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Talking About Our Books
Remembering Soumitra
Legendary actress Sharmila Tagore, noted filmmaker Catherine Berge in conversation with Murmurs author Amitava Nag.
Letter to Myself Adda
Artists Mithu Sen, Indranil Garai and Piu Mahapatra, author-poet Amitava Nag and Blue Pencil Editor Antara discuss Piu's unique book of postcards.
Meet the Authors - HQ Chowdhury and Manek Premchand
HQ Chowdhury, author of Incomparable Sachin Dev Burman and Manek Premchand, author of Yesterday's Melodies Today's Memories.
What Our Authors Say
I received help at every stage
I am very happy with the services offered by Blue Pencil regarding our Kindle edition Wine-Kissed Poems by Dr Koshy AV and Jagari Mukherjee. I received help at every stage and also was satisfied with how the cover came out, which helped largely with its success, and how it looked on an iPad. Heavenly. I was also satisfied with the quick willingness on the part of the team to make changes I wanted during the editing process.
The final product by becoming a bestseller on Amazon for ten days running in the Kindle Paid category and in the top 50 consistently in Books is already legendary, along with its being featured consistently in Hot New Releases. As a result, I am now certain that for kindles I will stick to Blue Pencil everytime and others should come to them too.
Dr. Koshy AV
Professor, Poet & Author
Bengaluru
A partner in progress
My first book of non-fiction – ‘Effective Parenting’ : A New Paradigm was published by Blue Pencil. Team BP was with me during every stage of the book – editing, layout, design and marketing. In fact the idea of interspersing snippets into the book in the form of ‘Parenting Pointers’ came from the editor. Putting up of the print and kindle editions of the book on Amazon was seamlessly done by the publisher.
However, the most fulfilling and enriching experience were the interventions unleashed by the publishers after the launch of the book. I reached out to my readers through workshops and interaction sessions across the country and each initiative of mine was showcased beautifully on LearningandCreativity.com.
Team Blue Pencil also came out with a unique idea of compiling the best quotes from the book in the form of ‘Parenting Mantras’ and shared them on social media.
Blue Pencil to me was never just a publisher – it was a partner in progress.
Ramendra Kumar
Author of 54 books
& winner of
31 Children's Book Trust awards
About Blue Pencil
Blue Pencil is a literary publishing house founded in 2018 by women entrepreneurs Antara Nanda Mondal and Madhu Verma. We are an offshoot of two reputed literary brands: Learning and Creativity and Silhouette Magazine.
In 2022, we received the Chanakya Award for ‘Publisher of the Year’ from the Public Relations Council of India.
We publish literary fiction, biography, film criticism, poetry, politics, and children’s books. Our editorial team includes experienced editors, most of whom are published authors themselves.
Blue Pencil responds to manuscript submissions within 7 days.
