Ling is in the hold of Rafe Mfeme’s giant trawler, on her way to a prison camp. While she works on sabotaging her enemy and enlisting allies for battle, her friends face challenges of their own. Once a lost and confused princess, Serafina is now a confident leader of the Black Fin Resistance (BFR). I’ll soon be working on revisions to SEA SPELL, the fourth and final Waterfire Saga book, and then it’s on to a new, top-secret project! I can’t wait! No one can ever guarantee that you will get published, but one person can guarantee that you won’t - you. Keep going, keep faith in yourself and your work, and never, ever give up. The world is full of people who are more than happy to tell you No.
Was there an AHA! moment along your road to publication where something suddenly sank in and you felt you had the key to writing a novel? What was it?ĭon’t give up. DARK TIDE is my ninth novel, and I’m very fortunate in that all the books I’ve written have been published.
I worked for ten years on my first novel, and when it was finally done, it was rejected by pretty much every publishing house in New York! It eventually did sell, I’m happy to say, thanks to my agent Simon Lipskar at Writers House, who never gave up on the book. How long or hard was your road to publication? How many books did you write before this one, and how many never got published? Do that, and then fuss - because you have to make the story, before you can make the story good. I’ve learned to push hard to get the first draft done - and to keep going no matter what, even if parts of the story are messy, incomplete, or downright lame. To meet my deadlines, I’ve had to change the way I write and stop fussing endlessly about every word, sentence, and paragraph… in the first draft. Jennifer, what did this book teach you about writing or about yourself?ĭARK TIDE, and all the Waterfire books, are on a much faster publishing schedule than I’ve ever dealt with.
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