《Wattpad India Awards 2020》Meet the Judges
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Get to know the judging panel for Wattpad India Awards 2020:
Neil D'Silva is a well-known name on India's literary scene. His books cover dark themes of the supernatural and paranormal world. He is most known for his titles Maya's New Husband and Yakshini, both of which hit #1 on Amazon India (horror) and on Wattpad.
Neil has scored three screen adaptation deals for his books. A popular face on multiple litfest panels, Neil has also spoken on the TEDx platform and mentors aspiring authors and conducts writing workshops. He is the founder of the litfest Litventure and is the President of the India Chapter of the Horror Writers Association.
Kanchana has been writing for almost 20 years. She began her writing career with The Statesman (Kolkata) & then with TOI (Hyderabad). She has written for numerous reputed publications in the country and with various MNCs & PR firms as a corporate writer.
In 2011 she founded an online company called Writeword and conducted online writing courses to help women learn the art of freelance writing.
– a dark and twisted thriller is her second book with HarperCollins. Her first novel – A Forgotten Affair – also with Harper Collins was published in September 2016.
Kanchana lives in Gurgaon with her husband, son & 2 dogs.
Roshini Dadlani commissions for the fiction and lifestyle list at Penguin Random House India, and her authors include Raageshwari Loomba Swaroop, Srishti Chaudhuri, Andaleeb Wajid and Shwetambari Shetty. She enjoys reading romance novels and self-help books in her free time.
Nayantara is an associate editor in the children's division at HarperCollins India. She previously taught English Language and Literature at a school in Singapore. She reads across a variety of genres, from YA and contemporary fiction to fantasy and twisty thrillers.
Aanchal Budhiraja is one of the winners of the Star Writers Program 2020 and trained under the industry's best screenwriters in Mumbai. She started her career as a Wattpad writer in 2014 and published various novels like Baking With Boys, The Demon Babysitter, One Of These Endings, and Illusion Of Love (Wattpad India Award Winner 2019). The Demon Babysitter was also adapted into a comic book. Her works have amassed more than 7 million readers worldwide.
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She now works as a screenwriter for Indian Television on shows like Yehh Jadu Hai Jinn Ka and more up-coming shows for platforms like Sony, Colors, and Netflix.
Dyuti Mishra is a writer and editor with over a decade of work experience. Her work has been published in The Hindu, Vogue, GQ, Femina, The Bombay Review, Helter Skelter and many other publications.
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Begin the End
The legend of Alexander Wren, was a tale passed down through generations. Telling of a hero's quest to pull his love back from the gate of death. The story told is always a happy one.The hero slays the beast, saves the girl, lives happily ever after. However this is merely a folk tale, a story told to children. The truth is much more sinister This is the true story of Alexander Wren, the beginning of the end.The very thing that led us here, to the day the mortals die.
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Condemned
“The human body is a fragile thing. But the soul... The soul is malleable. Easily tainted. All it takes is one drop of blood to dye it all red.” Long ago, in a time remembered only by a few, the seven lords of Syvernia, led by the Great Hero Ludwig, ended the Great Calamity that plagued humanity for as long as time itself. It was the dawn of a new age of man. . . until the thirst for more poisoned the new lords. Slowly, the thread that held humanity together loosened and a thick haze consumed the lands between. Mysterious vanishings, supernatural forces, and silence warns of a looming threat inside the coat of fog. Though the struggle of the realms did not interest Leor, for he was condemned as a Purblight, until he took a seemingly simple job: escort Alden to Lightendale and collect the handsome reward, a reward that would let him live the rest of his life with ease. But it’s never that simple, especially for someone who denounced the Gods. All his life, death followed Leor everywhere he went, cutting down his friends and family. When his first love died at the hands of an agent of light, he was prepared to throw everything away until a mysterious voice promised him a chance for retribution and a chance to bring her back by completing the seven trials. Thrown into the realm's struggle against the approaching haze and themselves, will Leor, a Purblight and an acquaintance of tragedy, use the very power he disdains to accomplish his goals? This is the rewrite of my novel: Condemned; I changed it to past tense and added/ took out some ideas from the original. This is essentially the first draft since I'm writing as I go. Also, there might be or might not be Gore, Sexual, or Traumatizing content. I only put it there for a disclaimer in case I want to add it. I have no set release schedule yet, but I'll try to post once every 2 week. Thanks for your patience.
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Unwaking
Hidden away from the outside world, Willow had spent her first 15 years in blissful ignorance of the political scheming of knights and nobles until one of the most famous knights in the realm appeared on her doorstep. Colm had thought he was doomed to spend his time as a squire polishing saddles and feeding horses until he was allowed to accompany the knight of legend on a quest to bring a mysterious girl to the castle. And all the while Prince Fiachra had lain frozen in time, cursed by the evil Fae Queen as she drew her last breath. Drawn together by magic and coincidence, the unlikely comrades will have to decide between their loyalties to their families, to their homes, and to each other as they seek to break the curse and save the kingdom from forces that would seek to destroy it.
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The market of dark spirits.
Participante en el desafío NaNoWriMo Royal Road.
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The Kings Mate
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