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November 24, 2011
The Waiting Game
It's a very strange feeling knowing your books are in the hands of the reviewers.
Now they are all reading my story and looking at its good and bad points, sizing it up and deciding their ratings, and I can't do anything but sit here and twiddle my thumbs. I hope my nightmare of a few posts down doesn't come true, and someone out there will enjoy the book.
The waiting game is awful, because now that it is out there, there is nothing I can do. I no longer have any control over my work that I have slaved over all this time. And it's those reviews that will ultimately help people decide whether or not to buy the book.
If you are interested in reviewing, contact Prospera Publishing for more details.
Now they are all reading my story and looking at its good and bad points, sizing it up and deciding their ratings, and I can't do anything but sit here and twiddle my thumbs. I hope my nightmare of a few posts down doesn't come true, and someone out there will enjoy the book.
The waiting game is awful, because now that it is out there, there is nothing I can do. I no longer have any control over my work that I have slaved over all this time. And it's those reviews that will ultimately help people decide whether or not to buy the book.
If you are interested in reviewing, contact Prospera Publishing for more details.
November 15, 2011
BIG NEWS!!!!
I write this with joint pain, headache and a sore throat.
I went to sleep after taking flu pills, woke up and....
THE BOLLYWOOD BREAKUP AGENCY IS NOW AVAILABLE FOR REVIEW!!!!!!
If you are interested in reviewing the book, contact the wonderful people at Prospera Publishing for more details.
How exciting!!!
I went to sleep after taking flu pills, woke up and....
THE BOLLYWOOD BREAKUP AGENCY IS NOW AVAILABLE FOR REVIEW!!!!!!
If you are interested in reviewing the book, contact the wonderful people at Prospera Publishing for more details.
How exciting!!!
November 14, 2011
A New Addition
I am truly sorry about my lack of blogging. It's been all change here in the Gupta household, and so I have had less and less time to spend in front of my laptop and blog, and catch up on all your blogposts.
The main reason is that there has been a new addition to the family, and no I have not had a baby. My brother who was married earlier this year, now has his wife living with us. I think that it's important that I spend more time with her, since this is a new place for her to live and just make her feel more welcome with us, as opposed to feeling lonely in her new environment. She has moved far away from her family, and I feel bad for her because I can never imagine being so far away from my own family.
Actually, I had a near miss when I was going through the edits of the book. She walked into my room and nearly read a part of it. I locked my screen so fast and thanked the Gods that she wasn't wearing her glasses. Speaking of the book, I think I am finally nearing the editing stage, so I am now prepared to be scared when those review copies go out.
Hope you are all doing great, and now I am going to catch up on all of your posts.
The main reason is that there has been a new addition to the family, and no I have not had a baby. My brother who was married earlier this year, now has his wife living with us. I think that it's important that I spend more time with her, since this is a new place for her to live and just make her feel more welcome with us, as opposed to feeling lonely in her new environment. She has moved far away from her family, and I feel bad for her because I can never imagine being so far away from my own family.
Actually, I had a near miss when I was going through the edits of the book. She walked into my room and nearly read a part of it. I locked my screen so fast and thanked the Gods that she wasn't wearing her glasses. Speaking of the book, I think I am finally nearing the editing stage, so I am now prepared to be scared when those review copies go out.
Hope you are all doing great, and now I am going to catch up on all of your posts.
October 26, 2011
WISHING ALL OF YOU A HAPPY DIWALIAND A VERY PROSPEROUS NE...
WISHING ALL OF YOU A HAPPY DIWALI
AND A VERY PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR
October 15, 2011
Edits Edits and more Edits
Sorry I've done a disappearing act on you guys. I have been up to my eyeballs in edits. I have gone through it once, and now I am just going through it again, just to make sure it is all consistent.
I haven't abandoned you, and once I send it off to my editor I'll be back with a proper update, and I'll catch up on all your blogs.
See you on the other side!
I haven't abandoned you, and once I send it off to my editor I'll be back with a proper update, and I'll catch up on all your blogs.
See you on the other side!
October 3, 2011
Thank you
I just wanted to say thank you for all of your wonderful words in the last post. It is just fantastic to have you guys around being supportive during this time, because I know that you guys are empathetic. You have all been there, or are there at the moment. And since I cannot talk to anyone in my real life about all these fears, the only way to get support is through your kindness. So once again I wanted to thank you so much. You are such a wonderful group of people.
I know that the worst part of that bad dream was the typos and the fact that the book became a mini-book with size 16 writing. You can slave over your edits for days on end, but that one typo in the finished piece is the one that will bug you for days. I'm currently going through a round of edits at the moment, so we can only wait and see.
While bad reviews are inevitable and I know it will feel bad to read someone slamming my story, I know it is just part and parcel of what I was doing. If it wasn't worth it then I would have given up by now. I know I am not going to be on the next big author or anything like that, but I am happy with what I have done, and I hope that some people out there will be too.
I know that the worst part of that bad dream was the typos and the fact that the book became a mini-book with size 16 writing. You can slave over your edits for days on end, but that one typo in the finished piece is the one that will bug you for days. I'm currently going through a round of edits at the moment, so we can only wait and see.
While bad reviews are inevitable and I know it will feel bad to read someone slamming my story, I know it is just part and parcel of what I was doing. If it wasn't worth it then I would have given up by now. I know I am not going to be on the next big author or anything like that, but I am happy with what I have done, and I hope that some people out there will be too.
September 26, 2011
The Nightmares have started
How many of you have had the 'Book will be Awful' nightmare?
This morning I had to wake myself up from a bad dream that I was having about my book. The following things happened ...
~All that work that I put into writing the story, and it turned out to be an 82 page mini-book with giant writing to fill up the space.
~Every five seconds someone would come up to me and tell me that I got another bad review online - I looked at the websites and saw that they were all so evil.
~ I looked through the book and it was littered with typos.
~Everything about it had been edited so heavily that it wasn't my story anymore.
~Everyone I know found out it was me who wrote the book getting awful reviews online.
This morning I had to wake myself up from a bad dream that I was having about my book. The following things happened ...
~All that work that I put into writing the story, and it turned out to be an 82 page mini-book with giant writing to fill up the space.
~Every five seconds someone would come up to me and tell me that I got another bad review online - I looked at the websites and saw that they were all so evil.
~ I looked through the book and it was littered with typos.
~Everything about it had been edited so heavily that it wasn't my story anymore.
~Everyone I know found out it was me who wrote the book getting awful reviews online.
September 14, 2011
If I could be anyone I'd be ....
To celebrate the launch of Talli Roland's new book 'Watching Willow Watts', I'm taking part in her websplash.
So without further ado...
If I could be anyone I'd be...
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Why you ask? Because he's cool. We all love the idea that if we are stuck in some mundane job, something will sweep into our lives and make it just that much more exciting. In the case of Chuck, he is inadvertently sent an email which imprints government secrets into his brain, and the CIA have to take care of him in order to gain access to the information, and protect him from the enemies who also want the secrets. He becomes a spy for the CIA, despite still having to work as a tech guy in the 'Nerd Herd' section of 'Buymore.'
I think Chuck is one of those underrated shows. It is so funny and edge-of-your-seat exciting, with fantastic characters as well.
About Watching Willow Watts For Willow Watts, life has settled into a predictably dull routine: days behind the counter at her father's antique shop and nights watching TV, as the pension-aged residents of Britain's Ugliest Village bed down for yet another early night. But everything changes when a YouTube video of Willow's epically embarrassing Marilyn Monroe impersonation gets millions of hits after a viewer spots Marilyn's ghostly image in a frame.
Instantly, Willow's town is overrun with fans flocking to see the 'new Marilyn'. Egged on by the villagers -- whose shops and businesses are cashing in -- Willow embraces her new identity, dying her hair platinum and ramming herself full of cakes to achieve Marilyn's legendary curves.
But when a former flame returns seeking the old Willow, Willow must decide: can she risk her stardom and her village's newfound fortune on love, or is being Marilyn her ticket to happiness?
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So without further ado...
If I could be anyone I'd be...
Image from FanpopWhy you ask? Because he's cool. We all love the idea that if we are stuck in some mundane job, something will sweep into our lives and make it just that much more exciting. In the case of Chuck, he is inadvertently sent an email which imprints government secrets into his brain, and the CIA have to take care of him in order to gain access to the information, and protect him from the enemies who also want the secrets. He becomes a spy for the CIA, despite still having to work as a tech guy in the 'Nerd Herd' section of 'Buymore.'
I think Chuck is one of those underrated shows. It is so funny and edge-of-your-seat exciting, with fantastic characters as well.
About Watching Willow Watts For Willow Watts, life has settled into a predictably dull routine: days behind the counter at her father's antique shop and nights watching TV, as the pension-aged residents of Britain's Ugliest Village bed down for yet another early night. But everything changes when a YouTube video of Willow's epically embarrassing Marilyn Monroe impersonation gets millions of hits after a viewer spots Marilyn's ghostly image in a frame.
Instantly, Willow's town is overrun with fans flocking to see the 'new Marilyn'. Egged on by the villagers -- whose shops and businesses are cashing in -- Willow embraces her new identity, dying her hair platinum and ramming herself full of cakes to achieve Marilyn's legendary curves.
But when a former flame returns seeking the old Willow, Willow must decide: can she risk her stardom and her village's newfound fortune on love, or is being Marilyn her ticket to happiness?
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