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5 Iconic Female Characters in Literature
Jane Eyre One of the earliest examples of an individualistic, determined and strong female lead in literature, Jane Eyre, is a personal favourite. Though she is faced with dire circumstances from childhood, she perseveres and grows into a resilient young woman. She manages to successfully retain her autonomy and displays considerable agency time and again…
BEE Stories: Jaipur Literature Festival & Goldfish Memory
When I think of Jaipur, I think of flowers. Thousands upon thousands of petals and buds; orange, blue, purple, red, spun in nets across the paths and marquees. When I think of Jaipur, instead of the pale pink facades for which the city is famous, the monkeys lazying on stall rooves, or the cool winter…
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: 7 Ways We Choose The Books We Read
Sometimes when we are trying to choose a book to read we can’t zero in on one book and there are other times when we just take a book out of the shelf and absolutely fall in love with it. So how do you choose a book? Based on a friend’s good word or by…
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…
BEE Books: 5 Self Published Books That Made It Big!
There is a myth that surrounds self-publishing: you were not good enough to be published traditionally, therefore you shelled out the money to see your name in print. Nothing can be further from the truth… Take a look at these 5 Self-Published Books that Made it BIG in the market! 1.Eragon by Christopher Paolini Christopher…
BEE Books : Why Do We Need Publishing Assistance?
Imagine how our lives would be if we were never introduced to the world of Harry Potter, if we never knew about the Faraway Tree or if we were never left with the fuzzy feeling every time we turned the pages of “Gone with the wind”. We grow up with our favorite characters from the…