Goa1556, Golden Heart Emporium and Goa Book.Club have jointly come up with their latest offering poetically named for some reason: '*From Mind to Keyboard*'
It is an anthology of "writers from Goa and beyond" who "share stories of how they made it". If you're the sort who judges your books by their covers '*From Mind to Keyboard*' might not disappoint you. It has by far the worst cover that any Goa1556 book has had so far: The names of all the contributors to the anthology Patricia Alvares, Ben Antao, Raksha Bharadia, Xavier Cota, Jessica Faleiro, Pantaleao Fernandes, Ria Gomes, Stephen Gutkin, Sheela Jaywant, Harish Kapadia, Nilesh Korgaonkar, Desmond Macedo, Reena Martins, Odette Mascarenhas, George Menezes, Damodar Mauzo, Nandini Nayar, Fatima Noronha, Sujata Noronha, Anita Pinto, Jerry Pinto, Victor Rangel-Ribeiro, Rochelle Potkar, Cheryl Rao, Kornelia Santoro, Nitin Sathe, Aniruddha Sen Gupta, Isaabel Santa Rita Vas, Yvonne Vaz Ezdani, are repeated three times on the page in yellow and white on a dirty reddish brown. Below that is a keyboard on which 'From Mind to Keyboard' is printed. The biggest name on the cover in large caps is SHEELA JAYWANT (Editor). But the biggest and most striking contributor to the book - 31 out of the 195 pages - FINDS NO MENTION ON THE COVER AT ALL! I am talking about the illustrator BINA NAYAK who has done many a Goa1556 cover in the past and who steals the show of the From Mind to Keyboard volume. But I ask you: Couldn't Bina have done the cover as well? To be continued... Augusto