Warning
It is an advertisement. It is an
advertisement in self promotion. I am going to blow my own trumpet in
my own appreciation.
I will not like that anyone may feel
that he or she has wasted his or her time reading the whole post. In
brief, I have published an ebook. The thumbnail display is given
below.
The rest of the post follows after this
display.
This is my first ebook. It is my third
book that is published and available to the readers.
It is not that I have written only
three books. I have written some books related to courses concerning
different level of academic courses but that is a different story.
The book is published on Kindle Direct
Publication (KDP) under their Self Publication paradigm. It is
written in Hindi. It falls under the category of Literature and Short
story. The whole book is a single story in itself of an unclassified
category.
The book is based on the content of one
of my blog. In other words, it is 'a blog to a book' product. In
simpler terms, I have converted one of my blog into a book.
The name of the blog is 'Sumir Sharma Hindi Main'. The blog was started in 2005. I always desire to write
in Hindi. However, due to some technical hindrances, I am not able to
pursue it aggressively. I can type in English at a good speed. Therefore, whenever, I get a chance to write on the Internet
or for publication, I prefer to write in English.
Secondly, way back in 2005, when I wished to write in
Hindi on the Internet, there were not enough models and methods for
people like us who did not have the required knowledge of computers,
to write in Hindi. In those days, the Internet speed was also very
slow. Secondly, there were regular electricity cuts for a long period which continued for days together. I virtually struggled to show something in
Devanagari Script on the Internet. However there were some people
already writing it in Hindi on the Internet. I was able to establish
contact with them and with their help I was able to write that blog.
Now, it is easy to say that you can
write. When you attempt to write for a wider audience, you find lack
of faith in your ownself. Sometimes, you are not able to appreciate
your own writing. You fear criticism. You fear that nobody would read
it. You fear that it will be a mere wastage of time. Soon, you
realise that you stand nowhere.
I generally write in Hindi. However,
when I got the chance to write the blog in Hindi after learning it
from my friends on the Internet, I found that I had nothing
substantial to write for my blog. I had written some poems in my
childhood. I did not have the confidence in the quality of those
poems. The need was to put something in Hindi on the Internet. I had
the ready material with me. It was merely an experiment to display
something in Hindi. Secondly, poems are generally shorter in length.
Therefore, I displayed some of the poems on that blog. It was a
surprise for me that I received some encouraging comments on them. It
increased my enthusiasm and gave me encouragement. However, during
this whole struggle, the friends on the Internet continued to help me
to improve my skills on writing in Hindi on the Internet. I even
wrote a story at that time. Even, that story brought me some
appreciation from unknown quarters. It all happened on the Internet.
There are evidences of these activities still showing on my blog.
Now, the whole of this activity is
compressed into an ebook form. That is the story which I have
presented in the book. The title of book is 'Ek Kahani Kuch
Kavitayan'. In English, it can be called as 'One Story Few Poems'.
I had learned about Kindle Direct
Publication (KDP) or rather had downloaded their software somewhere in the
beginning of 2017. Earlier, I had discontinued my activity of
publishing books with traditional Publishers. I was confined to
blogging. The Kindle Direct Publication has provided an opportunity to self publish your work. I find it as an opportunity to fulfil my earlier dreams. I
want to execute my earlier dream plans into a reality. I have started working
on all those projects which I once dreamed to publish through
traditional method.
I had set a target to come up with a
book this year. My work is still continuing. In the meantime, I tried to enquire from the Amazon people (The KDP is a part of Amazon.) that if I could publish in
Hindi. They suggested me a way out. But, again there was a technical
problem. It was just a chance that I happened to acquire Anmol Fonts
from one of my acquaintance. I have Kruti Fonts, Mangal
Fonts, and many more such Fonts already with me. But, I was never able to become
comfortable with them. However, Anmol Fonts are more user friendly. I
had already this plan in my mind to convert my experiences on blogging
in Hindi into a story.
My work on my other titles is still in
progress. The year was coming to end and I was not ready with my
manuscript. I got this idea that I must try to practice typing on the
Anmol Fonts. I visualized a plan to write that story which I wished
to write. In short, I was able to collect the material which could be
converted into a book. I tried to format it on the Kindle Textbook Creator. To my surprise, I was able to compile a book. In this
manner, this book was written.
I believe that those who have read it
up to here may have liked this story. However, the book that is
mentioned here, is in Hindi.
