{"id":11,"date":"2022-04-06T02:47:54","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T02:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rillart.com\/RillaWebsite2\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2026-10-01T20:19:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T20:19:30","slug":"blog","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rillart.com\/RillaWebsite2\/blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Author"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"785\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/rillart.com\/RillaWebsite2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/KarnikaHeader-785x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-548\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.7666045205722595;width:255px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rillart.com\/RillaWebsite2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/KarnikaHeader-785x1024.jpg 785w, https:\/\/rillart.com\/RillaWebsite2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/KarnikaHeader-230x300.jpg 230w, https:\/\/rillart.com\/RillaWebsite2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/KarnikaHeader-768x1002.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rillart.com\/RillaWebsite2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/KarnikaHeader-1177x1536.jpg 1177w, https:\/\/rillart.com\/RillaWebsite2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/KarnikaHeader.jpg 1379w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 785px) 100vw, 785px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>THE LOTUS<\/strong> <strong>PRINCESS AND THE DIVINE CHAKRA<\/strong><br><em>YA Fantasy<\/em><br>Threatened by assassination on the eve of her coronation, a sixteen-year-old princess, painfully aware of her diminutive stature, seeks favor with the Goddess of War; but when she fails to win use of the Goddess\u2019s indomitable weapon, she must embrace her own strengths to save her realm and her life. If only the invading prince weren\u2019t so irresistible and she could shake the eerie sense that they knew each other, rather well, in a previous life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brave women in Indian history and mythology often come to nasty ends, as did a national heroine, a warrior queen, who defied the invading British. THE LOTUS PRINCESS AND THE DIVINE CHAKRA is a purely fantastical re-imagination of history to afford that brave queen the victory she deserved\u2026along with a romance capable of surviving reincarnation!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-green-color has-text-color\">Publications <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cTamarind Rice\u201d  <em>Highlights for Children<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201dNo Pets,  Please\u201d  <em>Los Angeles Times<\/em> Kid\u2019s Corner<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201dBlue Space Pajamas\u201d <em>Los Angeles Times<\/em> Kid\u2019s Corner<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Articles including interviews with Arthur A Levine, Leonard Marcus, and Michael Stearns<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-green-color has-text-color\">Awards +<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"915\" src=\"https:\/\/rillart.com\/RillaWebsite2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/WinnerPic-1024x915.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-562\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.1191291919306385;width:276px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rillart.com\/RillaWebsite2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/WinnerPic-1024x915.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rillart.com\/RillaWebsite2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/WinnerPic-300x268.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rillart.com\/RillaWebsite2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/WinnerPic-768x686.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rillart.com\/RillaWebsite2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/WinnerPic-1536x1373.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rillart.com\/RillaWebsite2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/WinnerPic-1568x1401.jpg 1568w, https:\/\/rillart.com\/RillaWebsite2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/WinnerPic.jpg 2030w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>YA First Place \u2014 Manuscript Contest, SCBWI-SoCal Fall Harvest Writers Day, October 2024<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>YA First Place \u2014 Manuscript Contest, SCBWI-Los Angeles Spring Writers Day 2024<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jacket Flap Contest Winner \u2014 SCBWI SoCal Tahquitz Writer\u2019s Retreat, May 2024<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>YA First Place \u2014 Manuscript Contest, SCBWI LA, Writers Day, March 2023<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Scholarship to attend the Rocky Mountain annual SCBWI Letters and Lines Conference<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>SCBWI Sue Alexander Award for Most Promising Manuscript Honor Book<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>SCBWI-LA Sue Alexander Service and Encouragement Award (SASE) for serving as Managing Editor of Kite Tales, Newsletter for the tri-regions of southern California<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>SCBWI Work in Progress Grant underwritten by Amazon<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Also Pre-Published<\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">HOW TO SAVE A GORGON:   MG Fantasy<br><em>How To Train Your Dragon \u00a0<\/em>meets<em>\u00a0Maleficent\u00a0<\/em>a la <em>Calvin And Hobbes<\/em>: <em>Aided by his time-traveling dragon, snark-talking shoes, and the extreme shyness that prevents him from looking directly at anyone, a sixth-grader must rescue his \u201cpetrified\u201d classmates from their new teacher, Medusa the Gorgon.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SANDALWOOD AND STONE:   YA #OwnVoices<br><em>A biracial seventeen-year-old transfer-student from India discovers her anonymous online confidante is the racist classmate who\u2019s made her life hell, and must decide if the secrets he\u2019s shared to make her trust him are just another cruel prank, before Papa insists she return home and end her dream of being an artist.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE LOTUS PRINCESS AND THE DIVINE CHAKRAYA FantasyThreatened by assassination on the eve of her coronation, a sixteen-year-old princess, painfully aware of her diminutive stature, seeks favor with the Goddess of War; but when she fails to win use of the Goddess\u2019s indomitable weapon, she must embrace her own strengths to save her realm and&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/rillart.com\/RillaWebsite2\/blog\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Author<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rillart.com\/RillaWebsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rillart.com\/RillaWebsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rillart.com\/RillaWebsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rillart.com\/RillaWebsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rillart.com\/RillaWebsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":38,"href":"https:\/\/rillart.com\/RillaWebsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":564,"href":"https:\/\/rillart.com\/RillaWebsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions\/564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rillart.com\/RillaWebsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}