Once Upon a Pandemic: A Contmeporary Romance (Once Upon a Time)

I am Zoya Sehgal, another romance author around the block...

Since childhood, I have nursed a dream to become an author. I do write regularly and have several manuscripts sitting on my hard drive for years.

I plan my life in 5-year-blocks.
Top school@15
Graduation and job@20
Marry@25
Baby@30
Quit job and move out of India@35
Start a new career as an author@40

I was sticking to this plan until pandemic struck…

I now realize that life is too short and uncertain to wonder and ponder infinitely. I want to unleash the crazy child in me who wants to play with the world of words.

The right time to do things is now. Why wait till forty? Let me live my author dream Let me take the next step and share my stories with strangers. Let me take a leap of faith and publish them.

I have been reading a lot, especially since the lockdown began in March. I have read 300+ romance novels. Some were great and helped me feel happy and put me to sleep, others were okay, and the rest inspired me to write because of how bad they were.

Alrighty, let us write a romance. How hard could it be, I ask myself. There is only one problem: I have never had a romantic relationship; a necessary ingredient for writing romance. I mean... I did have a boy who wrote me letters. Does he count?

Anyway... Here is my story: Once Upon A Pandemic

I present my first story, my attempt to write and be famous; for all the right reasons, I hope. It costs 100 rupees, only. Just buy the damn thing and be sure to download it on your Kindle. You can also use Amazon Kindle app.

If you have bought the book send me the receipt, I will send you a thank you note. Or not, whatever...

Yours Truly,

Zoya Sehgal
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Once Upon a Pandemic is second in my “Once Upon a Time” series – a series of is a series of standalone, clean and wholesome, sweet and fuzzy romantic stories with people from one story popping up in another as a guest appearance of sorts.
The stories can be read in any order. I do not dig cliff hangers nor can I write one. For better experience, read them in order, will you?
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