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writing a novel about desi life, the good & the bad.
..live the questions. (Rilke)

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chapter by chapter.. #lastyear by @saadriazauthor

This time last year I was editing my first novel..! #writingabook #author by @saadriazauthor

November’s. Heard a lot about it! #dungeoncrawler by @saadriazauthor

Highly recommended. by @saadriazauthor

The thinking and writing process is a bit daunting ngl. What you see is at 5x speed because this took about 3 minutes. I usually have some notes that I keep by my side but for this, I have a binder I’ve been using for research that goes behind the specifics of it all.

Writing my second novel is a novel experience indeed, and I’m having so much fun with it! More to come eventually, of course.. #writingabook by @saadriazauthor

I grew up moving from city to city across Pakistan, and somewhere along the way I fell in love with reading. Then came 8 years in the US, an engineering degree, a job as an automation engineer at a gypsum plant in small-town Iowa. I didn’t really love it tbh.. so I came home, studied gender and cyberpsychology, and worked in mental health research, then with an NGO on digital and financial inclusion for women. These days I work remotely, building workflows for teams.

I’ve written two books, both self-published here, and since last year I’ve been working on a novel I’m really excited about. Desi culture, the warm parts and the hard ones, still rarely shows up in books published at a big scale, and that’s what I want to write. I live in Islamabad with my parents and my three cats, and I’m so glad you’re here. :) by @saadriazauthor