Better late than never! I am very excited to have signed on for Camp NaNoWriMo. This is, so to say, like a dry run for the NaNoWriMo which takes place in November each year. I wasn’t following NaNo too closely for the last few months and in any case I was on vacation in the US, so I seemed to have missed the early announcements about Camp NaNoWriMo. Continue reading “Camp NaNoWriMo”
Author: Prem Rao
Author, Blogger, Book Reviewer, Coach, and Podcaster
If you want to hone your writing skills and take part in a short story competition, here’s one that sounds interesting. You can aim to win the New Rose Short Story Prize 2011.
Do you remember the old game of Bingo? It was awfully popular during my childhood. We waited with bated breath while the announcer called out the numbers and we scrambled to see if they appeared on our sheets. We tried to win prizes for “Top Line”, “Quick Five” and many more with the Full House being the ultimate prize.
Are you one of those who love memoirs, reading and writing them? If you like writing novels, short stories or personal essays based on autobiographical experiences, here’s one contest you might like to take part in.
As a debut author, to me it seems it was just the other day that my psychological thriller “It Can’t Be You” was released at Crossword in Bangalore where I live by author and corporate honcho, Subroto Bagchi. Actually considerable time has flown since that evening in November 2010.
Thanks to a tweet by K M Weiland, I was pointed to this fascinating interview in Writer’s Digest. Two masters of writing thrillers- Ken Follett and David Morrell speak of the craft of writing thrillers. They are household names and need no introduction to those interested in the thriller genre. Continue reading “Learning from the Masters”
During my recent visit to the United States, many people, not just family and friends, expressed interest in getting their hands on a copy of “It Can’t Be You”. I would like to point them to Amazon.com where a Kindle edition has always been available since it’s launch in November 2010.
I hope you will enjoy the book and will leave your comments at the Amazon site.
In my understanding historical fiction is a genre in which you portray real life people and incidents in a fictitious setting. Here is what Wikipedia has to say about historical fiction. Continue reading “Historical Fiction”
For readers in the US and UK, hard cover copies of “It Can’t Be You” are available with Alibris, priced at $16.37 and £10.37, respectively. Alibris.com: http://bit.ly/j15tdw Alibris UK: http://bit.ly/mnJkqQ
My wife and I leave for a trip to the US in a couple of weeks time. My blog posts will be infrequent for the next few months.
Please bear with me. Will be posting updates on my Facebook Page.
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