

I realised I didn’t want to deal with numbers but stories. Finally, I let go of my studies to become a writer. The more I got involved in the entire process, the more I found the ‘true me’. But the story of Meera and Vivaan had me take a break. I was pursuing CA and had to clear just the finals. Savi Sharma: The stories around and in my life were the inspiration for my writing. HerStory: What prompted you to become a writer? In an interview with HerStory, she talks about being a best-selling author, the writing process, pulp-fiction and the role of marketing in publishing. What’s surprising is that Savi Sharma opted to self-publish the book, before it was picked up by publishers, because as she puts it, ‘I knew I had a good story to show the world’. The 24-year-old joined the ranks of best-selling authors in India when her book Everyone Has a Story touched the magical 100,000 number. She calls herself ‘a simple girl from Surat’ who quit her Chartered Accountancy studies to become a story-teller.
