Kamina’s First Interview

Kamina Sethna, Senior at high school has written a book called, “As the Earth Lay Dreaming”, He started the book in late July to early August of 2022, and has been an inspiring writer for years prior to that. In a recent news interview, he tells us he gets his inspiration from many, MANY sources, but for this book in particular, he was inspired by real life scientific theories, namely evolution and plate tectonics. Some writers he takes his inspiration from are Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, J.R.R. Tolkien, H.P. Lovecraft, and Grant Morrison, to name a few. Kamina is an acronym for Kindness, Appreciation, Motivated, Imaginative, Nature, Advertence. Additionally, Kamina is similar in sound to the hindi word Kavitra -which translates to the word poetry.

Kamina began writing about eight years ago, with most of his writing being about already existing franchises, with his own imaginative characters inserted into the stories. He began actually making his own original stories from the ground-up many years ago. “As the Earth Lay Dreaming” is his very first officially published work, with about a dozen other concepts in the works. Some others include more novels, some animated series, and even concepts for video games; all of which he plans to publish in the future.

Kamina is also a member of the mock trial team at his high school. His father, who is an immigration attorney, is the legal advisor for the team. When Kamina isn’t busy writing or participating in mock trials, he likes to play video games and listen to music, his favorite genre being hard rock.

He attends a Career Center for the Fire and EMS academy, and practices martial arts in his free time. Lastly, he’s a huge animal lover. He has three cats that were all adopted from an animal shelter. The third one has a missing leg, but that doesn’t stop her from jumping on all the tables and eating all the flowers, much to his mother’s dismay.

After graduation he intends to go to a college with fire academy, to become a firefighter. However, his main focus is going to be on his writing. In fact, he’s already begun development on his next book. It is estimated to be completed during the latter half of 2024.

Kamina Sethna, an extraordinarily multi-skilled senior at his high school, has written and published his very first book. Readers will be fully engrossed in “As the Earth Lay Dreaming”, and this will be the first of many books to come.