“He Sees Everything & Other Short Stories” is my first ebook. Wherever there are people, there is greed, there is sacrifice; ingratitude and indebtedness; hatred and love; humor and poignancy. Woven around these emotions are seven short stories set in contemporary India. Continue reading ““He Sees Everything & Other Short Stories””
Author: Prem Rao
Author, Blogger, Book Reviewer, Coach, and Podcaster
What do authors do? Apart from writing, of course? Do they espouse causes? Do they have time for their non-literary interests? These questions came to me mind recently. By sheer co-incidence, I chanced upon this article in the Wall Street Journal about author, Steve Berry. Continue reading “Great work, Steve Berry”
Delighted to find that my psychological thriller, “It Can’t Be You” continues to feature in the rankings of books under the “Suspense” category in Flipkart. It currently ranks 143 out of 19,668 titles in this category. It is now available with a 10 % discount. You can order the book here. Continue reading “143 on Flipkart’s Suspense List”
You may have noticed it. I did too. I hadn’t realized that I haven’t blogged for a week now. The reason is obvious. It is that time of the year! I have been totally engrossed in the National Novel Writing Month. NaNoWriMo 2011 is as exciting as previous years for me. I have got off a bright start. In the first five days, I have completed 14, 500 words of my novel. Continue reading “NaNoWriMo 2011- An Update”
Article first published as “P.G.Wodehouse-A Life In Letters” Edited by Sophie Ratcliffe on Technorati. I am eagerly awaiting this new book, based on letters written by P.G.Wodehouse, edited by Sophie Ratcliffe.
My debut novel, “It Can’t Be You” (Cedar, November 2010), a psychological thriller, was recently reviewed by Life Wordsmith. I was very happy to see that the effort to develop the characters in my debut novel was appreciated. Continue reading “Book Review by Life Wordsmith”
I am delighted to see that eleven months after publication, ICBY is 168 out of 19,609 titles under “Suspense” in Flipkart. Order your copy with a 10 % discount.
I was delighted to accept an invitation to do a book reading for members of iBrowse, a book lovers club in Bangalore, India where I live. They have a laudable system where they invite authors to speak about their books.
Article first published as Booker Prize 2011 Goes To Julian Barnes on Technorati. There was a lot of debate this year about the criteria for judging the winner of the coveted Booker Prize. The results are out and the Booker Prize for 2011 goes to Julian Barnes.
The very popular portal, Good Reads has a section on Popular Indian Authors Books. ICBY lists in the 151-200 out of the 346 books listed. In another list titled , Popular Contemporary Indian Authors,, ICBY’s author, your truly, lists in the 1-50 out of 133 authors listed.
Prem Rao : Stories from a Story Teller 