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State of Art
Community Voices

State of Art

When the masters rendered those classics of yore, literacy of the times was limited to the core. Invariably that confined literature to the connoisseur and kept it away from the crassness of the masses. However, it is the increase in literacy that paradoxically caused the degradation of literature! With the multitudes of the educated abounding, publishing appeared a fetching proposition to the enterprising. After all, business acumen is all about catering to what the market demands, isn’t it?

#book discovery #reader community #publishing journey
BS Murthy
BS Murthy
2 months ago
9 min read
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Media and Literature
Book Reviews

Media and Literature

But for wasting the precious media space on many a penny work, the hype wouldn’t help, for after all the discerning readers would have seen through the game any way. True, in the short run, the hype turns the novice into a literary celebrity before anyone had shown any inclination to read his work! But being the talk of the town for a while, most of these books collect dust in the bookstores before they become fodder to the shredding machines in time.

#book discovery #reader community #book culture
BS Murthy
BS Murthy
2 months ago
11 min read
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Back to Square One on the Writing Board
Indie Publishing

Back to Square One on the Writing Board

Unlike the visual arts, as the written words cannot be appraised on espial, writers have always been handicapped in the arena of recognition, and if anything, in the world of printed words, the publisher-media nexus dealt them a double whammy, more so in the recent past. With this vexatious commercial nexus pitchforking their favoured folks, aided by the literary editors, as published authors into the public limelight, the genuine writers got relegated into the scornful arena of self-publishing

#indie authors #book culture #fiction writing
BS Murthy
BS Murthy
2 months ago
5 min read
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Domain of the Devil – A Satire on Indian Publishing
Debut Authors

Domain of the Devil – A Satire on Indian Publishing

Writing a book is like planting a seed. And if it gets published, it’s like the sprouting of a plant. If not, it’s a lonely furrow in a no-man’s land. Like the gardener tends the plant into a tree, it’s the readers who help the book grow in stature. Blessed are the authors who would be able to live long enough to smell that their readers savored the fruits of their creativity.

#author life #publishing journey #fiction writing
BS Murthy
BS Murthy
2 months ago
13 min read
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On Writing ‘n the Writers
Debut Authors

On Writing ‘n the Writers

Those who treat writing as a vehicle of visibility would be incapable of experiencing the joy of the journey. In the end though, were they to come into spotlight, they might well gloat in the limelight though without experiencing the real thrill of letters. Even in case such won’ make it to the post; their pain cannot be intense for they wouldn’t have felt the joy of writing either.

#writing tips #behind the book #fiction writing
BS Murthy
BS Murthy
2 months ago
6 min read
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