Monday, 17 February 2014

“Bless You My Child”

The Partridge India Blog’s guest author today, Nilu N Gavankar, is a multi-talented artist. Not only is has she published multiple book titles in India and in the US, she has also composed music for India’s thriving movie industry. She also loves to travel, having received degrees from both the the University of Bombay, the University of Wisconsin and Golden State University in San Francisco. Fittingly, it was her travels that led to the the “magical moment” she writes about in her four part series.

“Bless You My Child” By Nilu N Gavankar

In 1996, as soon as I accepted a short term assignment in China from the Construction Engineering company the one I always worked for, I knew that was the year for me to travel. After my assignment I took 2 months to travel all by myself in China all the way to Tibet. I realized that I had not explored my birth country India in the same fashion as I have been exploring the world over the years. Therefore when I left China, I detoured to India around end of September and named my journey“Discover India”.

I made a list of all the states I had not visited before and started serious traveling.

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Friday, 14 February 2014

How I Became a Self-Published Author

Today’s Partridge India Blog’s guest author is Romesh Chopra. He has been involved in the performing arts for much of his life as an actor, writer, editor and critic. He published with AuthorHouse in 2012 and he talks about his reasons for choosing self-publishing, his experiences working with AuthorHouse and how becoming a published author even taught him how to use a computer and how to type. All in his 69th year.

How I Became a Self-Published Author
By Romesh Chopra

To be honest when I found no publisher ready to publish my novel, LOVE IS THE ULTIMATE WINNER, only then I decided to have a deal with AuthorHouse.

Some of the other publishing houses replied that they would let me know within 2 to 3 months, some did not care to reply at all. Of course there was this consolation that none outrightly rejected my work or considered it sub-standard and not worth publishing.

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Wednesday, 12 February 2014

Challenges of a Successful Self-Published Author

The Partridge India Blog welcomes back multi award-winning author, Dr. Asim K. Dasgupta, for the second in his series about being a successful self-published author. Today he talks about the challenges you will face and defines the true meaning of success as a self-published author.

Challenges of a Successful Self-Published Author
By Dr. Asim K. Dasgupta

As a self-published author one has to overcome a number of hurdles.

Many say that the authors who have failed to publish a book through traditional ways go for the self-publishing route.

As a self-publisher we also have to sell most of our books through the internet and find it hard to get bookshops to stock our work.

Also books can be over priced. So if you are thinking of self-publishing keep a close eye on the price. And also remember that there are extra costs like postage and packaging.

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Tuesday, 11 February 2014

Experiences of a Successful Self-Published Author

As Partridge India is a partnership between Penguin Books India and Author Solutions Inc., we have invited some of our successful self-published Indian authors to contribute guest articles to our blog. Thankfully they are more than happy to help guide and inspire India’s writers to share their stories with the world through self-publishing.

Partridge India Blog‘s very first guest author is Dr. Asim K. Dasgupta. His book Disasters was named a Kirkus Reviews Best Indie Book of 2011 and more recently received an honourable mention at the 2012 London Book Fair.

In today’s article, Dr. Dasgupta explains how he came to choose the self-publishing route and his experiences working with another Author Solutions imprint, AuthorHouse. He will return tomorrow with the second part of his series, when he writes about the challenges facing self-published authors and how you can overcome them.

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Monday, 3 February 2014

S.J.P. Thompson Envisions Sustainable World in New Book

Kanyakumari, India (PRWEB) January 26, 2014 In “Climate Change, Untold Truths and the Ultimate Solution: Also guides to end Poverty, Unemployment, Corruption, Crime, Terrorism, Pollution, Environmental Degradation and other evils” (published by Partridge India), author S.J.P. Thompson promotes the importance of sustainable living conditions. He explains how mankind lost it at all levels – families, communities, regions, countries and as the whole planet Earth and why humans failed to recognize it. In fact, through the truths he has observed and with his revolutionary ideas, he has created a new science based upon unsustainable living conditions (ULC) and deficits. It explains how ULC generates evils such as poverty, unemployment, crime, violence, terrorism, environmental degradation, pollution, etc. in a rationally predictable way and how all these interact to warm the earth and bring about climate change.

“Climate Change, Untold Truths and the Ultimate Solution” makes readers understand a series of conditions which “warned” humanity of their violation of sustainable limits and their foolish march towards harsher evils and entrapments. He lists a number of day-to-day happenings, experiences and difficulties which confirm that humans are leading a highly unsustainable situation. They failed to recognize danger signs because as “intelligent” race they had been adapting smoothly to the changing (worsening) situations with a variety of inventions, supportive gadgets and non-stop entertainments. These achievements even gave them a deceptively wonderful feel of victory over nature.

Latter chapters help the readers to derive at the most rational and scientific solution appropriate to the different regions. It is nothing but planning for sustainable families and economy based upon the severity of their ULC or deficits. Thompson explains how to gauge the severity of ULC and how the correction of it will end all the evils by reversing the way they evolved. Further the present day calamities such as Arab uprising, American shutdown, ungovernable situations in Afghanistan, Somalia, Sudan, Cairo, Athens and many other regions around the world, tragedies of Syria, unending Israel-Palestine conflict, dangerous migrations, etc. also will vanish into history. As a bonus this solution also saves the threatened millions of species from extinction, replenishes nature and brings mankind together as a global village.

Thompson writes passionately, “If the world diverts a fraction of the funds spent for the eradication of above evils to help the ignorant and illiterate masses of the world to understand the level of ULC and the importance of planning for sustainable families, dramatic changes will happen in front of us.”

“Climate Change, Untold Truths and the Ultimate Solution”
By S.J.P. Thompson
Softcover | 6 x 9in | 280 pages | ISBN 9781482813791
E-Book | 280 pages | ISBN 9781482813784
Available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble

About the Author

S.J.P. Thompson graduated from Madras Medical College and post-graduated at Stanley Medical College. His professional and social life taught him the truths behind the good, the bad and the ugly happenings. Through the vast media he confirmed that the same truths, in magnified form, are behind the curses of modern humanity such as resisting poverty, unstoppable forest destruction, intractable pollution and others and hence climate change. Thompson has previously published “Give Yourself A Sane Happy World.”

Partridge India, a Penguin company, is a leading provider of book publishing, marketing, and bookselling services for authors in India, all priced appropriately for the Indian market. Committed to providing the highest level of customer service, Partridge India assigns each author personal publishing and marketing consultants who provide guidance throughout the process. Partridge India shares its headquarters with Penguin Books India in New Delhi. For more information or to publish a book, visit http://www.partridgepublishing.com/india or call 000.800.10062.62. For the latest, follow @PartridgeIndia on Twitter.

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