21 days to launch and behind the glossy photo things have been going wrong. The first advance copies of Unravelling arrived and whilst checking through them, I found a book with the first seven pages missing. You couldn’t make this up… Twenty[...]

"Your heart is broken, long before it's broken." "Your heart is broken, long before it's broken." I wanted to explore how emotional wounds begin long before the cause of the actual wounds take place. That, sometimes, we are in anticipation of this [...]

Unravelling is here... 🚀 A double life, a blonde alter-ego, signing a three-book deal, blonde alter-ego being shortlisted as publicist of the year! Turning down a fourth book deal to do this myself as myself. The first copies of Unravel[...]

I spoke at Amazon yesterday. Sharing my story of rejection, putting on a suit and pretending to go to work, the book deal I gave myself, my blonde alter-ego alias, signing a "real" 3 book deal with HarperCollins, booking a theatre and putting o[...]

My journey: * As a kid, desperate to be blonde, I shaved off my black bushy eyebrows, coloured them in with a yellow marker, and went to school. Miss Davies, my teacher, was horrified and told me that I would go far in life by just being myself. [...]

Loving this year’s South Asian Heritage Month theme, ‘Free to Be Me’. The irony isn’t lost on me, given my own journey of setting up a double life and creating a blonde alter-ego alias publicist to follow my dreams. - My first novel was rejec[...]

It was my midlife crisis... Having never acted before (not even at school), I booked a theatre in Covent Garden, rehearsed for 18 months, and put on a one woman show playing all 17 parts. I did this mostly to get over the fear that had secretly crept[...]

Yesterday, I asked  myself why I continue to do things that make no sense to anyone else but me. I love it when questions that are posed by myself are answered by the universe. It answered the question this morning, via a poem by William Stafford: T[...]

  I was jobless, putting on a suit and pretending to go to work every day. That suit routine, I’m ashamed to say lasted around 9 months or so until one day, I took out a piece of paper and wrote down my goals. They were as follows: Bestselling a[...]

JUST BEGIN If you have a book, a project an idea for a business but are procrastinating… 👉 Just begin. Beginning is an act of rebellion. Sometimes, just against your small self that keeps telling you that you can't. Then, just keep goi[...]

6 years ago, I wrote a one woman show called Sari: The whole Five Yards about a 60-year-old woman who tells the truth for the very first time and in doing so, her life unravels. I was, at that point, safely ensconced in my comfort zone unaware how my[...]

My first novel was rejected by over twenty publishers. This coincided with me being made redundant from the management consultancy where I worked and getting unceremoniously dumped. Unable at the time to deal with the shame of rejection, every day, I[...]

  A study by Dr Gail Matthews, a Psychology Professor at Dominican University of California, demonstrated that writing down your goals increases the odds of success by 42%. My first job after graduating was glorified tea maker to a chain-smoking[...]

I had lost my voice. By this, I mean the little voice that used to be my GPS, the one that would tell me to turn left instead of right. It had been my constant companion who had gotten me out of many a sticky situation. Then one day, like a neglected[...]

I used to build rockets - metaphorical rockets. Some failed to launch, some exploded mid air, some lit up the sky and changed my whole world. Then, I stopped building them. The reason was a series of events in a very short space of time: death[...]