THE TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS OF A FIRST TIME AUTHOR CUM PUBLISHER
A cautionary note, to the prospective and budding authors of the perils of treading the path traveled by me. An Extract from the address by me on the occasion of the book release function of my Book “Letters from the Border and Other Less Told Stories”, published in 2003 and now nearly out of print
Being a first time author and also a first time publisher I was besieged by many misgivings and a plethora of problems. My advice, based on my experience, to budding authors/ publishers would be to think before leaping in to the unknown.
Speaking first about the book as author. Why I wrote this after such a long gap and where did I find material for the same? These are oft asked questions. I had always felt peeved about the fact that the official channels both Signals and Staff were, though quick to declare me missing; the AG's Branch even sent 'Pension Papers' to my wife providing her a life long support of Rs 250 per month. However, no one bothered to inform her of my safe arrival in India despite the information being available at all levels prolonging her agony till she got the news through other channels. I wanted to do some thing to redeem what she must have suffered at that time, in my small and symbolic way.
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Brig Lakshman Singh (Retd)
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