A spate of work prevented me from doing my two chapters this week. Apologies to those, if any, who wait for the next chapter in LSS with bated breath, whatever that is, are in order. I promise to make up for the deceleration by adding more chapters soon. Chapter 7 in a couple of days. Hang on, folks.
Created a Facebook Page for Lemon Salt Soda today for two reasons: shameless promotion to those who ask for it and to attract new readers. "Sofa so good!" as Babloo would say as he reclines on his couch before being disturbed by friends or siblings.
Please like the page, people who are not my friends on FB, to get notifications. It's here: www.facebook.com/LemonSaltSoda Thirteen years ago, I worked for Tulika Publishers as Art Editor. One Saturday afternoon, after everybody in the office had gone home, I wrote a short story in a burst of inspiration. On Monday, the chief Ed read it and told me, "You write better than anybody else here." Whether that was true or pure kindness on her part, we will never know. But that served as great motivation. I wrote another short story, just to delight the good editors there. If you have the Big Ben and the Tower of Pisa, you may read the two stories at Hubpages, where I write as Kenny Wordsmith. Click links below please.
1. Confessions of a Ghost Writer 2. Dhavani Not wanting to risk losing my new-found readership, I decided to post more frequently when I could and not make it only a Saturday thing. At least for now. So bear with me or read it only on weekends.
Those who are looking forward to the trip to Goa promised in the blurb, will have to wait for one more chapter, I'm afraid. The characters haven't left Chennai yet. And I hope it's worth the wait. Because I love Lemon Salt Soda. After gym, or a long walk, or even without any excuse, a lemon salt soda is the best fizzy drink under the sun. According to me, anyway. I ask for it at the juice shop, I make it at home, and I write about it. Which proves that I love it.
Here's the recipe. Remember to keep stirring it, if you don't finish it in a single gulp, to sustain the fizziness. For a change, try lemon salt coke or lemon salt any-soft-drink. The story has Somasundaram Damodaran, a fellow with a signature worthy of a doctor's. Only So and Da are recognizable and so SoDa. |