My sincere apologies for regular readers of this blog. I know I’ve been rather erratic of late. But, as the headline suggests, I am under a gun here. The publishers are breathing down my neck, urging me to finish the MS and send it ASAP. The reason: so they can work on the marketing plan. [...]
Archive for February, 2009
Deadline Pressure
Posted in Novel, Piggies on the Railway - A Kasthuri Kumar Mystery, tagged book, deadline, fiction, publishing, writing on February 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Of motivation and single-minded focus
Posted in Novel, Piggies on the Railway - A Kasthuri Kumar Mystery, tagged book, fiction, inspiration for writing, motivation for writing, muse, Novel, writing on February 12, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Over the past few days I’ve been preoccupied with my novel. Actually I’ve not had a single thought outside of it, so perhaps, consumed would be a better word. I was jogging along nicely, writing leisurely while also taking the time out to watch tennis. You know, stopping to smell the roses type of thing. [...]
Emotional Atyachar: x-rated track
Posted in General Gyan, tagged Anurag Kashyap, Bollywood, current movie releases, Dev D, Emotional atyachar, funny, humour, India, motion picture soundtrack, popular culture, popular music, UTV Motion Pictures on February 10, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Listen to the x-rated emosanal atyachar. It’s hilarious. Obscenity warning: explicit language used.
When tall, suave, handsome Kaustav Kapoor walks into her office, ditzy private investigator Kasthuri (aka Katie) Kumar has anything but detection on her mind. He is, after all, a scion of Bollywood’s first family—perhaps he has a role for her? Perhaps she will, at last, get to sashay down the red carpet in a designer gown, with flash bulbs following her every move?
But Kapoor’s intentions are much more prosaic: he wishes Katie to trace the heroine of his new blockbuster (and, if Katie’s read the glossies correctly, his life) who is mysteriously AWOL. Despite her misgivings, Katie finds herself unable to refuse the task entrusted to her, and thereon follows a bewildering hunt for the film star across a trail of corpses.
And if that isn’t excitement enough, she has to contend with the maddening and mysterious, but, oh-so-hot, Tejas Deshpande.
The first in a brand new detective series.
IN BOOKSTORES NOW.
