Samit Basu
Samit Basu
New Novel alert!
Chosen Spirits is very different from anything I’ve done before. Can’t wait for you to read it.
House Arrest trailer
So, I wrote and co-directed a film with Shashank Ghosh. It’s called House Arrest, stars Ali Fazal, Shriya Pilgaonkar, Jim Sarbh and Barkha Singh, and is out on November 15 on Netflix.
Plot twist
It’s been a long time coming, but I have some news
Fiction-maker survival in the post-fact world: Part 3
Part 1 and What Is This Again are here. Q21 Will you read/edit/blurb my manuscript, recommend agents/editors/publishers/other, schedule a conversation to plan my career? No, sorry. All the best with your work. Q22 So the thing is, I’m very upset about the marketing of my books. I don’t have an agent, I submitted to [ ] … Continue reading
Fiction-maker survival in the post-fact world: Part 2
Part 1 includes What The Hell Is This? and is here. I’ve grouped several questions together because the answers – as in, my answers – are broadly the same. Several questions I’ve received are also variants on the ones I did in P1, so not going back to those – will be discussing things that … Continue reading
Fictionmaker survival in the post-fact world: Part 1
If you’re coming into the site directly, this is what’s happening: I recently shared this post on FB and Twitter: If anyone’s interested in writing/publishing/creative survival advice from me, ask me on Twitter/FB/mail. Will do a post for every 10 qns. Too much of the stuff on the net is self-aggrandising/follower-bait from novices/exploitative. And writers … Continue reading
Stoob 4 is done
Waiting for Sunaina’s illustrations to come in, but that’s another series written. Finished it a while ago, actually, but gave it the pull-out-of-drawer-and-see-if-it-works run, and it’s my favourite one in the series. Which means that it’s actually time to start planning book eleven. I loved writing the Stoob series, but it’s time to write a fat … Continue reading
I love it when the lack of a plan comes together.
I was extremely nervous about putting Turbulence and Resistance up on Indian Kindle in the complete absence of any kind of selling plan beyond hopeful links on social media. But I wanted to thank readers in India for reaffirming faith in everything. Couldn’t have asked for a better welcome. So, thanks. And if you want … Continue reading
Indian readers: Turbulence + Resistance now out on Kindle
Together, in a single fat volume, exclusively on Kindle in India. Here’s the link I’d been planning to put Resistance out in India for a while, and barely noticed the last year pass in the middle of the five other things I’ve been working on across media. Still haven’t figured out who the best publisher … Continue reading
New Indian nursery rhymes
I’ve been having a great deal of fun writing nursery rhymes for present-day India. Part One, in the Huffington Post, is a modern-day Indian alphabet Part Two, also in the HuffPo, is a multiple-choice entrance test
