Just Married, Please Excuse: Book Trailer

P.S - how 'multimedia' am I these days, huh?! Multitasking- Multimedia- Mom. That's me. I should shut up now, right? This is me, shutting up. Enjoy trailer!

The JMPE Series - 1

Courtesy: Vivek Singh

Email from a Young Lady

Put up here with young Surabhi's permission. It really put a smile on my face. 

(Note: Giveaway reminder - please do check for my book in stores and let me know what you found! 

Hey Yashodhara,

At the very outset of this mail, I want to congratulate you on JMPE. A friend recommended your blog, and I read what you wrote in six years,all in a day. After that, the urge to read some more got the better of me, and I immediately ordered your book online. I was wondering if the book would live up to what your blog is. Whether one particular story would do justice to your style of writing. I was pleasantly surprised. The book was all that and much more. It is simply written yet pretty smart. It makes you roll in laughter in parts and in others makes you pause and ponder about similar situations you have faced. It is not the typical 'fat lonely girl finds her guy and lives happily ever after',but it is every modern woman's happily ever after(with some glitches),in print.It is honest and engages you,making it un-putdownable. Congratulations again!!!

I am a 23 year old working girl, who is journeying through life.I too am a fiercely independent, big city D.U pass-out, who wants to get better every day. I see myself settling down in a few years(hopefully)!! The kind of cliches surrounding a working woman, the challenges and choices we face, the 'timelines' we are supposed to stick to, often scare and disillusion me. I think after reading your blog, what I have realized is that it can probably all be managed. Cliches broken, and some mistakes made, yet be managed fine.Thank you for being sort of an inspiration like that ;)

It is great to read your blog regularly, and I hope you continue writing and many many more books come your way!!!

Best of Luck for that and everything else.

Love,
Surabhi

Some more JMPE stuff: Interview-Review-Video

1. Reliance Time Out features a Rapid-Fire interview with me here

2. Two interesting new reviews for JMPE out:

A Man's perspective: here
A Woman's perspective:here

3. A video that I shot as an extra for you, while shooting for something else - don't worry, I don't hold this strange expression that Youtube chose for the still, throughout the video. As a matter of fact - I have a whole variety of strange expressions. :-).
Not really - In fact, please be impressed that this was all done in just one take.

Lastly: Reminder - my book giveaway is still ON. Keep the feedback coming about the bookstores you visit, people! You guys are the best :-)

Just Married Please Excuse: Another update

Some more Just Married, Please Excuse Reviews are up! Not sure I'm getting all of them, but here go a few more:

Chandni
Priya
Shilpa
Sweta
Indrani
Princess
Amrita

By my extensive calculations on the subject, 98% of the roughly 50 reviews I've read so far are very positive. This makes me do my happy dance. *Does Happy Dance.*

So I am flummoxed by the logic of the average retailer.

'So you've got only 2 copies of my book in stock?'
'Yes, Ma'am. We had 10, 8 sold out last week.'
'Oh, that's great. So have you ordered more now?'
'Bilkul, Madam...just let these last 2 finish and then we will place the order...will only take a few days after that to get more copies.'

This makes me sink to the floor and weep. *Sinks to floor and weeps.*

(Why, God, WHY? Have you guys never heard of re-order levels or whatever term it was that we studied in  supply-chain or whatever subject that was? HUH? Seriously, people. Help me out here, will you? Participate in my giveaway and let me know where the book is not available at this point of time.)

Need Your Help On This One - Giveaway Round 2

I've been posting on how 'Just Married Please Excuse' is doing well, and how we're going into a reprint very soon. Still - it's a very, very large country and I still find that there are many places where the book is not available in physical stores. This continues to be very, very critical - despite the entire e-revolution, we still browse and discover books in stores. It's a real challenge trying to stay on top of this, and I could really use your help here.

I'd like to open up a book giveaway again for Round 2 - so till October 15, if you could please do the following:

1. The next time you're in a bookstore, do look around for JMPE. If you don't see it, please do ASK for it.
2. If you find that they don't have it in stock, please write to me with the store's name and location ( do include the phone number, too) - at yashodhara dot lal at gmail dot com. This will help my publisher keep track of where it needs to be placed. It will help immensely.

I will randomly pick 5 people and send copies of the book to them, shall announce on Oct 15.These won't be signed copies as I'll be ordering them online for you, but you'll win the book anyway and I promise to sign them for you when we get to meet someday - when I'm in your city next :-)

(Do note that the chain Odyssey is not a part of this because they're apparently not stocking new titles).

Even if you've already read the book ( and hopefully liked it), it will help immensely if you can keep an eye out for this. And ideally, create a bit of a scene with your vociferous demand 'What kind of book-store is THIS?' if they don't stock it (as my brother-in-law has promised to do :-))

I really appreciate the support! 

Letter from A Newly Married Man

...and someone who happens to have been my reportee years go. His honest little email about what he thought of Just Married, Please Excuse shared below - with his kind permission of course. He informs me he was anyway going to write this as a comment on the blog initially :-) but wasn't sure I would want it up here...But Y On Earth Not, I say!

Hey Boss,

Finished reading your book.

Let me start at the beginning - I used to love your blog, during the married, pre-peanut phase. It was sarcy and incredibly funny. Then it became more warm/cute-funny, and I gradually lost interest. (I don't like babies and have never held one). Also, there has been a spate of books by Indian women around the theme of love/marriage/the right-boy in the recent past, all of which have been terrible. Some I read, and hence I know. Some, you didn't even have to read. The blurb was bad enough. I expected a sappy, cheesy book - '2 states' blended with a momma-blog.

So I bought your book out of loyalty.

And I'm glad I did. 

I loved the book. It was nothing like I expected. It was sarcy, funny, warm and really nice. I could relate to the characters. Ofcourse, it helps having known Vijay, Vivi and you. There is some advice hidden inside without being preachy. And it felt incredibly honest and true.

Am now trying to get my wife to read it.

Awesome work! Can't wait for the second one.

Proud of you!

Dushyant

P.S - I love hearing that men like my book too. Yay!