Ketan Shukla is a writer who loves a good story — whether he’s building one from scratch or pulling one apart to see how it works. The Aztec Samurai Adventures is his twelve-book YA epic fantasy saga, blending Mesoamerican mythology with samurai warrior traditions into a tale of war, sacrifice, and hope.

This series took years of careful planning and countless rewrites. Thirty characters, each with their own arc. Twelve books, each with twenty-four chapters. Three acts that build on each other from the first page to the last. It was a labour of love — sometimes exhausting, always worth it.

When he’s not writing fiction, Ketan writes non-fiction series about the ideas that fascinate him. You can find his other work at The Repetition Series and Reality Without Belief. He believes the best writing — fiction or non-fiction — comes from genuine curiosity and the willingness to sit with a problem until it teaches you something.