“The Fama of Menino Jesus of Colvá. Faith and Festivity across History”, a book by José Venâncio Machado, was launched at a function at the District Library in Navelim, Goa, on 12 October 2013. The book was launched at the hands of Justice Eurico Santana Da Silva, Former Judge of…
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Social Media for Authors
-Percy Parry Traditional publishers have right from the beginning decided whether or not to publish a book based on the platform that the author’s book can generate in the market. And many aurthors think that approaching a traditional publisher is more beneficial because the traditional publishers have a better idea…
Will E-books Replace Traditional Paperbacks?
– Percy Parry The battle between the traditional paperbacks and the digital books goes on, mainly because of our endless love for them both. Now this often makes us wonder, or it at least makes me wonder, is there going to come a day where traditional paperbacks will finally become…
Managing Stress While Writing Your Book
-Percy Parry Writing a book spanning 1000 to 100,000 words was never easy. As you continue your work on your book, just like many other writers, you may suffer from a temporary condition wherein your brain shuts down. When I say shut down, I mean that the you lose track…
Making a Photo Book
-Percy Parry Searching for a photo that you’d clicked some months back? It must be painstaking to go through all those photos on your laptop or smart phone, just to show some friends or family that amazing moment that you had captured through your camera. But alas, the moment you…
Mamta Sagar
As a Kannada poet and playwright, Mamta Sagar has three collections of poems, four plays, an anthology of column writing, a collection of essays and a book on Slovenian-Kannada Literature Interactions to her credit. At the soon-to-come publishing conference Publishing Next ’13, scheduled for the 20th and 21st of September…
Sakshi Jain
Sakshi Jain is an Asst. Editor at the Digital Media Dept. in Dorling Kindersley, part of the newly merged Penguin Random House. She is into publishing eBooks in various formats; developing Apps and producing digital content for websites. Working for more than three years at this place, she happily affirms…
Manasi Subramaniam
Manasi is the Commissioning Editor at Karadi Tales Company and has 5 years’ experience in publishing, several years’ experience in theatre and creative writing, and a postgraduate degree in Literature. At Karadi Tales, she focuses on picture books, audio books, and young adult fiction. She has represented Karadi Tales at…
Paramita Tripathy
An influential person in the field of Odia Literature, Paramita’s first short story was published in the renowned Odia Magazine the Jhankar in 1985. Six of her short-story collections, including Kurei Phula(2009) and Prapti(2012) have been published in Odia, besides a novel, Apathacharini, published in 2006. An anthology of short…
Uddipana Goswami
Uddipana Goswami, poet and writer based in Guwahati, is editor of Northeast Review, an online journal of arts and literature. Her published works include a poetry collection, We Called the River Red: Poetry from a Violent Homeland (2010) and an edited volume, Indira Goswami: Passion and the Pain (2012). Uddipana…