Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am a Professor of English at the University of Allahabad. My multicultural novel, The Tailor’s Needle, was published by Penguin Books India in 2012. My first story collection, Marriages are Made in India, was published by Publerati (USA) in 2012. My second story collection, Intriguing Women, is published by The Paris Press (London) in Feb. 2016. He has published several short stories in American journals and papers.
I have published a number of academic books the chief of which is The T. S. Eliot-Middleton Murry Debate (1994). Among my best-published articles are “Charles Dickens and Me” (published in the Oxford journal, English) and one on Thomas Hardy’s poetry, published in The Hardy Society Journal, (UK).
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Saba & Nisha: A Love Story. I posted two or three paragraphs on my Facebook wall. People liked them so much that I felt like extending the paragraphs into a novella. I succeeded in doing that.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I normally write through with much-premeditated thought.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
Shakespeare, Dickens, Jane Austen, Katherine Mansfield, R. K. Narayan.
What are you working on now?
My next novel, To India for Love, will see the light of day either in December 2017 or January 2018.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
http:\\www.lakshmirajsharma.in
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Read regularly and write regularly. Write like yourself; do not imitate another’s style.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
The author ought to live with their characters as they do with their families.
What are you reading now?
Sarah Waters’ Fingersmith.
What’s next for you as a writer?
I have to complete my third novel, a book on Literary Fiction, and one on Shakespeare which I may take several years to complete.
If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
(i) Ali Smith’s How to be Both, (ii) Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost happiness, (iii) Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West and (iv) Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale.
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