Gods Or Pangolin?
Remember wizagent David Godwin's latest discovery in Chennai, Anuradha Vijayakrishnan? She has made it to the longlist with her debut novel, Seeing the Girl. Others include Malayalam writer N.S. Madhavan (Litanies of Dutch Battery), Oriya writer Laxmi N. Mishra (The Little God), dance critic Tulsi Badrinath (The Living God), Nalini Rajan (The Pangolin's Tale), Sujatha Vijayaraghavan (Pichaikuppan), Kankana Basu (Cappuccino Dusk), Sanjiv Bhatla (Injustice), Reeti Gadekar (Families at Home), Saikat Chakraborty (The Amnesiac) and Shreekumar Varma (Maria's Room).
Tip To The Budding
Next time you want to kill your publisher for not giving your book the kind of publicity you think it deserves, try what debut writers in the US do: invest all of the modest advance they get from publishers into hiring a private publicist.
