A quiet launch of the Sympathy Wave

In a packed Chamiers Cafe yesterday evening, I launched The Sympathy Wave on Chennai Live 104.8 FM's "Cover to Cover" radio program. This program, sponsored by my publishers, Westland Books, is designed to go to interesting places with authors of books, to get them to connect with the audience.

The show was hosted by Chennai Live's self-styled "book-chick", Jane Ram, and also featured romantic comedy writer Judy Balan. Jane enjoyed needling the two of us, given that we were from two dramatically different genres, and watching us do battle. 

At one point she also brought by son in from the audience, and had a lively discussion with him on his reading habits (he's a voracious reader of Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson series). The 10-year old kid handled the questions easily and with confidence, saying that he liked those books because of the violence, but not mine because it's "disgusting".

The program will be broadcast on Saturday, 18 Jan 2014, on 104.8 FM in Chennai.

There were several journalists in attendance, and their interviews with me should begin to appear in newspapers soon! I'll also upload the recording when I get a copy!