User:Ravisidula/Imprints-colours of life

'Imprints-colours of life' is collection of short stories written by two budding authors G.S. Vasu and Ravi Sidula. The book was self-published in January 2010 by the two writers, supported by Pothi.com, a print-on-demand startup that enables authors to publish their own books.

The book is written in traditional style using simple words and it is a gentle portray of the variety of colours one would encounter during the walk of the journey of our lives. The stories are a reflection of the human emotions of the hearts emitting from the lives of men and women when one encounters with the human elements – love, friendship, feelings and relationships. These human emotions are depicted through the various characters penned down by the two writers.

The two authors have maintained a community under the name 'Short Stories' in one of the social websites named 'Orkut'. The community has 3000 + members as on Jan'10 and consists of talented budding writers who visit the community to pen down their thoughts through the medium of short stories and short flash fictions. The authors who submit their works out here do find many readers for their stories at this community, who provide them with valuable feedback on such stories, thus helping the authors to deepen their interest in the art and take it to perfection.

The two authors Ravi and Vasu continued their passion of writing at this community and finding positive responses from the readers, went on to add numerous stories to their list. After having written more than fifty stories each, they both decided to go in for publishing their stories into a book but after having rejected by numerous publishers, they opted for self-publishing their work as they dreamt of seeing their collection shape itself into a book. The entire book was completed in a period of one month, right from the scratch of designing a cover to the scratch end of formatting. The book is decribed to be on the lines of Malgudi days by most of its readers as the characters in the story are the ones, whom one can relate to, similar to the 'common man' character in Sri R.K. Narayan's Stories

Indian writing in english has started taking an important place in the literary platform as more and more people are drawn in cultivating the habbit of reading these days, thanks to the long hours of traffic jams in the metropolitan cities, which in turn helps the budding authors to earn their respect prooving their talent out on such busy roads. Every month we find the books of new authors hitting the book-stores and there are so many choices out there for the readers to choose from.

http://imprints-colours-of-life.com/

Ravisidula (talk) 17:15, 9 March 2010 (UTC)