An Engineer's Imagination, Two Novels, and One Big Dream: Abhijith Chandra's Story

Somewhere in Trivandrum, a Mechanical Engineer sat at home during a lockdown with nowhere to go — and a story that had been living in his head since he was a kid.

He'd been carrying it for years. A fictional world. Characters with lives of their own. An adrenaline-surge of a plot. Engineers aren't supposed to write fantasy novels. That's what people assume, anyway.

But Abhijith CS — who writes under the pen name Abhijith Chandra — decided the lockdown wasn't going to be wasted. He opened a blank document and didn't stop until he had something the world had never seen: Korangeera.

Two published novels, an international readership, and a dream of a cinema adaptation later — here's his whole story.

Abhijith Chandra — Mechanical Engineer by profession, fiction author by passion

The Story That Refused to Stay in His Head

Abhijith grew up devouring fiction — novels, films, anything that pulled him into another world. Over years of reading, something quietly shifted. He stopped being just a reader. He became someone with his own story to tell.

The concept of Korangeera had been sitting in his mind for a long time. Engineering college happened. A career happened. Life kept filling up. The story stayed where it was — waiting.

Then 2020 happened. The world paused. For the first time in years, Abhijith had something genuinely rare: uninterrupted time to write.

He didn't just write a book. He built an entire universe — with a planned sequel series, characters he could already picture on a cinema screen, and a title that would tease readers about what was coming next.

The only challenge? He'd never published anything before. And for a first-time fiction author with no literary contacts, publishing can feel like an entirely different kind of engineering problem.

What First-Time Fiction Authors Actually Deal With

There's a misconception that publishing fiction is simpler than non-fiction. After all, it's "just a story." Anyone who's tried knows differently. Fiction comes with its own set of very specific publishing hurdles:

Book 1: Korangeera — The Debut That Started a Universe

Abhijith brought the Korangeera manuscript to OrangeBooks. The cover had to do something very specific — scream "adrenaline" to readers browsing a crowded fiction shelf, while also hinting at a bigger world beneath. The interior needed to feel like a professionally published novel: clean chapter openings, crisp typography, pacing that didn't lose the reader between scenes.

On April 1, 2022, Korangeera launched — paperback and ebook, simultaneously, across all major platforms. An engineer from Trivandrum was now an internationally distributed published author.

Korangeera — cover design and launch day

🎥 Watch: Korangeera — Official Book Trailer

The Response That Made Book 2 Inevitable

When your debut novel goes live and real readers start responding — genuinely responding — something shifts. The support Korangeera received wasn't just encouraging. It was the signal Abhijith had been waiting for.

The Journey: From Lockdown Idea to Two-Book Author

Here's how the publishing timeline actually unfolded — from a blank document during lockdown to becoming an internationally distributed author, twice over.

Why He Came Back for Book 2

When an author returns to the same publisher for their second book, it says something no testimonial can.

Abhijith didn't return out of convenience. He returned because the first experience had worked. The cover had captured the right energy for the genre. The interior had read like a properly published novel — clean, immersive, professional. The distribution had put Korangeera on global platforms. And the process hadn't required him to become a publishing expert to share his story.

Book 2: Littpin & The Battle of Rockhill — The Universe Gets Bigger

Littpin picked up where Korangeera left off — in the story and in Abhijith's growth as an author. A new protagonist. A bigger conflict. A world that readers of Book 1 had been waiting to return to.

Littpin & The Battle of Rockhill — cover design and launch

🎥 Watch: Littpin — Official Book Launch

🎥 Watch: Littpin — Official Book Trailer

The Dream Behind Both Books

Abhijith has never been quiet about where this is all going. From day one, he's had a clear vision beyond the page: he wants to see his story on a cinema screen.

That kind of ambition is something OrangeBooks sees often. Authors who come with more than just "I want to publish a book." They come with a version of what their work could become. A fiction writer who can already see their characters on screen. A non-fiction expert whose knowledge could reach thousands of readers around the world.

The cover, the formatting, the ISBN, the distribution — that's infrastructure. OrangeBooks handles the infrastructure. The dream is yours.

Get Both Books

Both books are available in paperback and ebook — in India and internationally — on all major platforms.

🌍 Both books distributed internationally through Ingram — available in 150+ countries

You Have a Story Too

Abhijith is an engineer who writes fantasy novels. Roshan Prasad is a philatelist from Sikkim whose stamp book now ships to 150+ countries. The authors OrangeBooks works with don't fit a single template — they come from different backgrounds, different cities, different genres, different starting points.

What they share is a story worth telling — and the decision to actually tell it.

Whether it's your first book or your second, whether it started during a pandemic or has been waiting a decade — if you have a manuscript, we'd like to hear about it.