If you missed the Instagram live session on The Book Bakers page where Rrashima Verma and I had a lot of fun discussing my writing journey, books and multiple fun aspects, here’s the link to watch the video –
Author: Sonia Chatterjee
An alumnus of Presidency College (Kolkata), Delhi University, and XIME (Bangalore), Sonia Chatterjee holds two post-graduate degrees in Chemistry and Management and an MFA in creative writing from Writer's Village University. With eight years of experience in the banking sector as a Branch Head, she took a sabbatical from the corporate world to start her blog soniasmusings.com. Her blog consistently featured in the Top Indian Blogs list from 2019 to 2024.
Her articles have been published on various digital platforms such as Women's Web, Youth Ki Awaaz, Tuck's Magazine, and Period Magazine. She was invited as a speaker at the Breaking Barriers, Kolkata 2018 event by the Women's Web, at the Women Writer’s Fest, Kolkata, 2020, and the Crime Writers Festival, Kolkata,2025.
Sonia has written two detective thrillers titled ‘Deal of Death – Introducing Raya Ray’ (2019) and ‘Diary, Deceit, and Death – A Raya Ray Adventure’ (Vishwakarma Publications, 2024) and a non-fiction book on true crime titled ‘The Sanyasi Who Became a King’ (Sristhi Publishers, 2025). Her book ‘Diary, Deceit, and Death’ was shortlisted for the PVLF Awards 2024-25 in the Best Fiction Category.
Sonia lives in Kolkata with her doctor husband and nine-and-a-half-year-old son.
Join us tomorrow at 6 30 pm on Instagram
Tomorrow at 6:30 p.m. I’ll be in conversation with Rrashima Verma on the Instagram page of The Book Bakers , where I’ll be discussing my books, best selling non fiction ‘The Sanyasi who became a King’ and PVLF nominated fiction ‘Diary, Deceit, and Death’.
Join us for an enthralling and engaging session as we touch upon the ideas of writing murder mysteries on the Instagram handle @thebookbakers.
T-20S with Rrashima Season 2 featuring bestselling author Sonia Chatterjee
Hello! Please join us for an intriguing and engaging session on 26th April, Saturday evening at 6:30 p.m. on The Book Bakers Instagram page (@thebookbakers) where I discuss books, writing, my journey and many other things with best selling author Rrashima Verma.
Thank you Suhail and The Book Bakers for the opportunity.
Excited to be a part of the rocking T-20s with Rrashima, Season 2.
World Book Day 2025
On World Book Day 2025, here’s the link to all the books written by me available on Amazon. I hope you choose one or more and enjoy reading them.
https://amazon.com/author/soniachatterjee
Happy reading!
Request for ratings/reviews of my books on Amazon and a major announcement
A gratitude post for:
My literary agent- The Book Bakers,
The publisher ‘Diary, Deceit and Death’ –Â Vishwakarma Publications,
The publisher of ‘The Sanyasi who became a King’ – Srishti Publishers & Distributors
&
All my readers who chose and read my book(s).
I only have one more request for you. If you’ve read one or both my books, please leave a rating/review on Amazon on the below links –
Diary, Deceit and Death:
The Sanyasi who became a King –
It’s going to help me improve my craft as an author.
And now a happy announcement to end the post. I’ve started working on the next book and it’s going to be a fresh detective thriller, although there’s going to be a major twist. Stay tuned to know more.
soniasmusings.com makes it to the Top 100 Indian lifestyle blogs by Feedspot
I’m glad to announce that my blog soniasmusings.com is featured in the top 100 Indian lifestyle blogs by Feedspot. It’s an honour to share the platform with such amazing blogs in the list. Thank you, Anuj!
You can find the details in the link below – https://bloggers.feedspot.com/indian_lifestyle_blogs/
Thank you for reading!
Glimpses of the Kolkata Crime Writers Festival on 29th March 2025
Kolkata hosted the first Crime Writers Festival today at Storyteller Bookstore. And it turned out to be an evening to remember with some enthralling sessions and a vibrant audience.
It was a pleasure talking about writing crime thrillers.
Thank you, Srishti Publishers & Distributors, Vishwakarma Publications, The Book Bakers for always extending your support and encouraging me
It was lovely meeting a few readers and signing copies of my books for them.
This event gave me an opportunity to interact with the noted director of Bengali movies, Mr. Arindam Sil and I could handover my books personally to him after he expressed an interest in reading them.
Hoping to see more such initiatives in my city.
Kolkata Crime Writers Festival on the 29th of March
Kolkata is having its first crime writers festival on the 29th of March at the Storyteller Bookstore, Picnic Garden from 2 to 7 p.m. I’ll be a part of the panel discussion on the topic “In Agatha Christie’s footsteps” from 4:45 p.m.
Heartfelt gratitude to my publishers Vishal Soni Sir of Vishwakarma Publications and Arup Bose of Srishti Publishers & Distributors.
Join us for some enthralling sessions on crime writing. See you on the 29th.
My interview on my author’s journey by Himani Goyal
I enjoyed answering the thought-provoking questions from Himani. You can read the full interview on my journey as an author here.
Q1. Tell us something about yourself. A. An alumnus of Presidency College (Kolkata), Delhi University, and XIME (Bangalore), I hold two post-graduate degrees in the fields of Chemistry and Management and an MFA in creative writing from Writer’s Village University. With eight years of experience in the banking sector as a Branch Head, I took […]
A quick interview with Sonia Chatterjee
Happy International Women’s Day 2025
Class 4 final exams just got over on the 5th and yesterday, the kid represented his school at an event celebrating Women’s Day. He gave a speech on ‘The most inspiring woman in my life – my mother’.
It was nothing short of an emotional moment for me to see the shy introvert grow into a confident speaker. 🧿
This will always be my favourite Women’s Day ever.
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