Drumroll please…
I can finally announce that The Cartographer’s Daughter will be published by Chicken House Books in the UK, and Knopf (Random House) in the US! These are two of my favourite publishers, and I am over-the-moon to be joining lists that include Philip Pullman, Christopher Paolini, Melvin Burgess and Cornelia Funke.
I’m so excited that it will soon have readers who don’t have an emotional obligation to like it! And I have to say a big thank you to my agents Hellie Ogden and Kirby Kim at Janklow and Nesbit, they are on a whole new level of amazing.
It really has been an incredible journey up to this point. It’s strange to think that I sat down to write the first chapter only fifteen months ago (April 1st 2013 – my friends thought it was an April Fool). I can’t wait to start the next stage – working with legendary editors and really challenging myself to make it the best novel it can be. Here goes…