Minds @ Work | First Step Publishing

Name Of the Book:  Minds @ Work

Author/s :
1. Ms Siddhi Aras
2. Mr Aseem Rastogi
3. Ms Sugandha Bhandhari
4. Ms Shalini Bhattacharya
5. Mr Rohit Shetty
6. Mr Ambrish Surve
7. Mr Nikhil Katkar
8. Mr Yash Gaur
9. Ms. Susma Sharma Gurumayum
10 . Ms. Pragya Chaturvedi
11. Ms. Tessa George Katticaran
12. Mr. Krishna Kumar

Publisher:  First Step Publishing  www.firststepcorp.com

ISBN:  978-81-922670-7-4

Genre:  Literature

Expected Launch:  4th August 2012 (E-Book Format)

Price:  Yet to be disclosed

Literature and literary books are very hard to find these days but First Step Publishing has gathered some interesting talent across India. This book had a tough time assembling writers, which took them more than an years time. The catch of this book is that there are twelve writers / contributors, contributing to this venture by First Step Publishing.

First Going through the authors bio beforehand reading we were quite surprised by the line up of contributors. We found Students, Professionals, ex RJ's, Freelancers, along with published writers and entrepreneurs, which created a lot of inquisitiveness in reading the potpourri the book had to offer. Poems, Short Stories, Anecdote's, and Real Stories. Reading the book it seemed it had it all along with dash of literature and commercial writing.



“My dear Moon, I simply love and adore you”.
“You are my companion and you are my friend,
You are my support and also my strength,
You are my smile and my darling too,
Dear Moon, I simply love you.”

Be it from being inspired from the moon on being optimistic in life from "Yes You Inspire Me", to the roller-coaster of an  "An Untitled Poem" quoting

"This time i thank you to be untrue
And let me live my life happily without you..."
or be it from a typical bollywood love story turned later into marriage and a nightmare which does not allow author to dream to from "A Twisted Love Story", this book has many more poems and stories, the real face of some behind "The Smirk" they wear to the Series of bomb blast in Mumbai in "Freeze".

In short a must read for a potpourri of anything and everything.

Details of the availability of the book will be updated soon ....

10 1/2 Stories by Saurabh S Pawse | First Step Publishing

Name Of The Book:  10 1/2 Stories

Author:  Saurabh S Pawse

Publisher: First Step Publishing  www.firststepcorp.com

ISBN:  978-81-922670-5-0

Genre:  Short Stories

Date of Launch:  20th May 2012
Price: INR 150

As the name suggests Ten and Half Stories, this book has ten stories and a half story. The title and the cover will grab attention of a prospective reader, not to mention the stories as well.  Overall the content of the book is good, not to forget the vocab used, some readers might have a tough time reading as one might have to carry a dictionary for a few words. The authors style is way too analytical  and he doesn't spare the readers by the way he reaches to conclusions. The author explains everything in details and doesn't leave a scope for the readers to use their intellect.
Topics in the book include

1. If Looks Could Kill
2. Society Tea
3. The Discontented Commuter
4. Black And White
5. The Adolescent
6. Fanfare
7. The Idiosyncrasy
8. Jalpaiguri In
9. The Scarlet Letter
10. The Conman
11. Deja Vu (The Half)

Some Stories like "The Adolescent", "The Scarlet Letter", "The Conman" are some decent stories lined up along with "The Idiosyncrasy" while "If Looks could kill" is a story where in the author Meticulously defines the looks of a lady but ends in a drastic hilarious anecdote.
"Black and White" reminded me of the movie Ghajni wherein Amir Khan was suffering from the same illness of "Short Term Memory Loss"
Here readers might expect something to take with me reading the last Story but was left clueless when i turned the last page.
The book has its high and low's where in one must be prepared as in what next the author has in store.

As informed to us this book had made it to the top selling list on the e commerce website of www.indiaplaza.com
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