I hope you're enjoying the day with you and your loved ones, enjoying an activity, or hobby, or settling in to a day of solitude, enjoying a good book. Whatever you are doing, I hope you find the passion, love and connection you seek. I am spending time with my husband, my partner in crime, working on this project, as well as others.
Today, I am doing what I love most, working on Bollywood Storm. It's been a while since I posted on the Bollywood Storm Book website. What have I been up to? Mostly writing, editing, re-writing, editing. Working, taking care of life's every day needs, resting, rejuvenating and generally getting away from the text so I can see it with a clear mind. I have help. There's been other interruptions of a personal nature. The usual distractions, disasters and dramas. But there has been good times, of cohesion where everything works. Staying with it and getting through it shows connection and commitment. There's a creative relationship that makes you stick it it, even when there are times you are spent, and wish you hadn't embarked on the venture. But you keep on, because you choose to.
The opposite end of that coin is that no writer is an island unto themselves. We still need outside eyes, ears, minds and hearts, whether it's your writer's group or editors, and friends, family or spouse. Although writing is a solitary occupation, what it takes to take it to the completion of a novel is anything but that. Which is a good thing. It creates connection to the outside world required to make that next move - getting the work out.
I am learning a lot and currently working on things like the look and feel of my website, book cover design, and marketing. I am now have a Good Reads Author's. You can search N.K. Johel, or by the title of the books: Bollywood Storm, Volume I & Volume II. You can put them on your 'Want to Read' list. Although the e-books will be released sooner, our projected launch date for the two volume paperback series is November, 2015 available through efg publishing. I will post the date for the 'un-offical' e-book release here as we get closer, but I expect the Amazon Kindle e-book for Volume I will be up on April 22, 2015, and Volume II on August 15, 2015.
November seems like a long time away, but there's still lots to do. I want to thank those who have taken an interest in Bollywood Storm. The passion and work I have put in this book and the story is made even more exciting when it's conveyed to you, my future readers, fans and friends.
Happy Valentines Day.
N.K. Johel