So you want to be published, huh?

Writer Gouri Dange takes the lid off the ‘mystique’ of being a published writer and all that jazz. Whether you are published, unpublished, self-published, overpublished, underpublished, maybe-published, pretend-published… you will recognize many of your secret ignominies as well as silent triumphs in these hilarious readings from her diary.

Agents, publishers, editors, illustrators, fellow-writers, marketing and accounting execs, the press, reviewers, bookstores, celeb-guests, readers…she carpet-bombs the entire three-ringed circus that is Indian publishing.
The idea of sharing a laugh with readers and other writers, aspiring as well as published, by looking at the absurdities and non sequiturs of the publishing world, she says, “is to turn neurotic misery into common grief” (to paraphrase Freud).
Gouri Dange is the author of five books – three fiction and two non-fiction; a book on parenting issues between grown children and their parents and a sequel to Three-Dog Night is in the offing. She has long-running social satire and parenting columns in Pune Mirror and Lounge-Mint.

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