Private investigator Kasthuri Kumar, the narrator of Smita Jain’s Piggies on the Railway, is a kick-ass heroine. She does interior monologues in the style of Philip Marlowe and other hardboiled detectives in 1930s crime fiction. But this being a book that – improbably but successfully – combines a detective story with chick-lit, Kasthuri (also known as Katie) has more on her mind than just solving the kidnapping case assigned to her…Read more
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Piggies On the Railway – A Kasthuri Kumar Mystery
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.
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Been reading the reviews. Excellent!
In one of your posts you had written about the effort and time it took to write your query letter. When I wrote my first novel, it took me close to 3 weeks to perfect the query. And you won’t believe the kind of response I got to that query…approximately 40 agents asked for my MS. It includes some of the biggest names like Michael Carlisle, Gail Hochman, Sarah Jane Freymann, Karolina Sutton, Peter Buckman etc. Now I would love to say that they all wanted to kill each other to sign me up ;-), but the truth is, I have a very long way to go before I write a good book. However I have written my second novel. And if you can find a few mins, (i know it would be togh), it would be simply fantastic to get your view on my query.
Oh my God! Can I have the MS? LOL. The synopsis really piqued my interest. The length is just right too! Does that answer your question? 🙂
Can’t describe how much those words mean, Smita…thank you…
I know I have said this before, but you doing this for an unknown nobody is just great 🙂
I am in my first week of query writing 😉 A couple more to go. I have revised it a lot over the last few days, shortened it, made it crisper.
Let’s see how this MS goes…
I would be honored to send you my MS. I am sure you won’t find time in your schedule to read it :-), but just the fact that it made you ask for it makes it phenomenal.
Thank you…
@Roit, you’re welcome 🙂
I just visited the Westland sction on Tata’s website (Westland’s website is renovating). I am sure you know it, your book is prominently displayed there! Good to see it 🙂
I have queried Westland with my first novel. Let’s see how it goes. When it gets rejected, will send them the query for the second novel, which I am sure they will reject that one too.. 😉
Pursuing agents and publishers has been very interesting till now. If anything, it does teach you to be humble. Hundreds of people ‘rejecting’ you can shatter your ego to pieces!
I met the executive editor of India Today, Abhijeet Dasgupta. He told me about his massive hunt for an agent. It’s funny and fascinating. If someone with his credentials has to go through this, I guess folks like me have a millions light years to go. Here is the link.
http://blogs.intoday.in/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Blind-Submission.html&Itemid=86&main_category=13&contentid=61664&blogs=1&contentid=61664
@rohit, ha ha..About “will send them the query for the second novel, which I am sure they will reject that one too,” wow, with that kind of positive thinking, sure they will. Yes, pursuing agents/publishers/producers is indeed humbling.