Book need not have to have preface at all.

Book need not have to have preface at all.

Warm welcome to Everybody __/\__

It may be hard to believe for someone those who don’t know that I can write in English just like how I write in Kannada as well.  Writer need not stick on  to a particular language when he has no prejudice.  An Indian scholar Late| Rahul Sankrutyayana was capable of writing in 15 different languages.  He had acquired the knowledge available in many languages & mastered them one by one with effort.  Later, he was an authority for many languages, where he could teach & preach others with respect to grammatical constructs!   Though I don’t admire some of his thoughts & thesis, I must appreciate the workman ship involved.   

World has become small & manual-hard copy postings are getting vanished deliberately.  Manuscripts are history & ‘ready to print articles’ are reaching editors’ desks. Since internet & email has become communicating tool for sending & receiving the articles/information, time factor involved in communication had been minimized.  Olden day’s type of unscheduled months long waiting is criticized & ruled-out by many modern editors & authors.   

Despite having this scenario, we still have some old styled critics & authors too. Even some editors are of this type I can say.  It is common factor that sometimes though books are good in all respects, for some unknown reasons they are rejected by critics, editors, publishers; we too accept it without hesitation.  A writer need not have to take it as his failure! Indeed there is a new startup in every failure!!  Man can learn many lessons and gain experience from his failure attempts, but can’t learn much from his success! Both Failure & Success are two faces of a coin.  

There is a friend of mine, who is good author of many books, he still looks for somebody suitable to write preface for his books.  Eminent personalities of writing background will have their own schedules & they may not be able to write preface for books within short period; for which publishing works will get delay a lot. Some of the well known personalities will take months together time to read the given books & may write preface only after that.  I think, in this era we don’t need preface. Preface is nothing but sharing experience & opinion about the book by another writer-may be of some repute.  If the contents are not good, not valued, then what can be written in preface?  Preface was the indicator in early decades, but not now.  Preface is not at all the final judgment on the book, since every reader has his/her own taste.

If you can take olden days, then there were manuscripts & many grammatical mistakes. Due to involvement of computer systems now, and based on the software application what we use, we can make ready books over desktops; hence it is called DTP or Desk Top Publishing.  For a writer, what important is his skills-set. Choosing a good topic, gathering required amount of dependable information about the chosen topic, putting the material facts in text form in a preplanned amount of time with complete involvement, trimming the write-up for short & sweet strategy, thinking about the materials being in readers’ shoe, managing social responsibility of  not harming  the society by publishing unethical materials –are few factors, an author has to look into.  Rest, it is his own capacity to showcase his strength in his write-up.  There are many takers if the cake is hot & tasty!   There won’t be anybody when cake is not hot or no tasty.   Author must be able to count the chicken before they hatch. 

Lets us see what we can taste over here in due course, thanks a lot, ba bye.