The pitfalls of using the Internet to gauge potential for publishing success
What kind of sales should I expect of my debut novel if I go the indie route? This is what I am asking myself these days, today in particular as I draw up a balance sheet of estimated expenses and...
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Should you, a woman, travel to India now?
The recent and horrific gang rape of a young woman in Delhi who subsequently died from the injuries inflicted during her ordeal has catapulted India’s women into the headlines of media around the...
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Writing Wednesday: Writers navigating the “visual sharing revolution.” Or:...
Source: 500px.com via Anjali on Pinterest (Photo by Danilo Atzori) I write fiction set in other places—currently India—and in other times (sixteenth century for my first book, nineteenth for my...
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Calling Calcutta: recollections of a grandchild in the age of telephone...
Filed under: Monday Memoir Remember these? Dee-doo dee-doo! “Let’s do dee-doo dee-doo!” This is Little One’s rallying cry to launch Skype and visit with the grandparents who reside in France. “Oh,...
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On India, photography, dance, writing and more
The walls of old Delhi. Via Wikimedia Commons New year, new feature: the Friday Round-up. Below are some features that I found noteworthy over the past week of so (although not necessarily dated...
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Friday Round-up: death-embracing holy men, funky librarians, negative book...
Train on Wiesener Viadukt, Switzerland. Photo by David Gubler (www.bahnbilder.ch) via Wikimedia Commons (Rather conveniently, as you’ll see below, this was the Photo of the Day on Wikimedia Commons...
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Reaching the pinnacle of joy and wonder in historical research—a six part...
Photo by Ed Ralph via Wikimedia Commons It is perhaps ironic that after writing a novel set in the desert of northern India, I now liken the research process to learning to swim. But here it is: moving...
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