I am a traditionally published author with Simon and Schuster. I’ve been in the business for almost twelve years and have taken most of that time to learn the ins and outs of the business. I’ve made mistakes and learned from them. During my quest to know as much about the industry as possible, I became published. Now that I am at a point in my career where things are taking off, I have become more aware of the prejudices in the industry. You may think I am speaking of the prejudices against self-published authors vs. mainstream authors but I am not. I am speaking of the prejudices that self-published authors have ...

December is when the world celebrates and prepares for the New Year. It’s a time for looking into the future and to review the past. Each year experts in every field study the year that has been and list of what was best, what went unnoticed and what was really bad.Since centuries thousands of books are published each year. A few books receive accolades others are enjoyed and lie forgotten on dusty shelves and yet others go unnoticed. Publishers weekly reviews more than 6000 books both print and online in various categories like fiction, poetry, non fiction, comics, religion, lifestyle, and children’s books.In Fiction PW lists as top picks:1. Call Me by Your ...

   Newspapers are no longer posting poetry reviews, and if they do, they are slim to none. The general press provides very little coverage of poetry or poets. While there are existing today literary journals that print verse, they have exonerated the printing of literary reviews. They publish page upon page of jam-packed poems, one right after the other. Reading these journals is an absolute travesty and completely defames the spiritual culture of verse. And yet, the poor and unsuspecting, first-time poet still believes that this is a creditworthy accomplishment.    There is, however, an exceptional escalation for the need of the art. There are a record number of literary magazines being established ...

Tadeeb International lives on!After an unavoidable delay, Tadeeb International, the award-winning dual-language, (Urdu/English), literary and cultural journal, will be published again in January, 2009. As before, the journal will be produced in Islamabad, Pakistan, under the guidance of Hameed Qaiser, its Urdu editor, and will be distributed from Islamabad and Bradford, UK. The English editor, Helen Goodway, will distribute half the run of at least 500 from Bradford. We owe a debt of gratitude to a generous private donor and to Bradford Metropolitan District Council for respectively subsidising production and distribution of the new issue.2007 saw the publication of the fourth issue of Tadeeb International under the remit of a grant from ...

Rabindranath Tagore was born on May 7, 1861 in Calcutta India. He was a Bengali poet who won the Noble Prize in 1913. He was one of the most influential persons of that time, and even until this day, in introducing to western culture the best of Indian culture, and vice versa. (Encyclopedia Britannica, 1988). That is part of the purpose of this book, in addition to giving young people of India an opportunity to learn about their own cultural heritage.Tagore was born into a large, extended family, he was the youngest of 13 surviving children, and his father sent him to England to study, with the desire for him to become ...