#Storytelling

600 Devils is a gripping generational drama about an emotionally dysfunctional truth seeker turned smuggler turned undercover operative. From the Alps to the Burmese jungle to a Senatorial chamber in Washington D.C. From refugee to redemption, a life impacted by smuggling, cannabis, psychedelics, conmen, cops and assorted holy men. 

Whereas Mahabharata's Bhagvad-Gita is taken as a philosophical guide, Ramayana's Sundara Kãnda is sought for spiritual solace; many believe that reading it or hearing it recited would remove all hurdles and usher in good tidings! Miracles apart, it's in the nature of this great epic to inculcate fortitude and generate hope in man for it’s a depiction of how Hanuman goes about his errand against all odds.         Besides, it portrays how Seetha, on the verge of self-immolation, overcomes despair to see life in a new light? With rhythm of its verse and the flow of the narrative this sloka to sloka transcreation of the canto beautif...

After letting me pen over a score of articles, though my muse prompted me to enter into the arena of fiction, yet it made me struggle to come up with the opening lines of my maiden novel for over ten days or so before “That winter night in the mid-seventies, the Janata Express was racing rhythmically on its tracks towards the coast of Andhra Pradesh. As its headlight pierced the darkness of the fertile plains, the driver honked the horn as though to awake the sleepy environs to the spectacle of the speeding train. On that, in the S-3, were the Ramaiahs with their nine year-old daughter Roopa.”But then “the train stopped at a village station, as though to disrupt Roopa’s daydreams of ...

Marine plastic pollution is a most serious threat to our precious oceans and its inhabitants.  Solutions will involve us all. Flidgywumper Saves the Seas is an all 5 star reviewed children's book that entertains while it educates, but most importantly inspires children AND the adults in their lives to care and ultimately act to turn the tide on plastic pollution. The book and directory of organizations working to address this issue are linked from flidgywumper (dot)com. Connect with us to see how you can help Flidgywumper save our oceans.

Andrea, is a wife, a mother, a grandmother, and a great-grandmother who never gave up on her dream to write her unbelievable life story, and is now an author in her seventies.  A story that took her over 30 years to write. "NEVER GIVE UP ON YOUR DREAMS"