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Aishwarya speaks with Andrew James, founder of UK-based Frog Literary Agency, about the need to focus on representing authors from the LGBTQIA+ community. How does James choose who to represent? Can literary agencies boost access to the publish
Aishwarya speaks with Ajay Jain, founder of Kunzum, about the importance of collaboration in the publishing world, and the necessity for the Kunzum Bookselling Reimagined Conference. Why is a community and collaboration important to bookstores?
The rise in the number of people looking to publish their work has led to a rise in the number of publishing scams. What are these scams, and how do authors fall for these scams? What is vanity publishing? How do fake literary agents scam autho
Aishwarya speaks with Arcopol Chaudhuri, Executive Editor - Rights & New Media at HarperCollins India about the process of adapting books into audiobooks and why publishers want to retain audio rights. How much does HarperCollins earn from audi
Aishwarya speaks with Arcopol Chaudhuri, Executive Editor - Rights & New Media at HarperCollins India about the exponential growth of the audiobook market in the last 5 years, and other exciting developments in adaptation. How do rights and new
Tiktok’s parent company, ByteDance, is launching a new publishing arm called 8th Note Press. What does this mean for people who were using TikTok to market their books? Is the new publishing arm going to focus on specific genres? And does this
Aishwarya speaks with Amit Kumar, Senior Commissioning Editor at Taylor & Francis Books, India. What classifies as a bestseller in the academic world? Is academic publishing suffering because of textbook piracy? How do textbooks get commissione
What is the royalty percentage your publisher is offering? Who keeps the copyright of your book? Do you have any say in the title and cover design?Aishwarya covers the most essential questions you need to ask your publisher before signing the c
Aishwarya speaks with Leonard Fernandes, the founder of CinnamonTeal Publishing, the Publishing Next conference and The Dogears Bookshop. Over the years, Leonard has made a name for himself as he is constantly identifying and filling gaps in th
What do you think authors earn when publishing their books? A few lakhs? Half a crore if things go really well? But what would you say, if it turns out you are way off the mark?Aishwarya calculates how much authors can earn from their book, roy
Aishwarya speaks with Chitranshu Tewari about news media in India, and why subscription models bring much-needed disruption to the business of journalism.How does the subscription model work for Newslaundry? How do you convince society to pay f
Two years? To print 200 pages? Well, publishing is more than printing. But what does go into turning a plain manuscript into a high-quality bestseller?Aishwarya is taking you behind the scenes of a publishing house: How long does publishing tak
Guest host Tara Khandelwal talks to Prerna Vohra about her recent move into the audio industry after over 10 years in publishing.What are the main differences between working in publishing and audio? How are editors and publishers especially we
Writing AIs like ChatGPT have taken over our news cycles. Now, AIs write everything from blog articles, and emails, to entire books!Aishwarya has tested several Writing AIs and shares her insights on AI developments. What are their strengths an
Aishwarya speaks with Naveen Valsakumar about the benefits of self publishing and how his company Notion Press is helping authors publish their books.How does the self publishing process work? Is it a better option than traditional publishing?
If you want to publish a book, you have to have a literary agent. Or do you?Aishwarya does away with the myths and looks at the facts: what does a literary agent do? What are the pros and cons of working with one? When should you hire one and w
Guest host Tara Khandelwal talks to Katy Loftus about the most popular genres in the UK and what Indian authors can do to break into the international market. What are the differences in publishing in the UK vs India? How important is social me
Prince Harry’s memoir ‘Spare’ has revived questions about ghostwriting, how it works, and what credit can ghostwriters get. Aishwarya answers all of these questions in this comprehensive breakdown of all things ghostwriting. What does it take t
Aishwarya continues her conversation with IP lawyer Sushrut Desai on how writers and creators can safeguard their work. How does copyright work for music, videos and theater? How will AI affect copyright? Tune in for some crowdsourced questions
Aishwarya chats with IP lawyer Sushrut Desai on how writers and creators can safeguard their work with copyright.At what stage can you copyright your workCan you really copyright ideas?What are the red flags you should look for in a contract?If
Aishwarya chats with Unni Nambudripad, Head of Original Podcasts and Content Development Lead at Spotify, about the podcasting boom in India and how writers can take advantage of it.India is the 3rd largest market for podcasts in the world. And
Will AI take over your job? Is there a growing demand for writers in the audio and video industries? Why did Westland Books shut down? Can you copyright your book ideas? Aishwarya is back on popular demand with a power-packed new season. She de
Aishwarya talks to Vaishnavi Singh (Head of Digital at Penguin Random House India) about the creation and future of ebooks and audiobooks. Aishwarya talks to Vaishnavi Singh (Head of Digital at Penguin Random House India) about the creation and
Aishwarya talks to Trisha De Niyogi (CEO and Director of Niyogi Books) about the translation movement in India and the appeal of Indian books and stories. Trisha talks about how translations help us tap into unknown cultures and experience or u
Aishwarya talks to Mita Kapur (Founder of Siyahi, one of the first literary agencies in India) about how literary agents guide writers through every step of the publishing process. Mita Kapur talks about why she decided to start a literary agen
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