Juliet Marillier's Blog, page 6

Juliet at Supanova Adelaide

Adelaide readers, I'm happy to advise that I will be a guest at the Adelaide Supanova on November 16-18 (signing on the Saturday and Sunday.) There should be copies of Flame of Sevenwaters available for purchase. Come and chat to me and have your books signed - I am always happy to sign your old dog-eared copies as well as your new ones.

Shadowfell review and author Q&A

Here's a great review of Shadowfell, followed by a new interview, on the blog The Hundred Book Project.

http://www.thehundredbookproject.blogspot.com.au/2012/07/book-41-shadowfell-by-juliet-marillier.html

Shadowfell Page

Click on the thistle icon to the left and you'll find a brand new Shadowfell page complete with cover art, an excerpt and a map!

Shadowfell released in Australia!

The Australian edition of Shadowfell, from Pan Macmillan, is officially released July 3. It should be available in all good bookstores. Australian and New Zealand readers should also be able to purchase this edition (or the e-book) online. I've seen a couple of great reviews already.

Shadowfell giveaway on Goodreads

The new giveaway is up! Because Goodreads would not recognise details of the Australian edition, I've had to make it the American edition which is not published until Sept 11. The good news is that it's a hardback, and there is a longer period for you to put your name down.

Details here:
http://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

Shadowfell Page up on my website

Hi all,

Here's a link to the brand new Shadowfell page! You'll find cover art, a Shadowfell map and an excerpt from Chapter One. Only just over a month until the Australian edition is released in early July - US readers will have to wait until September 11, sorry.

I'm planning a giveaway here on Goodreads - just waiting until I have some copies!

Juliet xx

http://www.julietmarillier.com/books/...

Interview on Raiding Bookshelves blog and giveaway

Here's an extended new interview:

http://raidingbookshelves.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/author-interview-juliet-marillier.html

A review of Shadowfell (without spoilers) will follow soon on the same blog, with a giveaway.

Publication dates for 2012

A reminder for those people who keep asking me when the new books are coming out:

 

Shadowfell (first book in a crossover series for young adults / adults):

Australia: first week of July, Pan Macmillan

USA: September 11, Knopf

 

Flame of Sevenwaters (book six in the Sevenwaters series)

Australia: November, Pan Macmillan

USA: November, Roc (Penguin)

 

Both Shadowfell and Flame of Sevenwaters are available for pre-order from bricks-and-mortar and online booksellers.

 

The three Shadowfell novels will be published at one year intervals.

 

Both Flame of Sevenwaters and the Shadowfell novels will also be published by Planeta (Portugal) and Luitingh-Sijthoff (the Netherlands.) I have no dates for these editions as yet.

Progress Report April 2012

The deadline looms ... I'm working long hours to get the second book in the Shadowfell series, working title Raven Flight, up to a satisfactory standard by the end of April. I've kept a record of progress for this book, which I started in November 2011 during NaNoWriMo, so I know exactly how many words I've written per day since Nov 1 and the reasons why some times were more productive than others. February was given over to dealing with the structural edit for Flame of Sevenwaters, my adult novel due for publication in November, so Raven Flight was set aside for that month. I also had a week off to travel to New Zealand. I ended up cutting at least half of what I wrote during NaNoWriMo.

As of today's 2300 words, Raven Flight stands at just under 12 chapters and 91050 words. It's not finished yet - I have at least two chapters to go. And, of course,those final chapters require a lot of concentration, since everything must fall into place perfectly.

I won't be submitting this as a first draft. My working method means that the earlier parts of the manuscript have already been revised a few times. But it's highly unusual for me to be so close to the deadline with the thing not finished, so I am likely to be even more antisocial than usual until I have a complete and reasonably polished manuscript to send to my editors. Did I mention I still have the copy edit of Flame of Sevenwaters to check?

Am I happy with this story? Yes. I love the two young women at the centre of this particular book, their strengths and weaknesses, their prickly friendship. The world they live in, an imaginary version of ancient Scotland, is not unlike any place in today's world where a repressive government denies its citizens their basic liberties, and where ordinary people must find the courage to stand up and be counted, no matter what it costs them.

Apologies to Goodreads fans - until recently my posts to my Facebook Fan Page (http://www.facebook.com/juliet.marillier)
and website news page (http://www.julietmarillier.com) were automatically transferred across to this author page, but that hasn't been happening recently. Anyway, this is the most recent and I'll keep copying them across.

Progress Report April 2012

The deadline looms ... I'm working long hours to get the second book in the Shadowfell series, working title Raven Flight, up to