It’s a love-ly feeling

Crime-fiction writer Kulpreet Yadav is learning a thing or two about romance and his latest book, The Last Love Letter, tells us how much he has progressed in this journey of his

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Once known as an author of crime thrillers, Kulpreet Yadav is now in a romantic mood. Kulpreet, whose last novel was Queens of Crime, which he co-authored with Sushant Singh, has now explored the romantic genre.

Kulpreet says, “When I planned to write a romantic novel even my wife was sceptical about it telling me point blank that I know nothing about romance. I was taken aback since I had never forgotten her birthday or missed to give her roses and gifts on our anniversary.”

But, by the time he completed his novel, The Last Love Letter, like all men he too had to concede that his wife understood romance more than he.

He says, “The presence of women in the house ( his wife and two daughters) really helped me understand various aspects of romance and how women have a natural ability to love more than men do.”

Kulpreet has served in the Indian Naval Academy for two decades before he left his job to fulfil his passion for writing. He reminisces, “My first book was pretty much unintentional. I wrote about 30,000 words and when I showed it to my wife, she pitched the idea of getting the work published. And this is how my first book, The Bet, got published.”

Like every budding writer Yadav had faced setbacks in his writing career and he admits that it was devastating when two of his books were rejected back-to-back by publishers and till date they have not been published. He says, “Now that I look back at my work, I also feel that those books were not my best, but when you write something, you are in love with your work and unable to admit the flaws. I took up an online course, worked on my writing skill and got over my failures.”

Kulpreet, who launched his book The Last Love Letter at the State Library, Sector 17 Chandigarh, says, “No one can stop a person to be a writer if he or she has read 100 books in two years. If India needs to grow, parents should fix a budget for books per month for their children. The more you read, better are the chances of coming into power with the first world countries.”