Let’s keep this simple.

I’m Andaleeb Wajid. That’s what my website is called. And a pretty narcissistic move according to my brother. Well, never mind him. Siblings will always help you stay grounded, no matter how famous you get.

I’m a writer. I wrote Kite Strings in 2005 and got it published in 2009, a good four years and 13 rejection letters later. I followed it up with Blinkers Off that I wrote in 2010 and managed to land a publisher within months. So happy was I that I went ahead and wrote three more books in quick succession. By now, I’m a little dazed that I did it and I’m also getting a bit tired of hearing the word ‘prolific’.

One of the things that people always ask me is if I can sing. You see, my name means Nightingale in Persian. I don’t quite get the connection because, you know, you can’t be your name right? (Imagine a Deepak emitting light or a Kavita spewing poems…you get my drift)

Also, I’ll have you know that I still get addressed as Mr. Andaleeb Wajid on email because people find my name to be most androgynous. I don’t know why.