Ask the Author: Cecily Anne Paterson
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Cecily Anne Paterson
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She went to the library. There were no books.
Cecily Anne Paterson
Hi Scott,
If Invisible sells well and earns enough to pay my lovely narrator for a second book, then yes, for sure. Otherwise... ): We shall see!
Cecily
If Invisible sells well and earns enough to pay my lovely narrator for a second book, then yes, for sure. Otherwise... ): We shall see!
Cecily
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Anne Eliot and Captain Wentworth from Jane Austen's Persuasion. They're both older, wiser and have suffered. They are going to have an incredibly happy, grateful life together once they get married.
Cecily Anne Paterson
Totally! Coming soon!
Cecily Anne Paterson
Hi Brooklee, thanks for your question and I'm glad you loved the book. I enjoyed writing it so much. Yes, there will be a second book. I will be starting to write it in a few weeks and it should be out hopefully by January next year. Do you have any ideas for what you think should happen?
Cecily Anne Paterson
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(view spoiler)[It started very unromantically. I wanted to write a novel and I needed a plot. I found it easier to start a story based on a real person so when I heard my friend describe her daughter as being very shy, but coming to life onstage, I thought, "That's the main story right there." Then I needed some bad things to happen to her, and some reason for her to not know how her father died, so she became deaf. The rest grew from there. In Invincible, I thought, "what more can possibly happen to her? She's on top of the world now" but then I realised you can't stay at the top of the mountain all your life. You have come down sometime, and what you do when everything goes bad is pretty important in someone's life. Also, I figured she had to do a bit more relating to her other family members, hence Grandma. (hide spoiler)]
Cecily Anne Paterson
The sequel to Invisible! Yes, Jazmine is coming back, along with Liam, Gabby, some new characters and a few surprises. Due out in November.
Cecily Anne Paterson
Seriously, don't do it. It's a hassle and nobody pays you unless you strike it super lucky or your name is JK Rowling. If you really *can't* not do it, then learn everything you can, start a blog to practice your voice and develop a very, very thick skin because all kinds of people will say all kinds of useful-hard and unkind-hard things about your work. And your feelings will probably get hurt.
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