Rashmita Patel’s Asian novels set to create waves

Pakistan News & Features Services

Rashmita Patel has had a love affair with books since her childhood. She wrote many short novels as a child and mastered the art of sticking and pasting pictures to make her books look real. Her dreams have started getting fulfilled and she has become a published author and appears on course of becoming a prolific novelist. She has already made her mark as a teenage fiction author.

Besides being a freelance journalist for The Asian World Newspaper, she works as full time school librarian at West Walsall E-Act Academy in Walsall, United Kingdom. 

But fame and recognition are coming her way more because of her writing abilities as the circle of admirers keep growing. 

Her third novel ‘Losing My Identity’ has been brought out this year by the London-based New Generation Publishing. Her maiden novel ‘Tina 'n' Nikil’ was published in 2006 while she produced ‘Web of Lies’ in 2008. 

Rashmita Patel was born at Walsall in 1971. At the age of 15 she had made up her mind to become a librarian, surrounded by books which made her feel like she was in her own world.  

She studied at The University of Central England and graduated in Library and Information Studies in 1994. Her first job after graduating was at Alumwell Comprehensive School in Walsall. After 21 years, she is still working at a school library.

Whilst working at the school library she noticed a gap in the market for Asian novels as the students often inquired about Asian teenage stories portraying Asian characters. 

The Asian teenage novels were found very few and far in between in the market and she felt the demand for novels portraying an Asian homelife setting. 

She wondered why were very few Asian novels for teenage students even when living in the 21st century, She took up the challenge and ventured into filling the vacuum herself. 

She had always dreamt about becoming a writer and the demand for Asian novels made her mind become clear what she should write about.

Rashmita Patel is doing a fabulous job and it seems a matter of time for her work to spread far and wide in the Asian communities all over the world. Her novels should also have considerable appeal in the massive South Asian market.