#1 New York Times bestselling author Roshani Chokshi is a charismatic and talented writer with an entrancing personality. While filming with the BookSparks team in her Midtown Atlanta condo, she let us in on a few hints about her new book, The Gilded Wolves,  her writing routine and lots more. Check out the full video now on BookSparks IGTV and find her insightful and fun answers below.

BookSparks: Give us a hint about your new book, The Gilded Wolves.

Roshani: There are gilded aspects to it. There are no wolves. Paris!

BS: Give us a hint about your writing routine.

Roshani: It involves a lot of pajamas. Just sitting in pajamas, not wearing them. Sometimes when I’m sad I like to put a blanket over my head and the laptop so that all the bad things stay in the blanket. Oh, and I eat coffee grinds… not used!

BS: Give us a hint about what’s on your nightstand.

Roshani: There’s always a half-empty bottle of La Croix which I never end up drinking because I’m afraid there’s going to be a spider in it and I’m going to swallow a spider and I’m going to be Spiderman and it’s going to be awful. And also my night guard which I haven’t decided on a name for him and a notebook actually. Sometimes you wake up in the middle of the night and you’re like, “A great idea, I need to write it down but usually, it’s just a bunch of hieroglyphs of whatever I was actually dreaming about. And that’s what’s on my nightstand.

BS: Give us a hint about what you’re currently reading.

Roshani: Right now I’m reading Demon Voices by Philip Pullman, it’s a collection of his nonfiction essays. Philip Pullman is one of my most favorite authors of all time and it’s really good for refilling the creative well.

BS: Give us a hint about a woman you look up to.

Roshani: Definitely all of the courtesans of 19th century Europe. I thought they were so fascinating, especially women like La Belle Otéro who had to navigate a world where she wasn’t welcome at all and to make herself famous from the sidelines and to capture people’s imaginations and to push back when everyone said she didn’t have a place there.

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