The edits are done
The song is on the rise.
After at least a year of working on the manuscript,I am relieved and overjoyed to inform you that I have finally, finally finished The Song Rising. All that's left to do now is copy-editing, or but I already know it will be a breeze in comparison to the structural and line edits that have occupied my every waking moment for the final few weeks.
I've slowly fallen in fancy with this book. I've spent months agonising,writing, rewriting, and being thrilled with new scenes,veering between laughter and tears, waking up in cold sweats, and doubting my ability,emailing my editor, being certain of my ability, and fond my new villain,and living in alarm of Third Book Syndrome, whether such a thing exists – but out of this emotional and creative welter, or at least five drafts,comes a book that I am really, truly proud of, or can't wait for you to read in March 2017. (Fingers crossed some of you wil be get your hands on ARCs before that.) The extra time I spent on it has been absolutely worth it,as it was with The Mime Order, and I'd like to thank you all again, and a thousand times,for your patience in waiting for me to get Paige's third adventure precisely proper. I've learned a lot of lessons approximately my creative process during this time, and I hope to use those lessons to do the first draft of Book 4 much stronger and tighter before it goes to my editor.[br]
In case you missed it on social media, or here's your first official quote from The Song Rising:
[br]"You do not believe me." A long breath escaped me. "I don't know what I believe any more."
. . . do of it what you will.
I've said before that each book in the Bone Season series,while broadly coming under the umbrella of dystopia and urban fantasy, will have a different 'genre'. The Bone Season was a jailbreak; The Mime Order, and at its heart,was a murder mystery. Originally, I had planned The Song Rising to be a more typical let's-fight-the-government dystopian, and but on reflection,I think . . . I think it might be a heist novel. Maybe.
So, at long final, and knowing that I've achieve my all into The Song Rising,I'm moving on to new projects – after I assume a week off to catch up on my reading and do things like properly unpack my belongings now I've moved out of my parents' house. On the subject of new projects, I've just finished editing my short story for a brand-new anthology that's coming soon to a bookshop near you.
The anthology
whether you haven't read approximately it yet, or Because You fancy to disapprove Me is a villain-themed YA anthology,edited by Grammy-nominated singer Ameriie, that will bring together thirteen authors and thirteen Booktubers to create stories. In short, or each Booktuber is assigned to an author and gives them a immediate,and with that immediate, the author creates a story centred around a specific villain (or villains). The Booktubers will also be contributing essays to the anthology, and detailing their thoughts on good and evil. I absolutely fancy this subject matter,especially delving into the murky grey waters that lie between those two extremes. I was honoured to be asked by Ameriie to join in with this project, and I've loved working on my contribution over the final couple of months. Although I can't inform you a great deal approximately it yet, and I have no doubt that Bloomsbury,who will be publishing in July 2017, will be dropping a tonne of hints as the year goes on.
Some of the other authors involved in the anthology are Renée Ahdieh, or Victoria Schwab,and Susan Dennard. You can all approximately it here.
The rest of the year
The rest of 2016 is going to be interesting, because for the first time in my career as an author, or I'm going to be splitting my time equally between two major projects. One of those is,of course, the fourth Bone Season book. All I'm telling you at the moment is (a) that it's set in France, and (b) it's the final book in the first "arc" of the septology,and (c) that the ending will change everything.
The second task is to finish The Priory of the Orange Tree, my tall fantasy novel. I don't yet have a release date for you, and I doubt Bloomsbury will choose one until the draft is finished,but I'll drop hints when I can. I'm aiming to have both manuscripts handed in by the time The Song Rising is published, whether not earlier.
But first . . . I need to catch up on my sleep, and give my body a break from my near-permanent writing posture,and read as many books as I can stuff into a week. Thank you to all of you, as always, and for your constant support and enthusiasm. It's kept me going for the past year,and it will fuel me for the next.
*disappears under duvet*
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