The biggest revelation in recent weeks has been the inception of the Facebook group that was, I admit, a bit of an after-thought. We have 668 members after just 17 days and what is really interesting is that having been contacted by my old author friend, Boris Starling, the introduction into his group of friends has taken us into a world-wide network of Authors, other publishers, editors, retail book sites and general literary people. This is very encouraging and I feel it potentially could give the site the deserved boost it needs into a completely new market-place.

http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=118551254829944

The Literary competition is now well and truly under starter’s orders and with Sir Tim Rice joining our judging panel; I hope some publicity will be forthcoming in the next few weeks. Our Press Release goes out this week.

As I mentioned earlier we have a number of new books waiting in the wings that will be coming out in the next few weeks and I hope that our new authors will continue to bolster our listings.

Sales are still a bit weak, but there are signs that the authors who promote their books hard are getting some results, so please continue to get the word out and one little tip I have picked up this week; if you have a Facebook account use your book cover as your profile picture.

Thank you all for your continued support and I am more confident than ever that eBooks time is coming sooner than you think.

Torquil

Sadasivan’s novels—three already published in ebook format--present you with the light you’ll badly long for when you find yourself inside some of the infinite dark tunnels in your life. Not only are they a far cry from escapist fantasy like Harry Potter, chick-lit, or striptease but also grounded on realities in life and empowered by a strong focused vision behind them of how best to lend a helping hand to those that need it but don’t know whom to turn to. Meet his sexually illiterate women, terrorists on the reform path, Islamic Banking missionaries, plucky women entrepreneurs, harpies and mentors! ‘Matto Grasso’ scenarios are commonplace in life, he remarks; so his novels guide you gracefully to the nearest glade on the wings of management science. Are you finding yourself in a hellhole? Befriend either Abu of Another Tequila Dawn (forthcoming) or Jimmy Singh, the Nobel Laureate of LEST. Just a housewife endowed with the urge to excel on your own? Get acquainted with Ms Visalam of E=MC Square and emerge a winner for life through sheer entrepreneurial spunk! Are you simple-minded but personally ambitious to make it out on your own? Enroll at the clubs of either Blotchy Basheer or that of “Salma Mohamed” in Another Tequila Dawn! Puzzled by the spiritual imponderables of life? Follow John Ayanikkadan of Another Tequila Dawn! Are you a temperamentally reflective daydreaming teenager? Meet Susie the banker-cum-globe trotter on the magic carpet of her imagination! Without a Drop of Blood seeks to reverse an injustice but also enlightens you about women empowerment routes. Every one of Sadasivan’s heavily-researched, authentic and extremely info-taining novels charts a somewhat parabolic and at times tortuous route through clutter and puddles to a sunlit elevated ground at its end. Everyone is based on life in India too. The darkest hour in life comes for many a character—just as in your and my lives-- just before he/she revels in a prayed-for dawn. The personae in his fiction either upgrade themselves through conscious effort on a cue, or first expiate for the evil they’ve done, realize their potential and then grow great. Climb your intellectual and emotional Everests with Sadasivan’s characters—or opt to dive into abysses of dull realities also along with them safely. Laugh along with his characters(They laugh at themselves too);listen to them as they make you sit and ponder on the deep mysteries of life, death, and redemption, faiths and religions or marital glitches, dreams, and the tenets that hold true at all times! All classes of life’s great drama coalesce in his stories and all religions too; he has malice towards none and a good natured consideration for all! Miraculous coincidences, the generation of moral force through stints of collective meditation, verbal and situational ironies also stud these works at times. His works also have a poetic fragrance about them inasmuch as much as he uses either poetic excerpts or uses own compositions, including verses from Sanskrit. He also exposes the fallacies, false ‘gods’, imponderable myths, lore and legends of India for what they are worth! Another lesson you imbibe from his oeuvre is that narrow domestic walls like caste, community and sectarian mindsets don’t hold water when it comes to love and marriage! Squirrel Village-about an actual Indian village full of burglars and robbers—is his passion at the moment. Welcome to this elevating world of self improvement through fiction mode. Get your passport and visa from his London publisher: www.abook2read.com.