…for the The Timeless Land After months of blood, sweat and toil, The Timeless Land‘s cover has been finalized and it looks like we’ll be rolling out soon. Just to recap — yes, it has been a long time and you’re forgiven for having forgotten — the Shadow in Eternity series consists of: Book 1: […]
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A few lusty blows
This blog challenge that Kate, Marie and I decided to tease ourselves with was to list between five and ten fictional characters we’d like to have a fling with. Ideally one would like to describe a “fling” as an uncomplicated roll in the hay, but the sad truth is that one finds fictional characters fling-able […]
The Timeless Land
The Timeless Land is awaiting comments from the publisher, but I thought it’s high time I put up something about it. “I want not to have killed a person.” Maya Subramaniam’s life is arguably far more complex than the average fourteen-year-old’s. As the youngest Halvard of the Sands of Time, torn between loyalty to her […]
I want to believe
Funny, the term “fandom” never entered my thoughts much until Kate came up with it for a blogging subject. While, fandom may simply be described as the state of being a fan, in one very apt definition I found it is described as a “semiotic productivity is when fans use their object of fandom to […]
Book review: Neverwhere
At long last, Writeside.net has a new book review! This time we’re looking at Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere, a fantasy novel about a thrilling adventure based in London Below. When the inoffensive and slightly sappy Richard Mayhew stops to help a girl lying on the pavement, his life takes a turn for… Oh, well, read on. […]
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What have I been up to?
Honestly, I don’t live such a boring life that I should have had nothing to write about in almost a month. Yet I have precisely nothing to write about! Of course, if George W. Bush is to be believed, I’m busy eating too much and driving up global food prices, so maybe that explains it […]
Dalziel and Pascoe: The first three
Writeside.net happens to have a decent—oh well, I exaggerate a teeny bit—book reviews section, one that I have had many a fractured idea about promoting. With no further bright ideas at the moment, I have decided to showcase that on Writer’s Log, so here we go. Reginald Hill is one of my favourite authors, and […]
Nothing to write home about
Why is it that I always find myself complaining about books lately? It’s been a long time since I finished reading Manju Kapur’s Home, but put off publishing this post as I didn’t want to seem like an inveterate whiner! Also, I thought time would mellow me towards it. Fat chance! Some time ago I […]
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
A journalist recently asked me what the Potter phenomenon means to Indian authors writing for children, whether it helps to decide how or what to write. The thing is, Harry Potter had long ago degenerated into a massive marketing drama that overshadowed the books’ merits, making it very difficult to judge the books in an […]