With this, The Write Creed launches into book publishing as well.
Shadow & Soul: The Goa Saga Book 1 https://www.amazon.in/dp/1684872774/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_fabc_PKG0P1FD9R3YXYYWJ2BC
Thursday, October 28, 2021
Shadow & Soul (The Goa Saga Book 1 by Eisha Sarkar) is now available as paperback
As much as I love Kindle, there's something about seeing my book in print that makes me not want to stop smiling. On #Amazon and #Flipkart, Shadow & Soul is now available as paperback for Rs 350 in India and $12.92 worldwide #thegoasaga
Tuesday, October 26, 2021
Sunday, October 24, 2021
The Write Creed E28: On writing about Parsis in India with Armeen Kapadia Basavaraju
A graduate of Sophia College, Mumbai, and post-graduate from the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, Armeen Kapadia Basavaraju thinks that words and design are not that different, after all. A few years back she returned to her old love — writing — and hasn’t looked back since. Her stories have been published in literary magazines such as Amarillo Bay and The Louisville Review and she self-published her novel, Crossroads, in 2020. Crossroads is a delightful window into the Parsi community. The collection explores the day-to-day conversations, emotions and events that alter and shape the lives of different Parsis in modern India and reveal the issues that a vanishing community faces. In this episode of The Write Creed, Eisha chats with her old friend, Armeen, who is now working in Microsoft, about Parsis, the orthodox and liberal voices, Parsi publications and writers and the pros and cons of self-publishing in India.
#armeenkapadiabasavaraju #microsoft #ux #design #nationalinstituteofdesign #nid #nidahmedabad #writer #author #crossroads #parsi #parsis #parsicommunity #parsisinIndia #India #parsiana #jamejamshed #bombay #ahmedabad #mumbai #communities #iran #firetemples #agiary #parsitimes #kdp #kindledirectpublishing #selfpublishing #bangalore #notionpress #amazon #rohintonmistry
Check out E28: On writing about Parsis in India with Armeen Kapadia Basavaraju from The Write Creed on Amazon Music.
https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/the-write-creed/id1580744636
Saturday, October 16, 2021
The Write Creed E27: Eisha talks about how and why she used KDP and Wattpad for publishing The Goa Saga trilogy
Eisha has just launched her first Romantic Thriller trilogy on Amazon Kindle this October. The three books of The Goa Saga are Shadow & Soul, Gone Goa Gone and Mad & Moonly. The first is the story of Identity, the second about the fight for Inheritance and the third is the path to Interdependence. The series is targeted at a global audience of 18-40 years who are English-speaking, urbane, social media savvy, OTT platform binge-watchers and travellers and features places and characters from India, Europe and the US. It took her five-and-a-half years to create the series. In this episode of The Write Creed, Eisha talks about the two self-publishing platforms she used to publish, promote and distribute her books, Kindle Direct Publishing or KDP and Wattpad, the challenges of traditional publishing and self-publishing, royalties, data-gathering and marketing.
#thegoasaga #kindledirectpublishing #amazon #amazonkindle #thewritecreed #paperbacks #wattpad #kissingbooth #shadowandsoul #gonegoagone #madandmoonly #eishasarkar #kindlebooks #wattys2021 #selfpublishingplatforms #readingapps #kindleapp #googledocs #lockdownwriting #lockdowndepression #traditionalpublishing #traditionalpubishingversusselfpublishing #writing #goatrilogy #writingseries #portuguesegoa #romanticthriller #youngadults #youngadultfiction #netflix #travel #goa #goatourism #royalties #booksongoa #indianfiction #indianwriters
Wednesday, October 13, 2021
The Write Creed E26: Celebrating a pandemic Navratri with a Fine Arts' garba baithak in Vadodara
Vadodara's famed public garbas have had to be cancelled because of the ongoing Covid19 pandemic. However, that has not dampened the Navratri spirit this year as much as it had in 2020. Smaller gatherings, baithaks and dances in societies, homes and smaller halls are common. Eisha was invited to one such baithak and she shares a few recordings of that in this episode of The Write Creed.
#navratri #fineartsgarba #vadodara #baroda #msuniversity #dandiya #raas #durga #ambaji #durgapuja #unitedwaygarba #covid19 #pandemic #pandemicnavratri
Check out E26: Celebrating a pandemic Navratri with a Fine Arts' garba baithak in Vadodara from The Write Creed on Amazon Music.
Monday, October 11, 2021
The Write Creed E25: Freelancing in India? How much should you charge for your creatives?
Over the last decade of teaching students in the fields of communication, media, journalism, etc, Eisha has had the same queries year after year from students, peers and friends who wish to spread their work far and wide but don't know how much to charge. To those of you who wish to get writers (all kinds, fiction/non-fiction, journalists) photographers, artists and designers to submit their work to you or "offer help" or "support you", you should PAY them for their help/support/job. They may be your best friends but they need a livelihood. As for how much should you pay or how should they charge you, here's a rough guide. Every organisation is different and will have their own budgets and goals but Eisha is putting it down in this episode of The Write Creed because she knows people, even the most seasoned journalists, exploited by companies/NGOs and made to work for almost free because they found it "too awkward" to ask for money. Don't be. If you don't know how much you should charge, let this be a guide.
https://eishasarkar.blogspot.com/2021/03/paid-internships-please-for-arts.html
https://eishasarkar.blogspot.com/2021/03/how-much-to-charge-for-transcription.html
https://eishasarkar.blogspot.com/2021/03/how-much-to-charge-for-your-creative.html
#freelancers #freelancewriters #journalists #journalism #writing #editing #design #photopgraphy #indianfreelancers #creatives #careers #freelancinginIndia #freelancephotography #freelanceeditor #transcription #languages #finearts #liberalarts #needpaidinternships #interns #communications #media #books #NGOs #corporates #events #branding #livelihoods #paycreativepeople #thewritecreed #academics #institutions #projects
Saturday, October 9, 2021
Mad & Moonly: Book 3 of The Goa Saga by Eisha now available on Amazon
In the third and final installment of The Goa Saga, Saysha discovers that she has inherited a $25 million trust fund and a 2% shareholding in Lebedinsky Mining Company. That empowers her to vote and decide the fate of the $780 million company. One man is out there to stop her, her mother's old classmate from Delhi and the largest shareholder in Lebedinsky Mining, Oleg Oblonsky. And only one man can fight Oleg, the twisted genius of her husband, Aeram. She teams up with him and goes to New York to vote in a critical board meeting that will decide the fate of their property and river in Goa.
Aeram's demons take over his mind and he forcibly kisses Saysha in a park and tells her to remain his wife. Repulsed by his insanity, he then talks of ending his acting career and also his life. James tells Saysha that he cannot leave his brother ever and should she consider marriage to him, she will have to also live with her ex-husband under the same roof. Saysha has the difficult choice of whether she should marry a courageous man like James but remain second on his list of priorities after his brother or should she find a cause of her own and devote her lifetime and funds to it?
#divorce #mentalillness #mentalhealth #youngadults #youngadultfiction #romanticthriller #goa #inquisition #portuguese #newyork #russian #mining #bullying #christianity #goanculture #indianfiction #indianwriters #newadults #romance #sagas #goatrilogy #tourism #travel #goatourism #drugs #trafficking #madandmoonly #thegoasaga #eishasarkar #miningingoa
Wednesday, October 6, 2021
The Write Creed E24: Slow journalism, mental health, adoption and grief in The Good Story Project with Prerna Shah
Prerna Shah is a Dublin-based writer, blogger and journalist. In July 2020, right in the middle of the Covid19 pandemic, she and her friend Swati Subhedar started The Good Story Project which is a storytelling platform that allows ordinary people to write about their lives. "A safe space where interviews, personal narratives and features could be conducted with balance and empathy." In this episode of The Write Creed, Prerna and Eisha talk about the need and scope of slow journalism and then meander through topics of mental health, loss, adoption, grief and guilt, while weaving their own stories into the conversation.
Suggested reads: Jerry Pinto's piece and Amandeep Sandhu's interview
#thegoodstoryproject #prernashah #thewritecreed #mentalhealth #loss #grief #death #adoption #covid19 #pandemic #swatisubhedar #narratives #journalism #slowjournalism #guilt #bipolardisorder #virginiawoolf #empathy #balance #support #writingheals #dublin #mumbai #vadodara #lucknow #mumbai #gujarati #ordinarypeople #everydaylives #sushantsinghrajput
Check out E24: Slow journalism, mental health, adoption and grief in The Good Story Project with Prerna Shah from The Write Creed on Amazon Music.
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Sunday, October 3, 2021
The Goa Saga Book 2, Gone Goa Gone is now on Amazon
In the Age of Discovery, there were three identical crosses. Portugal’s King Manuel I had bestowed one on Vasco da Gama, who discovered the sea route to India. The second he had bestowed on Pedro Álvares Cabral, who discovered Brazil, and the third on Afonso de Albuquerque who established the Portuguese hegemony in the Indian Ocean. Over the centuries two of the crosses have disappeared. Probably they’re hidden away in some antique collectors’ vaults. The third hangs around James’s neck.
A clause put in by an ancestor during the Inquisition in Goa prevents Aeram, a practising Muslim, from inheriting Richard Albuquerque's estates. Only his Christian son, James, can claim the title even though he was born out of wedlock. When Aeram presents Richard's will in court, Daniel Albuquerque aka Danny (Richard's cousin) contests the claim. James and Aeram battle the demons of their past to take on Danny and the very powerful Archbishop Patrick to save their estates.
When Aeram and Saysha go to New York, they accidentally meet Igor Lebedinsky, a young intern at Aeram's agent's office. Saysha discovers that he's the son of Alexandre Lebedinsky, the mining tycoon from Moscow and brother of her deceased birth-mother.
Saysha realizes that James is not an ordinary stuntman. Even her very rich and powerful husband is scared of him. In the forests around the Albuquerque villa on the banks of the Mandovi river, James finally shows her why the property means much more than mere inheritance.
#goa #youngadultfiction #thegoasaga #gonegoagone #eishasarkar #mandovi #mining #christianity #inquisition #goainquisition #portugueseinquisition #afonsodealbuquerque #albuquerque #catholic #catholicchurch #childabuse #childsexualabuse #mentalhealth #marriage #love #longing #lust #inheritance #identity #sex #homosexuality #travel #newyork #russian #moscow #tourism #paris #alhandra #portugal #mumbai #delhi
Book 2 of #thegoasaga is now available on Amazon Kindle
Gone Goa Gone (The Goa Saga Book 2) https://www.amazon.in/dp/B09HNVVKQK/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_9M6007YK93VAWR5WYGWA
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