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4/7/2015

I made this book trailer using Keynote to make the slides, Garageband for music, and iMovie for editing. Initially, I took a couple of Udemy courses on PowToons, a free platform for making short videos. I used Audacity to record and manipulate my VO (you have to do everything when you are an indie-author) but figured it worked better with Keynote slides. The whole exercise in self-publishing has exposed me to a wide spectrum of tools and learnings. It's fascinating.

New book released!

1/7/2015

I know you are supposed to be sparing with the use of exclamation points but if the culmination of a year of writing, rewriting, deleting, trashing, coming up with new story ideas, revising, editing, rewriting doesn't warrant a single !, I don't know what does.
Well, so it's finally here, my second collection of short stories with a twist. It's titled 'The Last Meal on Haight-Ashbury and other short stories with a twist'. Here's a brief description: It takes you from the sixties hung-over Haight-Ashbury to the guilt-ridden mind of a mother who feels relieved over the death of her special child. From the powdery white snows of Kanazawa to the dark, deceitful schemes of an antique dealer. There are tales of an incorrigible Casanova helping a couple on the brink of breaking up and those of a five-dollar bill changing the life of an advertising veteran with twenty years under his belt. A phone call goes awry in Napoli while a grandfather clock may prove to tell more than just time.
I've read it so many times while revising and editing that I feel like Henry Ford, who, when he asked his staff at a board meeting when they were going to stop the campaign for his latest car, was told that they hadn't even started running it yet.
I should thank my wife who went through it with a fine tooth-cliche and made sure I didn't stop at the good enough stage. She probably read it more times than I did during the process of editing.
I did a final check before publishing it to Amazon, it should be live by tomorrow. I've published it on Gumroad which took all of two minutes, you can buy the PDF by clicking the 'Click to buy' on the right-hand side of this page, and also on my other site, www.shortstories.guru.
Hope you like it. Do let me know what you think, your feedback helps. And help spread the word.

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last meal on haight-ashbury shrt stories

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Ten tales with unexpected endings. If you like Dahl and O.Henry, you'll like these stories.

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Follow the adventures of Peaches the baby elephant and her friends in the Boogadooga Forest.

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Coco the monkey learns a valuable lesson in the Boogadooga Forest.

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An evocative story about the Ganapathy festival in India through the eyes of a small boy.

On Writing

This is about writing (mine and my favorite authors'), and e-publishing. Hope you find it useful. You can click on the covers below to read excerpts and purchase my ebooks.

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Spent over two decades peddling assorted goods and services in the name of advertising. Now focusing on writing fiction for adults and children. And blogging.

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