A bite!

Happy new year! I’m happy to announce that Thinklings Books has offered me a contract for my first published novel, Skate the Thief, the first book of the Rag and Bone Chronicles. We’re on a tentative schedule to get the book published by early June of this year. So exciting!

I’ll post more publication news here as I get it. My first step now is … waiting. The editor at the company is scouring my manuscript for imperfections, of which I’m sure there are more than a few. I can hardly believe this is happening, to be honest. I mean, I think my book is pretty good, but I didn’t know if anyone else would be interested in trying to sell it. So, after years of false starts and disappointments, I’m going to be published!

I’ve noticed that the nervous energy isn’t getting in the way anymore. It’s still there, but since I signed the contract, it hasn’t stopped me from writing on “Rainbow” anymore. I would start working on book 2 of the Rag and Bone Chronicles, but I’m not sure what we’ll need to change in book 1 first. With that in mind, I’ll turn toward “Rainbow” in the meantime. Then, it will be several rounds of editing and proofreading for Skate, and then promotions will start. Stay tuned for more updates!

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-J. E. Ayers