arunpradhan

Twig and the Slightly Heroic League of Misfits

Fourteen-year-old Twig is one-armed, relentlessly curious, and desperate to win his warrior father's approval by claiming a place in Ikto's Game, a deadly contest run by an insane god. But when his father tries to have him killed, Twig flees to Eon, a magical living city, for one last shot at the Game.

There, amid dangerous trials, unlikely allies, and a zealot knight determined to hunt him down, Twig must choose between becoming the hero his father demands or building something different with the misfits everyone would rather forget.

Currently querying.

About Arun

Above all else, I'm a curious and empathetic geek.

As a second-generation migrant to Australia, I've often found myself a misfit between two worlds. I love stories with laughter, danger, wonder, and characters who don’t quite fit. The kind of stories where curiosity is useful, courage is messy, and heroism has more to do with heart than muscle. (Yes, technically a heart is a muscle, but I was on a roll, so let's just go with it.)

I'm known for my work in Learning & Development, but have been writing fiction for sometime. As far back as 2014, I won the Best Unpublished Manuscript award in the middle-grade category at the Children’s & Young Adult Writers & Illustrators Conference in Australia for a middle-grade detective story. I've written several manuscripts over the last fifteen years, this is the first I'm ready to share with the world.

An Upper Middle Grade Fantasy Story.