Name: Surrogate Author
Author: Santosh Avvannavar and Shilpa Patil
No. of Pages: 47
Genre: Fiction/Self-help
Publisher: Hoffen
Price: Rs. 70/-
Published in: 2014
The blurb of the book says:
About the author:
Santosh Avvannavar: Santosh started
his career as a consultant and Soft Skills Trainer. After his college education
from NITK, Surathkal, he worked as a researcher at University of Eindhoven,
University of Twente, and Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He was also
the Placement President while working at IISC, Bangalore. He has over
twenty-five publications of mostly research documents in national and
international journals. He has also authored sixteen conference papers and
regularly writes articles for a national and worldwide daily paper. He also
works as an advisor for different organizations. He also dabbles in fiction
writing and is the author of Adhuri Prem Kahaniya; Dear Wife, Your Husband is
not a Superhero; Second Heart; Get a Job WITHOUT an Interview and Be a B.A. He
likes to devote his personal time in writing for a blog, namely the Amrita
Foundation for HRD (amritafoundation.wordpress.com). He has conducted seminars
and training sessions for more than 35,000 people in India and abroad over the
last seven years.
Shilpa S Patil: Shilpa is a faculty
at KSWU, Bijapur. She holds Master's degree in commerce from Karnataka State
Women's University, Bijapur and Bachelor's degree in commerce from A.S.Patil
college of commerce, Bijapur. She likes to devote her personal time writing for
a blog, namely the Shilpa Goldy and the blog can be read at
shilpagoldy.wordpress.com
MY THOUGHTS:
The story
unfolds in the form of a play. It is basically a parody of Sanjay leela
Bhansali’s ‘Devdas’. Paro here is an unfinished book and Devdas is a wannabe
writer. The book is targeted at aspiring writers who are somehow unable to
complete their projects. Some manuscript writing tips are given at the end of
the book.
Somehow
the humour did not click with me. Anyways it is a fair attempt to lighten the
grim situation of aspiring writers.
I give "Surrogate Author"
2 stars on a scale of 5.
