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Weekly Twitter digest for 2012-05-31

Peter Kao — Thu, 31 May 2012 17:00:00 +0000

Have a happy long weekend folks! Orders that come in during the weekends will be shipped out first thing on Tuesday. #
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Due to popular demand, we’ve re-released our Holy Bible poster for purchasing

Peter Kao — Thu, 31 May 2012 10:22:38 +0000

You heard it folks. You can now purchase the Holy Bible poster (King James Version) from our website.

We took it off our website due to a lack of demand a few months back, but after receiving monthly inquiries about it we’ve decided to make it available again.

The Holy Bible poster contains the entire text and is sized at 36×48”. Here it is in all its splendour,

Purchase this poster here.

Interviewing Aditya Kripalani, author of Back Seat: Part 3

Katherine Collom — Thu, 31 May 2012 02:56:51 +0000

This is the third and final portion of my interview with Aditya Kripalani, author of Back Seat. This is my favorite part of the interview as it offers an interesting look into inspirational authors as well as some awesome advice for other writers! Enjoy.

Q: What are some of the authors that have inspired you?

A: Ernest Hemingway for the fact that he such a romantic at heart and writes with such authority. And I absolutely love ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls’ and ‘ The Old Man and the Sea’ and ‘Death in the Afternoon’.

Hunter S. Thompson for ‘Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas’, ‘Transmetropolitan’ which is based on him, ‘Hell’s Angels’ and ‘The Rum Diary’ not to forget ‘The Curse of Lono’.

Andrea Camilleri for his entire ‘Inspector Montalbano’ series.

Raymond Chandler, Gregory David Roberts whose ‘Shantaram’ inspired me to write a book.

Q: Did you always want to be a writer?

A: When I was 17 I wanted to be an actor. Then in two years that dream was finished. Then I wanted to make films. That dies a natural death when I began writing, which was 9 years ago. And at this point I feel I want to write for life.

Q: What is the best advice you can offer an aspiring writer?

A: Don’t write for anyone other than yourself. Write what you like to read. And choose to BE a writer. Not just [to] become famous or make money. BEing a writer is about a lot more.

Interviewing Aditya Kripalani, author of Back Seat: Part 2

Katherine Collom — Wed, 30 May 2012 02:35:50 +0000

Here is the continuation of my interview with Aditya Kripalani, author of Back Seat. I think that he has a lot of interesting things to say! Enjoy!

Q: Which character do you empathize with the most, and why?

A: Nikita. for it is her story. And she is the most complex of the three. She is a survivor and will survive almost everything. But does she have what it takes to be in love and make it work? That is what intrigues me the most. For a lot of us in becoming survivors lose the ability and aspects of our personality it takes to be in love. Also will she be able to react to the present without the burden of her dramatic past?

Q: What was the most difficult part of the writing process?

A: The ending. It scared me. And I was unsure. But only for a while then there has been only strength and surety.

Q: What is the writing process like for you (how many hours a day do you dedicate to writing, etc.)?

A: Can’t do more than 3 hours a day. I find it too exhausting. And I normally sit first thing in the morning or then late at night. And I use the principals of screenwriting to write a book. At least the core principles of PREMISE, central conflict, writing a 15 page treatment note and reworking it time and again before writing out the actual book etc.

Interviewing Aditya Kripalani, author of Back Seat: Part 1

Katherine Collom — Tue, 29 May 2012 15:18:37 +0000

It’s not every day that I get to meet and chat with an actual published author so imagine my delight when I met author Aditya Kripalani and was given a free copy of his novel Back Seat. Now getting a free book alone would have left me absolutely delighted, but I was estactic when Mr. Kripalani was kind enough to grant me a short interview. Here is part one of our talk:

Q: How did you come up with your concept for the plot?

A: I was toying with the idea of a story of two boys, one a rich boy who’s a local in Mumbai and a migrant boy, both the same age. And a year later it became the story of this bar dancer who gets entangled in a love story with the migrant as she works as the keep of the rich spoilt brat. She too is a migrant but is now a local. A story about the Mumbai underbelly which akin to Rio De Janeiro or downtown New York or the projects in Philadelphia is huge and monstrous and larger than the world on top.

Q: How long did it take you to write your novel?

A: A year with a full time day job so I got time to write pretty rarely and sporadically.

Q: The frequent use of Hindi in your novel makes it seem as if it is meant to target a primarily Indian audience, is this intentional?

A: No I just went with the flow. My characters are local and I didn’t have an editor so I guess no one made me aware of the fact that people from other countries wouldn’t get certain dialogues. But yes now with a new edit it should be ready for foreigners. Though the core emotions are universal in their resonance.

This would scare me to death! [pic]

Peter Kao — Tue, 29 May 2012 06:44:00 +0000

The Pop-up Book of Phobias. You can find the book on Amazon here: http://www.amazon.com/Pop-Up-Book-Phobias-Gary-Greenberg/dp/0688171958

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Romeo and Juliet, Gulliver’s Travels, Anna Karenina–COMING SOON!

Peter Kao — Mon, 28 May 2012 14:58:54 +0000

We’ve started working on the following titles:

- Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

- Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift

- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Expect to see them in our store within a month or two!

If you would like us to send you an email once these posters have been completed, please click here.

Note: Please leave the subject line as it is so we know which posters you are interested in!

Neil Gaiman addresses the 2012 graduating class of the University of the Arts

Peter Kao — Mon, 28 May 2012 11:37:04 +0000

A good motivational speech from Neil Gaiman himself!

Weekly Twitter digest for 2012-02-09

A cartoon drawing of authors [pics]

Peter Kao — Mon, 28 May 2012 08:42:34 +0000

Can you figure out who’s who?

Answer:

From left to right:

Back Row: Agatha Christie, Salman Rushdie, T.S. Eliot

Middle Row: George Orwell, Ernest Hemingway, Ian Fleming

Front Row: JK Rowling, Shakespeare, Stephen King

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Share Your Summer Reading Thoughts June 7

Katherine Collom — Fri, 25 May 2012 05:02:02 +0000

Summer is just around the corner and that means (hopefully) a little more leisure time to do some of the things we are usually too busy to get around to! Of course I am talking about that summer list of must-read literature that I’m sure you have stashed away somewhere just waiting to finally be perused. Check out this article in The New York Times about summer reading. June 7^th is apparently the day to take to the web via Twitter and to discuss what you would like to read this summer and why. Sounds like a great way to suggest books as well as pick up tips on which ones make for good reading!