AKD-75.3 - Pangs of publishing
Writing a book is easier than managing post-production, printing, and distribution. Like any other chore, book publishing is a collaborative endeavor. I am in the midst of one. For the first fifth time, for the fourth book in Engish after a gap of nine years. DRIVERNAMA is at the printing press, awaiting ferro approval before the printer switches on his Heidelberg or its equivalent Japanese offset machine at Shahibabad, Uttar Pradesh. Not to be forgotten is my past 45 years of association with the world of publishing: bringing out dailies, weeklies, fortnightlies, monthlies, quarterly, annual issues, etc. Meanwhile, the daughter is busy building www.konsultramesh.in website (for the first time) to bring all my work scattered under various blogs, social media, etc. While she and her team handle the technical side, the content to fill up those internet space has to come from me. Yes, additional work. No free hand in the sense that I have to adhere to her design te...
