Their last book, If It’s Not Forever., sold over 90,000 copies, she added.ĭo their youth and good looks have anything to do with the sales figures, we ask? “Not really,” laughed Nikita. Later when I saw her book in the bestseller list, I decided to get in touch with her,” laughed Durjoy.Īnd Nikita disliked Durjoy’s first book, Of course I Love You.! Till I Find Someone Better, so much that she could not read beyond the first 10 pages! However, she feels he has “improved a lot”. “She used to send me emails, where she spoke of her first book, Love Facebook. The two work mostly over email.īut they completely ignored each other initially. His ideas are very, very innovative though,” quipped Nikita. You never know which way he might take the story next. “But there is always some surprise with Durjoy. The best part about writing a book together, for Durjoy, is that since both have equal stakes in the book, they settle for nothing but the best. If he writes 2,000 words, I bring it down to 1,000,” replied the pretty girl born in Patna and now based in Indore. So what made them write together the second time? “We are each other’s greatest critics.
Someone Like You, she said, was about making new friends and adjusting to a different kind of life in a new city.
We have borrowed heavily from what we saw and observed around us,” said the dimple-cheeked Bengali boy, born and based in Delhi.ĭurjoy spoke of their characters - Niharika, the nerdy girl, Tanmay, the geeky, awkward guy - and added that after having written eight books, he had “evolved dramatically” as an author.Īs for his writing partner, Nikita, who is a pharmacy graduate, writing was not a conscious decision. “It involves youngsters but it is not a college romance. It’s Not Love.Īccording to Durjoy, this is a story about misfits. Published by Penguin Metro Reads, and priced at Rs 140, this is their second book together after If It’s Not Forever. They are Durjoy Datta and Nikita Singh, co-authors of Someone Like You, a story about love and friendship. They fight, they argue, they pull each other’s leg, yet they cannot do without each other. Durjoy Datta and Nikita Singh at the launch of their book Someone Like You at Starmark, South City Mall.
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