Treasure of Indian Music – Meet the Author, Jaykishan Hariharbhai Kapdi – Yet Another Success to Celebrate!

What an Achievement!

Jaykishan, my friend from a country I’ve never visited, but nobody who follows my blog will be surprised; music flows through my writing, and this is a very special time.

An Editor’s Pick! Congratulations my friend. 

Jaykishan grew up in a family to which music is a blessing from God. Music is hereditary to him. He has learned music from his grandfather Shri Mohanlal Ramdasji Kapdi and father Shri Hariharbhai. He has an experience, how to teach music. He is “Upantya Visharad” in “Tabla” (rhythm).

His grandfather Shri Mohanlal Ramdasji Kapdi has established a non professional music class “Shree Saurashtra Sangeet Vidyalay” in 1935 in the Bhavnagar city-364001, Gujarat State, India, to spread & serve music.

This book is organized into three parts.
Part one addresses the musical terms generally used in vocal & instrumental Indian music. Topics covered include Understanding Indian and Western musical notation method, Signs of Notes used in Indian music, Classical & Non-Classical Indian musical forms, Construction of “Thaat”, Construction of “Raga”, and description of 155 Indian classical “Ragas”.
Part two addresses the musical terms generally used in the Indian rhythm. Topics covered include Understanding the Indian rhythm method, signs of rhythmic words and terms, tempo, “Gharana” (different schools of Indian rhythm), and descriptions of 60 Indian rhythms.
Part three covers a spiritual emancipation through music &“Nad-Shashtra” (Acoustic).
I hope this book will open a new window in the field of Indian music and will be useful for personal study and in the field of education
How to use this book :
You can use this book
1] As a reference :
This book is organized / designed as a reference that you can refer to most of the concepts of Indian Music. A complete index of the book can also help you look up features and topics.
2] As a tutorial :
I have designed this book to be comprehensive guide to Indian Music and to include most of significant features of Indian Music that enables you to use the book as a tutorial – from beginning to end.

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I also found some Indian music     YouTube

Please feel free to leave comments. Sarah

Short Stories and Flash Fiction

Resist this short story if you can!

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I love writing and reading short stories. I also love reading and writing novels, but sometimes you just want to read something short before you go to sleep, and I always find if you’re travelling it’s harder to concentrate on a novel. With short stories you have to capture the people and places quickly and get on with the plot. Often magazines and competitions have word limits and that’s an added challenge but helps keep brain cells working.

The other day I realized I was working on my sixth book of short stories. My first book was Missing. It raised lots of money for Wateraid through the Soroptomists, when it was first published and will always have a special place in my heart.

My second book is Pebble on the Beach I enjoyed writing these stories and have been back to them and rewritten some of them and changed…

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The Hardest Gift to Give

I’vw been down this road so often. It is a hard gift, but we do have the privilege of giving peace.

Rebecca Bryn

Those of you who have read my article THE SHADOW AT MY SIDE can probably guess what’s coming. Three weeks ago, I lost my little shadow.

For fifteen years, Kes has been my constant companion, walking at my side, sleeping at my side, a happy, smiling, non-judgemental presence who has brightened my life on dull days, dragged me out in all weathers, traced happy circles on the beach, and welcomed me home, when I’ve had to go out without her, with a waggy tail, a huge smile, and mad dashes around the house and garden.

I comfort myself with the fact that we gave her the best life we could – you always tell yourselves you could have done more – she was rescued from streets of Caerphilly in February 2008 at the age of seven months, and she came into our lives after the loss of our beautiful Labrador…

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Why Do You Write?

I think this says it all!

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Hey, SE Readers. Joan with you today. Happy first day of February. Today’s post is a bit different, but one all writers can relate to.

For me, and many writers, we must write. There’s a driving force within that compels us to put words on paper.

Why do you write?

I asked my Story Empire colleagues and this is what they had to say:

“For me, it’s more compelling than breathing. I can’t not write.”

Harmony Kent

“I want to continue to tell stories that I love telling.”

John Howell

“I write to quell my busy mind. Getting the stories out there makes room for more.”

C. S. Boyack

“When I want to say something poignant about who and why we are, I come up with a story that sneaks it in while (I hope) it draws attention and entertains.”

Stephen Geez

“I write because I feel it is my…

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Writing Challenge

I can think of several authors who might accept this challange.

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A friend of mine gave me a writing challenge. Thank you Elizabeth Horrocks. It was to write a story or poem including the following:

Character:A child

Date:1942

Genre:Crime

Colour: Blue

Animal: Alpaca

I’ve completed this challenge and will post my writing within the next week. Why don’t you give it a go as well? Send them to me in the comments and I’ll upload so that others can read them. Obviously I won’t publish any that are unsuitable. It’s a great challenge and certainly makes you think.

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Take a fantasy break.

Fantasy fans, don’t miss the series with Fab characters!

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This trilogy is about special powers, magic and intrigue.

Earth in the fifth millennium is a dangerous place. Some parts of Earth have become contaminated by wars and pollution. Genetic experiments and evolution have given a few humans special powers, but even these make the person vulnerable to kidnap, exploitation and incarceration.

Why not explore this strange world of the future, full of love, fear and passion with these three engaging characters, Vrail, Seek and Aley.

The Truth Finder is £1.99/$1.99 on Kindle.

The Visualizer is £1.99/$2.71 on Kindle.

The Healer is £1.99/$2.74 on Kindle.

All of these books are FREE on Kindle Unlimited and paperback versions are available.

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THE STORIES BEHIND THE STORIES – THE DANDELION CLOCK

A great book I enjoyed very much.

Rebecca Bryn

After writing the trilogy based on my maternal grandmother’s family misdeeds, I felt the need to delve into my grandfather’s family. I knew he was born in the Duke of Buccleuch’s Northamptonshire Boughton Estate village of Warkton, near Kettering – a beautiful little village of thatched ironstone cottages set around a church. I lived not far away and Boughton Park and the lovely chestnut avenues that stretched out from it in all directions were a favourite childhood haunt. Many of my forebears are buried in Warkton churchyard. According to my mother, my great-grandfather was head gardener on the Boughton Estate, and Princess Alice, the duke’s daughter, used to take her young sons to visit my great-grandmother.

When I was a child, probably only four or five, I used to sit an grandad’s knee while he told me stories of his time in the cavalry in Egypt and Palestine during World…

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THE STORIES BEHIND THE STORIES – TOUCHING THE WIRE

One of the best books I’ve ever read.

Rebecca Bryn

This third book in my little library was the hardest topic I’ve ever written about. Once I began researching it, I knew I had to write Touching the Wire.

The initial inspiration came from a television report about Nazi war criminals living incognito after the war. Joseph Mengele, the doctor who carried out horrendous medical experiments on twins, lived out his days under a false name in Argentina, and there were many others. I began wondering how I would feel if someone I knew, or God forbid, someone I loved, was revealed as such a monster. The thought caused such a turmoil of emotion that, to be honest, I didn’t know. Could I forgive them?

It took me the whole of the book before I felt I could begin to answer that question. I often shook my head in disbelief at the brutal inhumanities the Nazi regime inflicted on…

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Summer Sizzlers FREE with Kindle Unlimited

Amazon Offer a two-month free trial with KU! You could binge-read all summer! Warning: you may end subscribing; it hooked me.

Write What You Know? Not Always!

A new take on an old adage.

Story Empire

Greetings, SE’ers! Beem Weeks here with you again. Today, I am going to share some brief thoughts on writing those things in which the author may not believe—or even agree with.

Can we, as authors, write about those things in which we don’t believe? I honestly never gave much thought to such a notion—until a young woman questioned me about the subject of reincarnation. For the record, I do not believe we will come back into this world as another person or animal or insect or tree after we die.

So, what exactly prompted such a line of questioning? The woman asking had recently read a story I wrote entitled The Distance. It’s a short piece of fiction about a middle-aged man named Richard Metzger coming face to face with a blond-headed five-year-old boy who may or may not be the reincarnation of his younger brother. I left the…

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Awards Versus Amazon Reviews

These are just a few of the awards my books have won. Obviously, I’m delighted with them. but my readers’ feedback is what really matters!

Three Against the World won this award two years in succession, and I have never found out who entered it for the contest.

It has 56 global reviews with an overall rating of 4.5. Not bad? It’s a ratio of less than 1 in 100 readers reviewing!

Two of my books carry this badge from Readers’ Favorite. Coincidentally, books one and two in the Richard and Maria Trilogy. Is it safe to conclude readers enjoy my Christian books? It’s impossible to say. Two Face the World has 24 reviews (4.5) and One Alone in the World, twelve (5-star).

 

 

 

 

 

Shattered Lives was my first venture into Police Procedural Thrillers. Published in 2021, it’s amassed a total of twenty “RATINGS”, which brings me another to problem. How am I supposed to act on a reader’s suggestion, should it be a good one, if they rate without saying why they didn’t award five stars?

Deadly Envy, another DCI Gerald Croft thriller, followed in 2022. 

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To date, it has 10 global ratings, overall 4.7. And what pulled it down from 5? A 3-star rating without a review. Any reader is entitled to say what they liked, or didn’t like, about a book, but why leave the author guessing? Worse, Amazon invites readers to help potential buyers decide whether their purchase – a book or anything else – is for them, so merely rating is pointless.

 

I invite you to read any of my books, romance/sizzle thrillers. Christian romantic suspense, or a police procedural thriller, free with Kindle Unlimited. (Amazon offer a two-month free trial if you don’t already subscribe.)

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Remember, your opinion matters. Don’t rate, leave a review – one that says, honestly, what you thought and does NOT give away the story. I have some reviews that do just that!