Aniesha's Musings

Well, it started with a story. 
To be precise it was Ashwin and Diya’s story. I was managing the BEE Books stall (Hall 2, Stall 627), like I had been asked to for the International Kolkata Book Fair 2017 and in walked our in-house editor, Sugandha along with the delegates all the way from Wales.
She was coordinator of the Valley, the City and the Village Project. (In office, we started referring to it as the VCV Project.) I remembered meeting the publisher of Parthian Books, Richard Davis, a few months before. And I remembered having met Gary Raymond. I was delighted that they remembered me too. When asked what I had been up to lately, I told Richard that I’d written a new novel and it had been published by BEE Books. It was called AllSigns Lead Back to You. He was delighted, bought a copy promptly and asked me to sign it for him. Needless to say I was delighted too.
What I never anticipated was that he would finish reading the book during the length of his stay in Kolkata and be impres…

You’re probably wondering what on Earth does one mean by Writer Fashion? As in, what would writers wear to their book launches? Or would they wear if they got invited to Book Award ceremonies? Or is it something else? Well, no.
Writer fashion is what you wear when you’re writing. Usually, I like wearing my lose pajamas and baggy t-shirts. But sometimes because I am so annoyed or just cannot calm down my mind enough to write, I dress up. It’s a good way to make yourself realize you need to start working. And maybe it’s psychological but if you are dressed up enough you tend to want to work more. Your brain snaps out of the lazy mode and begins working. So I am either dressed to the nines when I am writing my stories or I am not. There’s no in between for me. Because when I am feeling utterly lazy, getting dressed up is a good way to trick my brain into thinking that I am about to go out and I really need to be at the top of my game. So, sometimes I will wear the fanciest of clothes and …

“If you love someone, let them sleep.” Anonymous
Countless jokes have been made about this. How sleep is the one stop cure for all our problems. Because, come on, if you sleep it off then you’re bound to feel better in the morning. Human beings should after all work exactly like machines. When something doesn’t work, don’t we suggest that we switch it off and turn it back on again?
Why should human beings be any different? When the world doesn’t go your way, just sleep off. It doesn’t matter that there’s someone who might be breaking. Because hey, as long as you get your beauty sleep, all will be right with the world! Who cares that there are questions and troubles gnawing at them, Eating them up from inside! But you would shrug your shoulders and ask them to sleep. That is the solution to everything after all: sleep. The one thing that is supposed to fix everything – Your mood swings, your broken heart and even The fact you are sometimes awake at night.
Just sleep. Everything else can wa…