{"id":1268,"date":"2024-06-18T09:43:46","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T08:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/preethinair.com\/site\/?p=1268"},"modified":"2024-06-18T09:46:03","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T08:46:03","slug":"south-asian-history-month-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preethinair.com\/site\/south-asian-history-month-2\/","title":{"rendered":"South Asian History Month"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"\"<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Loving this year\u2019s South Asian Heritage Month theme, \u2018Free to Be Me\u2019. The irony isn\u2019t lost on me, given my own journey of setting up a double life and creating a blonde alter-ego alias publicist to follow my dreams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– My first novel was rejected by most publishers so I set up a publishing company and a PR company, whilst pretending to go to work (long story!). Hyped the novel under an alias and got it into the book charts.
– I went on to sign a 3-book deal and my alter-ego was shortlisted as publicist of the year.
– I didn\u2019t attend the ceremony because, well, if I won, I couldn\u2019t thank the various parts of myself that had been a dream to work with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have turned down a fourth book deal to go solo again. The reasons are many, but the most important one is that I am finally free to be me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Don\u2019t contort yourself to fit into a system.
There is always a way forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Looking forward to this new chapter and to the events next month where I get to share my story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unravelling<\/a> is published in September.
More to follow\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

#SouthAsianHeritageMonth
#Unravelling<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Loving this year\u2019s South Asian Heritage Month theme, \u2018Free to Be Me\u2019. The irony isn\u2019t lost on me, given my own journey of setting up a double life and creating a blonde alter-ego alias publicist to follow my dreams. – My first novel was rejected by most publishers so I set up a publishing company […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6M31y-ks","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preethinair.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preethinair.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preethinair.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preethinair.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preethinair.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1268"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/preethinair.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1271,"href":"https:\/\/preethinair.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268\/revisions\/1271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preethinair.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preethinair.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preethinair.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}