Rumi: The Fire of Love, the internationally acclaimed novel by Nahal Tajadod, is reviewed in Rain Taxi Review of Books: "This book is the first comprehensive and authoritative historical novel in English about the life and mind of Jalaluddin Rumi, the 13th-century Persian mystic who is one of the most widely read poets in North America. Nahal Tajadod confesses that it took her several years to finish this book, during which her mother (a scholar of Persian literature who helped her to understand Rumi) died and Tajaddod gave birth to her first child (after ten years of trying). During those years, her husband would often inquire about her book on Rumi, and in reply Tajadod would quote from one of Rumi’s own poems: “For a certain time the book has been delayed.” One day, Tajadod writes, while breastfeeding her infant daughter, she opened Rumi’s book and found out that that particular poem continues like this: “Because it takes time for blood to become milk.” Its long gestation seems to have paid off, for Rumi: The Fire of Love is a delight to read."
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A new novel based on the life of the legendary Sufi poet Rumi will soon be available for the first time in the U.S. Rumi: The Fire of Love, by Nahal Tajadod, vividly reimagines the story of Rumi, whose poetry and mystic teachings have mesmerized the world for centuries. Tajadod, a renowned translator of Rumi into French, delves into the soul and passion of Rumi in a breathtaking work that is already in production as a major motion picture. Kirkus Reviews notes that Rumi: The Fire of Love conveys the "magic of a teacher and scholar whose passion produced some of the most beautiful poetry ever written."
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Promoting a new book is hard, especially when you're a first time author. It doesn't matter how good the book is or how nice you are, you'll still wind up doing signings for empty rooms, if you're lucky enough to persuade someone to let you do the signings.
Still, all of that has to be easier than finding yourself in a world where your first novel is coming out and you are not in a position to promote it.
Sometimes the entire literary blogging community will gather around and make sure that, if you can't be out there promoting your book, they'll do whatever they can to help and point people to it.
And sometimes an author in the middle of a book will look up and go "Hang on. The 28th. That was yesterday? I thought it was.... oh bugger."
The book is called The Liar's Diary. The author is very apologetic.
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Along with Susan Henderson, Litpark, and THREE HUNDRED OTHER BLOGS, I'd like to celebrate the work of a first-time novelist who just realized her dream today, after struggling with all the writing life problems that we discuss here.
Patry Francis wrote her novel The Liar's Diary with a dayjob and a family, finally publishing her book today. Go check it out and cheer her on for this major milestone.
Sadly, Francis is now battling cancer and the litblog community is coming together to celebrate and support her on this happy day. If you get a chance, visit her wonderful blog and keep Francis in your thoughts today--we all share in the struggle and the successes of our online writing community.
"[These] people traded hundreds of emails with me to put this together: Karen Dionne of Backspace, Jessica Keener of Agni and The Boston Globe, Dan Conaway of Writers House, and Alice Tasman of the Jean Naggar Literary Agency. What began as a personal gesture of caring for a friend became an astonishing show of community - writers helping writers; strangers helping strangers; and most surprising of all, editors, agents and publishers, who have no stake in this book, crossing 'party lines' to blog."
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Hello,
Rumi, a great sufi mystic, I always keep on searching some or the other thing about him.
For the very first time I came to know about Nahal Tajadod is a renowned traslator of Rumi to French, I am from India, here I came to know about Rumi through the poetry & music albums translated & composed by Anandmurti Gurumaa, an enlightened mystic.