Things you don't need to write a great novel:

❌A fancy creative writing degree
❌The perfect location
❌The perfect time in your life

Things you do need to write a great novel:

✅A huge amount of self-belief
✅A huge amount of self-doubt
✅A great story

Someone needs to design this for the iPhone.

Received this on WhatsApp today

No, no, no, no Bombay Shaving Company.

This is sad and unfortunate, with or without a CTA. The idea and the copy, both.

Please leave that girl alone! Sigh.

This book explores themes of ambition, hubris, and the consequences of playing God.

Sounds familiar?

Mary Shelley was the 'mother of science fiction'. Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus was published when she was just 20 years old. Her work is eerily prophetic and relevant…

The semicolon is the 'delve' of the MFA world. Please use sparingly!

As a books publisher, it's fascinating to see the reactions to the Rabbit R1 device made by rabbit inc.. It reminds me of the countless books that reviewers hate, but readers just love!

if you think someone is stupid at something you are good at, think about you being stupid at something they are good at

lower your fucking ego and treat others with kindness

There's been a lot of noise about AI replacing editors. I am an editor, and I don't think that's going to happen anytime soon. In fact, in the age of AI and algorithms serving up endless and indistinguishable content, editors are about to become more vital than ever.

On this…

A well-crafted blurb is the unsung hero of publishing, connecting readers with the right books, and writers with their natural readers. It's not just a summary of the plot, but rather a carefully crafted invitation to the reader.

Congratulations to the brilliant Priyamvada Natarajan for this much-deserved space, and for her work in figuring out why and how we exist in time and space, whatever that is :)

So excited to be on the #TIME100 list with these amazing Indians and diaspora Indians - looking forward to meeting them next week Asma Khan
Satya Nadella
Jigar Shah
best of director dev patel
Alia Bhatt
#SakshiMalik #AjayBanga
TIME
gala

Listen to Meru and go work for Chiki! 👇🏼

Everyone in publishing knows that Chiki Sarkar is pure genius at publicising books. This is a great opportunity to lead her publicity team at juggernautbooks. Any ambitious publicist should jump at it, there is so much to learn from her.

The thing I want to know about Airchat is, how do you get introverts to want to talk in audio? They just don't want to, but they have some of the best things to say.

How I explained it to 12 yo: Lucifer thought he was assistant regional manager, but actually he was just the assistant to the regional manager.