new posts in all blogs
Viewing: Blog Posts Tagged with: Great Aussie Elvis Mangosteen Cricket Fairy YA Novel, Most Recent at Top [Help]
Results 1 - 10 of 10
How to use this Page
You are viewing the most recent posts tagged with the words: Great Aussie Elvis Mangosteen Cricket Fairy YA Novel in the JacketFlap blog reader. What is a tag? Think of a tag as a keyword or category label. Tags can both help you find posts on JacketFlap.com as well as provide an easy way for you to "remember" and classify posts for later recall. Try adding a tag yourself by clicking "Add a tag" below a post's header. Scroll down through the list of Recent Posts in the left column and click on a post title that sounds interesting. You can view all posts from a specific blog by clicking the Blog name in the right column, or you can click a 'More Posts from this Blog' link in any individual post.
My big news is that my next two books are going to be published by Bloomsbury USA. That’s right the great Aussie cricket mangosteen monkey knife fighting fairy YA novel has found a home! Not to mention an actual title: The Ultimate Fairy Book.
I am so excited I cannot sit still. I’m bouncing as I type this. I am all over with yays!
My new editor is Melanie Cecka who is wonderful. We had a three-hour lunch last year where we learned conclusively that we are each girls after each other’s heart. Hot sauce! Mexican food! Dessert! Love of many of the same books!
The whole team at Bloomsbury are incredibly impressive and seem to be almost as excited about my book as I am about becoming a Bloomsbury girl. It’s a match made in heaven. Just take a look at some of the books they publish! I am going to be on the same list as Shannon Hale, Simmone Howell, Susan Vaught, Herbie Brennan, Phillip Reeve! What’s not to love?
Before you ask The Ultimate Fairy Book or the UFB is scheduled to be published in Fall 2008 (ie September or October of next year). I know some of you will think that is a long, long, long, way away, but I was very surprised that they’re going to publish it so soon. Most publishers have already planned their Fall 08 list and are now plannning their 2009 books. I squealed when I heard it was coming out next year. More yays!
Also being on the Fall list in the US of A (and let’s face it where else do they even have a fall*?) is a Very Big Deal. The majority of the books featured at BEA, for instance, are Fall titles.
*Where I come from it’s autumn.
Off to Paris today. I’m not sure what my intramanet access will be like while there, plus I’ll be busy, so I figured I’d best leave you with a slightly meaty post given as I’m not sure when I’ll be posting again.
For your delectation some thoughts on the efficacy of spreadsheets for novel writing:
A while back I posted a tongue-in-cheek guide on how to write a novel in which I suggested using a spreadsheet. I’m still getting letters from folks telling me what a revelation that was, how it’s transformed the way they write, solved all their plotting problems, and made their teeth whiter.
And I’m still coming across comments from those who are appalled and outraged by the very idea. A spreadsheet! For creative work! The utter utter horror! Spreadsheets are for accountants! The muse is allergic to spreadsheets. What kind of philistine is this Justine Larbalestier? (If that is her real name.)
I don’t get the outrage.
A novel is a large document containing a whole world with a population that can range from one (boring navel-gazing novel about a man trapped inside a unicycle) to billions or more (space opera where the Empress of the universe destroys a whole planet and the reader follows the last day of each inhabitant of said planet). Keeping track of all of that is tricky. The longer or more complicated the novel the harder it is to keep all of it in your head.
I’m sure some writers can do it. Some writers can also write entires novels in their head and produce but one perfect draft.
But pretty much every writer I know has some method of tracking their novel. It might be a set of notes, a wall chart, a spreadsheet, a ouija board, an outline they annotate as they go, index cards, pigeon entrails, their ghostwriter, whatever. They have some kind of a thing that is not their novel that tells them stuff they need to know about their novel.
My first novel is an epic, 145 thousand words long*, spanning many years, with a cast of gazillions, and multiple point-of-view characters. I wrote the first draft using another word document to note down who was related to who, what the countries were, the different language groups, the seasons, things I needed to change, and etc. By the time I finished the first draft, my notes about the novel was almost longer than the actual novel. I needed another document to keep track of it. And then I needed another one to keep track of the one keeping track of the notes keeping track of the novel. Spot the problem?
My boyfriend of the time (thank you, Geoff!) suggested I use Microsoft Project. I fell in love. It was the first (and only time) I’ve been smitten by any of Microsoft’s software**. Project was exactly what I needed: I could chart each character in relationship to the other characters over a period of days, months, years, whatever I needed. At a glance, I could see characters who disappeared with no explanation, who remained pregnant for two years, babies who stayed at the baby stage even though five years had passed since their birth.
It made rewriting much easier.
My second novel was much more straightforward, shorter, and told from only one point of view. A very short file was all I needed to keep track. And to be honest I didn’t use it much, which might be why it’s so very bad, and will never ever see the light of day.
My third novel was Magic or Madness, which while not as complicated as my first, had its own challenges, such as being set in Sydney and New York City. Towards the end of the first draft, Scott introduced me to his spreadsheet method, which made it much much much easier to track what time it was in the two different locations as well as the shifts in points-of-view.
I used the same spreadsheet for all three books of the trilogy. It made me happy.
For the Great Australian Mangosteen Monkey Knife-Fighting Elvis Cricket Fairy Young Adult book I also used a spreadsheet, but it served mostly procrastinatory purposes. The book is told from one point of view and is pretty much beginning, middle, end. It woulda been just as easy to write it without one.
So there you have it: spreadsheets neither write your novel for you, nor do they stab the grand muse of writerising through the heart. They’re just this sometimes-for-some-people useful thing, ya know?
And now I believe I have a plane to catch.
*For contrast all the Magic or Madness books are around 65 thousand words.
**And, of course, Microsoft instantly stopped producing a Mac version. So I never got to use it again, which is a shame because it is the most excellent instrument of procrastination novel tracking I have ever used.
Today is the fourth anniversary of my becoming a full-time freelance writer. That’s right, on 1 April 2003 I stopped getting a regular salary and set about trying to earn dosh with the words I write. What more appropriate day than April Fool’s day?
It was Scott who convinced me to do it.
For the previous eighteen months my regular salary as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Sydney had been the bulk of our income, but Scott’s earnings as a freelancer were on the rise. It would be more than enough, he asserted, to support both of us while I found my legs as a writer. There were several academic jobs I could have applied for, but Scott convinced me not to. It wasn’t hard, while I preferred being an academic to any other job I’d had, I liked writing way more. “It’s the only thing you’ve ever wanted to do,” he told me over and over again. “Now’s the time to do it.”
I thought he was mad.
I was right.
The next three years and a half years were filled with financial anxiety: loans were taken out, credit cards were juggled, and tonnes of panic was panicked. Two freelancers living together is not for the faint of heart. It’s not even a good idea for nerves of steel, lion-hearted types.
I received my first freelance money—the advance on signing for the Magic or Madness trilogy—in December of 2003, which was eight months after I’d gone freelance. It was my first professional sale. The offer came in September so by publishing standards I was paid very quickly. But it was an awfully long time to be bringing in no money. In the meantime Scott signed up for two separate three-book deals (the Uglies trilogy and the three Razorbill books—So Yesterday, Peeps, and The Last Days) to keep us from going under. Problem was those books were on top of the Midnighters trilogy he’d already sold.
Suddenly he was writing three books a year and experiencing the joys of shingles. All because I’d gone freelance prematurely.
Do I regret it?*
No. I’m proud of what I’ve achieved. In my first four years of freelancing I’ve written four books, edited another one, and published four: the Magic or Madness trilogy and Daughters of Earth. I sold my first novel only five months after going freelance. Not bad, eh?
Of course, I’d been trying to sell a novel since 1999, so it was four (almost five) years from first finished novel to first sold novel. And I’d been trying to sell short stories for much, much, much, much longer than that (way back into the eighties). I still haven’t had a pro sale for any of my short stories.** And since I’ve pretty much stopped writing them, or sending them out, that’s unlikely to change any time soon.
Although the trilogy hasn’t earned out (bloody joint accounting!) it’s close and with the foreign sales of the trilogy (thank you, Whitney Lee) I’m now earning enough to support myself***.
But if someone who’d never sold a novel asked me whether they should go freelance I would tell them no.
No matter how talented or promising you are, going freelance without a single professional sale is madness. Perhaps you have a partner or a parent or a patron who’s willing to support you—it’s still dangerous and scary to try to make a living at something you’ve not proved yourself at. And there’s no guarantee that your partner or parent or patron will continue to support you. They might one day get jack of the whole thing. You might never make a single sale. Lots of extraordinarily talented people have failed to make a living as writers.
I have no idea what the future will bring. I’ve seen too many writers with stalled careers after even the most brilliant of starts to be sanguine about my own. The young adult market is thriving right now and advances seem to be going up all the time, but who knows how long that will last?
Yet despite the financial insecurity, the never knowing if my next book will sell or not, and the destruction of Scott’s health, these have been the best four years of my life. All the books i’ve published are the very best that I could make them at the time. There’s no book out there with my name on it that I’m ashamed of.
Turns out that I love being a writer. It’s what I’ve always wanted, and now I have it, it’s better than I imagined. Fingers crossed that it lasts.
Happy anniversary to me! And thank you, Scott, for everything.
*The real question is: Does
Scott regret it?
**When I sold to Strange Horizons in 2001 it wasn’t classified as a pro market.
***Or to support the alternative me what doesn’t have expensive tastes and lives in Dubbo.
NOTE: I apologise for the complete absence of April First Foolery. Fortunately others in the blogosphere are more than making up for my seriousness.
Magic’s Child only came out last Friday and already I’ve had a stack of letters and some comments here asking when there’ll be another book in the series.
Wow! I’m stoked at the enthusiasm and thrilled that you like the Magic or Madness world so much you want more. I’m not sure there’s a bigger compliment you can offer a writer. Thank you.
But right now I have no plans for more books set in that world.
Don’t yell at me! I’m not saying there won’t be books in the future. But there won’t be any in the immediate future.
Why? Lots of reasons but mostly because I need a break. I started work on the trilogy in June 2003 and had been thinking about it for months before then. I finished making corrections to Magic’s Child in early November 2006. So I spent more than three years solidly in that one world, with those same characters, and for now that’s enough. We need our space. Both the characters and me. Otherwise ugliness would ensue.
Also at the moment I have no idea what happens next. No clue at all. It’s very hard to write a book without any ideas.*
Right now I’m busy rewriting the fairy book (otherwise known as the Great Australian Elvis cricket fairy mangosteen YA novel), and on the weekend I started a new book.
What book was that? Remember I asked you all to vote on what I should write next?
Well, you voted and you chose by an overwhelming majority—
drum roll
very big drum roll
so big it’s still rolling
and rolling
and rolling
rolling
rolling
rolling
So I started the sexy cricket one instead.
Nah, just kidding.
I really did start the lodger book. You know how sometimes starting a book consists of hours and hours of staring at the screen, lots of deciding the front room needs to be tidied, or that there’s urgent mail to be sent, or that it’s a long time since the sock (ew!) drawer was rearranged, or that perhaps a long walk is needed to get the thoughts to coalesce into words and sentences and paragraphs?
Not this time.
I sat down to write the lodger novel and had several thousands words in a matter of seconds. Scary excellent stuff! (I mean the writing process. I can’t tell about the words yet.) This book is practically writing itself. Yum.
Here’s hoping my Magic or Madness fans will enjoy also the fairy book and the lodger book. Oh, and that they find a publisher . . .
*I’m not saying it hasn’t been done. Do not ask me for examples!
**The votes:
Lodger book: 12
Liar book: 8
Cricket romance: 7
Werewolf snowboarding epic: 6
Baby killing ghost novel: 6
Vintage clothes shop book: 4
Hollywood book: 1
NT family epic: 1
Short story: 1
Why do I keep writing novels that involve numbers? I am spending today going through the Great Australian Cricket Mangosteen Fairy Monkey Knife Fight Elvis YA novel and counting things, many different things, because sadly it is a vital part of my plot.
Why?
Why do I keep doing this to myself? I am borderline inumerate (and deeply ashamed of it). Hmmm . . . Maybe that’s why? My shame keeps prodding me towards numeracy. Stupid shame. Stupid numbers.
Let this be a warning to anyone still in school and inclined to slack off in maths class. It will bite you in the bum later. Study hard! Pay attention! This stuff is important.
In other news Maureen is handing out the best advice ever on dealing with a crappy Amazon review. It’s official: Maureen is my favourite comic writer of all time.
One of my favourite Amazon activities is to go to my fave books and order the reviews from lowest stars to highest. I then go through hitting the “no” button. “No, your stupid review is not remotely useful! No! I say, No!” It’s remarkably cathartic.
Speaking of comic, scary brilliance. You should all go see The Host. It’s so fabulous that even the New York Times noticed. Best monster movie ever.
Also Diana seems to agree that the relaxation poses in yoga are excellent for solving plot holes and other problems with your novel. Meditation? What’s that?
Okay, I have procrastinated enough. I must return to counting. (Stupid novel!)
The first offline review of Magic’s Child has appeared in Kirkus Reviews. They seem to like it. The entire review is riddled with spoilers so here are the highlights:
In this sizzling conclusion to a mordant fantasy trilogy, magic is more curse than blessing for 15-year-old Reason. . . . Alternating chapters by Reason, Jay-Tee and their friend Tom recount this crackling blend of fantastic adventure and soap-opera angst with vivid splashes of Aussie and American slang. . . . [A]dolescent readers will be left pondering their own hard choices. Not a stand-alone story, but the entire trilogy is a worthwhile purchase.
Not bad, eh? A number of pullquotes. Thank you, Kirkus!
In other news scifi.com’s Scifiwire is interviewing various award shorlistees, like, um, me for the Norton Award. I hear there’ll be interviews soon with Maureen Johnson and Scott Westerfeld. I assume they’ll also talk to Susan Beth Pfeffer and Megan Whalen Turner. Hope so!
In other news Rebecca designed this T-shirt in honour of Scott and mine’s visit to Houston. Isn’t it awesome?
Is that not the coolest Magic or Madness/Midnighters combination you ever saw? There are even butterflies! I love it!
This post is dedicated to
my beloved father, John Bern,
because the novel I dedicated to him
has not found a publisher yet
and because
I think it will make him gag
Happiness is . . .
- Finishing the first draft of a novel that was tonnes of fun to write, which means the rewrites are going to be even more fun.
- Celebrating said finish by going out to see fabulous theatre (Keating at the Belvoir) with my parents, sister and husband.
- Continuing the celebration with a wonderful meal at Tabou (best mussels ever!), drinking loads of champagne, and filling Scott in on all the stuff he missed in Keating: Gareth Evans, Edie Mabo, Native Title and why Alexander Downer was in drag with fishnet stockings.
- Coming home to discover that Bertelsmann Verlag has bought the German rights to Magic’s Child and will be publishing the whole trilogy in 2008 with two month gaps between each title. No annnoying waiting for the German readers.
- Trying to decide whether to have a bit of a holiday in Ireland or Spain. Such a dilemma!
What all is making you lot happy? We happy peoples love the company!
I just finished the first draft of the great Australian feminist young adult Elvis mangosteen monkey knife-fighting cricket fairy novel. Woo hoo!!!
Now all I have to do is rewrite it till it all makes sense. *rolls up sleeves* What larks!
And just to say: None of the points I made in the previous post refers to any writer who actually reads my blog. Okay? And, in fact, I’ve met very few writers who were so obnoxious I decided not to read them. Very very very few.
Remember the whole this-is-writ-ironical thing? I was just going for the laughs, folks.
I am a cross between Pollyanna and the monkey dude. I see, hear, smell, touch, and taste no evil. It’s all about the glad game. That’s just how we happy-go-lucky Sydney folks are.
Right now I’m really really really vastly hugely fully wholly glad that I finally found the end of my novel.
Jeeves? Some champagne, please!
I’ve been just a few days away from finishing the first draft of the great Australian Elvis mangosteen monkey knife-fighting cricket fairy novel for weeks and weeks. What is it with that? I feel like there’s someone up ahead with my ending, who every time I get close enough to touch it, madly sprints away.
Bloody bastard!* Stop it!
I can’t tell you how much I’m looking forward to finishing this draft. I have such plans for the rewrites! Rewriting is so much funner. You can’t really get the monkey-knife-fighting scenes right until you’ve gone over them many times adding zeppelins and fireworks.
I’m also a bit cranky cause this was going to be my shortest novel ever, but it keeps growing. Grrr.
Do any of youse ever have the receding-into-the-distance ending problem? What do you do about it?
*Just rewatched
Bodyline. My favourite bit is when Douglas Jardine (evil captain of the English team) goes to the Australian dressing room to demand an apology for being called a bastard. The captain turns to his men and asks, “Which one of you bastards called this bastard a bastard?” Jardine stalks off in high Pommy dugeon. Tee hee!
By:
Justine Larbalestier,
on 12/30/2006
Blog:
Justine Larbalestier
(
Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags:
Cricket,
Writing & Publishing,
Bloggery,
Praising,
Daughters of Earth,
Vainglory,
Scott's books,
Magic or Madness,
Sydney/Australia,
Great Aussie Elvis Mangosteen Cricket Fairy YA Novel,
Sport,
State of the World,
Magic Lessons,
Magic! Magic! Magic! Oi! Oi! Oi!/Magic's Child,
Add a tag
It’s been another good year for me professionally and I will now skite about it: My second and third books,
Magic Lessons and
Daughters of Earth, were both published to some very nice
reviews and
reader responses. The whole Magic or Madness trilogy sold to
Editora Record in Brazil,
Magic or Madness and
Magic Lessons sold to
Mondadori in Italy, while
Magic Lessons and
Magic’s Chld sold to
Amarin in Thailand. And then there was the recent sale of the trilogy to the
Science Fiction Book Club for a 3-in-1. Not to mention
Magic Lessons being on the shortlist for the Aurealis.
It was a great year for Scott who hit the New York Times bestseller list not once, not twice, but three times! Woo hoo! Twice for Specials and once for Pretties. Also my friends Yvette Christiansë (Unconfessed), Kate Crawford (Adult Themes), Ellen Kushner (Privilege of the Sword), Julie Phillips (James Tiptree Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon) and Delia Sherman (Changeling) all published wonderful books that were well-received. If you haven’t already read them—do so immediately!
Other dear friends also published fabby books, but these are the ones that I saw through gestation. In the same way I’m very excited to see how Holly Black’s Ironside and Cassandra Clare’s City of Bones fare next year. Do yourself a favour and get hold of copies as soon as you can!
Next year I have three English lanaguage publications on the horizon:
- Magic Lessons will appear in paperback in February
- The final book of the trilogy, Magic’s Child, will be out in hardcover in March.
- Also in March—the SFBC’s 3-in-1 edition of the trilogy.
As you can imagine I’m dead excited to find out what my readers think of the complete trilogy. Do not hold back! (Unless what you have to say might harm a writer’s delicate sensibilities. Praise is good!)
This year has also been a great one for me blog. Readers way more than doubled this year, which is just lovely. I’m particularly excited to have picked up so many more readers here in Australia. Especially the ones I don’t know and am not related to. (Not that there’s anything wrong with my friends and relatives, mind. Well, not that much wrong.) Thank you so much everyone for hanging out and commenting. Your comments are more than half the fun. Without you there wouldn’t be much point. Much appreciated.
Last year on this day I set out my goals for 2006:
I’m aiming to write two books (both of which I’ve already started) in 2006 and sell one (two would be nice, but I don’t want to jinx myself). I also plan to spend the majority of the year in Sydney, cause now that I’m home I just want to stay. And I really, really, really want to get tickets for the Sydney Ashes test. Ideally for every day of play.
How did that work out?
I finished one book: Magic’s Child, but it wasn’t one of the books I was talking about above. So I didn’t finish either of the books I aimed to. Though I got awfully close to finishing the first draft of the great Australian feminist monkey knife-fighting mangosteen cricket fairy young adult novel. (So close I can smell it! Oh the frustration!)
This year I have the same goal: to finish two novels. My odds ar
may you have many more years of freelance writing to come.
1st again 3 times in a row!
Go Ultimate Fairy Book!!
Fantastic news all around!
Yay! Shall buy you a drink tonight to celebrate. And Melanie is super-nice.
omfg that’s awesome. they have the BEST PUBLICIST in the WORLD, ms. deb shapiro. LOVE! YAY!
excited excited excited am i!
also you need to email me as soon as you know when you guys will be in SF so i can put you on the (rapidly filling) calendar!
Congratulations! If this were LJ, I’d leave you the flailing Kermit icon
Hearty congrats all around! Very excited that I get the chance to buy more Justine novels next year.
*squeal!*
*happy dance*
HURRAY! And congrats! That is awesome. I’m so excited about this book.
Woohoo! Bloomsbury. Very nice. Congo-rats!
Huzzah! Huzzah! huzzah!
Mazel tov!
(And sorry I didn’t get a chance to see you when we were both in NYC, but I’m flying off to Madrid this afternoon. Come to Madrid!)
Great news! To be fitted into the Fall 2008 schedule is way cool. And a sign of how strongly the company is behind you.
Congratulations! it sounds awesome! (though I have to say I love your not-titles better then the titles they end up with.)
justine: that’s fantastic!! i’m tingling with anticipation of your new book….the magic of madness trilogy is very happy-making. (sorry, just re-read the uglies trilogy too
)
(p.s. i posted my news on the “good news only” thread…..)
Oh how I do love Bloomsbury! I will be up front and center with my copy as soon as it comes out!!! Yea for you!
woo-hoo! Can’t wait to read it!
Yay for you!
Much love for all your books, can’t wait to read the next!
wonderful news! i love the title, too–i grew up on those andrew lang blue pink etc. fairy book so it definitely needed to be “the [adjective] fairy book” in my opinion…
A perfect match, Justine…congratulations! You’re gonna love it there.
Yay! That’s awesome news! And also congrats on the Norton, which I was hoping I’d be able to tell you in person at Wiscon. Alas, you were not there. Nonetheless, yay for you!
Congrats.
Hurrah! I can’t wait to read The Ultimate Fairy Book, which sounds absolutely fab.
Yahoo, Justine. That’s great news. Congrats
Yaaaaaaaaaayy!! *dorkflails*
That’s all sorts of good news! I can hardly wait for fall 2008!
you beauty! and I bet fall will come sooner than you think - one day i will get to nyc and we can have a bloomsbury knees-up!
yayyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!
Justine, are you signing a contract for a book you haven’t written yet? Nooo…you were my hero and role model when you said you were never doing that again.
Bloomsbury are lucky to have you, and it sounds like they know it too. Congratulations!
congrats justine! can’t wait to read it! yeah for the ultimate fairy book! is there a difference between fairies and faeries? in herbie brennan (who i love) and holly black’s (who i love more) books they spell it faerie.
Congratulations, Justine!
I DO believe in fairies!
I do!
I do!
ive never posted on this blog before but ive read all the magic or maddness books they rock(not to be rude but i read your books because i liked scotts so much and i loved them) im so exited a new book cant wait so extras then a year later the ultimate fairy book sweet:)
YAY!!!! I’m so HAPPY FOR YOU!!! This means more wonderful reading for me!! CONGRATS! (enough exclaimation points for ya?
)
Thanks, everyone! I’m in heaven.
There’ve been a bunch of quessies about the book. Will respond to ‘em tomorrow.
I am so thrilled that you are publishing a new book so I can read it! Joy!
And where would a bluestocking author go but Bloomsbury
That’s great news, and congratulations!
Garth
P.S. I’m with everyone who thinks the book should still be called THE GREAT AUSSIE CRICKET MANGOSTEEN MONKEY KNIFE-FIGHTING FAIRY YA NOVEL
Congratulaaaaaations, Justine!!! This year is really flying by fast, so September/October should be here in no time (which is really good for me because I can’t wait to read this book).
:]
Big w00ts for the great Aussie cricket mangosteen monkey knife fighting fairy YA novel! Yay yay yay!
isn’t that when the movie uglies comes out? have yall heard any news on that? j/w.. i guess i should ask scott that lol
Congratulations, Justine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m so, so, so thrilled for you — and for all of us who can’t wait to read them. And what a fabulous title you’ve chosen, too. Bravo!!!!!!!!!!
Love,
Terri
That’s great news!!! So excited for you.
Very exciting news, Justine! Congratulations!!! So, are ultimate fairies anything like extreme fairies? Heh. Heh.
yeah! bloomsbury books are awesome!
yay you! congrats!
penni, she’s written it. I’ve read it. Also, she blogs about having finished it here:
http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/?p=504
And rewriting it in many places.
dess, I think the difference is the spelling. Fairy, Faerie, Faery, Fae, Fey…it’s all the same etymology.
yay!!!! what wonderful news! congratulations and i so can’t wait to read it!
congrats, justine! can’t wait to read it!
Congratulations!!!
thank you diana for the clarification.
…don’t forget Susanna Clarke. More good company. Congrats again Justine (I should set that to a hotkey;)
Jenny D: i grew up on those andrew lang blue pink etc. fairy book so it definitely needed to be “the [adjective] fairy book” in my opinion…
Hah! I grew up on those too. And, you know, that didn’t even occur to me about the title. How dumb am I?
Will: don’t forget Susanna Clarke.
She writes for grownups. That totally doesn’t count!
wow, go you! that’s awesome!
i get lots of galleys from publishers but the ones from bloomsbury are always good. they have high standards so it’s no surprise at all that you’re now a bloomsbury girl. congrats!
[…] justine larbalestier has sold her next book which already has a title: the ultimate fairy book ! i’ve only read magic or madness, but i’m definitely going to read the next book. this announcement is all in lower-case in honor of justine, who doesn’t like capitals very much–at least, i assume that is why for a long long time, there were no capitals on her blog. […]