And we're live!

 Yesterday was an exciting day for me in my budding writing career.  The Kindle e-book version of my book, Pedalling to Kailash, went live on Amazon for pre-orders.  I uploaded the manuscript, full of last-minute revisions, put in my lovingly crafted and recrafted front cover, did some pricing and bureaucratic form-filling, and ...voila!  

It's now for sale as a pre-order; the first e-books will be sent out on Feb. 28th.  A number of my friends have already pre-ordered the book, so it's off and running.  In fact, according to the screenshot, it's currently the #1 new release in Indian travel writing (not sure how big a field that is on Amazon, but it's a good thing)!

I'm currently working on getting the paperback version released ASAP; I want to have it for sale on the same day (Feb. 28th) as the e-book gets released.

Very exciting!

One week to publication!

There is exactly one week to go before (if everything goes according to plan which, as the past year has proven, is not a sure thing!) my book Pedalling to Kailash is released out into the wild.  It has been a busy few weeks, designing book covers, trying to figure out how to include images in my book and trying to do some social media marketing.  Terri has spent a great deal of time and effort to create 4 beautiful hand-drawn maps for the book, which were a labour of love and have added a lot to the feel of the book.

I hope to have details on how to buy the book within two days.  

Which of the two possible cover designs do you think I should go for?