Welcome back!

I am learning such great things about the culture and your work, Shobhan. Thank you so much.

But, I  know my readers want more and so do I. So, let’s just get right to it:

Shobhan, in my own writing, I am learning that no book, no matter how well we know it’s content, is “an easy write”.

SLR: What was your biggest challenge in writing FORBIDDEN, and why?

 

SB: My biggest challenge was the research involved in writing about a subject that has a vast amount of material on the Internet and in magazines, but none of the statistics are reliable. Since gender-based abortions are conducted in massive numbers according to most sources, but almost always covertly, and cases are hushed up and rarely documented, the data is unreliable and conjecture at best. I had to decide how to use the dry information to my advantage and present it to my readers in an interesting tale.

 

 

SLR: Well, you definitely succeeded. I am one reader who couldn’t stop thinking about your book long after I finished it. If there was anything easy about writing FORBIDDEN, what was it?

 

SB: The characters were the most interesting as well as the simplest for me to develop, since I had the storyline worked out well before I started writing the book. I had a certain picture in mind for the protagonist and the hero as well as the secondary characters. It was a matter of making them do and say the right things at the right time.

SLR: Thank you so much, Shobhan, for your thoughtful comments and sharing your time here with us at Sable lit reviews. You’ve helped us shed light not only on the enrichment of your stories but on some very important topics for women everywhere. But I can’t let you go without one more question… :)

Come back tomorrow to find out what else I wanted to know from Shobhan Bantwal and her writing here at Sable Lit Reviews.

 

 

 

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