ABOUT
THE AUTHOR
I am doing a project on you/your books for school. Can you answer some questions for me?
I'm honoured, but I hope you understand that if I spend my days helping readers with their homework, I won't have time to write any more books! Fortunately, the answers you need aren't hard to find. For personal information, you can consult the Biography page on this website, as well as the links to various interviews I've done on the Essays page, and my microsite at HarperCollins. Or Google "R.J. Anderson +interview".
Yes, but none of those interviews tell me your birthdate, or how old you were when you wrote your first novel, or where you went to school...
I was born March 23rd, 1970. My first novel was written at 19, and it was terrible. I went to many different schools, all of which are listed in my LiveJournal UserInfo, and none of which are likely to impress your teacher. (Well, except maybe the Prydonian Academy, but that one's just a joke...)
ABOUT
THE BOOKS
Will there be a sequel to Ultraviolet?
Yes! The companion novel/sequel should be coming out early in 2013.
Will you be writing more faery books?
Yes! Swift is scheduled for UK publication in March 2012, with at least one sequel to follow. As for North America, the paperbacks of Spellhunter and Wayfarer will be coming out from HarperCollins in 2012 and 2013. However, there is no US/Canadian edition of Arrow available at present -- it can only be ordered as an import from the UK.
It says in the back of my copy of Arrow that Swift is the last book in the Knife series. Is that true?
That was an editorial oversight and will be fixed in future editions. Technically Arrow is the last book of the Knife trilogy, and Swift is the start of something a little new and different in the faery world -- though that doesn't mean we won't see some characters we know from the earlier books along the way...
Are Knife and Faery Rebels: Spell Hunter (2009) the same story?
Are Rebel and Wayfarer (2010) also the same?
In both cases, they are exactly the same book, just with a different title and cover. Only a few words of British usage/slang were changed for the North American edition.
So why do they have two different titles?
For the first book, Knife was my original title; but my US publisher felt it wasn't the right choice for marketing the book. So after much discussion we ended up with Faery Rebels: Spell Hunter instead.
With the second book, the reverse happened. Wayfarer was my original title, and this time my US publisher was happy to keep it; but my UK publisher preferred Rebel, so we went with that.
Will your books be published in any other countries/languages?
Rights for Spell Hunter have sold to Germany, Romania, Estonia, Turkey and Indonesia so far, for publication in 2011/2012.
More questions and answers coming soon!
I am doing a project on you/your books for school. Can you answer some questions for me?
I'm honoured, but I hope you understand that if I spend my days helping readers with their homework, I won't have time to write any more books! Fortunately, the answers you need aren't hard to find. For personal information, you can consult the Biography page on this website, as well as the links to various interviews I've done on the Essays page, and my microsite at HarperCollins. Or Google "R.J. Anderson +interview".
Yes, but none of those interviews tell me your birthdate, or how old you were when you wrote your first novel, or where you went to school...
I was born March 23rd, 1970. My first novel was written at 19, and it was terrible. I went to many different schools, all of which are listed in my LiveJournal UserInfo, and none of which are likely to impress your teacher. (Well, except maybe the Prydonian Academy, but that one's just a joke...)
Will there be a sequel to Ultraviolet?
Yes! The companion novel/sequel should be coming out early in 2013.
Will you be writing more faery books?
Yes! Swift is scheduled for UK publication in March 2012, with at least one sequel to follow. As for North America, the paperbacks of Spellhunter and Wayfarer will be coming out from HarperCollins in 2012 and 2013. However, there is no US/Canadian edition of Arrow available at present -- it can only be ordered as an import from the UK.
It says in the back of my copy of Arrow that Swift is the last book in the Knife series. Is that true?
That was an editorial oversight and will be fixed in future editions. Technically Arrow is the last book of the Knife trilogy, and Swift is the start of something a little new and different in the faery world -- though that doesn't mean we won't see some characters we know from the earlier books along the way...
Are Knife and Faery Rebels: Spell Hunter (2009) the same story?
Are Rebel and Wayfarer (2010) also the same?
In both cases, they are exactly the same book, just with a different title and cover. Only a few words of British usage/slang were changed for the North American edition.
So why do they have two different titles?
For the first book, Knife was my original title; but my US publisher felt it wasn't the right choice for marketing the book. So after much discussion we ended up with Faery Rebels: Spell Hunter instead.
With the second book, the reverse happened. Wayfarer was my original title, and this time my US publisher was happy to keep it; but my UK publisher preferred Rebel, so we went with that.
Will your books be published in any other countries/languages?
Rights for Spell Hunter have sold to Germany, Romania, Estonia, Turkey and Indonesia so far, for publication in 2011/2012.
More questions and answers coming soon!
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