I know the wait has been driving some of you crazy, and I know the new chapter I’ve just posted won’t make you any less impatient for the new Faerie Path book to come out…but here it is at last: Chapter Two of The Enchanted Quest.
I suppose the best thing about this new post is that it marks the point where I can tell you: Only Two Months To Go! The Enchanted Quest is due to hit the bookstores on 1st February 2010.
So, what else can I tell you about this new book without giving the game away entirely? Well…I think that by the end of the book the question of Tania/Connor or Tania/Edric will probably have been answered one way or the other. Also answered will be the question as to whether Tania will ever be able to get back to the Mortal World again. The Dream Weaver will make her presence known again. In the course of the journey, Tania, Rathina and Connor will encounter some dangerous enemies and some unexpected friendships, as well as being confronted by people they already know but whose allegiances are uncertain.
I think that’s about it for now.
Other news. The Charmed Return has now been through its UK edit and has been sent to the Publishers in New York for their verdict. I don’t imagine I’ll be hearing back from them before the end of the Year - but I’ll keep you in the loop regarding progress on the final book of this second Faerie Path trilogy.
Warrior Princess. I’m getting some very positive feedback about the new Warrior Princess book: Destiny’s Path. It’s great to know people are enjoying this new series as much as The Faerie Path.
Book four of the Warrior Princess series has been plotted out, thanks to a couple of long sessions with my friend and collaborator James. This week, the full storyline will be sent off to the New York publishers for their opinion. Hopefully, they’ll like it as much as I do. I plan on starting writing it early in the new year.
I have also been sent early copies of the UK editions of the first two Warrior Princess books. The covers are similar to the American ones, but with a different typeface - and on the cover my name is Allan Frewin Jones - not Frewin Jones as it is in America. Also, the first book is called Warrior Princess: Rhiannon of the Spring. This is the original title of the book. The American Publishers weren’t keen on it, so they dropped the “Rhiannon” stuff - but the UK publishers think it’s great.
These UK editions are not officially due out in England till October 2010, but they will be available in Australia before that date.
Other stuff? Well, I’ve been invited to a Christmas Party at the UK Publishers on December 2nd - Gary Chalk, the guy I’m writing Sundered Lands with is coming over from France (tomorrow!) and staying with me for a few days, so we can both go to the party. We’re planning on hinting to the important people at the party about a few new ideas we’re working on together. A new series or two, hopefully.
Well, that’s about it for now - hope you like the new chapter - and I hope it will keep you going till the book comes out on the 1st February 2010.
Hi Mr.Jones!
I’m a big fan of The Faerie Path series and am doing a project on it at school. You said that you drew some characters from the book, and i was wondering where i could find the pictures you drew.
Thanks a lot!
P.S. On February 1st I will be at a bookstore buying The Enchanted Quest!!!
AFJ. Hello there Leanndra, yes, I have done some sketches - of Tania’s six sisters. You can find them on the fanclub site - there’s a link to it on the Home Page of this site. Go to Photo Gallery - my pictures are under “Princesses of Faerie”. I do intend to do a few more sketches when I get the time - but right now I’m really busy.
Do they meet Pirates? Just Kidding.
Amazing chapter!!! Can’t wait for the book!!!!!
Yay!
Honestly, Mr. Jones, I don’t see how you do it, writing all of this stuff. I get confused just listening… =) Glad you do though!
AFJ. Arya - yes it can get confusing - but so far I’ve never actually put a character into the wrong book…so far!
exciting!!!
:)
oh, leanndra join us at the fan club! and to all those who comments here that hasn’t join us-just go to http://www.greatbooksrock.webs.com just add me as a friend and ill give you a guided tour and make you feel at home and comfy! hahaha
Thanks so much Mr. Jones!! I will deffinitely look.
And thanks i will join the fan club kyra.
Mr.Jones, I was looking over the Immortal Realm book and what Rathina was saying about Titania when she first came to Fearie, I was wondering how she, when others couldnt, sail from the mortal world to faerie.
Im guessing it was in like the same realm?
and she was only queen for about 50 years? I would have figured longer like the time of the great awakening.:)
And was the faerie realm just like it was before the great awakening,with mythical creatures and such but not the immortality?
sorry about so many questions!
AFJ. Mandy - I’m really busy right now - I have Gary Chalk the illustrator of the Sundered Lands series staying with me, and we’;re plotting out some new books. I will answer your questions - on Saturday, I hope. Sorry to keep you waiting.
Allan, my school had a book fair and they were selling your books. I went up to look and they were sold out. I was so excited!
~Jess
AFJ. Jess- that’s excellent news! Thanks so much for letting me know. The more books that get sold, the more chance that the publishers will ask me to write further adventures beyond The Charmed Return.
AFJ. Okay Mandy - here goes with your questions.
Titania’s journey to Faerie. I think it wasn’t so much that other people COULDN’T do it - it was more that people were scared of what lay over the horizon, and didn’t want to risk it. Yes, it was in the same realm, but Faerie lay over the horizon from Alba - and people thought it was dangerous to sail out of sight of land.
No, she was Queen for about 50 years before she disappeared (which explains why her oldest child (Eden) was only in her mid-twenties.
Of course, this seems to suggest that Oberon reigned alone for a long long time. Or did he? It doesn’t say anywhere in the books that he didn’t have a wife before Titania…it doesn’t say he DID, but it certainly doesn’t say he DIDN’T. Sound interesting?
As far as I can tell, Faerie was much the same before the Great Awakening - except that the Faerie folk had wings, but yes - they lived and died like mortals. And you see, the legends of the people of Alba that there were magical people over the horizon was another reason why they were scared to go in search of them - magical people might sound like fun - but they could as easily be using bad magic and be really dangerous.
Mr. Jones — Is it possible, in Faerie of course, like what you said about maybe Oberon had a wife before Titania, for Oberon to love the wife then love Titania while he was still married?
Wouldn’t that cause a huge uproar?
If Tania had married Gabriel then fell for Edric would they have had to keep it a secret because she didn’t really love Drake?
Sorry with the 20 questions, one just leads to another…
AFJ. Zoey - that’s a very interesting point, of course.
Now, it’s pretty much obvious that Oberon loves Titania - otherwise his grief at her loss would not have plunged Faerie into 500 years of gloom. But it is also a fact that with Aristocrats and especially with Royalty, not all marriages are love-matches. Often Kings marry their Queens for reasons other than true love. Often they get married to forge alliances between countries, or to cement truces between the King and other Earldoms in his realm. For instance, Weir is a very powerful Earldom…is it possible that before Titania arrived in Faerie, Oberon was in a loveless but politically necessary marriage with the sister of Earl Aldritch, but that she died in some tragic accident - or maybe even in the Wars with Lyonesse? What do you think?
I’ve always wondered, who are Edric’s parents and where do they live?
AFJ. That is an excellent question! Before I weigh in, would any of you guys like to come up with an answer? What do we know? Edric was born and brought up in Weir - mostly at Caer Liel, where he became the personal assistant to Gabriel Drake, and thus followed Drake when he came south to the Royal Palace.
They could have been in a high class sort of. Not as High as Gabriel Drake and his family though. I don’t think that Drake’s family would have taken a slavish family. They would have taken a higher rank.
edric’s parents died in the war… it was horrible, tania wasn’t there so, i had to comfort him myself… hehehe ; )
AFJ. Cute, Kyra! Historically accurate re the wars, and a good way to sneak yourself into Edric’s life pre Tania. Edric’s first great love - but somehow torn apart by tragic circumstance…
Mind you, have you any idea how old you would need to be to have done that? The only way is for you to have been born about 500 years ago, slipped into Faerie back then, lived through the Great Twilight without ageing and then popped back into the Mortal World once the Twilight had ended. Is that what you did?
yah, kind of… im a witch you see, my mother is morgan la fay… (take note ‘is) and the legends are corrupted;she’s not a bad person. and my father is alexander corvinus (you’ll probebly need to google that) my dad married her after the plague in hungary,,,and i never got bitten by a bat or wolf either,thus making me half-witch, half-immortal… i have the ability to walk through worlds and see the future… when i saw the plague in faerie, i helped oberon reach tirnanog (or however you spell that!) after that i stayed for a couple of years longer, for some of the faerie folk had trouble accepting the ‘mind alterations’so, i had to wipe their lingering memories… (this is getting long…) so, il call this part 1 of the kyra chronicles haha
AFJ. I see. Interesting. I thought it would be something like that…by the way - are you one of the three known children of Corvinus, or part of a quite different family? (It’s nice to have unusual fans!)
okay- part 2
edric and i fought together during the war-fell in love…
one day as i was crossing the worlds to avalon, a vision flashed before me; faerie was in great devastation, half of the people died including-No!!! but the vision changed and i was saying goodbye to edric and then i saw the devastation again but he was alive and someone was saving faerie; a beautiful young woman with flaming red hair and she was holding my beloved edric’s hand and for a moment my heart stopped beating…
hey! i said; it-was-just-for-a-moment! so, you could probably guess what happened after that, i wiped out edric’s memory of us ever being together… ):
hay… so, here i am cruisin’ through the worlds-trying to avoid faerie, im expecting to bump into duncan macleod…i saw him in one of my visions lately… ; )
ummm… dad married me mum after their mother died… so im the youngest half-sister… you know he needed a witch to help him cover the tracks… ewww… well that’s our family… cant repalce them…
AFJ. Wow!
you really have this all planned out Kyra!
YAY!!!! I have the First part of my story up on MY website.
http://addelina.webs.com/apps/blog/
I think Edric’s parents were of high rank in the court but died under mysterious cicumstances.
Already being good friends, Edric and Drake grew up together, Drake looking out for Edric like a big brother, until Tania takes notice of Edric, so Drake makes him his servent and keeps him out of sight so he himself can capture Tania’s heart.
shannon-
nah…it was just spontaneous combustion! opps sori- spontaneous writing or epiphany or whatever they call it…
hey addie! i have edric… u seem to want connor??? hehehe
NOOOOOOOOOOOOO Kyra. My friend and I have had this all planned out since I was in 5th Grade. I’m in 9th now and I can finally write correctly. The Connor in Mr. Jones’ book has NOTHING to do with the Connor in my stories. Honestly I don’t like the Connor in the Faerie Path very much. He seems to only be interested in Tania because she’s a Princess. Therefore/Hence in 5th grade I used to choose names and Addie was my favorite name because I had read “The Two Princesses of Bamarre” and I just fell in love with the name Addie. I chose Connor because they both went well together AND I really did not know very many people named Connor. I liked being unique in 5th grade. I still stick with my uniqueness and my old names. My friend and I used to play games where I was Addie, she was Silvermoon, and our “guys” names were Connor and Elliot. Try to guess who’s went with who’s. By the way we had powers and such. I DO NOT WANT CONNOR!!!!(from the faerie path)
So, What did you think of the First part? Was it good, okay, bad, horrible. Anything, come on tell me please?????!!!!!! By the way, TRUST ME IT GETS SOOOOOOO MUCH BETTER!!!!!
addie-
okayyyyy… i trust you hon…and im gonna wait for what happens next!
now…to my opinion, pls dont cry, okay?
it’s not horrible, i can assure you that! just try to calm down a little, make your readers imagine exactly where your characters are, i mean try to describe the place where they’re at and this mrs.cinnamon (kidding!) simmons right? i cant really see how she could be so…umm… serial killer? has she ever killed anyone before? i mean ‘addie’ is fairly young so, she could easily believe that! but connor is suppose to be older and mature so, you gotta first portray how horrible and inhuman this mrs. cinnamon is to convince me (readers)the possibility that this old woman could actually commit murder.
but on the other hand there are a lot of books out there that hardly describes anything at all about the location and etc and they do sell! so, this kind of writing could be your style and you can totally dismiss whatever i said above okay?
:)
Thank you! and, Miss Simmons is not very old. She is a VERY young version of the Step Mother in Cinderella. If I had to cast her, She would probably sort of look about the age of Britney Spears. Addie’s Aunt Alice (she will be in the book later) would be Jennifer Love Hewitt.
You see Miss Simmons has most DEFINITELY killed people before. She has to keep the “orphanage” open. Also you will learn why she wants to kill Addie later on in the book. Oh yeah, Did you see the pictures? They are from Zindy Zone. I have the link on a different page.
http://zindy-zone.dk/html/drawings/drawings.php
addie- oh, she’s a ‘miss’ then? sori, i missed that! and yah, i love jennifer-ghost whisperer! and ok, u do have a serial killer on the lose!
and oh mr. frewin, you’ll have to pardon these ‘aspiring writers’ invading your site!
if it’s any consolation-you’re our inspiration! haha it rhymes
AFJ. No, don’t apologize - I love this stuff! And, trust me, there’s nothing more thrilling for a writer than knowing they are inspiring some of the next generation of writers. All I ask is that when you guys start getting published, I get a signed copy of your first books.
Well, I’m not planning on writing books for a living. My Dream is to become a Fashion Designer and have my own Boutique in a GIANT house. I shall send you free clothes.
addie- you are one crazy girl!!! giant? ‘try the woman who lived in a giant shoe boutique’
mr. frewin- ill rephrase my last comment “pardon, these silly people on your site! and yah, ill give you a dozen!
Hmmm. I’ve never heard of that story. I’ve heard of the old woman who lived in the shoe, but she had a million children. I’m not really planning on having a bunch of children. I’m planning on 2 maybe 3. I’ve had this all planned out since 6th grade. My Job, My House, My Child’s name.
Oh believe me, one day you are all going to get an invitation and we shall go mattress surfing down my giant slide. Just Like in Princess Diaries 2. YEAH! Trust me, you’ll be like who is this person. You’ll arrive at my house and be like wow, she wasn’t kidding. My backyard is going to be a GIANT Zen Garden with a waterfall that goes into a giant lake where no fish swim BECAUSE it doubles as a swimming pool. There shall be a bridge that leads to the meditation area. I have a model of my backyard in my room. It’s small but it shall be bigger because there shall be a rock and a sand garden. AWESOME. (and don’t you DARE call me crazy for following my dream. i will KICK YOU OUT of my beautiful home. and you won’t get any free clothes.)
AFJ. This all sounds good so far. A dozen books from Kyra - free clothes from Addie - plus a great house-party. Any of you guys own a desert island where I can go and write my books - in the Pacific would be good…??
I hope so much that Zara come back it must give a way that she come back or ?? and i hope that we all can read many many books more about Elfennacht (Faerie Path)
in few years i hope we all wait of Faerie Path #45
its my fav story from all books i ever read
many greatings to all
tina
AFJ. Hello there, Tina - it’s really great to hear from a fan from Germany. For those of you who may not know, The Faerie Path series is called “Elfennacht” in Germany…which I think probably means “Elf-Night” or something like that. (Faerie-night, maybe?) So far, the first four Faerie Path books have been translated into German - but I’m hoping the other two will get there as well. Copies of the German book covers can be found on the fan-site. So…anyone else out there think they’d still be reading if I got up to book 45???
Hello (i take in the last one to many smilies ^^)
Yes in germany the titel mean Elfennacht - Faerie Night. part 45 of the book or more i think who come the 5th book in english i take this one ^^ (then when i read the book i also must take a english duden ^^) my mum think good about that she says ” if the book is in English you read it not in half day”
mr. frewin- u know i live on an island but its hardly a desert and i dont exactly own it either… wish i did though lol
addie- umm… i think i already did ‘dare’! but being ‘crazy’ doesn’t exactly mean you’re not adorable hon!!! i believe you need to be a bit ‘crazy’ to follow your dreams but i mean that in a good way- you cant stay average if you want major changes in your life…
and oh, you dont know me so, you wouldn’t ‘know’ who to kick out