Jessica Day George

Thursday, September 25, 2014

SUPER SECRET ROMANIA PROJECT

Remember AGES and AGES ago when I went to Romania? Remember when we had that fun contest where you guessed where Shardas was? And he was in Bucharest and Sigisoara (can't spell that) and Sinaia? That was awesome, right? Then remember how I didn't talk about it for a looong time?

Well, guess what? I'm going to start talking about it again!

See, I came home from Romania in spring of 2010 and I really did write a book, using my travels as research. But then . . . I sort of sat on that book for a while . . . and that 'while' became four years. Because Super Secret Romania Project was so different from anything else I'd done, my editor and I kept pushing it aside. First because I wanted to finish my Twelve Dancing Princesses story arc, and get rid of the King Under Stone once and for all. Then there was a Castle, and that Castle needed some griffins. And then one day I was talking to my new editor about some story ideas and what to write next, and I said, "Or we could dust off SILVER IN THE BLOOD, ha ha!" and she said, "What's that?" And I found out that I had been sitting on that manuscript for so long that my trip to Romania had fallen into myth at my publisher, and people didn't even know if I'd managed to write a book about it or not.

But I did!  A book that I, personally, love so much that I'm about to wax biblical:

For thus the manuscript was duly brought out of hiding, and dusted off, and inspected from all angles, and lo, it was as good as I remembered. And my editor and I did work upon it, and we did love ye story.  But behold, it was very different from all previous books. And my editor said, "We should do something totally different with this cover."  And I did say, "Oooh, yeah."

And a choir of angels sang....


And thus we see this cover of this Advanced Reader Copy. Which I will soon be giving away, once I can think more clearly thereon. And the book may be procured July 7th, 2015, and is for Young Adults, and those who are Young Adults At Heart.

And furthermore: Check out the EVENTS page here on ye websyte, for there are book tour dates for THURSDAYS WITH YE CROWNE.

9 comments:

Unknown said...

How exciting. The cover looks intriguing. July 2015 seems so far away, luckily Thursday is coming soon. Can't wait.

CaRiiToO said...

Romania + Interesting cover + Jessica Day George = I want to read this book so bad!

Mindy Holt said...

Or, you can just give the ARC to me. Saving us all time :)

Anonymous said...

Oh my goodness!!! It looks so awesome!!! July needs to hurry up and get here!

Lars said...

Woohoo! I have actually wondered whatever happened with that super, secret, Romania trip.

Unknown said...

It comes out the day before my birthday!

Erica Eliza said...

ARCs are for the weak. When she says "You don't get it until July 2015" what she means is "You don't get it until July 2015 unless you team up and storm the underground fortress beneath my home where I hoard my books." Alright guys, we can do this. Prepare for laser trip wires and security griffins.

Kristina said...

Love the look of this cover and cannot wait to read it.

Anonymous said...

Blood in the Silver
Duh-Duh-Duhhhhh! (creepy music)
Love it!
Do you think this one is going to be fairy tale based?