Rasana Atreya's Blog

I get these same questions so often that I decided to turn this into a blog post:  I have a manuscript. How do I self-publish it? Before you self-publish this: * If you have writer friends, get them to beta-read your manuscript. * Get your manuscript edited. * Get your manuscript proofread Then: * Commission […]

Here’s an update to the post below by Allison Williams: I’ll add something for authors who wish to query in the USA – literary agent Janet Reid‘s blog is terrifically helpful with query and process guidance (it’s not quite as scary as ‘they’ll trash you if your title isn’t in italics ) and the Query […]

This is a great overview by Sriram Subramanian. Reposted with permission. This is in response to a post last night, where someone was ranting about the environment abroad for full-time writers being much better than in India. I don’t agree – it is about as tough everywhere, but I think I can help aspiring writers by […]

Check out Victoria Strauss’s post on Writer Beware on why it is critical that writers read the fine print carefully before they submit their writing to contests or publishers. This is what Victoria says of the Write India contest run by the Times of India: “I’ve rarely seen such a greedy rights grab in contest guidelines. If […]

I’m reproducing blogger Sid Balachandran‘s post with his permission: Dear TOI Write India team, I am upset. Upset, is perhaps a very loose term to use here. I am frustrated, agitated, pissed off and gobsmacked – all at the same time. Do you know how it feels to be sucker-punched in your gut when you […]

When Christine Nolfi, bestselling author and awesome sauce, suggested I write fan fiction for the Lei Crime Series (#LeiCrimeKW), my first reaction was – but I don’t do 50 Shades of Gray! ☺ (If you’re not aware, the latter started off as fan fiction.) Once I got past my knee-jerk reaction, I bought Blood Orchids, […]

When I published my debut book via Amazon, something incredible happened. Within a week of its release, it shot to the #1 slot of Amazon India’s New Horror Releases. When Rasana Atreya ma’am approached me to write about what I did to achieve such a stupendous feat, my first reaction was to say that I […]

Successful Ways to Utilize Mobile Marketing for eBook Promotion One of the greatest aspects of eBooks in the digital age is that anyone can get published. Without the barrier to entry, anything seems possible, but the fact remains that competition is stronger than ever since anyone is free to publish their work. As such, standing […]

Pretty much everyone in the Indian writing and publishing world knows by now that Chikki Sarkar, former publisher at Penguin Random House India, is launching a digital publishing company named Juggernaut. They’ve raised a staggering Rs. 15 crore ($ 2,269,960.50) in the same environment where Amrit Abrol, CFO, Harper Collins, India mentioned at the Publishing Next 2015 conference […]

PublishingNext 2015 roundup. Part 2 Vanity publishing has arrived at publishing conferences and literary festivals, and this should be of great concern because vanity publishing is less about emulating trade (also called traditional) publishers, and more about convincing gullible authors to pay for services they do not need. Aspiring authors attend these conferences and festivals. The […]