I know a lot of you have been visiting the Fan Forum (http://faerieroom.proboards.com) that was set up and is being run by Arya (http://seaofpages.blogspot.com). Well, Arya has been beavering away quietly in the background for quite a while to set up a brand new Fan Club site. She showed it to me a couple of days ago and it looks great - I’m sure you’ll want to visit. You can find it at http://mysticrealms.co.nr. Arya says she hasn’t quite got it looking the way she wants it to look when it’s completely finished, but it is up and running. She plans on doing more work on it over the summer to give it a more “Faerie” look.
An exiting part of this new site will be that you will be able to post your own fan-fiction on it, as well as fan-art and even fan-videos, if that’s what you’re into. I’ll be posting some of my own artwork on there soon - including my sketches of what Tania’s sisters look like. Arya says there will be competitions and prizes (signed books etc) and, of course, plenty of opportunity for you people to post comments and suggestions and ideas.
I hope you’ll take the time to visit the new site and reward Arya for all the hard work she’s put in.
Meanwhile, other stuff is going on as well. I have just read through the “copyedit” version of The Charmed Return - Faerie Path 6. As most of you know by now, the “copyedit” stage of the book is where all the spelling is checked and the punctuation and grammar are tidied up, so that the book is ready to go to print. One of the things that has to happen at this stage is for my spelling to be changed so it works in America. For instance, in the UK we spell color “colour” and we spell gray “grey” - and we call sidewalks “pavements” - oh, and a whole lot of other little things that need to be changed for the American market. Well, that’s pretty much all done now and in a few days the copyedit manuscript will go back to the Publishers so they can prepare it for printing.
A lot of you have been asking when The Charmed Return is due to be published. Right now, I don’t have a firm date - but I’m guessing that it will be in the stores in January 2011. I know that’s a long way off, but the Publishers think one Faerie Path book a year is enough - although from what I have heard, plenty of you disagree!
I also have the first draft of Warrior Princess Book Four back from the UK editors. They really like it, apparently, which is great. Here’s a censored extract from the mail I got from them:
We are completely blown away by your draft of Warrior Princess 4. What a
harrowing, breathtaking ride: Oh! Ironfist trying to ******! And Iwan and Branwen *****! And the big *****! And ********’s death! And the final battle! And just everything! We’re really thrilled at how strong this is.
In a few weeks I will have the time to start looking at their comments and suggestions and get to work altering the things that I think need altering, before we send it off to the Publishers in New York.
That’s just about it for now - don’t forget to take a look at the Fan Club site!
the reason i dont like star girl i guess is just because i dont like the way the author wrote it i mean its a good idea i just didnt like the way it was written… on the subject thigs i wanted to say my fav subjects is of course READING! i love doing all of the projects and also thats where all of the writting happens. on summer, I GET OUT TOMORROW! and mr.jones, i have a question, im writting this story (just for fun) and its not exsactly fansty i mean it most likely never happened but it could, but any way its placed in the USA and the only thing i find hard about writing it placed in a real place is dont you have to get all of the like mondern day stuff right? like the main charetor is adopted but adopted from Ohio and my dad told me that the US dosnt really have orphanages, so would i have to changed it if it ever got published? (sorry i ramble)
allan- O.O Ohhhhhhhhhhh yes makes perfect sence =D how did u come up with the name anita. i always thought since tania and anita have the same letters was the reason. hmmm………
AFJ. Liz - if you’re writing for fun, you can warp reality as much and as often as you like - but it is true that if you set a story in the real world, then when it gets published, someone is always going to enjoy coming along and telling you that you have got your facts wrong. Tell your story the way you want to right now - worry about the facts later.
Daniela - at first, Tania was called Tania in both worlds - it was only while I was writing that the idea came up of calling her Anita in the Mortal World - Anita being an anagram of Tania (obviously!). I just thought it was a cute idea, is all. But curiously, I don’t think there are many names that can be rearranged like that to make another name. Can you think of any? (I just thought - Bob could be rearranged to read boB - but I don’t really think that counts!)
well, there’s Tiana, like the New Disney Princess, or a made up name like Natia.
ooooh i like natia!
lol. got back from volenteering. PEOPLE PLEASE ADOPT A CAT X( too many of them. or volenteer=) its fun.
allan- hmmm maybe errr ummm…. your right its hard /:( allan this is a question out of the blue but whats your favorite color? i like green. but then again if all we saw was green it would be…. SO COOL =D na i love all colors. =) green all the time would be boring
Mr. Allan, have you seen Prince of Persia yet? If your obsessed with movies like Lord of the Rings, and Pirates of the Carribean, Like me, you would love that movie. I had high expectations for that movie, and the movie was still better than I thought! Omg…great movie. =]
i for one cannot wait for the charmed return to come out.. i read the first 5 books in 3 days and now im having withdrawls from not knowing what happens next lol. i’m excited and impatient to read it.
So is ‘The Charmed Return’ the last book of the series? I know I was probably already told but I can’t remember.
AFJ. Because of the success of the first Faerie Path trilogy, the publishers asked me if I’d like to write another three books. The Charmed Return is the final book in this second trilogy - and right now I have no plans to write any more, and the publishers have not asked for any more. But I never say never!