||Wattys 2022 Shortlist|| Kian Advani was a closeted queer in his high school. Always in denial of his true feelings and emotions. So much so that he did everything to blend in with the rest of the straight crowd. But that didn't mean he wasn't attracted to Enzo Santiago. The star soccer player of the school and someone Kian has been crushing on since seventh grade. Too bad he never got the chance to act on that crush. Now he is finally out of his small-town conservative circle and giving himself a fresh start at University. Everything seems to be working as he has planned. His new workmates are not homophobic, and neither are his new friends. But can things remain under his control when Enzo waltzes into his life again, a little too unavoidable this time? *** Disclaimer: This story is exclusively published on Wattpad. If you see it somewhere else, please do inform me.

A king with a bad attitude must change for his subjects or else face the rebellion. He thinks power can stop it all, little does he know power can become the reason for his fall. ------------×------------- -------------×------------- Book 1 | Royalty and Commonalty Series Edward Cromwell II, the king of Pigeoda, is a clever man who believes he can bring his kingdom prosperity. With his intelligence, no doubt he can. Although can he make it possible with his subjects on the verge of rebelling? Jupiter, a soldier from Pigeoda's army, is made of the traumas from his past. The eventful life he left behind had altered him into a different person, a person with an identity crisis. Long gone is the time to embrace his inner woman, he believes. Add getting assigned a sentry to the king after saving him from attempted murder to his baggage. Compelled to live as a shadow of the man, Jupiter sees people suffering at the hands of the indifference of their king and decides to stick by in hope that the king would wisen up. After all, Rumi once said - "Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself." Will the king change for the good or things would take a turn for the worse when Jupiter's real self unveils? ---------×--------- Prompt #30 and Prompt #71 Priority status: Both prompts equally important.

Superwinner of Wattpad India Awards Featured by WattpadIndia, WattpadMulticultural, TeenFiction, YA, FreetheLGBT and YaRomance Tulsi, an eighteen-year-old girl living in Mumbai has always been enraptured by her best-friend Lila and it takes only one playful kiss under the dancing beam of sunshine to irrevocably, beautifully and devastatingly change her ordinary life. A story which unravels over years of yearning and seeking each other, tumultuous relationships, secretive smiles and discovering oneself against the backdrop of a chaotic city- in Tulsi's own thoughts, a recipe for a near-perfect biryani (with some unwanted cardamom). [Book is written purely in English so all global readers can understand as well]

#WINNER OF WATTPAD INDIA AWARDS 2021 (MATTERS OF HEART CATEGORY) Veritas is one of the big players in journalism- legacy, history, hard hitting journalists and writers. A family of truth tellers. Anita was born into the same family; raised on facts and logic. And she is aware- a news story needs both. Anita is an ambitious, intelligent journalist- she's keen on maintaining her father's heritage while also creating her own space. Her professors think she's meant to be one of the greats. But too much ego- isn't good thing at 21. And life has a lot to teach you at 21, Anita learns. An accident temporarily cripples her and sends her for "rest and recovery" to England. But Anita is too restless to rest. What ensues- is a troubling twenties cocktail- she falls in love. Its' reckless, its' passionate - and most importantly conceals the truth. Truth telling, no more. When a house of cards falls down- nothing remains. Can Anita find it in herself to build a world of her own when things fall apart? Or will she bow down like many before her? What does it mean for a woman to have a world of her own? And can the modern woman truly have it all? The story that didn't make it to the headlines. ( 59,000 WORDS )