If your idea of a good time is ridiculing the mother-in-law, your husband, Bharatanatyam recitals, IT folk, Bharatanatyam recitals by IT folk, old girlfriends, men in skirts, and old girlfriends who are now married to men in skirts, this book is for you. But if you’re into writers, writing, novels, non-fiction, lit fests, poetry readings, book launches, bestsellers and the publishing industry and would like to know everything that is spectacularly wrong with them, you can’t afford to miss this. In this book, you will discover what the must-know publishing terms for every Indian writer are, thirteen ways to be a lit fest scene stealer, how prestigious literary awards are decided, what the flowery adjectives on book blurbs really mean, publishing trends of the near future, copyright-free bestseller ideas, and much, much more.