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Nish Amarnath

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Crime, Historical Fiction, Fiction

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JK Rowling, Gillian Flynn, Tana French, Mary Higgins Clark, John Grish ...more

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Nish Amarnath, previously known as Nischinta Amarnath, is a New York-based journalist and writer. She is the author of three books: 'The Voyage to Excellence: The Ascent of 21 Women Leaders of India Inc.', 'Citi and its Scuffle with the Watchdogs' and 'Victims For Sale'. Her debut novel, 'Victims For Sale' was released worldwide as a psychologically-driven crime thriller by HarperCollins in 2018 and is now a paperbacks bestseller in India. Victims For Sale, nominated for the Mumbai Film Festival Awards, has taken Nish on a journey ranging from the everyday challenges of London's Scotland Yard and a murder trial at London's Old Bailey to the practice of breaking vermicelli with a local at a Jalandhar Haveli in the Punjab to the United Nation Nish Amarnath, previously known as Nischinta Amarnath, is a New York-based journalist and writer. She is the author of three books: 'The Voyage to Excellence: The Ascent of 21 Women Leaders of India Inc.', 'Citi and its Scuffle with the Watchdogs' and 'Victims For Sale'. Her debut novel, 'Victims For Sale' was released worldwide as a psychologically-driven crime thriller by HarperCollins in 2018 and is now a paperbacks bestseller in India. Victims For Sale, nominated for the Mumbai Film Festival Awards, has taken Nish on a journey ranging from the everyday challenges of London's Scotland Yard and a murder trial at London's Old Bailey to the practice of breaking vermicelli with a local at a Jalandhar Haveli in the Punjab to the United Nations in New York. Victims For Sale, which gained momentum among television channels across the U.S. and India, against the backdrop of the #MeToo movement, won Nish the honor of addressing commercial, crime, literary and fantasy fiction authors and novelists as a speaker at Algonkian NYC's New York Pitch Conference (in March 2019), tagged by Writer's Mag and other outposts as one of the top ten literary conferences in North America.
Her upcoming novel, 'Twin Flame' is a Trans-Atlantic love saga whose theme song, Incarnation, premiered at New York's Ripley Grier Studios in March 2019.
Nish infuses her fiction work with elements of magic, mysticism and magic realism in ordinary and starkly real settings, although she would not wish to pigeonhole her oeuvres into the box of 'magic realism'.
Nish is a member of International Thriller Writers, where she is a Contributing Editor at The Big Thrill Magazine. She also contributes to New York's Writer's Edge, guiding authors and novelists towards a realistic path to publication, and has given various workshops in that regard at U.S. State Department affiliates, British Council outposts, and other public and private forums. Nish has written for Dow Jones' outposts, including The Wall Street Journal. She was previously Managing Editor at Euromoney Institutional Investor and a reporter at S&P Global where she was recognized as an Outstanding Reporter in 2017 as part of the AMMYs, or Alerian MLP Awards, across North America. Her articles have appeared in TheStreet.com, MSN Money, Yahoo Finance, India Today, The Hindu and Times of India's city supplements, among others. Upon earning a Distinction in Economics at university, she was the youngest post-graduate media student at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK, where she was a Margot Naylor Scholar. Later, she received the James W. Robins Reporting Fellowship - a development that urged her to quit a well-paying job as a management consultant at KPMG and attend a business journalism program at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism instead. A former Londoner, she lives and writes in New York City. ...more

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Nish Amarnath As a writer, you get to create different worlds and different realities based on your imagination. You get the leeway to construct those realities thr…moreAs a writer, you get to create different worlds and different realities based on your imagination. You get the leeway to construct those realities through different situations whose outcomes you can control as a writer. In other words, you can't necessarily control situations and people in real life, but you can do so as a writer! That can perhaps be construed as a form of escapism, and I do think that escapism is intrinsic to human existence. You get to give that urge for escapism a lot more leeway as a writer.

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Nish Amarnath My advice for aspiring writers is to find your unique voice, what ever that is. To find your unique voice, it is important to drop all the masks that …moreMy advice for aspiring writers is to find your unique voice, what ever that is. To find your unique voice, it is important to drop all the masks that we sometimes tend to wear as we assume various roles in society. To be a good writer, it's paramount to be one's real self and bare one's soul. It's also good to stay abreast of current news and developments, historical events, etc., and read various genres and formats voraciously. Traveling also helps, if you get a chance to do so. When I say traveling, I don't mean the regular tourist's travel--but rather exploring the less explored areas, venturing deep into the unknown and absorbing the vibe of the place and its people. To be a writer, one must be ready to leap off one's comfort zone.(less)

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