I questioned for a while whether to write about this on my blog. Would editors to whom I am, via my agent, submitting my manuscript be put off by my discussion of literary fiction and technology? By pondering aloud whether to pursue an e-book route or not would I be pushing potential publishers away? But [...]
Posts Tagged ‘publishing’
To e or not to e: the dilemma of a so-called literary writer
Posted in Books, Writing, tagged ebooks, Faint Promise of Rain, Grub Street, literary fiction, Nathan Bransford, Paul Levy, publishing, self-publishing on February 20, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Someone hand me a battering ram
Posted in Being the people, Writing, tagged being a writer, goals, publishing, starting a novel, writing on January 8, 2012 | 7 Comments »
I find myself confronted with an entirely new situation. I have a story in mind, and some partially-formed characters who are gradually emerging out of the haze, like a colorful and over-loaded truck whose contours and contents take shape in the smog as one approaches them headlong on a January morning in Delhi. (Horn OK [...]
“Too literary”: compliment, kiss of death, or call to action?
Posted in Writing, tagged literary fiction, publishing, rejection on October 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Today I am proud to report my first official rejection from an editor at a major publisher. It reads: “Thank you for sending me FAINT PROMISE OF RAIN by Anjali Mitter Duva. Ms. Duva is a beautiful writer – her prose is evocative, and her descriptions are riveting. There is such haunting atmosphere in these [...]
