In 2014, I gave up on the novel that I’ve now been working on for six years. The truth was that I’d come to the conclusion that this piece of work required a level of talent and skill that I simply did not possess. I’m my own best advocate, but I’m also a practical and […]

This week, I collected rejection letters from agents for my first novel. While the first one from a big agent—who had loved the first three chapters and requested the full manuscript—did sting, mostly it’s been a fairly Zen process for me. My job is to write. That’s what I’m focusing on. I read the rejections […]

“Stop when it starts to feel like work.” – Alan Cohen A few years ago, I wrote a story about a blind theatre group in India. Anyadesh, as they called themselves, means “another world” and these blind theatre performers came from the lowest rungs of society. Anyadesh was made up of unemployed job-seekers, hawkers, and […]

I’ve been thinking of a way to explain my absence in the last few days and weeks. I’ve been gone from Facebook and Twitter, I’ve made few appearances on the blog, and I’ve even missed a few issues of this newsletter. And I suppose the answer can be nothing but honest and brutal: I burned out and crashed. This […]