Welcome to the WordCrafter “Coming Home” Release Party Post

WordCrafter Press is proud to announce the release of the second edition of Coming Home, by Smitha Vishwanath in digital format. While the first edition is still available on Amazon and in print, this second edition takes the book wide, making it available on Barnes & Noble, Apple Books, Rakuten Kobo, and Smashwords, as well as on library lists and subscription services across the globe.

This story from WordCrafter Press will tug at your heartstrings as it deals with issues all can relate to as the protagonist, Shaynaya, travels across continents as she comes to terms with her grief over her mother’s death. You may laugh and cry as Shaynaya navigates her daily life choices and strives for independence in this heartfelt coming of age romance.

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About Coming Home

Twenty-six-year-old, Shaynaya’s world is shattered at the death of her beloved mother. In spite of career achievements, there’s a vacuum in her heart caused by the questions raised by her mother’s sudden death which remain unanswered. In her quest for peace and the need to hold her family together, she leaves her job in the Middle East and moves to India; journeying across geographical planes and inner landscapes to finally reach ‘home’.

Coming Home is a heartwarming story about self-discovery, relationships, loss, love, destiny, the choices we make, and how these choices eventually lead to what we are destined for.

Purchase Link: https://books2read.com/ComingHome-SmithaVishwanath

The Creation of Coming Home

‘Coming Home’ was originally published in March 2023. The story was well received by readers (check out the reviews on Amazon and Goodreads). With the help of Kaye Lynne Booth of Wordcraft Press, I’m making the book available in a second edition on Barnes and Noble and other digital platforms. I want to thank Kaye for reworking the book cover and doing everything necessary to make the book available to readers who have no access to Amazon.

‘Coming Home’ is a story of self-discovery, family and love. It’s about moving ahead one step at a time even when you don’t have all the answers. Shaynaya, the main protagonist of the story is a twenty-six-year-old who loses her mother to cancer. Her world comes crumbling down and she is left to piece it together for the sake of her dad, her sister, herself and most importantly, for her mother, for whom family meant everything.

I lost my mother in 2006, much like the protagonist. When I began writing the book in December 2020, I had healed from the wound of losing my mother. However, losing my dad in November 2020 reopened old wounds. Writing this book helped me escape and surround myself with characters, who I could breathe life into as and when I pleased. Although, it’s fiction, the journey of sorrow and healing are based on my experience. The purpose of writing this book was to share with people all that I learnt along the way. One reader, Willow Willers, who read the book dedicated James Blunt’s song, ‘Halfway’ to the book. She said that was her takeaway from the story; I think that perfectly describes the essence of the book. Another reader said, ‘the book is all love.’ It’s not just a love story, but a story about life and love plays a part in it.

The story is set in India. So, if you’re someone who enjoys reading about other cultures, then this book will give you a taste of the South of India. As the characters travel to Kerala, Mumbai, Bangalore, Dubai you get a peek into these cities as the story unfolds.

About Author Smitha Vishwanath

Smitha Vishwanath is a banker turned writer. She began her writing journey in 2016 through her blog, https://smithavpen nings.com.

Her poetry has been published by Thieving Magpies, Spillwords Press, Silverbirch Press, Borderless Journal, and Rebelle Society, amongst others. In 2019, her poem, ‘Omid’ was nominated for Best of the Net and her poems, ‘Do you have dreams?’ and ‘Forgotten’ were given special mention in NaPoWriMo, 2021 and 2022, hosted by Maureen Thomson. In addition, she was awarded the Reuel International Prize for poetry by the online group, TSL in 2022.

In 2019, she co-authored a book of poetry, Roads- A journey with Verses which received positive reviews. She was nominated poet of the month in May 2021 and voted ‘Author of the month’ for January and February, 2023 by Spillwords Press.

Smitha’s writing is peppered with the lessons learned from the plethora of invaluable experiences that come from having travelled widely, lived across India, UAE and Iran and worked in a multi-cultural environment.

She currently resides in Dhaka, Bangladesh, with her husband and two daughters. When she is not writing, you can find her painting, travelling or sharing reviews of books she has read, on Goodreads, Amazon and her blog.

Excerpt Reading from Coming Home

Thank you for joining us in the launch of the second edition of Coming Home. Leave a comment to let us know you were here. If you choose to leave a review, please do so on a platform other than Amazon, as that would be for the first book. This can even be on your personal blog. And if you already wrote a review for the first edition, and would like to help give the second edition a boost, you can copy/paste it on a platform other than Amazon, as it is the same story with only a few revisions. If you are inclined to shoot me a link to your review at KLBWordCrafter@gmail.com, all the better. I may use it in promotions. All reviews will be greatly appreciated.

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