Shivaji Sengupta, Ph.D.
Publisher/ AmarMira Press
AmarMira Press
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Medford, NY 11763
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E-mail:drsen@msn.com
AmarMira Press, a privately owned American publishing house, specializes in up and coming and established novelists who write fiction of all kinds but especially historical, modern or avant garde works. AmarMira also publishes multicultural novels and erotic fiction. Authors may contact the publisher, Shivaji Sengupta through the phone numbers and addresses supplied above. Desires How to Order Desires. Publishing Policy
AmarMira Press publishes authors who consider themselves serious artists committed to the advancement of literature.Those interested in self-publishing through AmarMira Press are also invited to submit their works but they have to be seriously committed to literature. AmarMira Press readers read the manuscript and decide whether the book should be published. Dr. Shivaji Sengupta then works closely with the author in all aspects of the production.
To publish a 200 page book, 1,000 copies,with no photos costs approximately $2,200 plus $500 editorial fee. Those interested may contact Dr. Sengupta to discuss the details.Upon agreement, the contract identifies an upper limit of $2,700 but this does not take into account special cover designs and shipping and handling.
AmarMira Press is also interested in publishing promising authors with its own resources. Authors wishing to submit their manuscripts should contact Dr. Sengupta directly by e-mail(drsen@email.msn.com)inquiring whether there is an inclination to publish publisher financed books at that time.
Future Publications
GOSSIP by Thomas Fink. ISBN 0-9673978-0-5. Expected date of publication: October 2000. Paperback $10.00 The poetry of Thomas Fink's Gossip orchestrates a multitude of
comic, lyric, and prosaic voices that interrogate, tweak, caress, and derail each other. "Reading Thomas Fink's Gossip leaves you giddy and satiated, just like a good "dirt" session should! Fink collages fractured, dialogue,
political farce, pop song lyrics, and tabloid tidbits to make his deliberate music and 'tactful oomph.' The poems utilizing the crazy and gorgeous 'found speech' of a child are pure delight, elevating chitchat
to new poetic heights. I, for one, can confirm this rumor: Fink's Gossip is one amazing read."
"Both rapturous and disturbing, erotic and aloof, funny and sad, Gossip is a hive of voices dancing around each other. Reading it, and rereading it, I kept thinking that, finally, Groucho Marx and Timothy Leary are gabbing in a diner on the Lower East Side. Aunt Sadie (or is it Aunt Gladys) is there, and butting in, though no one is quite sure who she is related to. Everyone, I suspect. If you want plain speech, go to the groves of academe. Or content yourself with watching molasses thicken on a winter morning. But if you want plain speech that dances like fleas on a hot griddle, you've come to the right place. Tom Fink seems not only to have learned from Reznikoff, his acute sensitivity to what others were saying, but he makes that sensitivity into something Jack Spicer would have understood. Everyone in our family, whatever that is, is a martian; now we need to listen to what they are saying. Tom Fink does that and more." --John Yau RAVISH ME. Edited by Adrienne Benedicks. In Ravish Me: SM Fantasies, readers will find a wide range of erotic tales that explore the thoughts and feelings behind BDSM. Although Ravish Me stories are explicit fantasies about unconventional sex, they have a real-life feel, and indeed they were written with that in mind. These erotic fantasies are believable, relatable, but most of all they are reminders that imaginative sex has an electrifying impact on our erotic lives. Adrienne Benedicks is the owner of the renowned erotica website, Erotica Readers Association, editor of Jane's Magazine. Her erotic book and film reviews have appeared in a number of magazines. She is recognized through out the world of literary erotica for having helped any number of aspiring authors to publish their works. She has also edited the e-book, Threads from the Erotic Web.
COMFORT OF WOMEN and MOTIONCOMFORT OF WOMEN and MOTION by the well-known erotic novelist, Michael Hemmingson is about the search for human contact by the protagonist, Nicholas Bayless, the novelist who has lost contact with people. This duet of two separate but intricately related novels, that will be published togethe, is the story of the loner Nick Bayless who, after hibernating as a celebet for nearly five years, licking the wounds of a financially unsuccessful novel, returns to graduate school to ostensibly get a Master's degree in fine arts but really to rehabilitate himself in society once again. "Comfort" is a cynical title for the story of a man who finds out about human insecurities and alienation in his many many sexual encounters with women. Bayless is not unlike "K" in Kafka's "The Trial," or even like Adam in Paradise Lost, totally disliiusioned by the seduction of Eve and the consequences of God's wrathful vengence. The story is told with lots of kinky sex and completely unexpected inert tenderness. "Motion" is an even more devastating metaphor for a woman on the fast track who likes to have sex in trains. With biting and caustic irony, "Motion"becomes Hemmingson's Paradise Regained, except that the question inevitably occurs to the reader: is this paradise worth regaining?
THE SWITCHER by Thomas Cass. The Switcher is a historical/psychologial thriller which chronicles the life of an immortal character. The real-life Protestant martyr, Anne Askew,
is saved from execution in Tudor England and has her soul transferred into a male being. The novel chronicles his/her life and the difficulties
associated with immortality.
TANYA: AN EROTIC JOURNEY by Shivaji Sengupta is about a beautiful young woman whose physical beauty belies her unconventionality and sense of adventure. Quiet and soft spoken, she is anything but a typical "Indian" woman. She is bold, rebellious with an intelligence sharp as a knife. Always for the underdog, she takes it upon herself to fight for the poor and down trodden. After getting pregnant, having an abortion, and rejecting her traditional and hypocritical family, Tanya becomes a school teacher in a small town in the Himalayas. It is not clear whether she seduces her student or the sturdent seduces her but together they strike up an illicit relationship that, once again, flies in the face of the morals of the small hill town. Ruled autocratically by an Irish catholic priest, the little village then witnesses the cat and mouse game the Irish pastor plays with Tanya. What the rest of the village don't know, however, is that Tanya and the priest are lovers in bed, but sworn enemies in broad daylight. Tanya gathers a small following and together they take up the challenge of putting the corrupt cleric in his place. Then she leaves with another lover, also a student, and goes on to rebel-torn Bangladesh where the Bengalis were in a civil war against the Pakistanis. With her Muslim student, pretending to be her husband (itself an anathema in the Indian subcontinent), Tanya joins the civil war, using her brains and sexuality stratgeically to achieve her goal of bringing freedom to this country. But her adventures do not end with Bangladesh. Tanya is captured by the Afghanistan mujahuddins, who are dangerous Islamic fundamentals, flown from Bangladesh all the way across India to Afghanistan and becomes party to a rebellion she didn't want, the Afghanistanis against the Russians. Shivaji Sengupta combines politics, human relationships with intense sex to tell the story of Tanya's erotic journey, at the end of which she is a more beautiful, older and a wiser woman.
Dr. Shivaji Sengupta came to the United States thirty-one years ago, thinking he would be here for three years. Since then, he has earned a doctorate from Columbia University in English and Comparative Literature and is a Professor of English and a senior academic administrator in a small liberal arts college. He is a scholar, writer and an educator who has published two critical editions of John Dryden, the seventeenth century English poet.He has created AmarMira Press because he wishes to influence American Literature of the twenty-first century. A dedicated writer, including serious literary erotic fiction, he lives in New York with his wife, Susmita, and three daughters, Pakhi, Ankhi and Mira Sengupta.
An anthology of first rate erotic fiction written by some of the best erotica writers from England, Canada, the US and India. Edited by Adrienne Benedicks, founder of Eotica Readers Association and Shivaji Sengupta, the book features such authors as Maxim Jakubowski, Thomas S. Roche, M. Christian, Cecilia Tan, Mary Anne Mohanraj, Marilyn Jaye Lewis and Portia Da Costa. 
Desires is on sale in amazon.com, Erotic Book Society (ebs.com), Barnes and Nobles(www.bn.com) and Borders (borders.com.Book sellers interested in selling Desires please contact Welcome Rain Distributors: 532 LaGuardia Place, Box 473, NY, NY 10012
-- Denise Duhamel
Thomas Fink is Professor of English at the City University of New York, LaGuardia. He has published a previous book of poetry, Surprise Visit(1993), and The Poetry of David Shapiro(1993)and coedited Literature Around the Globe (1994). His paintings are in various private collections in the US.
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