• #AmBloopering

    Things are a little quiet on the writing front at the moment for me, now that my novel sitting in the virtual slush-piles of various agents patiently awaiting their attention. In the meantime, however, I have been engaging in a fair bit of writing-adjacent activity, so I thought I would share a little about that…

  • Love Local Learning

    I’ve been playing around with the website today. (Apologies to any close observers made dizzy from seeing all the content and pages jumping about!) Although I had dabbled in blogging many years ago, it was all done in a very basic format back then and this is my first time setting up a full website,…

  • On Courage and Dreams

    Hello again. It’s been a while. A whole lot longer than I’d originally planned, in fact! I hadn’t intended to do a disappearing act right after setting up the website but soon after hitting the launch button, the beta-reading window for my novel (When You’re Smiling) closed and the next stage of manuscript development opened…

  • A New Chapter

    Hello dear reader, it is nice to meet you. As you have probably gathered from the way it is plastered all over everything on this website, my name is Nazira and I am a writer. I am, and have been, many other things beside that over the years (which I’m sure I will go into…