{"id":3568,"date":"2016-03-10T18:16:48","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T18:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daastan.com\/blog\/?p=3568"},"modified":"2020-08-17T19:35:21","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T19:35:21","slug":"our-very-first-novel-the-forbidden-story-gets-published-through-qissa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daastan.com\/blog\/our-very-first-novel-the-forbidden-story-gets-published-through-qissa\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Very First Novel \u201cThe Forbidden Story\u201d Gets Published through Qissa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Conception of Qissa:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The journey of Daastan <\/a>and its self-publishing platform \u2018Qissa<\/a>\u2019 started in the year of 2014. The founder, Syed Ommer Amer, also the author of Qissa\u2019s debut novel, put his heart and soul into two things. First, the novel itself, which was to be the first domino in the disruption of the literary industry of Pakistan. Second, after being rejected by a publisher and seemingly at a loss of another way to bring his work to the public \u2013 the creation of Daastan<\/em>. That is where it all began. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fast forward two years – through a six month incubation in Plan9 and bringing Daastan\u2019s vision to national and international media and making waves throughout the industry – to the start of 2016, which finally brought with itself the fruit of countless hours of toil, rejections, sleepless nights, extreme criticism and dejection, and the fruit was as sweet as the team had predicted. Qissa \u2013 Pakistan\u2019s first self-publishing platform<\/em> – a service to make publishing easier, and to finally bring forth all the opportunities that the writers of this country had been previously deprived of, was here. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The protagonist of The Forbidden Story<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

What The Forbidden Story is About:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And with it, came the realization of the founder\u2019s dream \u2013 in the form of his novel finally getting published. \u2018The Forbidden Story\u2019 <\/a>is Pakistan\u2019s first action thriller novel<\/a>. It features the life of comrades under the banner of \u2018Flame\u2019 who are code named Angel and Hamza. It is a story of the quest that follows when they find their colleague and fellow Ignitors brutally murdered<\/em> by the followers of Flame\u2019s enemy, and their corpses left in cold blood. It isn\u2019t until Flame\u2019s Secret Database gets broken into and their finest marks-woman is captured, that Angel and Hamza realize that they might have blundered. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The tale follows the visionary Rex, leader of the Flame, and the evil antagonist Sal, the creator of the assassins, through eleven chapters written in a manner that one can\u2019t help but keep flipping pages to get to the end. <\/p>\n\n\n\n