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Soman Chainani: 'I felt like fairy tales had been hijacked so thoroughly by Disney'

Written By Unknown on Tuesday, September 29, 2015 | 3:09 AM

The author of the twisted fairytale The School for Good and Evil trilogy talks to site member Tess 2 about why he wanted to write an epic story that moved beyond all the old heroes and villains and instead spoke to the anxieties of modern readers.

If you were a student at The School for Good and Evil what kind of ranking would you have, would you be a leader, a henchman or a mogriff?

There’s no denying that I’m quite an obsessive, over-disciplined student. I enjoy working more than I think is healthy. So even if being a Leader does have a much higher degree of risk to it than being a henchmen or mogrif (who usually survive a story in the end), I think I’d end up one just from the fact that I’d likely have gotten high ranks at the school.

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