Category Archives: Arjun – My published novel

How to transfer WordPress blogposts to Goodreads Author blog

24 Monday Aug 2015

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Goodreads is every published Author’s sacred space. Reviews, events, videos – and your Goodreads Author blog all condensed under one roof.

However, tedious formatting is a major hurdle in composing a Goodreads blog post. Get an eyeful of the HTML codes required for italics, bold, paragraph, underline and image!

Goodreads HTML formatting

Are all authors techno-savvy? I’m not.

So, how do you bypass the HTML formatting on Goodreads? How to share posts from WordPress to Goodreads? Here’s my method …

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#Read about Guest #Author Dr. Sweety Shinde

29 Wednesday Jul 2015

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I got an opportunity to grace Chris Graham’s platform for authors. Here it is…

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Perfect quote – It aptly sums up the motive to pen my novel.

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Why write at all? You cannot inhale and not exhale.
You cannot eat and not poop.
You cannot read and not write. (Did I just equate writing with pooping?) Yin & Yang. Reading is a passive, pleasant passion. Writing is challenging, invigorating, and pathologically addictive!

Profession vs Passion: I’m a Pathologist by profession. I dissect dead bodies and diagnose live diseases under the microscope. But human beings hold deeper mysteries beneath the visible surface. Mind, emotions, and idiosyncrasies – those are beyond the scalpel, but not beyond the pen’s might!

I decided to use my profession 2 ways. One, to fund my passion. Two, to stimulate both halves of my brain – the rational and the creative. Yin & Yang again. 

Flexing the muscles of Time: ‘Work expands to fill the time required to complete it.’ As a…

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Multiple Arjunas .

23 Saturday May 2015

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Pan-Indian Arjun, Indonesian Arjun, Bengali Arjun, Tamil Arjun.

Zapped? Don’t be!

Indonesia, with its huge Buddhist & Hinduist influences has its own Mahabharat. Variations between ‘our’ MB & ‘their’ MB – some quirky, some weird, some hilarious, some disgusting, some beyond imagination.

P.S – As in Vyas’s MB, many facts are probably expanded/ diluted/ masala-fied by interpolations via folklore, literature and poetic license. So PLEASE take these spin-offs with a pinch of salt.

Read on for ‘twists’  in Indonesian Arjun aka Permadi (Hmm 11th name?)…javanese arjuna- Permadi

1. Arjun, Bheem & Yudhi are biological sons of PANDU, while the demi-Gods are their spiritual fathers.

2. Other than Draupadi (aka Drupadi), Subadra and Ulupi, his other wives include Supraba and Srikandi.  Hooked your interest?  Here goes …

a] Supraba is a heavenly nymph or Goddess.

She initially tries to seduce Arjun in order to interrupt his penance, but fails Continue reading →

Download Free Excerpt (pdf). Arjun: Without A Doubt

11 Monday May 2015

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Proof of the pudding is in the eating, right? So get a whiff, dip into a test taste.

Click for a pdf download of first 4 sample chapters. ABSOLUTELY FREE.

CLICK HERE   OR Click on image below.

Click to download free pdf excerpt

Click to download free pdf excerpt

Feel free to post comments, suggestions …compliments & thumbs downs too.

And oh yes, I have a Goodreads Giveaway on till 23rd May 2015. Applicable to Indian readers only. Apply via link : https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24466957-arjun

Goodreads Giveaway – Arjun: Without A Doubt.

01 Friday May 2015

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Announcing Goodreads Giveaway of Arjun: Without A Doubt

Genre: Indian Mythology/ Fiction/Epic

Link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24466957-Arjun

Free Download : 2 sample chapters on the above Goodreads link. Just click!

Dates: April 23rd to May 23rd 2015

Arjun: Without A Doubt

Premise: Mahabharata

Protagonists: Arjun, mightiest warrior and supreme archer.  Blessed with Bhagwad Gita and boons, Krishn and Krishnaa, weapons and wars, laurels and triumphs and, to top it all, an heir to carry on his bloodline. What possible agonies can such a child of Destiny have?

But how was the man behind the warrior? Join the journey into Arjun’s anguish, passion and struggles.

Draupadi – A woman who battled brute force with cold logic. The feisty Rorschach test that still evokes awe, curiosity, envy and disdain

Find ‘other’ famous Arjuns; compare Arjun vis-a-vis Achilles and Alexander; Explore Myths of Mahabharata.

All this and much more in ‘Arjun: Without a Doubt’.

Website: https://sweetyshinde.wordpress.com

Available as Paperback &  Kindle version: Amazon, Flipkart, Infibeam.