Ask the Author: Jaclyn Dolamore
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Jaclyn Dolamore
Thank you so much! That means a lot to me. I really hope so. Unfortunately I had to put my beloved Hidden Lands on hiatus to work on more profitable projects. I still think about it all the time, as I have a whole detailed plan worked out for more books and those characters are my heart, and I hope to return to them. But for the foreseeable future I had to focus on more straight up commercial work. I doubt it will be the end of it, it just might be a while. I feel fortunate that I was able to take any time to work on it at all!
Jaclyn Dolamore
Man, I don't know know why I never get alerts when people ask questions. I'm sorry this is so late! As for The Stolen Heart, I actually have over half of a sequel done, but...when I published The Vengeful Half, I was still in a YA traditional publishing mindset, and I did everything wrong for the self-publishing market, and that book REALLY didn't sell any copies. Meanwhile, my first adult fantasy, The Sorcerer's Concubine sold quite well and I've started picking up loyal readers. Originally, like ten years ago, Alfred and Olivia's story was ALSO an adult novel and I jumped through all these hoops to make it a YA novel. So, I'm actually reworking the whole story as an adult series. It's packaged as adult urban fantasy but really it's...kind of a weird genre mish mash like the YA ones were and a lot of stuff is the same, but I've changed some things back to the original story more.
Omigosh this is a long answer. But...anyway. I am super apologetic to the people who read the original YA version. But the series will be re-released starting in June as Fortune's Curse, Stolen Heart will be re-released with some new title or other probably November, and I should be getting to book 3 by early next year. There might even be a book 4 depending on how it's going. And at that point the whole story will be like I originally intended it to be and I'm never touching it again!!
Omigosh this is a long answer. But...anyway. I am super apologetic to the people who read the original YA version. But the series will be re-released starting in June as Fortune's Curse, Stolen Heart will be re-released with some new title or other probably November, and I should be getting to book 3 by early next year. There might even be a book 4 depending on how it's going. And at that point the whole story will be like I originally intended it to be and I'm never touching it again!!
Jaclyn Dolamore
Yes, Magic Under Glass is done and I doubt I will ever return to those characters. There is a musical that was performed this past summer and may be performed again, so the characters live on that way, I suppose!
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