Amish Tripathi Q & As

       Amish Tripathi's million-dollar book deal hasn't made that many waves outside India yet, but it's a pretty big deal. Publisher Westland's big bet -- they can afford it; they're: "a subsidiary of Trent Limited, the retail arm of the Tata group, the largest diversified industrial group in India" -- is surely a new chapter in publishing in India; it'll be interesting to see if it pays off.
       Q & As with Tripathi can now be found at, for example, The Hindu, where Gowri Ramnarayan talks to The million-dollar author and at the Wall Street Journal's India RealTime where Preetika Rana suggests: Meet Amish Tripathi, Million Dollar Author.
       Among the stories he repeats: how upwards of twenty publishers rejected the first in his now mega-bestselling series.
       And it is entertaining to hear how he tried to follow writing-self-help books in putting together his story -- before finally realizing:

Did it work ? No way. It was a super flop plan. I wasted so much time figuring out which self-help book to listen to. What finally worked for me was when my wife suggested I stop thinking of the book like an MBA project and instead surrender to the flow of the narrative.

       I'm curious whether there's any foreign rights money in it for Westland -- a UK edition of volume one in the series, The Immortals of Meluha, is out from Jo Fletcher books -- see their publicity page, or get your copy from Amazon.co.uk -- but that can't have brought in big bucks ..... No readily available US edition is listed at the US Amazon.com -- your best (and cheapest) bet is to get a copy of this (and the next volumes) at Flipkart.