KRISHNA’S COUNSEL – PLEASE NOMINATE ME ON KINDLE SCOUT!!!

So here’s my BIG news— Krishna’s Counsel, my second novel in the Moksha Trilogy (moksha = freedom in Sanskrit) is being considered by Kindle Scout for a publishing contract. (If you don’t already know, Kindle Scout is a portal into publication by Kindle Press.) This is where YOU come in—should you nominate Krishna’s Counsel, and if Kindle Scout takes it on, you will not only get a free version but you will also warm the cockles of my heart. So, if you have an Amazon.com account, please do click on the link for my campaign. It won’t take more than a few minutes of your precious time, and if you like what you see, please be kind enough to nominate me: https://kindlescout.amazon.com/p/11AA1JA16VAV5 .

A wee bit of history about Krishna’s Counsel….in the summer of 2008, I found myself trapped in a guesthouse in Rishikesh due to a Shiva festival that raged fiercely on in that colorful mountain town. So I dived into writing a novel that my Manhattan literary agent had much earlier suggested I take on. The result was a rough draft of Krishna’s Counsel. In the years since, a slew of friends, beta readers and crack editors have helped me polish this novel to a gleaming finish. To put the icing on the cake, my friend Mishi Bellamy designed a breathtaking cover.

Krishna’s Counsel is a riveting mystical saga of obsession and illumination set in 60s south India. Its protagonist Pia is baffled by the world into which she has been thrust—until her Uncle Hari reveals to her powerful eastern truths/myths and exhorts her to grow into a spiritual warrior—just as Prince Arjuna chose to do, thousands of years ago, on the simmering Indian battlefield of the Kurukshetra.

Here’s the essence of that stirring passage in the Bhagavad Gita: Prince Arjuna is being driven across the battlefield by his divine charioteer Krishna when he is assailed by a noxious cloud of doubt: although his cousins have tried to destroy his family, he does not want to kill them, nor their allies, who have been good to him in the past—so he throws down his magical bow and refuses to fight.

“Your sorrow is sheer delusion, Arjuna!” thunders the Blue God. “Wise men do not grieve for the dead, or for the living. These bodies come to an end, but that vast Self is ageless, fathomless, eternal!” Fortunately, Lord Krishna’s counsel—that the duty of a spiritual warrior is first to determine what is right, and then to fight the encroaching darkness, regardless of how the cosmic dice may fall—penetrates the Prince’s soul. Suffused with fresh courage, the shining star of the Pandavas picks up his deadly bow and prepares for battle.

As for Pia, the protagonist of Krishna’s Counsel, she is a sensitive thinker entranced by the nature of reality; she is also a coward with an addictive streak whose rebellious behavior brings great sorrow to her family. Pia stumbles into one colossal mess after another as she grows into adulthood. Then she faces her most terrifying challenge in the towering expanse of the Himalayas—when she confronts a murderous psychopath. Pia loses her nerve, but the consequences of her cowardice—not just for herself, but for countless others—are too ghastly to contemplate; it is in her most desperate moments that Krishna’s luminous counsel to Arjuna flashes again and she resolves to fight the good fight, no matter the outcome.

Please do me the massive favor of visiting my campaign page to NOMINATE this mystical thriller! You would also make my day if you share or reblog this post. Here again is the link: https://kindlescout.amazon.com/p/11AA1JA16VAV5.

Greetings from Arunachala, Shiva in the form of a hill, who challenges us to fight our own darkness so we can realize our awesome divine potential!