WHO EDITS MY SECOND BOOK?

A publisher from the US emailed me asking about my idea of getting my second book edited by professionals in the US before getting it published by them. They say they print and sell my book but do not attend its editing. They charge two cents for a word in the US for editing. This is what these people wrote me. I can't afford this budget now.

I edited the content of my second book thorougly and it just needs a modest cleanup. One with considerable command of English can edit it in a week's time because I did its editing very well. I don't like even one grammatical error in it and so this idea. A book must be flawless for me. I might have missed a little grammar here and there when I was doing it fast considering my remaining heavy work for editing.

I welcome anybody with love for good reading and editing to edit my manuscript. I do not pay him or her for this work now but sometime later and you can specify how much you want. I will accept your interest only if I think that it is justifiable for me.

Those interested to edit the content of my second book A Dreamer's Love Story must have the following qualities:

1. Being very good at English.

2. Lover and reader of love stories and good books.

3. One with values, standards and commitments of worth in life.

4. Ready to talk and write me something through email and phone before taking this work.

You enjoy editing this work because editing means reading a work thoroughly checking for errors in it. I promise you that there are very few errors in it because I edited it very well and you need to do very little editing in it to retain its quality.

You can talk with me over phone for any clarifications or suggestions when editing my work and you can incorporate those changes immediately. I will pay for your telephone bill arising for this reason. I believe an editor can do the best when the concerning writer is in easy access to him during the editing work. Editing means partly writing and rewriting the original script at times and it is better if the writer is consulted during this time. In my case, there is nothing for you to change a sentence anywhere in my manuscript. Just you may need to change some words here and there or grammar.

It is enough if you do not spoil my work editing it where there is no need for it. I am an editor at my level and so don't think that I am giving you a very clumsy work. You can read and edit it very fast. I can assure you to this extent.

Earlier Sakshi fought with me a lot on her blog. Let me see if she has time and interest now to edit my work. I believe in her because she is a very good girl. I will be happy if she thinks that she can edit my work. I feel very delighted to know that a sensitive dog lover, beautiful, intelligent and modern girl edited my work. I will give more time if she needs it. It is easy to quarrel with a fellow without knowing much about him but not that easy to accept a work like this because it is a little responsibility and expresses your sense of care and concern for a fellow Indian. This is a small test for Sakshi. I believe she is reading my blogs. So, no escape.

Post your interest or queries in the comments section in this blog. Or, you can call me up at my phone number 9396872652 or email me at rajayogi@live.com

It is like watching the preview show of a film before it is released to cinemas. Not only that, you are authorized to correct errors in it here and there. So, it is a matter of joy.

Sincerely,

Datla Chiranjeevi Raju.

BOOK MARKETING

Yesterday one of the book publishers from the US from the two to whom I submitted my manuscript for consideration emailed me a marketing questionnaire. She says that my answers to those questions enables them to decide which publishing contract I should sign with them. The following is a list of their marketing techniques posted on their website. They asked me to check it and choose three marketing options in which I must participate thoroughly. Focus and consistency must be my values in this direction.

Public Relations through sites like Face Book, Twitter and LinkedIn; Internet Radio Talks, Social Media, Enhanced Author Websites, Author Video Trailers, YouTube, Book Signing and Appointment Setting, Author Displays and Kiosks, Google Alerts, Author Posters and Printed Material, Press Releases and Blurb Writing, Blogging, Email Marketing, Coaching Services, Electronic Press Kits, SEO, Book Reviews, Reading Marketing Books, E-books, Amazon Publicity, Article Submissions, Public Appearances, Audio Books, Contests, Exhibits at Books Shows and Publicity in Local Media and so on. No end to this list of marketing techniques an author has to learn and practice.

They also say that gone are the days when one wrote a book and sat comfortably at one’s home leaving everything else to the publisher. I felt like shooting these idiots of the publishing company because they looked like a marketing set of people rather than worthy book publishers. A fellow writes a book to entertain and educate others thinking that many have time to read his stuff because they have no other work at all in their lives. Readers should enquire on their own about a particular genre of books, go to shops and buy them and read them in ways they know and afford at their end in a given context.

If you have degrees in Marketing in MBA, HR and other publicity stunt related fields; please burn them and let us live happily. A mother suffers one day to deliver her baby from her womb but one with creativity and zeal to reach others around him suffers every day to write a good book, compose great music, make an extraordinary film or work for a an inspiring drama. An artist is a cursed creature. He burns his time in his lonely and mundane tasks when others are playing in stadiums, romancing with their partners and doing such things which don’t require any hard work or creativity on their part and which thoughts and acts do not contribute to the happiness or welfare of others at all. My friend Veeranjaneyulu is the best example for that. He has been working almost every day for the last ten years on his paintings because he loves it and he does it greatly. Not a single girl in India found him suitable to marry because he does not know how to cheat others and involve in meaningless and unethical publicity stunts. He missed 95% of his personal life during these ten years of his youth. Very few try to know about such an artist on their own because they are after Sachin, Sania and Sonia the builders and promoters of this nation. This is just one example to let you know where we are and what we are doing.

You watch a cricket match without anybody telling you to do it. You watch the dance of Michael Jackson, Britney Spear, beauty contests, blue films and do such many other immoral and illegal activities to satisfy your spoilt spirit or special interests. Many writers do better jobs than these people and it is not harm to you if you read a book on your choice than depending on others’ motivation or begging for this. Such readers who need motivation from others to read a good book do not help a country develop or a society move in the right direction. A nation perishes when its readers need to be motivated and compelled to read informative, educative and inspiring books. This is what must be happening in the world now. It is a web of idiots and rogues who want education and motivation to do good things and nothing to understand and practice sins and crimes.

I did not reply angrily to these people of a publishing house because I want to know more about them and then write back in a way that cures their diseases in a perfect way. Do not expect a writer to beg you to read his book. He must be ready to see you and interact with you if you have any questions and observations. A personal touch does matter with an artist of any kind who produces something worthwhile and inspiring. There are ways to do it neatly and easily. Read his blog, call him up, send him an email, see his photos if they are anywhere on Internet, read his book reviews and be satisfied with what he can do to be in touch with you rather than expecting him to do everything you know and like.

I hate 90% of the marketing techniques specified above. A book is your asset to improve yourself in the right direction. You pick up and read a good book if you are originally a good fellow or girl. Let not modern culture change the mindset of a writer whereby he needs to write what interests you rather than what you need to read and how you need to be reformed, reoriented and made sensible and sensitive citizens of a nation or appreciable individuals in a society or family. A good writer should teach you how to think and behave but he must not change his character and writing pattern being influenced by your diseases, disorders and demerits.

Drinking liquor, smoking, eating and drinking bad foods and drinks is fashion for you.

Prostitution is an expression of your pervert and modern culture.

Gambling signifies your deterioration as a considerable human being.

Beauty contests exhibit your sense of values and standards.

Watching sports and games like a lunatic all the time decides the future of a given nation.

Involving in corruption and malpractices shows the nature of a given race like Indians.

Whiling away your time in night clubs, bars and drug abodes exposes your character.

But, fortunately, reading a good book presents you as a sensible and acceptable living entity of a society or nation. Learn to do it and appreciate others if they are getting ready to do it.

Identify and read good books for your improvement as a human being. Don’t drag a writer into your world of filth and publicity stunts. God gifted you with a brain to distinguish between a good book and a bad book. Choose your book and read it. Do not expect others to motivate you toward that end. Many pity your accidents and deaths because it is normalcy of this world order but nobody pity you if you turn into a lunatic thinking like a rogue and doing things of an idiot.

It is because of such rogues and idiots like you, publishers today must be devising that many ways to divert the attention of so many criminals and sinners in this world toward the healthy habit of reading books. They are there for money, not to correct you publishing good books. Let not evil, sins and crimes attract and kill you slowly.

Do not perish on your own. Let your fate decide it.

Do not take a writer as a clown. You can see them in circuses.

Great writers survive and serve the society around them when there are great readers, not due to commercial publishers who always think from the point of what they benefit rather than what the society benefits through a book. It is unfortunate that today there are many publishers to print a book which sells like a hot cake, but not one which must be printed for its merits expected and needed in a good or bad society.

I hate 80% of youth, both girls and boys, in India today because their interests, trends and fashions are so modern that other good fellows have to conform to them and create something minding their pervert culture. Do you expect a doctor to be a lunatic to treat you because you are a mentally sick person?

Only God should know about the values and standards of people and readers living in other countries.

SYNOPSIS-A DREAMER'S LOVE STORY

Then I was working in a press in Hyderabad as a Sub Editor. Deepthi joined it as a Research Associate. I had many attractions there but I halted at her. She was from a noted family in the Telugu film industry based at Hyderabad in India. There was no chance for me to meet her as part of our office work. I devised plans and somehow managed to meet her. She did not have time or interest to mind me. She occasionally threw looks at me. I interpreted them in my fashion and wove a web around me.

I sent her emails as one that knew her for ages. She responded to me angrily. I stopped communicating with her for sometime and again took it up. Falling in love and admiration with beautiful girls irrationally, illogically and madly was my habit. This time it was Deepthi that had to tolerate me. She did not know it then.

My friend told me not to do it minding her social and financial status but I ventured to do it. One day I typed out a long love letter in our office itself addressing her and posted it to her. I was prepared to face any disaster on the way. She met me after receiving and reading that love letter. She handled me softly and carefully trying not to hurt me. She talked with me for one minute. She consoled me as a sensitive girl. She expressed her view strongly but vaguely. She hinted me that I had better stopped it there. She told me that morning that she was resigning and leaving our office very soon. Separation is fuel to pain and suffering in the imaginary world of a sensitive and dreamy creature.

She soon left our office. I resumed sending her emails expressing my sense of pain and suffering. She did not respond. Since there was no much interaction between us in the office when she was there, I could not fill my emails with relevant and considerable content for long. I moved into the practice of narrating her stories thereafter. I knew her in many of her previous births. She was a girl and I was a boy in all those previous births. We were born in the Indian villages and towns then. We were close friends in all those births. Anything can happen in an imaginary world. We don’t have the tangible records of our previous births. I depended on this reality and wove story after story to send her daily. I explained toward the end of each story where and when I narrated that story to her in our previous births. I did not know whether she read my emails or not.

I could not continue this one-way pursuit of sending emails to her for long. She never replied me. Perhaps she chose to keep quiet to let me deliver more and stop somewhere on the way. I had to send her an email every day I went to office and then attend my office work. This was my commitment for no reason. I was pressed for time. I did what she expected from me. I stopped this email communication soon. I sent her 64 emails and one love letter in total by the time I stopped this journey of imaginations.

Love is a universal phenomenon. It might look mad and irrational to many but it happens in all ages, in all seasons and in all places. Love fills voids in humans and connects them with the rest of the world. The more the friction to realize it among many oddities and tests, the more interesting and memorable it turns and remains. Love is enjoyable in the present and heavy burden of haunting memories in future. It influences and paints human life differently. One’s character and fate decide what one derives from it.

The above is the synopsis of my second book which I wrote this morning to submit along with my manuscript to a publisher in the US.

A DREAMER'S LOVE STORY

Dear Deepthi,

I edited the emails I sent you in 2005. I took about one month's time to edit them. I only edited its langauge part retaining 95% of the originality of the content. There are 64 emails and one love letter in this set. There are 1,28,106 words in the content of this book including the foreword. I wrote about 1000 words for the foreword. I would get it published now or sometime around this July or August. My first book is yet to be released. It is likely to come out in March. It is still with the editor. I will move out this book soon after the release of my first book.

Now I concentrate on editing my personal diaries from 1995 to 2009. I need about 90 days' time to complete this work and keep them ready for publication. I publish them when time dictates.

If you have any objections or opinions about this book, you can reach me on this platform or to my email id at rajayogi@live.com