Week 2 has started on the campaign, and can you believe 8 out of 11 projects in The Book Bazaar are already funded? Even the ones that aren't funded yet are getting closer!

The other day, I was thinking of how this series took shape in my mind. When I started writing the first book, I had no idea how it would turn out, or even that it would be a series.

 

The first draft was finished in three weeks in 2018, and when I started writing, I only had a rough idea of a morally grey immortal MC, a child, a journalist, and a tyrannical regime. Everything else came about as I started writing.

 

I am a pantser, have always been, so finding the story as I write was not something new. What was new was this was only the second original book I was writing.

 

Before this and The Deathless Ones, which was the first, the only books I’d written were based on Hindu mythology, so writing something wholly original was a relatively new experience. Writing Sci Fi was completely new. Even with all the research I did, I wasn’t sure if I got anything right, but my alpha readers, one of whom was a doctor and the other a researcher in genetics, both reassured me. Their enthusiasm went a long way in creating this series.

 

When after three weeks of frenetic writing, the first draft of The Elitist Supremacy was done, I was astonished. Because the story wasn’t done, and I had to face the fact that I may have started a series without meaning to. Also, because I finished it so quickly. 

 

While I let it simmer, I started working on other original works, before I started on a round of edits and finding betas. I joined critique groups, had my work torn apart by discerning eyes, learned both how to take and give feedback, and learned more about the business side of indie publishing. 

 

In a way, writing this book is what launched my career and what made me the writer and person I am now. It's also only the second book I published under my Niranjan pen name. The first book, Blue, was a novella, so this one was actually my debut under the new pen name. 

This July will be six years since the original publication date of July 2020. It feels the perfect time for a makeover. I have grown as a writer since writing this series. The craft of writing improves with efforts to learn and practice, so the strides I've made as a writer since is only natural. 

Have a look at the cover ideas I had originally (at that time, I hadn't started thinking of another pen name either)

There are a lot of things I would have done differently about these books, about the covers, the marketing, even finding an editor, if I was doing it now. 

But the one thing I won't change is the story or the characters and their dynamics. No matter how imperfect, they are, I love them as they are. This book represents the best of me at the time, and it was with both immense joy and pride that I brought this project before y'all. 

Having it fund quickly only made me even more happy and proud of this venture and I thank you all from the bottom of my heart. You're all awesome and I adore y'all. 

Rari (Niranjan)