The 12th Man: My first book

As an introverted child, I made reading a habit from a very young age! As a young boy, I read a lot of fiction and always dreamt of writing my own book one day.

But as it happens, it always remained a dream. As life moved on and I became busy maintaining my corporate life and family, writing took a back seat. 

9 years back on my son’s 8th birthday, I decided to start my blog. From that day on, I wrote inconsistently on my site about varied topics. I never brought about any consistency when it came to writing blogs though.

Then COVID-19 happened and with the subsequent lockdown I ended up getting a lot of free time. The travel time between home to the office used to be more than 3 hours to and fro and I utilised this time by reading more books and started writing blogs consistently.

Then after a couple of months, I started writing on LinkedIn. I didn’t get much traction on my writings but I found few people showing interest in my way of writing and that made me continue the habit.

Then came IPL and for the first time, I watched all the matches. In the previous years, it was not possible to follow all the matches but with lockdown, in place, I had the opportunity to watch all of them and then came the idea to write about each match at the end of each day. And this led to a blog a day for more than 6 weeks.

At the end of IPL, my son said why don’t you convert all these writings into a book? This made me think and I came up with the idea to write my journey as a cricket fan. Being a die-hard fan of cricket, I have personally watched many matches and had a lot of views as the Indian cricket team played on the field! I thought of penning them down and as I kept writing, it became bigger and bigger, and finally, I had to cut short and stop the first volume in the year 2000.

Self-publishing was the best option after all no publisher would be anyways interested to publish my book who is a complete unknown. After all, I am not a celebrity- just a common man.

But now that I wrote the book it was imperative to publish it and hence I registered at Kindle Direct Publishing and went ahead and published my first book.

Writing is now a habit and I am now working on the second volume of the 12th man and working on a couple of fiction and another non-fiction.

If you are interested in cricket and want to know more about a fan’s journey from 1983 to 2000 then head here and order the book. Right now it’s an ebook but the paperback will be released soon too.

Appreciate your views if you end up reading the book!

Till then, be well and take care!

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