About The Author
Author of three books of fiction, Jayanthi Sankar from Singapore has been creatively active since 1995.
Born and brought up in India, she has been living in Singapore since 1990. She enjoys expanding her creative world. While living in her fictional world, most of the time she interacts with the characters she forms and shapes. So, writing a novel is more of a process that she truly lives and loves and she’s all into experimenting, especially in her storytelling.
Also a watercolor hobbyist, she has been a freelancer for two decades, with three years of experience in journalism.
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Interview
Q) Tell us about the idea behind the book?
I wanted to figure out how difficult or easy it is to write a smaller book, unlike the large canvases I normally end up taking. Delving deeper into the human psyche was the best way for me to write a novella that will be different from my previous historical fictions. So it was purely another experiment.
Q) How much time did it take in the process of writing?
A year, including all the rewriting, and editing. And, of course, the ideating of the theme had happened years before that and there were raw chapters and notes waiting for me in my folders when I began my work.
Q) What did the process of writing this book teach you?
I discovered that there are so many inner worlds of the human minds that I can keep exploring in more fiction in future.
Q) What inspired you to write this book?
The main characters of my previous novel, as they were shaping, impacted me thereby inspiring me to write this one.
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Q) Which is your favourite part from the book?
The characters like never before, that wrote themselves forward. And I scraped two last chapters altogether to rework on the present last chapter that gave a cliffhanger, a freshness and I liked that as well.
Q) A book that had an impact on you, which helped you in writing this one?
I realised while answering a similar question in one of my earlier interviews, that my previous fiction Tabula Rasa inspired me to write this novella.
Q) Tell us about your plans? Planning a new book?
Yes, I’ve started working on my next novel. And I am editing two different anthologies of short stories by various authors.
Q) How has your life changed after the book was published?
Although my personal life has not changed in any way, as always, my writing life is seeing excited readers and reviewers and I’m loving it.
Q) What is a literary success for you?
When my readers are able to enter my worlds of fiction to experience what I experienced when I wrote, I get a sense of fulfillment that I think can be called a literary success, my own, of course.
Q) A message for all the readers.
Please read books for really enjoying them, for your interest and your solitary indulgence and not for the SM, the likes, or any kind of statistics.
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