Book Vue

Hello readers!  Today I have with me Alistair Cross , the author of the recently released Mystery/thriller book,  Sleep Savannah Sleep . The book is a well narrated and equally well written mystery which touches the horror/occult genre, sure to give you the goosebumps!  Here is Alistair Cross , talking about his new book. Book Vue: Congratulations on the release of Sleep Savannah Sleep. From where did the idea for the book originate? Alistair Cross: Thank you. The idea for this book came to me late one night when I couldn’t sleep. I’d just finished my previous novel, The Angel Alejandro, and I knew it was time to start thinking about the next book. I began asking myself about the worst possible thing I could put my next main character through … and from those terrible imaginings, Sleep Savannah Sleep was born. BV: Is there anything new that you have incorporated in this book? AC: Yes, there are a couple of things. For one, this is the first book I’ve...

Meet Sudesna Ghosh, author of the newly released Just Me, The Sink and The Pot. The book is a humorous but touching experience of an overweight girl and her struggles thereof. Book Vue: Hi Sudesna and welcome to Book Vue. Please tell us a little something about your book. Sudesna Ghosh: Just Me, The Sink and The Pot is about one girl's battle with negative body image. She hates her body and deals with body shaming and this in turn makes her hate life and be miserable all the time. She wants what any teen girl wants like boyfriends and Valentine Day cards but her weight ruins it all for her. BV: What prompted you to write on such a topic? SG: I wanted to purge myself of my own negative experiences by writing about them and then I realized that I wasn't the only girl who faced these things while growing up. BV: What is the best quality you like about the protagonist of your book? SG: My protagonist can be sarcastically funny or just plain funny at ti...

Today we have Rahul Mitra, the author of The Boy From Pataliputra , with us for a casual interview. Love the cheeky photograph he sent! So, without further ado, let's get started. Book Vue : Welcome to Book Vue, Rahul and congratulations on your book. Please tell us a little something about The  Boy From Pataliputra . Rahul Mitra : Thank you. The Boy from Pataliputra is the story of Aditya Vikram, a young boy from an aristocratic family of Pataliputra  who is forced to escape from Magadha under dramatic circumstances. It’s basically about his life in exile, his  journey and experiences, the friends he makes and his gradual transformation from a brash, selfish spoilt  brat into a balanced and mature person. At least, that’s the story on the surface. Underneath this basic narrative, it’s also a powerful story about India and the formation of a nation. You  must remember that the Mauryan empire, which came into being under Chandragupt...

Meet Priyanka Sharma Kaintura, author of My Jiffies, a beautiful collection of experiences and bite-sized narrations that I very recently reviewed on this blog. Here's a little tete-a-tete with her. BookVue : Priyanka, welcome to Book Vue. Your book, My Jiffies, is very unique. What gave you the idea for such a book? Priyanka Sharma Kaintura : Thank you Chitra, but I didn’t know that I was making something unique! What I did know is that a good structure is the backbone of a good book, or shall I say the ‘spine’ of a book. So my challenge was either to divide the writings by the format of rendering or by the emotions they recite. I chose a mix of both. Orations, Monologues & Dialogues, Stories, Life Aphorisms and Eclogues are the five formats, while Pathos & Satire express two different emotions. Also I haven’t come across very many books carrying sections such as Monologues and Dialogues or Orations. So that was done to add a unique and delectable flavor for the...

Image Courtesy: Mukul Kumar Q. Hello Mukul and congratulations on publishing your second book 'Don't Believe in God Till You Experience Him' . Please tell us what the book is about. Mukul: Thank you Chitra. All of us in our own way make some choices around our belief systems. The search for supreme, spiritual quest and faith in supernatural have a lot to do with our life events, conditioning that we receive from the society and early influences. In the end, we also reach a stage when we have to decide on our own. We do not have a guide, a role model left. The book narrates the life of an ordinary person who also reaches that state where he needs to reflect on his life learning. Q. The protagonist's name is Mukul in the book. Is the story based on your personal life experience? Mukul: The story has inspirations from real life. Q. How did you begin writing? Mukul: Writing for me is a means of distressing and expressin...

Prashant Yadav The Jeera Packer , a recently released contemporary fiction, is gathering great responses by its readers. Here is Prashant Yadav, the author, shedding some light about his debut novel. Q1. Congratulations on your debut novel, Prashant! How does it feel to have your work published and received with raving reviews? A: It feels great. Seeing the book in print is a high - something that was just a warm idea in your head in a form people can touch, smell and read it. The reviews have been great and it’s been an awesome feeling. It gives me a a lot of strength to dig deeper for my future works and have crazier fun because unless you have fun creating something, your readers won’t have fun reading it. Q2. Absolutely. So, what is The Jeera Packer all about? A: It is a layered story operating at several levels. At one level, it is about all of us who want to do cool, exciting stuff but have to stick to our boring routine and unfulfilling jobs just t...

Image Courtesy: Michael Mclellan Michael Mclellan's new book In The Shadow of the Hanging Tree is slated for release towards the end of January, 2017. While his previous books After and Again and American Flowers were in the adventure/reality genre, this is the first time he has dabbled in historical fiction. Let us get straight to the interview. Q1. Hello and welcome, Michael. Let me start by asking what the book is about? Thank you for having me, Chitra. The story is a fictional account chronicling the early life of a slave who is freed at the beginning of the American Civil War. Finding himself on the run from Confederate militiamen, he flees west where he befriends a tribe of Native Americans. He eventually attempts to interfere with a plot by the U.S. Government to eliminate the natives as an obstacle to the westward expansion. Q2. What were the challenges you faced while writing this book? Making sure that the book was as histor...