I just started reading One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter by Scaachi Koul. It’s a brilliant book, a collection of personal essays by the Canadian daughter of Indian immigrants. Obviously, in many ways I can relate. But it struck me that Koul’s ability to take her own life and…
Category: Stories and Me
Trapped in My Mind: Big Picture, Little Picture
I’ve always felt a little bit trapped in my own mind. It frustrates me endlessly that while I can flip a switch in my brain to understand any perspective, I can only view one perspective in depth at a time. Generally, since I must be at least a little biased, I let my bias be…
The Time Conundrum, a.k.a. TLTLBU Chapter 39
When someone advises you to make a major change to your manuscript, how do you know if it’s the right decision or not? In my case, it’s simply a question of time. Time to try to implement it. Time to process the changes that brings to the manuscript as a whole. Time to decide whether…
Why I Write
I believe that stories can set the mind free. The largest portion of each of our minds is tightly constrained by the realities that it has experienced, and the beliefs of the cultures and societies that have surrounded it. This necessarily limits our ability to understand, and therefore accept, the experiences and beliefs of those…
These Lies That Live Between Us: Book Trailer
Three sisters: the heir, the airhead and the dead. Parting in anger, each attempts to confront the looming threat of invaders practicing forbidden magic in her own way. However, they soon learn that history is not so simple—much like their bond to one another. This is the start of a fantasy epic about family, adventure,…
Indie Publishing: A Summary of the Pros and Cons
…as I have experienced them in publishing my novel through Gatekeeper Press. Let’s jump right in. Pro 1: Achieving a professional look while retaining complete (or as near as I could tell) creative freedom. The fonts, the cover art, and everything were all up to me to choose. Pro 1.5 That said, I didn’t have to…
Beginning My Journey in the World of Indie Publishing: Why Indie Publish?
As you may be aware, my first novel, These Lies That Live Between Us, came out today. It’s thrilling and exciting, but also frightening. One of the reasons it’s frightening is because I chose to go the route of indie publishing. I’d like to share some of the lessons I’ve learned over the course of…
Elements of a Popular Story
In my first semester of university, I made friends with a girl who loved books as much as I did. Both of us loved the fantasy genre, and both of us aspired to write books of our own. At the time, I voiced the view that I could never write a popular story, because there…