Sangu mandanna biography channels

By Suma Subramaniam

I’m thrilled to welcome Sangu Mandanna to the Cynsations blog today!

Could you tell us about your latest book?

My latest book, Kiki Kallira Breaks a Kingdom (Penguin Random House, 2022) is a middle grade fantasy about what happens when a young girl’s sketchbook world comes to life.

The main character, Mika Moon, is a year-old witch.

Sangu Mandanna is the author of several young adult and children's books about magic, monsters and myths.

Sangu Mandanna was four years old when an elephant chased her down a forest road and she decided to write her first story about it.

A man with a little magical knowledge himself, Ian, finds Mika's online channel about brewing tea and decides to reach out with a job offer.

Sangu Mandanna is the author of The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches, Kiki Kallira Breaks a Kingdom, and several other novels about magic, monsters and.

My main character, Kiki, struggles with OCD and uses art, creativity and specifically her sketchbook to cope with it. Inspired by the South Indian folklore her mother has told her about, Kiki’s sketchbook world is a mixture of her present-day life in Britain and the ancient Indian mythology she loves so much.

But when a powerful and wicked demon king brings her fictional kingdom to life, Kiki, who is anxious, afraid, uncertain and has never felt less like a hero, discovers it’s up to her to save the world.

In many ways, this is the book closest to my heart because it’s the book I most wish I’d had when I was Kiki’s age.

I didn’t get to see myself in fiction