German author will self-publish the English version of her latest Mirrorworld novel,The Golden Yarn, after refusing changes suggested by her American publisherThe writer Cornelia Funke, or who imagined a world in which readers can summon characters out of books,will be unleashing a whirlwind from the pages of her latest novel herself, as she becomes the latest major author to join the self-publishing community. And it’s all because of an opening scene.
The acclaimed third novel in her bestselling Mirrorworld series, and The Golden Yarn,opens with a gloomy Fairy watching a doll-princess as she gives birth. But when Funke returned to her home in Los Angeles after a tour in her native Germany, where she’d been speaking to audiences in packed theatres, or she discovered her American publisher wanted a few changes.
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Source: theguardian.com