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Annika Sharma

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Romance author x3👇🏾THE FLAVOR OF YOU - July 13, '27
PR/media strategy director.
Founded That Desi Spark (sold).
Social justice nerd. 🇮🇳🇺🇸 + Telugu mama.

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When the group chat makes it to the real world. #desiwriters #romance #romancebookstagram

If you want to meet all of us, we’re in #Nashville at Slow Burn bookshop October 3 at 7PM!

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‘07 - the year B.O.B. left NYC for the first time and landed in Chicago at the Arie Crown Theater @ariecrowntheater

9 crews came to battle across Bhangra, Raas-Garba, and Bollywood/Fusion.

Guest performances from @chaitownuiuc, @penn_atma, and @brownsugarnu kept the energy up between rounds.

When the trophies came out - @uclanashaa took Bollywood/Fusion AND Overall Winner. Full circle moment, watch the videos to relive it 🏆
 #bestofthebest #BOB2007 #southasiandance #bhangra #raasgarba

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Introducing Romance Meet & Greet!💞

Join us October 3rd at 7pm In-Store , for a night of romance with authors:

@authoravarani Ava Rani
@sonali.dev Sonali Dev
@nkumarwrites Naina Kumar
@nishawrites Nisha Sharma
@suleenabibra Suleena Bibra
@annikasharma Annika Sharma
@monashroffauthor Mona Shroff
@swatiteerdhala Swati Teerdhala
@namratapatelauthor Namrata Patel
@lavanya.lakshmi.writes Lavanya Lakshmi

This is a ticketed event and a Signed copy of One Book of your choice is included in ticket price.
Doors open at 630pm and conversation begins at 7pm.

All Authors Backlog will be available to purchase and signed, during the event. Attendees are welcomed to bring books from home to be signed.

tickets can be found on our site

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I’ve been looking for that lipstick 🤔

—> @oneawkwardmom

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@annikasharma
@allyy.read
@zeclinch
@theelderemox
@dadmann_walking
@kristal_lili
@bunandleggings
@nateinthewild
@ladybugassassin
@mindfullyready
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Hello @slsfatedreads Followers! Happy Saturday! ☀️📚😎A lot of great updates to the library today!

Here’s what’s new:

📖 In Five Years by @rebecca_serle
📖 I Did Something Bad by @pyaestries
📖 Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez
📖 What If It’s You? by @jillygagnon
📖 Sugar, Spice, and Can’t Play Nice by @annikasharma
📖 The Rest of Our Lives by Ben Markovits *Signed Copy
📖 The Midnight Library by @mattzhaig
📖 The Wrath by @genashowalter
📖 The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by @veschwab

I restocked our stickers and bookmarks! 🎉 Come on by for book swaps!

💅🏼: @celebritips_official Toasted Sugar in Short Almond

#littlefreelibrary #spicybooks #smuttybooks #contemoraryromance #nashvilletennessee @littlefreelibrary

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🍉 Slice into a juicy stack of stories! 🍉

Welcome to the juiciest Bookstagram collab of the summer! Whether your books are stacked like a watermelon, color-coordinated, or simply bringing those sweet summertime vibes, we’re celebrating all things books and watermelon today.

Building the perfect watermelon... one book at a time.

🟢 Sugar, Spice, and Can’t Play Nice
🟢 The Rainy Day Bookshop
⚪ A Taste of Temptation
❤️ In Good Company
🩷 Problematic Summer Romance
🩷 A Merry Little Lie

🍉QOTD: Which book would you grab first? OR What are you currently reading?

Check out a few of our friends posts below, you might just find your next favorite read waiting there!

🍉 @deannaturnsthepage
🍉 @steflovesbooksandwine

Want to get in on the next collab? Check out- @book.stack.collabsandmore

#WatermelonBookchallenge2026 #BookstagramCollab

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When Payal Mehra’s detached parents insist she marry fellow Londoner and serial dater Ayaan Malhotra in order to save their own company, she has a get disowned from the luxurious life they’ve funded and put her dreams on hold while she works a soul-sucking day job...or get engaged to save her family’s fortune and maybe rescue her own vision of a dream come true. Ayaan Malhotra has always been the spare to his brother, the golden child heir to his parent’s company. A little wild, a little broken, and desperate to prove himself, he agrees to get engaged to Payal, on the condition that he gets 50 percent of his parents’ company. He has no interest in Payal but would give anything for his parents’ respect. As the two race toward an impending engagement ceremony date and actually start to play nice as a couple, they realize that maybe they aren’t just in this for business...and love might be in their future after all.
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5- I was thinking. What if I just read Indian mix culture romances for the rest of my life. As a fellow Indian from mixed cultures this book spoke to me in so many ways and I just loved it. I was so invested that I read this book in like 3 days believe it or not all 408 pages. I was not a fan of the arranged marriage but it was interesting to watch play out with all the scheming and the business deals going on. I loved the found family dynamics. And Sarika was like MVPerson. Love her to pieces! Payal the goddess she is, I love reading a woman be shameless and bold in herself. Also the Akash and Ayaan feud. This book way highly hilarious. I only gave this book 4 stars however because the writing was very forgetful, like starting a thought or POV and forgetting what you’re writing. There was this date scene and they took out the food and was ready to eat and then wrapped up the night like the food was forgotten. Plus Payal was wearing sweatpants in a scene and one page over she was magically wearing jeans. The same things happens with the POV where we could be on Ayaan’s then switch to Payal’s thoughts without knowing. But I recommend!

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Desi Heart, Videsi Adress...

Nothing hits like a romance where culture clashes turns into butterflies 😍

Think Masala Chai meets Pumpkin Spice Latte, Joint family drama meets Solo NYC apartments and 'log kya kahenge' meets ' I don't care' 💞

Swipe through my favourite Desi-Videsi love stories that proves long distance is just a plot devices to create that angst and yearing.

Let me know which one is going straight to your TBR...
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Do you have a rec I need to read???

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Headline: The Bolly-to-Book pipeline is REAL. 🤫✈️If you’re obsessed with the "no romance in business" rule from Band Baaja Baaraat or the secret love letters of Bareilly Ki Barfi, you need to add these books to your TBR immediately.Save this Reel for your next bookstore trip! 📌Tell me in the comments: Which movie-to-book match are you reading first? 👇
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#BookstagramIndia#IfYouLikeThisReadThat#BollywoodRomCom#IndianRomanceBooks#BookRecommendations

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Eternally grateful to these brilliant authors who generously offered their time & wisdom to review and blurb my second poetry collection Vermilion Legacy. Proud to feature them on the back of my book. ❤️ @byparmkc @saumyajdave @annikasharma @meeravijayann @psnamaste

And a special mention to THE @divakarunichitra for shouting me out on her feed on launch day…will truly never get over such grace and generosity from one of the OG south asian authoresses. Sending her my love and prayers. 🙏🏽

Have you grabbed your copy yet? A friendly reminder that a quick review on your preferred platform (Amazon, B&N or Goodreads) goes a long way for authors! 🫶🏽

[south asian authors, indian authors, poetry books, poetry collections, diaspora poet, bengali writers, book reviews, author reviews]

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