Hello all—
I’m now able to share that my second book is titled Sorcery of Thorns. It’s set to be published in May 2019, and is another YA fantasy unrelated to An Enchantment of Ravens. (For those of you who thought Enchantment was too short, you may be pleased to hear that Sorcery is substantially longer.)
While Sorcery’s premise isn’t technically a secret—there will be a preview in Enchantment’s paperback when it comes out later this month—I’m a little shy about revealing more before the official announcement. For now, the main character is a 6′3 battle librarian named Elisabeth Scrivener, and it’s about magical libraries that contain sentient grimoires who occasionally turn into monsters (which is why battle librarians exist in this setting). Here’s an excerpt:
These weren’t ordinary books the Great Library kept. They whispered on the shelves and shuddered beneath iron chains. Some spat ink and threw tantrums; others sang to themselves in high, clear notes on windless nights, when starlight streamed through the library’s barred windows like shafts of mercury. Others still were so dangerous they had to be stored in the underground vault, packed in salt.
I can’t put to words how excited I am about this book. If you happen to be an Instagram type, there’s a photo of my excited flesh visage holding the title here: https://www.instagram.com/p/BnR0oS3FzVN/
Well, this sounds straight up fantastic and I want to read it yesterday. (Also mentally fan-casting Gwendoline Christie as Elisabeth until further notice.)
That makes me so happy—I modeled Elisabeth’s height after Gwendoline Christie’s, because I love her more than life itself.
Unfortunately I can’t give Sorcery to you yesterday, but if you happen to want it on, say, Friday…
Tag: fantasy
THIS IS SO AWESOME. So many names of writers I love. And me too!
I find this picture fascinating. While obviously not a comprehensive picture of every kind of writing, it is a fairly comprehensive picture of a certain flavor of fiction. And in selecting authors to fill each spot, the person who made the selections picked all women authors, except for one.
I haven’t read more than a few of these authors, but I have enjoyed the ones I have. Seeing them all laid out like this is kind of a big motivator to read more of them.
They were making a point with their selections: the original, non-ironic, totally “what I just picked the best people, why are you looking at me funny” version of this graphic was all male authors, with one woman (who had a gender-neutral name and could have been included by mistake).
books i’ve read in 2017: when the moon was ours by anna-marie macklemore
[…] he and she were creek beds, quiet when they were full and quiet
when they were dry. but when they were half-full, wearing a coat of
shallow water, the current bumped over the rocks and valleys in the
creek beds, wearing down the earth. giving someone else a little of who
they were hurt more than giving up none or all of it.
FINALLY 👏 SOMEONE 👏 SAID 👏 IT. 👏 ALL OF IT. 👏ALL AT ONCE. 👏
(Thank you @fallingawkwardly for bringing this to my attention.)
I meeeaaaaan……. some of this is valid and reasonable. Some of it’s tropes you probably should actually look at critically if you’re going to use them. Some of it can be interesting worldbuilding, if you want to make a thing of it. But if it’s not actually relevant to the story or characters, a lot of this isn’t fucking NECESSARY and I’m never going to care, as a reader – by the time you’re fussing about who domesticated WHEAT, for fuck’s sake……
Idk, dude, maybe read another genre? I’m getting the feeling epic fantasy is maybe not your thing.
I love worldbuilding and will write endless unimportant details no one but me is ever going to see, but at the end of the day I am writing a fucking story, not a fantasy almanac and encyclopedia.
Babe, I love you, but you are literally the person who has spent several weeks figuring out realistic weather patterns for your fantasy world.
Like i am not arguing your point bc it’s a very good point that tbqh i agree with, but i’m just losing my shit because you are exactly the kind of person who thinks about shit like who domesticated wheat in your own fantasy novels.
Okay first of all the weather actually does matter a lot shut up.
But also there’s a big fucking difference between caring about large scale things like climate and geography and politics, and acting like it’s a failing on an author’s part that they didn’t bother to explain shit like the origins of agriculture in the world they created.
NO NO I AGREE, there is a large difference, and he needs to get over himself, but like. You could just make up weather. Like, to most people, the weather realism is as unimportant as the origins of agriculture.
but I love you.
knitting in the dark 