![]() Writing Aru required tapping into an amused and constantly panicked part of myself. ![]() I don’t think we’re capable of shrugging off who we were in middle school. Seventh grade was the year I gave myself bangs (ugh), used Nair for the first time and left it on too long (hello chemical Groucho Marx moustache burns), got dumped over AIM (NO!) and also laughed so hard and so often that my face constantly hurt and I’m pretty I sprained my ribs at lunch every day. In this case, Aru demanded my experience as a seventh grader. Writing middle grade was neither easier nor harder, but it demanded different parts of myself. As I read this, I dearly hope that doesn’t say something about me. In my second novel, A Crown of Wishes, I put my humor and general lamentations about the nature of quests in … a … talking … corpse … character. In my debut, The Star-Touched Queen, my most autobiographical character was the flesh eating demon horse. I’m not that great about putting myself into my main characters. ![]() ![]() Without further ado, please give it up to Roshani! Aru Shah and the End of Time is the first book in the hilarious, action-packed Pandava quartet based on Hindu mythology and coming out from the Disney-Hyperion new imprint Rick Riordan Presents on March 27. Welcome all! Today we are delighted to welcome Roshani Chokshi back to The Book Smugglers to talk about her experience writing her new Middle Grade novel Aru Shah and the End of Time. ![]()
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