1–What is the title of your latest release? MAYA’S LAWS OF LOVE! 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? A young woman who has always been unlucky in love may have finally met the love of her life… while on the way to her own wedding. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? I visited Pakistan in 2020 for the first time after 15 years, and while being there it fed my diaspora soul in ways I didn’t expect, so I knew I wanted to set a book there. When I sat down to outline MAYA, I decided to set it in Pakistan. But a chunk of the book also takes place in Switzerland, and that actually arose out of the fact that I needed Maya and Sarfaraz—the main character and her love interest—to spend more time together before they reach their final destinations in Pakistan. So while thinking about what to do, I remembered that while flying to Pakistan we passed over Switzerland, so I thought “if we fly OVER Switzerland, we could feasibly make an emergency stop there.” And that’s where the setting came from! 4–Would you hang out with your protagonist…

