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Swati Hegde

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Swati Hegde is the author of Can’t Help Faking in Love and Match Me If You Can. She is also a freelance editor, mindset coach, and self-proclaimed coffee shop enthusiast who lives in Bangalore, India, and can often be found at the nearest café with a hot mug of tea or singing her favorite songs off-key at karaoke night. She looks forward to a long career bringing Indian stories and voices to light.

Swati is represented by Rachel Beck at Liza Dawson Associates. Her romance novels Match Me If You Can and Can't Help Faking in Love are out now from Penguin Random House, with forthcoming books As Long As You Loathe Me releasing on March 31 and Love Beyond Reasonable Doubt slated for May 12.

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	Match Me If You Can 3.42 avg rating — 1,344 ratings — published 2024 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Can't Help Faking in Love 3.65 avg rating — 1,107 ratings — published 2025 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Love Beyond Reasonable Doubt: A Novel 3.57 avg rating — 287 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	As Long as You Loathe Me 3.70 avg rating — 249 ratings — published 2026 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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February was one of the most…eventful months of my life. I traveled to the United States to meet my publishing team and attend Love Y’all Romance Fest, I had the best Valentine’s Day I could have EVER dreamed of, aaaaand… I got rejected for three book proposals I pitched, all of which I was really excited about (although there was another proposal, of a different nature, that I eagerly said yes to

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Plot & Structure: Techniques and Exercises for Crafting a Plot That Grips Readers from Start to Finish

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“He knew nothing and learned everything because no one else would do it for him”
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“Did I deserve to be abandoned, then?”
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