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Within the Purview: The self-publishing debate: multiple questions/multiple perspectives
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Views, opinions, articles, thoughts on books, publishing, reading, writing, literature, etc; and some short fiction. Sunday, April 8, 2012. The self-publishing debate: multiple questions/multiple perspectives. Let’s begin from the beginning:. This question itself has three answers:. When an author decides to publish his/her book him-/herself, investing his/her own money in the project, it’s self-publishing. Is self-publishing the same thing as vanity publishing? Mere snobbishness on the part of authors?
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Views, opinions, articles, thoughts on books, publishing, reading, writing, literature, etc; and some short fiction. Friday, January 17, 2014. Guest post by Claire Holt. How to Write your Short Story. Writing a short story is always on the creative writer’s ‘to do’ list. Most will have a plethora of ideas. One of the main aspects of an enthralling short story is the characterisation. The characters are who the reader relates to and what brings the words off the page; they make the tale relatable. Often t...
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Within the Purview: November 2011
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Views, opinions, articles, thoughts on books, publishing, reading, writing, literature, etc; and some short fiction. Monday, November 28, 2011. The Rise of Literary Agencies in India. Published column 7, YourStory.in:. It is a misconception that if a person has a publishing business alongside a literary agency, it’s bound to be a vanity-publishing business. On the contrary, the businesses are independent and separately run, have separate submission guidelines and processes, and allow a project ...The gen...
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Within the Purview: August 2012
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Views, opinions, articles, thoughts on books, publishing, reading, writing, literature, etc; and some short fiction. Saturday, August 25, 2012. Published in The Bookseller. UK), August 24, 2012:. Http:/ www.gyaanabooks.com/files/BS33.pdf. Three years down the line, caught in the same web in the same trade, I’m still wondering where the boom is. There are certain factors responsible, besides market forces, for why small indies are prevented from enjoying that luxury, especially today. According to the pub...
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Within the Purview: February 2012
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Views, opinions, articles, thoughts on books, publishing, reading, writing, literature, etc; and some short fiction. Wednesday, February 1, 2012. Theatre Culture (Tradition, Challenges, Censorship): JLF 2012 and Beyond. Forthcoming issue, IANS Publishing, for the Ministry of External Affairs]. Girish Karnad, David Hare, Arshia Sattar at JLF 2012, Stage by Stage. The twain did meet at the Jaipur Literature Festival, to discuss theatre and its several ramifications – both in India and in Britain. Theatre c...
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Within the Purview: November 2013
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Views, opinions, articles, thoughts on books, publishing, reading, writing, literature, etc; and some short fiction. No posts. Show all posts. No posts. Show all posts. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). A new literary journal. For aspiring writers of prose fiction and creative non-fiction (click on the image). Dear friends, Happy to share that a new edition. Should I Approach a Publishing House or a Literary Agency? Whistling in the Dark: Writing Gender (Jaipur Literature Festival, gay fiction, queer theory).
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Within the Purview: July 2011
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Views, opinions, articles, thoughts on books, publishing, reading, writing, literature, etc; and some short fiction. Friday, July 29, 2011. Write plain English; talk as you normally do. But it is ‘my style’! Yes, it was my style. He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.’. But a discerning reader will pick up the dictionary! You are flattering yourself if you think that even a discerning reader would...
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Within the Purview: June 2012
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Views, opinions, articles, thoughts on books, publishing, reading, writing, literature, etc; and some short fiction. Sunday, June 3, 2012. Writers' resources (helpful material). Of course, there’s a great deal of material available online (I found thousands of videos and links to plain text), but I’m posting some that I genuinely found useful. I think you might too.]. Writing a short story. The basic skeleton: https:/ www.youtube.com/watch? Https:/ www.youtube.com/watch? Storytelling: theory and practice.
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Within the Purview: December 2011
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Views, opinions, articles, thoughts on books, publishing, reading, writing, literature, etc; and some short fiction. Thursday, December 15, 2011. Doing a Book Review. Published: col. 9,YourStory.in:. If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it. – Abraham Lincoln. How does one maintain balance and civility in the face of contrary emotions dying to lash out at the work/writer? No matter how much one dislikes a book, it is in bad t...
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