Category: Publishing
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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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Research is only as good as the fiction you spin it into
Buy IN THE NAME OF GOD, my latest thriller: Click Here *** As it appeared in Mumbai Mirror *** Fiction writers are always advised to write what they know about. But what if you are tackling unfamiliar terrain? Ravi Subramanian has a few answers. Two years ago, on a rainy July afternoon, I stepped out…
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Chetan Bhagat is not an idiot
Surprise is a small word. It didn’t surprise me when I read about Anvita Bajpai’s accusation of plagiarism and court case against Chetan Bhagat. It SHOCKED me. You could read about it here: Economic Times Article. My first instinct was, why didn’t Anvita Bajpai write to the publisher and the author asking them for a…
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Weird things authors do…!
Having spent close to a decade in the publishing industry, I have been witness to a number of crazy things authors do (some of them, even I do). Authors are really crazy people. How else do you justify anyone sitting hours in front of a screen typing away? How else do you justify someone spending…
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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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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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