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Wednesday, October 11 at 8pm ET – Wednesday, October 18th at 8pm ET

Auction Items

• Twenty (20) Minute Zoom Chat with Sonali Dev
  • This is an opportunity to ask Sonali all of your burning questions about her books and writing process.
• Value: Priceless
• To be set up between Sonali, the library, and the winner at the end of the auction
  

  Shipping – NA

  $10 starting bid

Author’s Biography

Sonali Dev’s first literary work was a play about mistaken identities performed at her neighborhood Diwali extravaganza in Mumbai. She was eight years old. Despite this early success, Sonali spent the next few decades getting degrees in architecture and writing, migrating across the globe, and starting a family while writing for magazines and websites. With the advent of her first gray hair her mad love for telling stories returned full force, and she now combines it with her insights into Indian culture to conjure up stories that make a mad tangle with her life as supermom, domestic goddess, and world traveler.

Sonali lives in the Chicago suburbs with her very patient and often amused husband and two teens who demand both patience and humor, and the world’s most perfect dog.

Sonali’s novels have been on Library Journal, NPR, Washington Post, and Kirkus’s Best Books of the year lists. She has won the American Library Association’s award for best romance, the RT Reviewer Choice Award for best contemporary romance, multiple RT Seals of Excellence, is a RITA® finalist, and has been listed for the Dublin Literary award. Shelf Awareness calls her “Not only one of the best but one of the bravest romance novelists working today.” Her book, The Vibrant Years, was chosen by Mindy Kaling as the first in her “Mindy’s Book Studio” in collaboration with Amazon Publishing. They have announced plans to adapt it for the screen!

Her new book, Lies and Other Love Languages, will be released on September 26, 2023.

Learn more about Sonali on her website.

Reminder:

The live auction will be from Wednesday October 11th at 8:00pm – Wednesday October 18th at 8:00pm ET on eBay. You can bid anytime during that week on eBay. 

You can find all of the details of the auction – bidding, shipping, etc – on our FAQ page.

Sonali Dev has generously donated her time to the Friends of the Ashland Public Library for our online Romance Swag Bag Auction 2023, helping raise funds to support our library programs for all ages. We are so grateful!