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Mallika Chopra - April 14, 2007

Or I should say, "The Life and Times of a frazzled, overwhelmed, wanna-be successful, mommy author!"

My second book, 100 Questions From My Child officially comes out on Tuesday, April 17. I feel lucky. I am excited. I am happy. And, to be honest, I am exhausted and it has yet to begin!!

Oh the glamour I thought it was to be an author! Doing your own thing, managing your own schedule, controling your own destiny! Well, let me tell you, mommyhood does not conveniently move out of the way while author marketing mode wants to take over.

I cant complain - I should get good publicity this time around. My publishing company has graciously hired a publicist for me -- can I just stress how awesome that is. Last time, I got no publicity - unless you include my high school alumni and Kellogg Alumni magazine. This time, its a whole new experience - I am amazed at the difference...

Alas, morning drive time radio on the east coast is pre-nanny time here in LA. And with a husband who travels that creates a bit of a logistical challenge. I laugh sometimes when I am doing an interview -- food stains, generally oatmeal or syrup, on my clothes, my house looking like a hurricane has gone through it, still in my nightgown, my kids (I hate to admit this) plopped in front of the tv so that I can get some quiet for a conversation! ... Oh if only they could see me, rather than just hear my affirmations over the phone!

And, in between school drop off and pick up, after school activities, groceries and errands, I am running back and forth to Kinkos photocopying and cutting out maps for my book party invitations or rushing to books stores signing books so that they cannot be returned. (Did you know that? A signed book is considered a sold book...) Oh, the things we desperate authors will do to make a book sale!

All that said, get me talking about my new book and I am all smiles. Because once again, its about my precious daughters... In fact, I rarely refer to myself as an author because to me authors are people like Salman Rushdie or Maya Angelou or my father who writes 4 books a year. Me, I am just a mom who is blessed to share some of my stories with a few people in this world.

So frazzled and overwhelmed I am, but happy and grateful all the same...

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Posted by Mallika Chopra at April 14, 2007 09:55 PM

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I wish you the best for your book and your family, Mallika.

What a joy, when we reach the end of a creation and we are ready to share it to the world. I wish you the best.

Do you know if your book will be translated in french or spanish?

1. Posted by Jean-François Désaulniers on April 15, 2007 12:44 AM

Hi Mallika
Good luck with the release of your book.
So totally understand the frazzled mommy bit-inspite of the numerous things i try to do -i still describe and introduce myself essentially as a "24/7 mum"

2. Posted by Suchitra on April 15, 2007 12:46 AM

Dear Mallika

The Matai family wishes you and yours the very best of luck and many congratulations on the launch of your new book, "100 Questions from my Child", from Europe.

100 is a beautiful number because it adds to 1, which reminds all of us of the One-in-All and the All-in-One.

Mother's love is as close to Divine love as is possible for it is unconditional. Your descriptive is a humbling one.

Humility and Forgiveness are the keys to it all according to our Great Spiritual Masters.

God bless and much love!

DK

DK Matai
The Philanthropia, ATCA, mi2g.net
Holistic Quantum Relativity Group

3. Posted by DK Matai on April 15, 2007 12:58 AM

Children ask questions.
Children are never 'satisfied' with answers.
As the child grows up it starts accepting answers and becomes less curious, less skeptical and becomes content with the circumstances in which it finds itself.

By providing answers the mother might indoctrinate the child in to her own belief system and her world-view.

Whatever the power of love, a mother is a human too and is therefore suseptable to human fallacies and biases.

There is nothing unnatural for a child to not get a satisfiable answer or "any" answer for that matter to a question. A child then develops an independent streak to seek answers on its own.

My prayers are with the mothers who read this book. May God give them courage to be strong.

No book can tell a mother how to love her child. Raising a child, conversing with a child etc comes naturally to a mother. A mother should allow her child to think "independently" That is the greatest gift she can give to a child as a mother. It is not natural, and it doesn't bode well if a mother plants her answers of the big questions in a child's mind - a kind of brain washing of a beautiful mind.

4. Posted by AJ on April 15, 2007 01:33 AM

Hello Mallika,

Congratulations! I wish you much success,
and in all the tasks you take on in the years to come, I wish you well.

Your book may not provide the answers to everything
and I'm sure you make no claims to that suggestion.

I hope that some day your children's children will
also be able to understand their grandmother and
her ways of reasoning, dealing with, and being in
the world as she found it in her lifetime.

Cheers! and good luck to you and yours!

Peace, Keith~

5. Posted by Keith on April 15, 2007 04:31 AM

Hello Mallika and Everyone,

Congratulations on your new book, Mallika, hope you get lots of readers!

was just over visiting Open Thread and it looks like IB could use a poetry thread, we seem to have lots of "poets in the making" here at IB.

well, a storm is on the way, need to run some errands before it hits..have a great day everyone, ruth

6. Posted by ruth on April 15, 2007 05:54 AM

Mallika,

I look forward to your new book.

When my daughter was born, my son asked..."why can't she talk yet?" I told him..."Perhaps it's because she is still so close to God that she could tell us all the secrets of the universe. And isn't it much more fun to find out on our own?"

I love my children's questions. And I love to watch them discover the answers.

With Love, Melissa

7. Posted by melissa on April 15, 2007 06:12 AM

DK Matai Says: 100 is a beautiful number because it adds to 1, which reminds all of us of the One-in-All and the All-in-One.

May I remind you Matai that it is the same case with the infinite series 10, 100, 1000, 10,000 ...?

"10" on the other hand has an added advantage of having the One(1) and the Void(0) adjacent to each other reminding you of "Big Bang"? .the whole universe is made of 1's and 0's.

Then why didn't you dissolve and resolve your HQR dialogue on 10th post or in a 1000th post?

May I also remind you the saying, "Every number is special in it's own way"?

And also that there is a proof in number theory which says that there are no "uninteresting" numbers?

May I also remind you that you are following the decimal system which allows you for your number bias?

If I were to follow binary system

"100" in decimal system becomes "1100100"

The digits in binary notation add up to 3.

I am surprised to see an engineer All mystified by a few special numbers.

8. Posted by Jeff on April 15, 2007 08:02 AM

Hi Mallika:

Not sure if just saying congratulations is sufficient to express what you have accomplished. When you have children you are not always sure if you are the teacher or the child is. Children are amazing. This is an amazing accomplishment.

Love
Bonnie

9. Posted by Bonnie on April 15, 2007 08:15 AM

It it is as good as the first than it is a winner....I have a feeling it is.

Lots of luck Mallika! Some book stores will keep the signed book and put a "signed" sticker on it, just to let you know!!

Love, Joanie

10. Posted by joanie on April 15, 2007 08:17 AM

Reading your post I could feel your warmth and passion for life! So much joy you bring to this world, may you and your family be blessed! Thats a book Im gonna buy! by the way Your name is so beautiful! Sweet Mallika
Love Tammy
V

11. Posted by Tammy on April 15, 2007 08:19 AM

All the best, Mallika!

Susan

12. Posted by Susan on April 15, 2007 09:34 AM

Congratulations and all the best of luck with your book, Mallika!

love, Heath

13. Posted by hgquinn on April 15, 2007 10:06 AM

How did you manage?

There's one more question :)

C O N G R A T U L A T I O N S !!!

To you, Mallika, Tara and Leela (hope I got those names right)

Your book will do Great Things for millions of people!

Thank you for sharing,

Cinda

14. Posted by Cinda on April 15, 2007 02:06 PM

Dear Mallika.. and this is why God made women such great multi-taskers!! : )

Congratulations on your achievement, and all the best with sales.. I hope you make the best-book lists!!

with loving kindness,
North

15. Posted by North on April 15, 2007 08:16 PM

Wow! Thank you everyone for the well wishes.
This means so much to me!
Love Mallika

16. Posted by MallikaChopra on April 15, 2007 09:56 PM

Congrats Mallika! you're really something! BEst of luck!

17. Posted by Aurora C on April 16, 2007 06:31 AM

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