Do you remember some stories from your childhood which have stuck in your mind? For me, one such was the infamous Lindberg kidnap murder case. I read about it in the 60s, possibly in the Reader’s Digest, though I can’t vouch for that. It made a huge impact on me. Continue reading “K for Kidnap”
As a die hard Ian Fleming fan, here’s some news that excites me. Come May 2011, we can expect to see one more re-incarnation, as it were, of James Bond. This will be in a new novel called ” Carte Blanche.”
No, I am talking of job interviews but interviews that we as authors are expected to participate in from time to time. My first interview was with Sravasti Datta of The Hindu. It took place just after Subroto Bagchi launched my debut novel “It Can’t Be You” at The Crosswords in Bangalore on November 29, 2010. She called it “Thrills And Chills”
I never miss an opportunity to interact with the youth of India. It was natural then for me to immediately accept an invitation from the Dept of MBA, PES College of Engineering, Bangalore to talk to their students at their Hosur Road campus. They have interactions with people from industry in their series called the Clean Slate Lecture Series. For the first time, they had invited a published author, yours truly!
After F for Facebook and G for Google, I didn’t want H to be for Hacking! I decided to move into another realm altogether. I am settling for a topic which has interested me since I was a kid. As a writer of thrillers, H is for Homicide! Continue reading “H for Homicide!”
If F was for Facebook, then G must be for Google! Young people these days may not really appreciate the value of Google as a search engine because they have used it ever since they can remember. For older people like me, who have lived most of our lives in a world without Google, it means that much more!
If you are scandalized by the title of this post, you aren’t thinking of what I am ! The word that begins with F and ends with K that I have in mind is for something which has changed the way millions of people interact. F is for Facebook:) . Call it the best known face of social networking. Continue reading “F For F……k”
Ask any writer which part of their work they find the most challenging and I wouldn’t at all be surprised if many say it is editing. In my limited experience as an author I have found the process of editing to be both highly exhilarating and utterly frustrating!
In my debut novel “It Can‘t Be You“ Shefali Belliappa is very annoyed with her father Colonel Belliappa for opposing Rashid whom she loves. The Colonel has recently re-married. His bride, a German lady some twenty years younger than him and only four years older than his daughter . Let’s see this extract from the book:
As you would probably know, Live Mint ( a part of the Wall Street Journal) is a popular source of information in India. It offers it’s readers a wide variety of news and views. I was pleased to see that “It Can’t Be You” found mention here in an article “Crime and Reason” by the author Zac O’Yeah. He is the author of the popular novel ” Once Upon A Time In Sacndinavistan”.
Prem Rao : Stories from a Story Teller 