Sonia Bahl
Born and raised in Kolkata, Sonia has lived and worked in Jakarta, Miami, Brussels, Johannesburg and Singapore. With home being everywhere and nowhere, her belief in the power of the moment became a religion. An affirmation that unexpected and undeniable human connections are everything—reflected in some way or the other in all her writing.
She spent a huge chunk of her life, her days, and sleepless nights, in advertising—writing ads for all things from coffee and cars to condoms and candy—while dreaming of morphing 30-second commercials to full-length feature films. Not surprisingly, she threw caution, and her full-time job as a Creative Director to the winds and embarked on a riveting, rejection-filled screenwriting journey in the US.
Happily, her day job now entails writing movies. In a delightful plot twist, her debut novel, The Spectacular Miss, was optioned by RSVP, a Bollywood studio and she was commissioned to write the screenplay.
Her second novel, A Year of Wednesdays was sold out within two weeks of its launch.
Sonia writes and re-writes in Singapore where she lives with her menagerie: gorgeous itinerant daughter, honorary proofreader husband, and her made-for-the-movies golden retriever, Ari Gold.
Say hello to Sonia on Twitter: soniabahl
or Instagram: soniabahl.ink
She spent a huge chunk of her life, her days, and sleepless nights, in advertising—writing ads for all things from coffee and cars to condoms and candy—while dreaming of morphing 30-second commercials to full-length feature films. Not surprisingly, she threw caution, and her full-time job as a Creative Director to the winds and embarked on a riveting, rejection-filled screenwriting journey in the US.
Happily, her day job now entails writing movies. In a delightful plot twist, her debut novel, The Spectacular Miss, was optioned by RSVP, a Bollywood studio and she was commissioned to write the screenplay.
Her second novel, A Year of Wednesdays was sold out within two weeks of its launch.
Sonia writes and re-writes in Singapore where she lives with her menagerie: gorgeous itinerant daughter, honorary proofreader husband, and her made-for-the-movies golden retriever, Ari Gold.
Say hello to Sonia on Twitter: soniabahl
or Instagram: soniabahl.ink
