Consilium 7 Publishing House · Author biographies

Anu Ashok
Ghost stories with a sense of humour, and science that holds up.

Anu Ashok likes his ghost stories funny and his science exact, and sees no reason a book can't be both. He has spent nearly two decades building things for learners and readers, and has watched thousands of children decide, within a page or two, whether a book deserves them. He writes to win that decision on the first page.

The Department of Unfinished Business opens a seven-book series about the dead who still have work to do, beginning with a physicist who dies in the middle of his greatest experiment and carries on regardless. Call Me Revenge, an action thriller, and The Generational Debt, a revelatory work of non-fiction on education and technology, follow. He lives and works in Ahmedabad.

Books: The Department of Unfinished Business (A Tenancy Novel, Book One); Call Me Revenge (Action thriller · coming soon); The Generational Debt (Of Education & Technology · coming soon)

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Madhumitha A. (Also writing as Madhu A., Merry Amarylees, Minerva Amborella, Miracle Amethyst and Madhu Aravalee)
Bestselling stories, from first picture books to novels of conscience.

Madhumitha A. is a bestselling children's author. Her picture books are for children who are just beginning to ask big questions: what a crayon might be capable of, why a tree might be afraid to bloom, whether a small panda can really fly, and how five small friends might save a pond. Each appears under its own name, so that each could find its own young readers, and every one carries a question on its cover that children love to answer for themselves.

For older readers she writes stories about conscience that never once lecture. The Fourth Quarter follows Vikram from the age of five, when he first notices something standing behind his right shoulder, to nineteen, when at last he walks away, and asks, without ever saying so, what we owe the people who need us. She is Co-Founder and COO of Consilium 7.

For readers up to 8 yrs: A Painting in the Sky (as Merry Amarylees, illustrated by Sunayana Dey); Arya’s Yes Journey (as Minerva Amborella, illustrated by Dejeshwini); Blooms of Courage (as Miracle Amethyst, illustrated by Eva Manral); Soaring Munchkin (as Madhu Aravalee, illustrated by Madhuri Tarimane); Five Friends Save a Pond (as Madhu A.)
For readers 16 yrs and over: The Fourth Quarter

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Dr P. M. Anavaratham
Big feelings, small days, and the wisdom to wait.

Dr P. M. Anavaratham writes for the youngest readers with unhurried warmth. Under the Neem Tree takes the big feelings of childhood, worry, anger, patience and disappointment, out of the classroom and into a grandmother's front yard, where they are learned the way children really learn them: one small day at a time.

He is the author of the Anavaratham School Leadership Series, and is now researching and writing a series of stories from the Tirukkural, the ancient Tamil book of 1,330 couplets on how to live. He is President of Consilium 7.

Books: Under the Neem Tree (Book 1)

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A. M. Arth
Friday-night books with a family at their heart.

A. M. Arth writes the kind of book you start on a Friday night and finish, a little guiltily, before Saturday lunch. Arth's stories begin with something small and exact, such as a single telephone in a hill hotel or a job sheet clipped inside a cargo plane, and grow into adventures with a family at their heart: loud, loving and slightly ridiculous.

Arth is drawn to places where the past is still within reach, and to characters who would rather solve a problem with their hands than with a phone.

For readers 16 yrs and over: Lights Out at the Aurora (Book 1 of the Aurora Hotel series)
For readers 8 to 12 yrs: The Compass Crew and the Star-Stone of the Forbidden Coast (Book 1 of The Compass Crew)

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M. A. Aldergill
Fantasy of the old, rooted kind.

M. A. Aldergill writes stories that begin at the bottom of a garden, where the edge of the known world is a line of trees. Aldergill's books are quiet before they are anything else, built from conkers, notes passed under desk lids and the promises children make without knowing what they cost. Then the forest stirs.

Stonewake opens in a North Yorkshire village in 1993, with a red crayon given on the first morning of nursery and a secret one girl keeps to protect the boy she gave it to. It is the first of The Guardian Chronicles, a series of four.

Books: Stonewake (Book One of The Guardian Chronicles)

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Yeon Dal-on
Family stories with something wild at the edges.

Yeon Dal-on writes family stories with something wild at their edges. The Nine Howls begins with a four-year-old howling at the wolves on the ridge, and the wolves answering.

It is a story of friendship, a lost name and eight wolves who remember, told so plainly and calmly that its last chapters are hard to read slowly.

Books: The Nine Howls

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Arya M. Anu
Our youngest author.

Arya M. Anu is five years old. She loves to create and listen to stories, and Professor Tomato is the first of them in print.

Books: Professor Tomato

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R. A. Madhavan
The comedy and courage of ordinary Indian homes.

R. A. Madhavan writes about homes where the neighbours know everything and nobody says what they mean. A Girl of Few Words is the story of a young mother who cannot speak, and of the family that slowly learns to hear her: a love story told in notes, signs and one laugh.

He is the Chief Editor of Consilium 7.

Books: A Girl of Few Words (Coming soon)

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Joel David
Speculative fiction on the widest canvas there is.

Joel David writes speculative fiction on the scale of the whole of human history. The Second First Age, the first of three novels, asks what fifteen people would make of an Earth that has moved on without them by a hundred thousand years, and whether they could survive its first year.

He is Head of Operations at Consilium 7.

Books: The Second First Age (Coming soon)
