About me
Your City-born, newspaper-trained, and happiest with a fountain pen and a long afternoon.
From the news desk to novels.
I grew up in a big, noisy house near Your City, the youngest of eleven cousins. Stories were how we argued, apologised and remembered.
For ten years I worked nights as a newspaper sub-editor, fixing other people's sentences. I wrote my first stories on the bus home. Salt and Kewra, my first book, came out of those notebooks.
Today I write full time from a small study full of index cards, and I spend weekends at bookshops, schools and book clubs.
From an idea to a finished book
Walk and listen
Every book starts with a place and a voice I can't stop hearing.
Index cards
Scenes go on cards, pinned to the wall until the shape appears.
Four drafts
The first is for me. The fourth is for you.
Readers first
A few trusted readers see it before my editor does.
Short biography
Meera Saxena is a novelist and essayist from Your City. She is the author of the novels Neem Tree Summers and The Cartographer of Your City and the story collection Salt and Kewra. Before writing full time she worked as a newspaper sub-editor for ten years. She visits book clubs, schools and festivals across India and online.
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