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Children Authors at events in February, 2017 Date Author Name Venue Time 3 rd Feb Deepa Agarwal Caravan to Tibet Scindia School, Gwalior 11am 4 th Feb Rani Lakshmi Bai 10 am Kalaghoda festival 2017, Mumbai   www.kalaghodaassociation.com 4 th Feb Shyamala Shanmugasundaram Mummy and me CSMVS Museum Gardens 2pm-2.50 pm Vinitha Ramchandani Read-y, Steed-y, Go CSMVS Museum Gardens 5pm-6.30 pm 10 th Feb Katie Bagli Wild Nature CSMVS Museum Gardens 5pm-6 pm 5 th feb Deepak Dalal Bird stories for children CSMVS Museum Gardens 12noon -1 pm 9 th Feb Rustom Dadachandji Fun with Ravana BNHS 10.15pm-11 am 10 th Feb Anushka Ravishankar Dhanak BNHS 4pm-5pm Loveleen Misra Yip aur Yanka, Holland ke do bacch

She is an instant hit in the Mumbai school and college circuit.   Be it nature walks, talks or children books on animals, Katie Bagli is everyone's  first choice. Kahani Takbak quizzed the nature loving author about her new release,   The Less Known Lovables (Shree Books). 1                                    1. Tell us a bit about your journey as a writer. I began writing about 7 years ago.  It just happened.  I completed some correspondence courses in Entomology, Biodiversity and Botany with BNHS.  These courses involved quite a few field trips where I got excited seeing creatures in the wild.  Their behavior fascinated me and inspired me into writing.  2    Did you start your career as an author or an illustrator? I definitely began as a writer, the illustrating was purely incidental. 3    Your love for nature is omnipresent in all your books. Do your childhood memories have anything to do with it? Everyone in my family was in awe of nature, esp

                                                                                                                                        What is the scariest word in the English language? If the level of its scariness is decided by a word's power to make otherwise reasonable, clear-headed and intelligent adults blanch, in broad daylight, I would proffer a short, 1.5 syllable-long one - MATHS (or, as it has become fashionable to call it now, math). There! I've scared you now, haven't I? Sent your mind screaming down some particularly dark childhood rabbit holes redolent of chalk-dust and your math-teacher's body odour, into soul-destroying places you'd sworn you'd never revisit? If I haven't, you are one of that rare species - a 'natural', a brain, a Ramanujan.  Or at least that's what most people would say. But a lot of other people, including me, would beg to differ. You don't have to be a genius to figure math out, we will co

How to promote your book passively through emails  Are you comfortable writing in the confines of your home but develop cold feet when it comes to marketing your books, too happy to dump the entire responsibility on the publishers? Do remember your book is only one among the dozens of books released by the publisher. It is impossible for the publisher to keep the spotlight on your book for a long time as new books keep emerging from their stable and clamour for their attention.  The uneasy truth remains that all authors wish they are backed by an aggressive marketing glitz.  Tight budgets and shrinking profits prevent publishers from splurging on a Even if authors are supported by a bit of marketing jazz and have a full house book launch, it does not translate into sales. This is the sad reality that nobody wants to talk about.  Nobody has control over the buyer’s minds. So, it’s necessary to cast the net wider to make more potential buyers aware of your books and get them to buy

Last week book curator, Sangeeta Bhansali hosted  the first Mumbai session of  Society of Children Books Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) at KahaniTree . Head of  Indian chapter for SCBWI, author and publisher, Anushka Ravishankar held an interactive session titled 'When an author meets a publisher.' She shared a few useful tips for children authors. Given below are the same. 1.Don’t stick to one publisher. 2.          Figure out what’s better for you – a big publisher with a great distribution system or a small publisher who nurtures your manuscript and you as a writer. 3.         Find the right editor; a good editor will understand your style and read your manuscript accordingly. 4.         Do your research before submitting your manuscript. Find out if your book is a right fit for the publisher. 5.          Follow the submission guidelines given on the publisher’s website. 6.         Don’t send the blurb of your book while submitting your manuscript

Book curator, Sangeeta Bhansali of the newly expanded Kahani Tree played host to the inaugural session of Society for children book writers and illustrators (SCBWI) in Mumbai.  For over two hours, Author and publisher, Regional advisor of SCBWI, Anushka Ravishankar and children’s author, Natasha Sharma shared their experiences and answered questions in an interactive session titled, ‘When an author meets a publisher.’  “Things have really changed a lot in the past ten years. It’s a good time for Indian writers,” said Anushka Ravishankar.  From the status of ebooks, the importance of having an analytical mind to work on manuscripts, foreign rights, literary agents, the difference between an illustrated book and a picture book, she shared nuggets of information for the benefit of authors. She also revealed the reasons why it is not possible for publishers to provide marketing support for every author on their list, the journey of a manuscript in a publishing house and the art o