Vasudev Murthy's Blog, page 2

Yet another alleged book from Charles Benoit :-(

I had the misfortune of interviewing Charles Benoit who has been irresponsibly churning out book after book. Please read. I will take a month to recover.




1. One more book eh? What have we done to deserve this? Thanks for your heartfelt condolences.
I'm going to keep pushing these books until you all just give up and buy enough copies so I can retire to a little seaside villa in Malta. The longer I have to wait to retire, the more books you're going to have to endure. Yes, you can consider that a threat. 
2. Tell me and other suffering souls who will be forced to read this, as little as possible about your alleged book.
The age-old, heart-warming tale of a boy who tries to turn his life around by running cocaine and plotting with the main dealer's prostitute girlfriend to rip off said dealer, escape with the money and forget all about that murder. 
3. What medication do you recommend? And how much will you pay us to read your book?
While cocaine might seem like the obvious choice, I suggest that, like my young adult readers, you stick to abusing Adderall and other attention-deficit meds.  
4. Why did you choose that title? Shouldn't you have thought of us?
Sounded enough like Blow Job to appeal to the adolescent male in all of us. 
5. What do you wear when you write?
The same orange jumpsuit we all wear. 
6. What infuriates you about the book you've just written?
The way it just sits there with that smug, "I'm-so-fucking-adorable" look on its cover. Seriously, I want to punch it every time I see it. 
7. How can we stop you from writing a sequel?
I don't do sequels. And just try to stop me from not starting now! 
8. What's the nastiest thing people have said about your book?
It's hard to light and it burns unevenly. 

If you really must buy, this is where you can get it:
http://www.amazon.com/Snow-Job-Charle...

Sherlock Holmes, the Missing Years: Timbuktu

My book was published by Poisoned Pen Press in early January, 2016. I enjoyed writing the book, which involved some serious research into the politics of 1890s Europe and North Africa, the Vatica, the Tuaregs, the city of Timbuktu, the lower Nile and so on.
Here are a few reviews:
Historical Novels
Book Pleasures
Killer Nashville
Publishers Weekly
Kirkus Reviews
Midwest Book Review
Fatema's Blog
Whatifknits

#poetry detox session report in the press @PuneIntLitFest...

#poetry detox session report in the press @PuneIntLitFest #Pilf2015 @PPPress @BloomsburyIndia #globalwarming pic.twitter.com/A8S9DCmQ9r

— Vasudev Murthy (@dracula99) September 13, 2015

ARC Sherlock Timbuktu

The Advance Review copy of Sherlock Holmes, the Missing Years: Timbuktu is here!

My interview on writerstory.com

Read our interview with author Vasudev Murthy for his book How Organizations Really Work: http://t.co/7zylKqmFM2 #Author @dracula99

— WriterStory (@WriterStoryCom) June 10, 2015

Creating a character - my blog article on PPP

Creating a character - A book remains with you not just because you liked the story. In all probability, there was a...

Posted by Poisoned Pen Press on Monday, April 27, 2015

My article on Human Resources in The Pioneer

As organisations evolve and employees become smarter, traditional HR paradigms will have to be rethought for the...

Posted by Bloomsbury India on Monday, April 20, 2015

Versions and Translations

I've been very fortunate.

Sherlock Holmes in Japan was first published by HarperCollins in India in late 2013.

Poisoned Pen Press then published the book in March 2015 after some amount of restructuring. It was fascinating to see the PPP editors apply their minds and create something new.

And now, Grupo Editorial in Brasil has published the Portuguese translation of the book.

Translation must be such a complex and exhausting task. Finding the right words must be the easiest part of the process. Nuances must be the really difficult part.

I guess I no longer own the book. It has its own life and will go wherever it wishes.

Sherlock Holmes, the Missing years: Japan

My book was released in the US on March 3rd.


Acquire the book here:

Book announced - How Organizations Really Work

I'm happy to announce that my book How Organizations Really Work, has been announced by Bloomsbury.  It is expected to hit stores by March 3rd.

About the BookBooks on management and organizations usually ignore the human factor. This
unorthodox book marks a radical departure in how organizations should be understood.
It deals with human issues and relationships between groups. Though serious, it
makes for easy reading and is written with humour. How Organizations Really Work is
the perfect companion for an employee at any level; for those who want to step back and
look objectively at what’s happening around them and make sense of it. It is also for
management students accustomed to impractical diets of theory. Exclusive mind-maps
at the end of each chapter help the reader make connections between the concepts
discussed and entities, while the wildly funny stories provide a much-needed welcome
break.

Beginning with the reasons why organizations exist, the author examines how authority
flows down from the board to everyone else. Marketing, Sales, Human Resources,
Finance, Information Systems and Operations are examined first theoretically and then
through the eyes of a practitioner who knows where theory falls short.