Kiran Manral is the award-winning author of ten books. She was a journalist at The Asian Age, The Times of India, features editor Cosmopolitan, India Cultural Lead and Trendspotter at Gartner Iconoculture, Senior Consultant at Vector Insights and is currently Ideas Editor, SheThePeople. She was shortlisted for the Femina Women Awards for Literary Contribution in 2017. The Indian Council of UN Relations (ICUNR) with the Ministry of Women and Children, Govt of India, awarded her the International Women's Day Award 2018 for excellence in the field of writing. Her novella, 'Saving Maya', was long-listed for the 2018 Saboteur Award, supported by the Arts Council of England in the UK. Her novels 'The Face At The Window' and 'Missing, Presumed Dead' were both long-listed for Jio MAMI Word to Screen, and 'The Face at the Window' was also shortlisted for the South Asian Film Festival 2019. Her books include 'The Reluctant Detective', 'Once Upon A Crush', 'All Aboard', 'Karmic Kids-The Story of Parenting Nobody Told You', 'A Boy's Guide to Growing Up', 'True Love Stories', 'Saving Maya' and '13 Steps to Bloody Good Parenting.'