When I started with self-publishing in 2020, you could find my books at:

• https://www.amazon.com/author/vsubhash
• https://www.goodreads.com/vsubhash

Later, I started publishing some books under pseudonyms such as Ólafia L. Óla.

Outside Amazon, my ebooks are available from Apple Books, Barnes & Noble, Scribd and Vivlio). My ebooks are also available for a fraction of the list price from public and school libraries through apps such as Overdrive.

So, I created this page to have the most up-to-date information about all my books in one place.

Attention Indian Readers: You can pay in Indian rupees to buy some of my books at Amazon.in and BooksWagon.com. (The latter is an importer of books and seems to have cheaper prices.) Both options take three weeks or more to deliver the books.

2020 Fresh Clean Jokes For Everyone

The 2020 jokebook has the best one-liners ever written by one author in English. It has over 3100 jokes spread over three parts.

Part 1 (For Learning) is for kids. Part 2 (For Fun) and Part 3 (Only for intellectuals) are written for all ages. They provide hedonistic enjoyment of humour and also contain some extremely sharp political/satirical humour. Part 3 is clearly marked with warning signs to prevent accidental 'triggering' of sensitive adults. All jokes are family-friendly and child-friendly. No 彡 or (‿ˠ‿) humour.

• Target: Age 20 and above
• First published on: July 2020
• Pages: 277

2020 Fresh Clean Jokes For Kids

This 'for kids' subset of the 2020 jokebook has 2200 jokes. It has all of Part 1 (For Learning) and some non-political jokes from Part 2 (For Fun) & Part 3 (Only For Intellectuals).

• Target: Ages 10-19
• First published on: July 2020
• Pages: 180

400 Fresh Clean Jokes For Everyone

This was the first installment of the 2020 jokebook with 470 jokes when I wanted to test self-publishing. It has been retained as an ebook sampler. The paperback option provides less value for money compared to the final 2020 jokebooks but it has almost all of the 'politically hot' jokes.

• Target: Age 20 and above
• First published on: February 2020
• Pages: 149

FFMPEG Quick Hacks

Quickly learn to use the free command-line video-editing utility FFMPEG - cut, copy, record, edit, tag, convert, rotate, flip, resize, crop, combine, compose, blur, sharpen, smoothen, side-by-side split, PIP inset, fade in/out... Also learn to use subtitles, audio/image files and metadata with video.

This book provides an FFmpeg tutorial, hack collection and desk-side reference.

• Target: Anyone who needs to work with audio/video files and can use the command line (command prompt)
• First published on: May 2020
• Pages: 150

Because this is a book about multimedia processing, it has to be in colour. Full-colour books are expensive to print.

In the spirit of open source, I have decided to make the ebook free in April 2021, one year after publication in March 2021 to celebrate one year in publishing. This has been my most popular and profitable title so I hope you buy the paperback or any of my other books.

CommonMark Ready Reference

This is the first book ever written on CommonMark, the new MarkDown standard.

CommonMark is replacing Markdown as the de facto standard for low-markup text. CommonMark hit the ground with a well-defined standard from Day 1 and is set to replace and overtake MarkDown. StackOverFlow.com and other sites have already adopted it. CommonMark is MarkDown done right. It is highly compatible with the original MarkDown and resolves most of its ambiguities. This book provides a tutorial, hacks collection and a ready reference for the new standard.

• Target: Authors, web designers, content/technical writers
• First published on: June 2020
• Pages: 44 (36 pages with real content)

Learn To Ride A Motorcycle In Five Minutes

Of course, you can learn to ride a motorbike in five minutes! For most of my life, I did not know how to ride a motorbike. But, when I had to do, it took me only five minutes. On my first ride on my first bike, I travelled nearly 100 kilometres, across two cities and one national highway. Acquiring the skill takes less than five minutes and honing it will require a few weeks of practice.

• Target: Anyone who can ride a scooter/scooterette (not the skateboard-like thing)
• First published on: July 2020
• Pages: 39 (30 pages of real content)

Vastu Shastra Explained

Vastu Shastra Explained is a plain-English Vástu Śastra building-architecture guide for those who wish to draw their own Vastu-compliant house plans. The book does not upsell Vaastu as a panacea for all ills nor does it portray Vastu as the Indian Feng Shui. Instead, it presents Vastu as a collection of time-tested best-practices in Indian building architecture.

• Target: New homebuilders
• First published on: July 2020
• Pages: 40 (30 pages with real content)

The ebook can also be borrowed for a fraction of the price from many public and school libraries.

A Really Traditional Alphabet Book

This children's book bundles an alphabet book (with a writing work area on each letter page) and a jokes-and-puzzles book. The alphabet book uses the same words that have been traditionally used to teach young kids. Young preschoolers can practice reading and writing the English alphabet with this book. The jokes and puzzles are of course new and are sourced from my book 2020 Fresh Clean Jokes For Kids.

• Target: Ages 3 to 12
• First published on: 6 August, 2020
• Pages: 34 (32 pages of actual content)

Animalia Humorosum by Ólafía L. Óla

This is an illustrated children's storybook based on Aesop's Fables. The stories have been made more believable by changing the ending with a humorous twist. The book is a large-print full-bleed full-colour paperback with a glossy cover.

• Target: Ages 3 to 12
• First published on: 20 October, 2020
• Pages: 30 (26 pages of actual content)

Ólafía L. Óla will henceforth be my pseudonym of children's books.

Email Newsletter Strategies For Profit

This book not only explains how to create user-friendly email newsletters but also helps you improve email deliverability, organically grow your mailing list, understand industry-standard best-practices and apply practical troubleshooting tips and tricks.

• Target: Online marketers
• Published on: 27 August, 2020
• Pages: 40 (33 pages of actual content)

World of Word Ladders by Ólafía L. Óla

This series of word ladder puzzles books currently has two volumes.

• Puzzles: 100 (in each book)
• Target: Ages 6 and above
• Published on: 20 December 2020
• Paperback:

The Devil's Dictionary (Illustrated)

This 2020 illustrated version of the text-only original (1911) by Ambrose Bierce has contemporary illustrations and the neat easy-on-the-eye look of any new dictionary (modern fonts, two-column pages, starting/ending words on every page).

• Pages: 155
• Illustrations: 17 (including Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, Bill Gates, Don Lemon, Elon Musk, Joe Biden, Tedros Adhanom... meeting the Devil)
• Published on: 12 December 2020
• Target: Any normal human (that means excluding intolerant, lefty, liberal, progressive Communists, Socialists, Feminists,...)

• Buy:

  Format	Store	Price
  Paperback	Amazon	$9, £8, €8
  Print-replica Kindle ebook	Amazon	$3, £3, €3

Dictionary Of Indian English

The Dictionary Of Indian English, in its first edition, is a glossary of English words or phrases that have been invented in India or have meanings that are different from the ones specified in dictionaries published in the West. Currently, it has around 400 words. In future editions, it will become a full-fledged dictionary.

• Pages: 36 (26 pages of real content in the paperback)
• Published on: 30 December 2020
• Free PDF Sample:
  dictionary-of-indian-english-free-sample.pdf
• Target: Non-Indians who need to read Indian fiction or news.

• Buy:

  Format	Store	Price
  Format	Store	Price
  Kindle ebook	Amazon	$1, £1, €1
  Paperback	Amazon	$7, £5, €5

Ólafia L. Óla's Favourite Traditional Nursery Rhymes (Illustrated)

The political correctness pandemic has caused many nursery rhymes to be rewritten or eliminated altogether. This illustrated children's book has 50 popular English nursery rhymes in their traditional form.

• Pages: 44 (40 with real content)
• Published in: January 2021

How To Invest In Stocks, 2^nd edition

This is a plain-English guide to investing in the stockmarket. It assumes that you do not know anything about how stocks, company law, finance or commerce. It has some useful 'extra' information that you will not find in any investment book and no business school will teach you. Mere book knowledge about stockmarkets will not help you understand the markets. Markets are influenced by news and information (there is a difference). This completely revised expanded second edition continues its original premise with up-to-date information.

• Pages: 87
• Published in: January 2021
• Target: Anyone interested in investing in the stockmarket

Cool Electronic Projects

This FULL-COLOUR paperback is a collection of 20 electronics projects for students and DIY hobbyists. The projects are simple, low-cost, daily-use, recycling, survivalist and fun.

• Pages: 40 (33 with real content)
• Ages: 13+

• Price:

  Format	Store	Price
  Colour paperback	Amazon	$10, £4, €9
  Kindle ebook	Amazon	$3, €3, £3

Linux Command-Line Tips & Tricks

This is a tips-and-tricks collection for Linux command-line warriors. Because of its ancient history, BASH scripting has some odd programming constructs that are difficult to memorize. This book also tries to provide a ready-reference for such archaic but crucial details.

• Pages: 70
• Target: Linux command-line warriors

• Price:

  Format	Store	Price
  Colour paperback	Amazon	$7, £5, €7
  Kindle ebook	Amazon	$1
  eBook (from other stores)	https://books2read.com/shell

Notes

• Anywhere from 2 to 10 pages will have to be deducted from the total page count for pages containing title, copyright, ToC, preface, etc.
• Actual paperbacks may not look like the 3-d mockup images shown here.
• I publish some books under pseudonyms. Ólafia L. Óla is a name I use for children's books.
• Paperback prices in various markets are not determined by current exchange rates. There are several other factors. For example, minimum prices for paperbacks charged by Amazon are cheapest in UK and highest in the US with Europe falling in the middle.

• Other books not identified here include:

  • The funniest book ever (by quality) with 149 political/satirical cartoons and commentary spread over 432 pages. Here is some praise that the book had received:

    • Hillary Clinton
      "This is pure Indian propaganda!"
    • New York Times
      "This book is full of lies, mostly sourced from our newspaper and other mainstream media outlets."
    • CNN
      "This book may have more fake news than CNN but it is not the quantity that matters."
  • Two volumes of humorous tweets by a deceased Communist dictator.