Sunday 23 August 2020

Author Interview : Sabarna Roy

Author Interview : Sabarna Roy


Hello everyone,
Today I am going to introduce you to the author of 'Etchings of The First Quarter of 2020'


Let's start!


1- First of all introduce yourself to our readers.
 I am a Senior Engineering Professional and a Literary Author of six books and the Lead Author of a Technical Book that has been translated into eight major European languages. I am a much-awarded Author and my books have been Bestsellers and have received critical acclaim. I have been covered by all the major National Media houses including Forbes India. I have a Wikipedia page. 


2- Tell us something about your latest book 'Etchings of the First Quarter of 2020'. 


Etchings of the First Quarter of 2020 comprises a novella and a poem cycle.

The novella, in the background is a sweetly evolving dialogue between a step-father and a step-daughter, and in the foreground it is a dissection of ideas pivoted around dualism of human life by discussing literary characters like, Lolita, Humbert Humbert, Anna Karenina, and Nikhilesh; thought-leaders like Hegel, Marx, and Heisenberg; political phenomena like, the Bolshevik Revolution; schizophrenia, love as an idea, and the secret love story of T S Eliot; and ecological phenomena like, marine conservation, and all of this is done in a unique way, almost as if we are engaged in a conversation with the author, to make us realize the plurality of life and accepting it to find peace and harmony in life.

The poem cycle is an anthology of 20 sharp edged poems that excite and thrill you as you are encapsulated in the whirlwind of the confrontations between the poet and his alter-ego.

3 - You have written 6 books, please throw some light on them. 


Pentacles. Leadstart Publishing Private Limited. 2010. ISBN 978-9380154824.


Pentacles comprises one novella and four long narrative poems.

Frosted Glass. Leadstart Publishing Private Limited. 2011. ISBN 978-9381115091.


Frosted Glass comprises one story cycle consisting of 14 stories and one poem cycle consisting of 21 poems.

Abyss 1. Leadstart Publishing Private Limited. 2011. ISBN 978-9381115367.


Abyss is a full length play in two acts with an interval in between. It is essentially a crime thriller full of suspense.

Winter Poems 1. Leadstart Publishing Private Limited. 2013. ISBN 978-9382473718.


The poems contained in this collection, were inspired by the relatively mild season that prevails in Kolkata following the season of festivities, the Durga and Kali Puja, and portray myriad shades of human life.

Random Subterranean Mosaic 2012 - 2018 - Time frozen in myriad thoughts. Inkstate Books. 2019. ISBN 978-9352011988.


It is a kaleidoscope of random, yet structured to a pattern, fiction, semi-autobiographical, and autobiographical pieces, covering poems, short-shorts, opinions, observations, and conversations.

Roy, Sabarna (2020). Etchings of the First Quarter of 2020. Leadstart Publishing Pvt Ltd.


It comprises a novella and a poem cycle. The novella deals with dualism of life and the poem cycle is a duel between the poet and his alter-ego.


4 - Are all the books of same genre or different? 
All my six literary books are of different genre.


5 - Which genre you enjoyed writing the most? 
Writing conversations.


6 - Did you always want to become a writer? 
It was in July 2007 that I wanted to be an author seriously.


7 - How do you handle negative feedback? 
I keep myself insulated from praise or brick-bats. As an author, my job is to only write and write.


8 - Are you planning other books? How soon can your readers expect your next book? 
In 2021 I plan to publish a book on the Pandemic.


9 - How has your journey as an author been so far?
 It has been a learning and satisfying experience.


10 - Who is your favorite Indian and foreign author?
 Among Indian authors it is R K Narayan and among foreign authors it is Orhan Pamuk.


11. What does your family think of your writing? 
They are of course full of admiration!


12 - Any message for your readers? 
Read more books and support and appreciate and critique living authors.


Thanks for reading.

Wednesday 5 August 2020

Author Interview : Saurabh Pant

Author Interview : Saurabh Pant


Hello everyone,
Today I am going to introduce you to the author of 'Warming Boom'


Let's start!

1.How Nature Inspire you?
Born to a city that has phenomenal natural calibre, a place that has many cultural and social essence, and later on having school education in the capital of hilly state, It has always been very delightful to stay close to nature, observe its natural impressions, and in such ways it has been a great pleasure to live out the moments of my life close to nature and enjoy its real prestige around.
What it does as an inspiring factor that it gives the calmness requires to do bigger tasks and make sure that they do get accomplished in right direction, it has made heart blissful and an experience of lifetime to save for sure, the way my house is located close to green forests on the top and the honorary lake in the lower land all coming closer as inspiration makes it sublime, and what it has resulted that it gives a clear impression to sense of purpose for which it has been an inspiring factor by many ways.
Thus the most powerful inspiring feeling these hills have given me is to stand still like a rock, be determined and execute plans no matter whatever conditions and challenge rise in front, and to stay firm, be calm and make sure that things not go to haywire situations for which I am deeply indebted to the nature around, feels blissful to have got such environment, and lets hope that it would keep inspiring me to write more and work out more bigger plans in future.

2.What was one of the most surprising things you learned in creating your books?
There are many things to learn when you write books, You have to be on the spot, you require discipline, and that's the first idea that comes to your mind as you may require plan, and if you spill it out without right accuracy, things can be very critical so that's the first fact I learnt while writing books.
Second thing that counts for an author while writing a book is to decide what would be the choice of his or her audience who would read for which Psychological and cultural understanding of the country or area to choose is vital, thus writing books It helped me a lot to understand what my readers want and how to choose it carefully.
Lastly you require a strong financial plan, an economic goal to settle, and if you can't manage things well it doesn't suit you in any ways, thus how to financially be updated and in what way it should be used was the biggest learning curve for me after becoming a writer.
Yet the most surprising element I learnt from writing works is the changes thinking process could give you and it can only do you by writing books which require a complex set of adaptation, thus it helps in giving a new thinking ideology and get settled with it.

3. As a child, what did you want to do when you grew up?
I wanted to settle in with something unique, the way it should help me to become better, and let me continue to contribute for my society.
Though before I lost vision around age of 12, I had few dreams that require vision to fulfil, but once I entered to the visionless world with students like me around special school, Things changed rapidly and so did my approach.
Thus from such point of time, I learnt quickly to write things out, practiced hard to be into the field of Quizzing, and hence it has been a great journey the person I have become today.

4.What's your working schedule when you are writing?
Usually I plan night hours to do my writing, especially when I have planned a book and wish to complete it, in the day hours its lot of hassle and I feel its more effective to do the stuff around night.
Although if I am at my home, its not a big deal, as Nainital is a beautiful hill station, gives you exact peace and harmony to work around, and the environment it possess usually helps a  lot for writing.
Thus my schedule for writing may come for 2-4 hours at a time, I don't plan big or continued hours of hard work as it can also bring stress, and its not a cake walk to plan all efforts out, Thus I set a schedule which would have some laughter, some tea session going around, and while its all on I keep working and makes it a nice mood to settle all things out.

5.What would you say is your interesting writing quirk?
As far any peculiar standard is concerned, I would say that my writing quirk mostly relates to Cultural interchange as I have been the student of History from my college days and believe in change that happens on certain basis, thus it would be a peculiar trend in my writing that I cover things that happens in the current and tries to cover them up which would show that I believe in Continuity or change debate and tries to give that touch to my writing.
To do that effectively, I choose such topic which have a common baseline in past, has been changing in recent times, and I try to locate that in what way that change or new line has come to that certain ideological pillar which gives me strength and help to decide how to cover it up in my writing settlement and make it more potent around.

6.Tell us something about your books except what is mentioned in blurb.
There are two common things you will find in my works, in which 1st is a focal point around which the entire work moves round, and second is a pattern in which each chapter would connect to other, and such movement by which it comes to effect will surely make you feel that a channel of writing has been created which is also known as 'Ring of expansive thoughts' and this is the core value by which I carries on my writing style.
There is also a symbol of essence you would be able to highlight in which I try to first bring the core topic, expands it with the main essence that has been discussed, and then close it out with the future to come which should help you to find a common methodology I obtain to make my writing equally effective.
Lastly anything than that, What you would be able to find in my writing, whether poetry, prose or research commentary that there is a sense of urgency that People should act on the problems, must help everybody realise that such issues are in existence in present, and this style to make sure that people do come to action is the core method for which I create stuff and lets hope that my writing efforts continue to come more and more.

7. In what way youre chosen works highlight the world of writing to which you have established?
There are two major ways they highlight my chosen world, in which 1st has been the direction of settled methodology which you can clearly witness as certain chosen genre follow up the work, And second is to execute plans for bigger platforms that may include my 5 GK Series and the way they have made their impact shows enough the way the works have highlighted their presence and made my world of establishments a bigger one, and together they both stand firm in their direction with my plans to future still under construction.
In this way what I give you as an author that I assure what I have done still continue to be into establishment, I make sure that the things I have planned must be brought to reality by hard work of my entire team, and what I am able to do is that I like to plan in step by step procedure that makes it an accurate journey for which I hope to continue the works around.
With that I hope that the answers are enough to highlight the world I have established, Gratitude again to Bright Zone Promotions for this 2nd interview, and I hope that by your platform I would be able to give my message to a more wider reader community and stay healthy with my quality of content, till more such efforts come, for now its cheers from Charlie...

8.Do you hear from your readers much? What kinds of things do they say?
I have my author pages online on various global stores and I keep my readers in touch not only by such pages but by constant online events decided according to the distributers and publishers where my works have been published and I must say that the responses they give are fruitful.
I usually ask them the way things that have gone through, what type of changes and new experiments they would like, and the way they express by their question session is really appreciating and make me feel that everything has gone on to the right step.
From this interview I would once again like to express them my gratitude, hope their curiosity for my works should continue, and Readers Keep reading, keep supporting, and continue to make me a better author, I am delightful the way you have made me a better author till now and hope the legacy should continue.

9. According to you, how important it is to promote one's book & is it helpful? 
It is essential in the way to let certain readers know what your book has done, as it not only let new readers count your work but also help a larger community to reach by which you can find out more reading space and it is also beneficial in the way you can plan your future efforts.
Although while thinking of promotions, it is vital that the author must know how to do it effectively, Sometimes we waste lot of money doing promotions and find it not coming to right potency, Thus it depends on the author's perspective how he or she would try to bring the promotions into effect and in what way he or she can make the most by having them for becoming a better author.
Thus they are no doubt helpful to create craze about your work, surely give you boost for larger audience to come into effect, and if chosen correctly with proper care and not misdirected then can bring great response for which choose carefully and make the most of your work around certain areas by having promotions.

10. Any suggestions for the budding Writers? If yes, then what are they?
There are few suggestions I would have for the new writers who are rising across my New Indian writing legacy, and I have one straight advice for them first of all that they don't get satisfied by a single work and feel that this is over which is not the end of the publishing industry by any means.
The writing industry is vast and oceanic in its comparative legacy and they must establish a long lasting name for themselves if they have to live the entire world out by their writing skills.
Further, I would let them know that they should explore new writing skills, multiple genres of their abilities to create such efforts, and if they are able to create, make sure that they forward that writing legacy to more rising writers which should assure a prominent growth of writing culture across our great India.
Lastly what I would like to mention that they don't get discouraged with lesser impact, few readers, or lesser global response, In early days its only sunrise, then it becomes a basking day, and then an entire day of fruitful trees, but to reach that far you would require strong commitment and don't get disheartened, If you know you are right, make sure you stand like rock on your path and carry on your legacy.
These are the few suggestions I have and with that I would like to close out this interview, My gratitude to Bright Zone Promotions for the entire Interview effort, till more such efforts come, for now its cheers from Charlie...

Thanks for reading.