Reflecting on My Author Journey
Celebrating 5 Years of 'Stolen Reflections' and the Journey Beyond
Hello dear friend,
Throwback to 2018. My first book, “Stolen Reflections” has just got published.
I was asked on a few websites for author interviews. All of them had one demand: an author press kit. This primarily included three things:
✏ Author pictures
📖 Book cover pictures
🖼 Pictures of authors holding the book.
I was only a student at IIT Guwahati at that time. I had little idea of how to get this done.
Thanks to amazing photographer Vivek Selvan P and forever supporter Sai Krishna Kothapalli, we managed to click these pictures inside the beautiful IITG campus itself.
I remember being super nervous to face the camera. I could only think of one pose, and felt every photo would turn out terrible.
Even when I got these pictures, all I could see were flaws. I felt they could be better in so many ways.
Today, these photographs serve as a reminder of the adrenaline rush of seeing your words in print for the first time. I see a young woman taking the first step to making her mark on the world.
Today, I don’t see flaws.
All I see is the courage I had to take this leap of faith.
It’s been 5 years since “Stolen Reflections” came out. I’ve published 4 books since then, and this journey has been rewarding in more ways than I can count.
I thought I’d be having a photoshoot for every book that was released, but the pandemic robbed me of that opportunity. Now that the world has opened up again, maybe it’s time to make a brand-new press kit.
PS: Grab a copy of "Stolen Reflections" here and my latest book "Taming Infinity" here.
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With love,
Anangsha.