{"id":1427,"date":"2024-09-06T09:51:25","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T08:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/preethinair.com\/site\/?p=1427"},"modified":"2024-09-06T09:54:24","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T08:54:24","slug":"good-thing-bad-thing-we-dont-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preethinair.com\/site\/good-thing-bad-thing-we-dont-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Good thing, bad thing, we don’t know…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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21 days to launch and behind the glossy photo things have been going wrong. The first advance copies of Unravelling arrived and whilst checking through them, I found a book with the first seven pages missing. You couldn\u2019t make this up\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Twenty-five years ago, having been rejected by every publisher, I embarked upon my first self-publishing venture. On receipt of my first consignment, all 3,000 books had a page missing. It was a big deal as I had lined up press with my feisty blonde alter-ego and people are not really bothered by your logistical problems. If you miss a deadline, you miss a deadline. So, I asked the printer to print me 3,000 copies of page 179 and I \u2018Prit-sticked\u2019 them in the middle of the night (long story but I was supposed to be a management consultant, and no one knew of the publishing deal I had given myself).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fast forward to today, I turned down a fourth book deal with my publisher to self-publish Unravelling. Why you may ask? I asked that question when I see that seven pages are missing from a book, and it takes me right back to that moment of panic and \u2018pritstickgate\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But then, things worked out for me with those 3,000 pages missing. I got to go to the London Book Fair where we caused quite a stir as large publishers were giving out leaflets and we were giving out books. I found my agent at that Fair and I ended up signing a three-book deal with HarperCollins (not necessarily a good thing for me but led to other great things).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, I go back to my living room currently filled with books and start checking each one and draw upon something I heard from Dr Rao.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He says, \u201cGood thing bad thing, we don\u2019t know,\u201d that it is a question of perspective, and he uses a Sufi parable to illustrate this. It\u2019s so true, I look at some back at some of the \u2018good\u2019 things that have happened, and they haven\u2019t necessarily been good and vice-versa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, if you currently find yourself in the middle of a \u2018problem\u2019, I hope this helps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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📣 Unravelling is out 27th September 2024. Link to pre-order<\/a> books with no pages missing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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