Domain of the Devil – A Satire on Indian Publishing

By Murthy, BS

Book Id: WPLBN0100750311
Format Type: PDF (eBook)
File Size: 3.16 MB.
Reproduction Date: 9/8/2024

Title:	Domain of the Devil – A Satire on Indian Publishing
Author:	Murthy, BS
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Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Drama and Literature, Publishing, Indian publishing, Fiction, Book excerpt, Indian writing in English, Indian fiction, Short story,
Collections:	Authors Community, Humor and Satire
Historic Publication Date:	2024
Publisher:	Self Imprint

Member Page:	BS Murthy
Citation APA MLA Chicago Murthy, B. (2024). Domain of the Devil – A Satire on Indian Publishing. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.cc/

Description
With his creativity in command over the unique plot he conceived, he wrote with gusto and had his dream novel for his debut in nine months flat. After toiling for a while, for that ‘apart title’, he pitched in for ‘Tangent of Fate’. Then, with a top-of-the-world feeling, he dispatched the manuscript to a leading publisher in New Delhi. While he took the publisher for granted, he received his manuscript post-haste. And that made him see the irony of the title he had chosen for his novel! This bolt from the blue shook Rau to the core, and he came to doubt his abilities as a novelist. Thus, holding the manuscript, as one would his dead child, he had a last look at it, as the father would, before the burial. But seeing it as crisp on its return as it was when he had posted it, he felt cheated. As he realized that none at the publisher’s end had an open mind, he saw the rejection letter all again. He felt sad at the ungracious averment of unsuitability on the designer letterhead.

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