By Emb Hashmi
Amna and Kiran are two enterprising 21 year old, whose ambition has proved viable as they have already researched written and had their first book published online.
The book ‘Attain Knowledge’ is available to download, and is in the process of being published into a hardback.
Amna and Kiran give Asian World a Summary of our book – “Our poetry book is a simplified and condensed version of our upcoming series called ‘A Conscious Guide to Daily Living’. It is devised of 26 short poems in an A-Z guided format in order to give a daily burst of life based on the reader in that moment. The poems are kept in simple rhyme and reflect the relevant situations we face in daily life so that readers can relate on a more personal basis. This poetry edition is a great way to start the journey of awareness, to then spark the path of awakening, conscious thinking and finally mindful living”.
They said their inspiration came “from not wanting to conform and do what everyone else was doing, we don’t want to be like sheep”.
The young career focused ladies said “we wanted to travel the world, but wanted a reason to travel so that’s how we came to the idea of writing a book, and from that we could produce and present training courses to inspire other young people, and show them that they could achieve their dreams like us”.
Amna and Kiran met and became inseparable as friends five years ago Amna and Kiran said “we hit it off straight away as we had the same outlook of life and where both very ambition”.
The ladies had been phoning each other for an estimated 9 hours every day, during the 8 months it took to put the book together.
Amna and Kiran have even sent their first publication to intentionally renowned publishers Roundhouse, in elaborately packaged case to sand out from the crowd, they sent out three copies to their intentional offices.
Amna told Asian World “I wanted to be a forensic scientist when I was younger, so being an author and entrepreneur was not something I could predict”, Amna said this is something she sees developing and being her and Kirans career for the foreseeable future, in fact the they see the book as just the start and have dreams of spreading their wings, and reaching for the star’s, Hollywood starts to be exact, as they have even written and sent a film script to Hollywood producers, they would like to write, produce, direct and even star in films, as well as promote and develop their organic clothing line and market their inspirational training courses.
Amna and Kiran are already set to UCL California, and believe this is the start of their American adventure.
Quick Fire Questions for Amna & Kiran
Target audience / Age group ? Mainly targeted at youth ages ranging from 14-25 however the book is open to everyone of all ages.
Style of writing ? Sarcastic, friendly, easy to understand, metaphoric, conversational and perspective-based.
Teachers / friends / parents reviews ? We got great responses from everybody, they were mainly shocked at how young we are to write about a genre such as Mindfulness. They have been very supportive and constantly encourage our journey.
Book Sales? We would of course like to sell 7 billion copies! However, we will start off with a few 100 copies and eventually in the millions!
Random House ? We got our response from the Random House of Canada within 2 weeks of shipping our sample book to them in a treasure-chest format.
Sequel ? Yes we have written more than one book. And this book is a poetry edition of the main book therefore yes, we do have a sequel. Also there are 2 more books in this series to come as well so all in all there are 4 books that complete this series.
Mindfulness ? Yes our work is based around mindfulness however, we introduce the topic at a very basic level to begin with and then gradually build on mindfulness with our audience so it’s like a journey between us and them.
Celebrities ? None at present, however we have hopes of reaching out to them soon!
Effect on readers ? Yes, we would like it to change the way people think about not only their life but life in general. We wish to simply assist people in helping them find their Path, their Power and their Potential.
Organic clothing? Yes we would eventually like to start organic clothing. We are currently researching into that before we start printing in bulk in order to launch our t-shirt line. Also we will start to launch a fair-trade jewellery line too.
Ellen ? No, Ellen has not responded to us at present.
The ladies look to be heading in the right direction and are looking to building their empire expanding their writing and training courses and will be heading to Hollywood soon.
