Shobha Nihalani is a freelance writer based in Hong Kong. She has been writing for over a decade for leading newspapers and magazines. With a degree in Business Administration, she is adept on writing business related stories. Her feature-length articles cover topics in accountancy, finance, engineering, merchandising, manufacturing, technology, tourism, health and many more. She also works as a copywriter and company biographer on a project basis.

Shobha is a very talented writer and someone who writes with a very open international perspective. Born in Goa, Shobha has lived in culturally diverse cities such as Kano, Bangalore, Singapore, Mumbai and Antwerp.

She presently lives in Hong Kong. She is on the committee of the Hong Kong Women in Publishing Society and the Hong Kong Writers' Circle. She is actively involved in supporting and encouraging the local writing community.

Her debut novel Karmic Blues has just been translated into Danish (Kærlighedens blå safir), published by EC-Edition Denmark in September 2008 and her second book - an action-packed suspense novel - Indian thriller - The Silent Monument is also being translated into European Languages and soon to be released in English. She is currently working on more action-packed suspense novels.

The Silent Monument and Karmic Blues - the new thrillers that have been sold to the Danish publisher www.ec-edition.dk for publication this year and next summer, are now available for other language rights.