About

Sonia Rao is the author of The Magician, If You Let Me Go and A Diary of Crime Stories. She’s also an editor, writing coach, TEDx speaker and an award-winning blogger. Her fiction has appeared in many prestigious anthologies such as Voices Old & New, Jest Like That (edited by renowned editor-writer Shinie Antony) and The Hellcats Anthology which has been compiled and edited by well-known writer &
filmmaker Kate Pickford.

As NaNoWriMo’s Municipal Liaison for all-India and founder of the Wrimo India group on Facebook, Sonia has motivated thousands of people in India to write a novel every November since 2011. She has also curated and edited the first Wrimo India Anthology, Vengeance—A Sting In Every Tale.

Sonia Rao’s idea of paradise is a beautiful garden full of different types of gel pens and writing paper and a muse ‘on call’.  Sadly, such a paradise does not exist (it does not!!!) except in her vivid imagination and so if you should talk to her and find her ‘spaced out’ don’t worry too much or send out for reinforcements. She must be on one of her ‘trips’.  And she’s hopeful that those trips will result in some worthwhile writings.  You see, she loves to write about ‘Writing’, when she’s not working on her novel.

On Planet Earth, though, Sonia lives in the busiest of cities, Mumbai, which gives her innumerable opportunities to observe people and learn more about life; and then share this knowledge. Do check out her sometimes-humorous and sometimes-poignant view of life in Mumbai in ‘life in the city’ collection.

Sonia likes to believe she is ‘high-minded’ but strangely, her fave hobby is thinking up torture devices for those autorickshawallahs who consider the roads to be their personal spittoon. Who knew?

Come visit her on your fave SM platform: Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | LinkedIn 

Watch her TED talk “Reboot Your Creativity” here.

Visit her author page here: https://www.amazon.in/Sonia-Rao/e/B07WCMC1ZH/

If you’re interested in writing a novel, click on the NaNoWriMo tab and check out all the posts there. April is the month of Camp NaNoWriMo (an offshoot of NaNoWriMo) and if you are interested, you can sign up here: https://nanowrimo.org/

You can get in touch with Sonia Rao through her author page on FB or email her at soniaraowrites@gmail.com