Heena is the author of the award-winning novel Deceived. She works as the novel critic and the chief editor at a local publishing house in Pune, India. She is an animal lover as well as an animal activist.
She loves books, music and wine. Travelling and learning about new cultures is an integral part of her life.
She is presently learning Piano and French language.
She lives in Pune, India with her beloved husband and 6 cats.
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Freewriting – Everything You Need To Know
Freewriting is a very important prewriting technique that not only helps you to get over your writer’s block, but also to tap into your sub-conscience mind and see what all ideas and stories are hiding there. Most of the times, we get stuck while writing a story, or an article, and simply don’t know what…
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Month End Updates: July’16 (A Short Post)
Hello, all my lovely readers and friends 🙂 This month was the busiest one so far! I did a lot of exciting things and I finally figured out what was going wrong with the story I was working on, so it was a really good one for me. My month in: WRITING– I’m almost done…
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All About First Drafts
A First Draft is one of the most basic entities of fiction-writing and it lays the basic foundation of a novel. If you’re a writer then you probably might have come across this term more than a thousand times already, and if not then you’ve come to the right place. Just for the sake of…
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Month End Updates: June’16
Hello, all my lovely readers and friends 🙂 This month has been one hell of a rollercoaster ride. I wrote like a maniac for some days, but some days I had to struggle to get even a single word out. I managed to read a few books while doing JuNoWriMo and in my off days…
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Fiction Writing With Author Heena (Ep. 01)
Hello, friends. Finally, I’ve started my Writing Podcast series. I hope you’ll like it. Thank you for watching! Ciao <3
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Book Review: Aerisia: Land Beyond the Sunset
Author: Sarah Ashwood Release Date: April 16, 2014 Series: The Sunset Lands Beyond Genre: YA/Fantasy Edition: mobi Pages: 374 Publisher: Griffineus Publications Source: Author Buy it here: Amazon Rating: ★★★★ Blurb: The mystery of other worlds is not one Hannah Winters ever thought she’d solve. However, the day she spots a brown-robed stranger with a magical…
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Book Review: Exodia
Author: Debra Chapoton Release Date: June 25th 2015 Series: Exodia Ledgers Genre: Science Fiction | Dystpia/YA Edition: mobi Pages: 218 Publisher: Not Specified Source: Author Buy it here: Amazon Rating: ★★★★ Blurb: By 2093 American life is a strange mix of failing technologies, psychic predictions, and radiation induced abilities. Tattoos are mandatory to differentiate two…
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My First Video Podcast!
Hi, everyone! As most of you might know, I’ve been working on creating Podcasts for my book blog from last 1 month. Finally I was done with the first one on June 1, but when I launched into the frantic research on uploading the podcasts and finding a decent podcasting host, I miserably failed. Well,…
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Month End Updates: May’16
Hello, all my lovely readers and friends 🙂 This month has been the most important one so far this year, yet it was also a lot fun. Read on to get to know about THE BIG NEWS!!! My month in: WRITING– I worked with my editor on the first round of edits for the first…
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Interview with Heena Rathore P.
My author interview on The Beauty Of Words by Cathleen Townsend. Thanks a lot, Cathleen, for the lovely opportunity and for such amazing questions! Please visit Cathleen’s blog to read the entire interview…
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Instagram’s New Look – Yay Or Nay?
Those of you who know me well know that I spend a LOT of time on Instagram. [For those of you who don’t know, I have two Instagram accounts, one is my personal Ig account (authorheenarathore) and the other one is my book blog’s Bookstagram (thereadingbud)] So yesterday afternoon when I was working on a presentation…
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Book Review: The Legendary Haunting of Quentin Wallis
Author: C K McKenzie Release Date: February 13, 2016 Genre: Fantasy Edition: Kindle (mobi) Pages: 214 Publisher: Self-Published Source: Author Buy it here: Amazon Rating: ★★★ Blurb: It has been in the nature of fairy tales that they begin with ‘Once Upon a Time’ and end with a ‘Happily Ever After’. However this is not…
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Month End Update: April’16
Hello all the lovely readers! This month has been a really tough one, mostly because I completed the first round of editing of my book. My month in: WRITING– I completed the first round of editing. And as soon as I did, I was like: Outlined Sinister Town in detail. Won Camp NaNo April [60K…
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Editing Vs Revising
We all are aware of what revising a draft means and what it means to get your manuscript edited, but very few writers really know the real difference between the two. If you’ll ask around, the most common answer is that what we do ourselves is revising and what an editor does is editing. But…
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Checking In
Hi, guys. I’m participating in Camp NaNoWriMo and on top of that I’m down with cold and cough. So forgive me for being MIA and for not posting new stories or posts. I’ll be off for another week or two and then will be back with new and fun stuff. 🙂 All the best to…
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TRB’s New Bookstagram!
Check out our new Bookstagram!
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TRB’s New Bookstagram!
Hello all the lovely readers of TRB! As you can see I made some serious changes to the theme and graphics of this blog. I love this new look- rugged and hardcore. What do you think about it? Anyway, after a long consideration, I decided against having a separate Instagram profile for TRB. But then…
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Win A Doodle! Woo!
Check out this amazing post!
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Month End Update: March’16
Hello guys, It’s been a long month and I hope that you all were able to do the things you wanted to do for this month. My month in: Writing– I wrote a fresh outline for Sinister Town and presently I’m tweaking it. Reading– Baggage by S.G. Redling – 4/5 The Eighth Day by Joseph…
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Book Review: The Nth Day by Jonathan Huls
Author: Jonathan Huls Release Date: November 11, 2015 Series: – Genre: Fantasy Edition: E-Book (mobi) Pages: 330 Publisher: Duvinchi Media Group Source: Author Buy it here: Amazon Rating: ★ – DNF Blurb: Justin is an immaculately conceived deity who roams the earth wreaking havoc as an adolescent. As his supernatural powers become catastrophic for the whole world, Cassie and Theodore must…
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2 Year Blog Anniversary (Happy Birthday TRB)
Thank you, everyone, for all your love and support! Today TRB has successfully completed 2 years <3 This year in numbers: (March’15 – March’16) No. of books read: 90 No. of books reviewed: 87 (including reviews from contributors.) Blog followers: 592 No. of comments: 1,918 No. of spam comments blocked: 6000+ Facebook followers: 1,286 Twitter followers: 235 Plans for this year: I’m starting…
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Trying To Get Home
Trying To Get Home- a short story by Heena Rathore P.
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My New WIP- Sinister Town
Exactly a year before, Deceived was only an idea in my head which kept on brewing constantly until I finally decided to get it on paper. And today here I am with Deceived getting published and another book’s first draft in hand. This sure has been one hell of a year for me. Let me…