choice and has a degree in Civil Engineering. She lives in an idyllic location surrounded by green paddy fields -
Shobana Mahadevan
Shobana Mahadevan is an author who had published more than ten books, including “A Marriage Knot’, ‘Entangled’, ‘Mentor’ and ‘Memories in the locker’. These books have consistently featured in the Top 100 Bestseller Lists on Amazon in both romance as well as contemporary categories.
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Shobana is a University Gold Medalist in her Bachelor of Engineering from Madras University. After doing her Masters in Engineering, she joined the IT industry and worked for over two decades across various top organizations. She has had experience in many other areas like Research, Innovation, Marketing, and Management.
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Yaddanapudi Sulochana Rani
Yaddanapudi Sulochana Rani (యద్దనపూడి సులోచనారాణి), is a renowned Telugu novelist. She was very popular among the ladies and younger generation with her fiction novels based on love stories and drama, with a great fan following during the 1970s and early '80s. Many of her stories were made into movies in Telugu language as well.
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Venuka Goyal
An IITian and a professionally trained scientist, Venuka Goyal has lived in the world of academics all her life, but she has always been a fan of romantic comedies. With many stories brewing inside of her, she decided to write about relationships and love. Her first novel 'You're stuck with me for life!' was published in August 2021 and was among the top hot releases in Kindle Store India. Since then there has been no looking back.
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Nisha S. Kumar
Hey there! I'm Nisha S. Kumar, an entrepreneur with an MBA, running a business that somehow hasn't gone up in flames (yet). But let's be real—my true passion lies in concocting stories wilder than my kids' excuses for not eating vegetables.
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As a child, I wasn't just watching movies; I was mentally rewriting them. Honestly, I've written more unfinished stories than I've had hot dinners.
My laptop was basically a graveyard for half-baked plots and star-crossed lovers who never quite crossed. But then I became a mom, mastered the art of typing with one hand while balancing a baby on my hip, and suddenly, finishing a chapter didn't seem so impossible.
I'm a genre-hopping bookworm with a soft spot for romance. Call it ‘chick-lit’ and I'll come at -
Camille Hope
CAMILLE HOPE is a contemporary romance writer who loves reading and writing feel-good books with predictable storylines. Feeling like life can be too heavy at times, she writes low-stress stories with happily-ever-after endings and a dash of spice to keep them interesting. Pulling from past flight attendant experience, Camille writes fiction based on her time flying the friendly skies.
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