Category: My Books
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Bollywood is plot-bankrupt, while stories rot in bookstores
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For the past few years, my daughter and I have been going for movies almost every weekend. Apart from popcorn, pepsi and pizza, it is also our own little bonding time. We would intentionally choose a theatre reasonably far from home. The drive back home, the fight over the silly millennial songs vs Hindi music,…
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Lessons from a decade in publishing
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26th June 2017, as my latest thriller novel, In The Name Of God eased into the bookstores and even as the online preorder deliveries began, the significance of the occasion was not lost on me. It was on the same day, 10 years back that I stood on the small dais at Crossword Book…
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IN THE NAME OF GOD
For any author it is a moment of great pride to see his book out in print. I have had many of those moments. Despite such beingthe case, every time a book comes out, butterflies begin to fly in my belly. My heart begins to palpitate and I start biting my nails even more. The…
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Once Upon a time! What the Amazon acquisition of Westland says about our Publishing Industry…
Excitement of this kind is quite rare in the publishing industry. The last came a few years ago when Random House took over Penguin. And now this Amazon buyout of Westland has given the industry an interesting conversation beginner. Amazon had signaled their intent in February this year when they acquired minority stake in…
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To get your child to think out of the box, first get him/her inside the box : the ENCHANTICO box
To get your child to think out of the box, first get him/her inside the box : the ENCHANTICO box
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There are many reasons why I write and ‘Money’ is not in the top 5.
This piece written by me was published first by Scroll.in on 29th August 2015. You could read the article on Scroll.in here : Click here Every time I log on to Facebook, I find a number of people either wanting to write a book, or desperately hunting for a publisher having written a book. There…
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Me, My books – a different side to my life
A few days back Kiran Manral, a close friend a fabulous author and a wonderful human being did a Q&A with me on her blog. I had reblogged her post yesterday. Here’s the link to it…http://bit.ly/1dnWSE6. Thanks Kiran for featuring me on your blog. As a part of the Q&A, Kiran had implored her readers…
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Literary Fiction or Commercial Fiction
Over the last few weeks as I have gone around promoting BANKERUPT, I have been asked many questions. Some interesting, some not so interesting. Some probing, some not so probing. Some embarrassing, some not so embarrassing. However there was one question, which kept cropping up every now and then. And that was about my views…
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The PRESSURE of being an Author
Nicholas Sparks once said, “There’s always pressure. A great deal of pressure when writing, since my first books were so successful.” Jeffrey Archer in Jaipur said, “Every time a book of mine comes out, I spend sleepless nights wondering if it will debut on the New York Times, bestseller list …. at #1.” Every author…
Ravi Subramanian 