Aug 14, 2006

The Long wait comes to a happy end

It was long time back I wrote my last blog but not without a reason. My wife delivered our first baby boy on 09th of August.

Though the expected delivery date was August 17, the doctor confirmed that there is no posibility of normal delivery because of the wrong position of the baby inside.It would be a mental presure for all, Hema in particular, to wait for such a long time knowing that she is going to be operated. We decided to operate and deliver the baby at the earliest.

August 09th was the date decided for the operation. Hema was admitted on 08th evening to prepare herself. Earlier we both decided not to know the sex of the baby in advance, otherwise there is no much excitement in waiting.

It was about 10:25 in the morning when she was taken to the operation theatre. The anxious wait was for about 20 mins. At exactly about 10:48, we heared the sweat voice of our baby. Five mins later a nurse came out of the room and told us that it was a baby boy and went back in. I wanted to know how was hema doing but no one was there to tell me that. I left the crowd and cried. I was not able to control my emotion. She was unconsious when I saw her after the operation.

The 9 month long wait looks shorter than the 20 mins in front of the operation room.

Aug 4, 2006

Ads made easy....

If you think news papers, brouchers, ad flims are the ways to advertise your books and movies or any other products for that matter, then you might need to upgrade yourself....

How many of you know that you don't even need to invest any money for these advertisement?

It just need to take a controversial topics to discuss or analysis in your books/movies. The news media will take care of the publicity. Here are the real time examples.

1) "A Call for Honor" is one of the top 10 best sellers. The controversial topics discussed on this book and the coverage by the news media made it all for the publicity.

2) The Indian launch of "Indian Summer" by John Wright is scheduled for October. But the publishers are expecting a big sales.

3) The sales of the edit verison of "Da Vinci Code" is raised in recent times because of the controversies that it created in the movie verison. Also, the movie was a box office hit.

4) The sales of the edit verison of "Othello" is raising in recent times because of the Hindi movie "Omkara". The story of Othello was the base for Omkara.

You just need to sit and think out of box to attract the news media. Just simple. Isn't it?