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BY Vani IN For Writers, Guest post

Between Nani’s Tales and Growing Up, Where Did the Short Story Go? [Quint]

My first introduction to short stories happened at the age of 5. I used to stay at our ancestral house in Bareilly with my nana, nani....

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BY Vani IN For Writers, Guest post

Do Indian writers and publishers have all the editorial resources they need to create good books? [Scroll]

It was in 2012 that I completed the first draft of my novel. I was in London and had just started submitting it to literary agents...

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BY Vani IN For Writers

Seven books to read before you start writing your own [Scroll]

“I never read a novel till I was 18,” Sunjeev Sahota, author of The Year of The Runaways was quoted as saying. (His book was shortlisted...

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My Writing Journey: 101 Lessons I Learnt From My Mistakes (#6 Mistake) [Huffington Post]

Pitching your work to Editors and Literary Agents on social media There’s nothing to match the feeling of holding your first book in your hand. I...

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BY Vani IN For Writers

My Writing Journey: 101 Lessons I Learnt From My Mistakes (#5 Mistake) [Huffington Post]

A few words is soon a paragraph, next a page, and a novel before you know it! Growing up, I’d look at the tomes lining my...

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