​Over the weekend, I asked people on my Facebook page to come up with a title for my 3rd multicultural / international romance novel. Book 1 is called SAVED IN SRI LANKA, Book 2 (recently released) is called SEDUCED IN SPAIN. So the only prerequisite was to have an alliteration between the first word of the title and the country. Suggestions poured in, some outrageous, some creative, some funny, some brilliant. I swear, I haven’t laughed so hard in ages.
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Here’s a list of my personal favourites. Read all the way till the end because I’ll be announcing not one, not two, but three winners!

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Crazy / inventive / exotic / funny titles:

• Loved-up in Lithuania
• Soaked in Seattle
• Crazy in Croatia
• Jeopardy in Japan
• Besotted in Britain (how about a romantic comedy?)
• Alone in the Amazon
• Busted in Brazil
• Jilted in Japan
• Beached in Barbados
• Resurrected in Romania (oh, I feel a vampire novel coming on *lol*)
• Victorious in Vietnam
• Tantalized in Tibet
• Taken in Teheran
• Courted in Cambodia
• Betrothed in Bosnia
• Shameless in Shanghai
• Murdered in Maine
• Naughty in Naples
• Missed Calls in Mauritius
• Gallivanting in Greece
• Dead in Denmark (yikes, more like horror)
• Addled in Australia
• Haunted in Hungary (a paranormal romance, maybe?)
• Quizzed in Qatar

 
 
Titles I’d like to work with / that sound nice:

• Enchanted in England
• Dazzled in Dubai
• Married in Manhattan
• Romanced in Rome
• Ishq-ed in India (for those who don’t know, ishq means love)
• Charmed in Canada
• Sexy in Singapore
• Together in Thailand
• Ravished in Rio
• Enchanted in Egypt
• Frozen in Finland
• Captivated in Canada
• Missing in Moscow (romantic suspense, anyone?)
• Intrigued in India
• Forever in France
• Serenaded in Seychelles (romance with a singer / rock star?)
• Irked in Ireland

 
I found it SO hard to choose because many of you got really creative. One enthusiastic competitor found a title for each letter of the alphabet. I ended up with 5 candidates and narrowed it down to 3 winners:
 
Karthik Lakshminarayanan
M S Spencer Author
Piyusha Vir
 
Thanks a lot to everyone who participated and made my weekend so entertaining. I may or may not end up using one of the titles… Do you have a favourite title or country?

A recent thunderstorm inspired me to write 3 poems. I've already shared 2 of them, titled "Sing Me a Song" and "Don't Underestimate Me". Here's poem number 3, which was inspired by the heroine from my latest romance novel SEDUCED IN SPAIN.

​I’m sitting by the window, trying
Not to slip back in time again
And take a trip down memory lane
Because I’ll just end up crying
 
I’m lying in my bed, wide awake
Cursing my inability to see
That you never cherished me
And made my lovesick heart break
 
I’m walking with my head held high
Pretending that I’m all over you
Though forgetting you is hard to do
And every breath is a painful sigh
 
I’m sitting by the window, thinking why
I couldn’t arm myself against your charm
Couldn’t see that loving you meant harm
And yet another day of regrets goes by
 
I’m lying in my bed, counting the stars
Wondering if you remember me too
Recall all the things we used to do
Feel the painful itch beneath the scars
 
I’m walking with both feet on the ground
But my head is high up in the clouds
Full of memories, dreams and doubts
Waiting forever to be searched and found
 
I’m sitting by the window with my broken heart
Asking myself whether it was worth the pain
Whether I was meant to lose again and again
And our love story was doomed from the start
 
I’m lying in my bed, longing for your touch
Whereas you have forgotten my name
Wondering if to you I was only a game
Realizing that I gave of myself too much
 
I’m walking alone on a road dark and long
Trapped in a world of unrequited love
Eternally waiting for a sign from above
Clueless as to what on earth went wrong
Silently singing a sad, sad song
 
© Devika Fernando