Things I've been up to...

A few little exciting things have happened since I last wrote on here. My first novel, The Secret Arts, has been published as an e-book by Dean Street Press. It's a mystery with a bit of humour, set in a small Pakistani town, and is the story of a young woman, Saika, who marries a widowed colonel. Soon she starts hearing rumours about the strange death of his first wife, and begins to unravel the the truth about what really happened. Meanwhile, other members of the family are busy practising black magic and plotting revenge, and then one of them is murdered... 

It's available for download for Kindle, Googleplay and all your other gadgets here.

My monologue for Kali Theatre's Twelve project was performed last week in London and Birmingham. Conceived by Kali's artistic director Janet Steel, the piece brought together twelve women to write monologues based on the subject of honour killings and forced marriages, the significance of "twelve" being that this is the average number of women killed in a year as a result of honour based violence. It was wonderful and inspiring to work with so many talented writers and you can read about the performance here. 

A last bit of surprising news- I won the New Perspectives Long Play Competition! The play's called Vampire in Bradford and I'm really looking forward to developing it further with New Perspectives.