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Looking Back at 2018 – January: Esha Chatterjee Writes
January is perhaps one of the busiest months in our calendar with the book fair round the corner and literature festivals lined up. 2018 was no exception, and the preparations for both the events were in full swing. In-between this demanding schedule, I went back to my roots in Bangladesh with my father on 12th of…
Looking Back at Agnyatha: The Journey from Manuscript to Book
I have been working with BEE Books for quite some time now. First as a freelance proofreader and editor, and then later as a full-time employee. And each time, each new manuscript that found me has enriched me and challenged my boundaries. When July last year Esha di called me up and asked me if…
BEE Books: 5 Signs of Good Editing
The work of an editor is possibly the most convoluted in the process of publication and is perceptible to change with each manuscript. The scope of editing alters in each manuscript according to its need. With that in mind, here is a list of the five signs of good editing: Flexibility and Scope of Transformation:…
BEE Books: 6 Things an Editor Looks for in a Manuscript
Every story has a unique story to begin with. It has its own journey through several stages by which it finally blooms into a tale worthy of being told. With that in mind, it is hard to generalize what the perspectives for needing in a manuscript appear to be. However, here are certain things that…
BEE Books: BEE Speed Reads
BEE Books was started with the intention to cater to a wider audience. While initially what we had were classics, graphic novels, essays, coffee table books, and contemporary fiction, we realized that our books were either for an older audience or for very young students. We did not have books which would be ideal for…
BEE Books: What is NaNoWriMo?
What is NaNoWriMo? NaNoWriMo is the short form of National Novel Writing Month. Every year in November, thousands of writers come together to hammer out 50,000 words in 30 days. It doesn’t matter if you’re in India or Australia or the United States. Anyone can join in this little time of writing dangerously. In order…
BEE Books: The Idea of Something New
Why BEE? When I was a child I was fascinated by the BEES. Be their hive, how they looked, how they swarm together. Everything just made me wonder how perfect they were. I read stories about the queen bee when I was a kid. I read how the nectar is associated with knowledge in Hindu…
BEE Books: How To Survive Rejection
In our last blog post we had taken you through how to approach a publisher, and left you at a place where your work gets rejected instead of accepted for publication. As someone who has been receiving rejection letters since she was 14 years old (yes, that was the year I began approaching publishers), I…
BEE Books: How To Approach A Publisher?
If you are reading this post, chances are that you have written a novel, edited and reedited it, and proofread it until you could say the whole story word for word. Now what? In this age when all book publishers are very active over the social media you feel like pinging them or inboxing them…
