Ten Shades of Life : The Book Launch

Thanks in no small measure to the efforts of Fablery and the hard work and effort put in by editor Nethra Anjanappa, Fablery's first anthology of short stories, Ten Shades of Life, featuring contest winners across ten different genres was officially launched on the 4th of May in Bangalore.

The venue was the newly renovated Atta Galatta bookstore in Koramangala (a stone's throw away from Empire Hotel, a really good stone's throw away from Forum Mall!) which provided a very cozy and personal atmosphere for the launch.

(Left to Right: Shankar(co-author), Nethra(editor), Preeti Shenoy(author, The Secret Wishlist), 

Vinaya(co-author), Karthik(co-author), me(mua) and Supraja Pulla(Fablery)

India's best-selling author, Preeti Shenoy, was kind enough to grace the occasion with her presence and officially launched the book. (On a personal note: Years back, in 2008, I had been there at the book launch of her first book, '34 Bubblegums and Candies', in Pune. It was the first book launch I had ever been to and it felt great to see her and her lovely family again after so many years and have her be a part of this event.)

Vinaya talks about the thought process that went into 

creating her contest winning 'Philosophical' story.

They gave me the book and told me to read parts of this story called 'Harry's Bluff'. 

By some dumb-a$$ author named *checks index* Oh. Wait. Umm... never mind.

Following the ceremonial cake-cutting ( Yes, you know there will be food involved when I am around), there was an interactive session wherein the authors read snippets from their individual stories, discussed their motivations behind their particular genre and answered questions from the audience.

Next came the part I always find embarrassing (No. Not running around in a pink and green polka-dotted bow-tie, electric blue socks and yellow shorts... I could actually get used to that.) - signing autographs for 'fans' and friends.

Mr Shankar doesn't know it, but I'm racing with him to finish signing. He still won !!

All in all, it was a great experience which everyone - both the authors and the audience - enjoyed, I'm happy to say. For more photos of the book launch, Click here.


Early reviews of Ten Shades of Life have been unanimously positive, I'm glad to say ( Reviewed by popular bloggers including:

• Nabanita, 
• Prasanna Rao, 
• Amrit Sinha, 
• Privy Trifles, 
• Shilpa Garg, 
• Yatin Gupta, 
• Rupertt Wind , 
• VB, 
• Farida Rizwan, 
• Himani and 
• Leo

I'm happy for the thumbs up given to both the authors and the dedicated team of Fablery.
Ten Shades of Life is now available in bookstores and can also be delivered to your doorstep via FLIPKART.
For a preview of the individual stories, do check out this link.