I was thoroughly delighted by @tombstone_crepsley_cosplay’s new post today, because it was perfect timing — today’s entry in #mybookalphabet is K is for Knife! . Knife is a character that I sketched when I was 16, years before I ever wrote a word about her. But as soon as I’d drawn this a fierce-looking, dagger-wielding young woman with white hair and dragonfly wings, I knew she had a story and I was going to tell it someday. It took me six more years of pondering to figure out exactly what that story would be, and another fifteen of off-and-on revising and resubmitting — including two total rewrites — before the book was good enough to attract the attention of an agent and publisher. But thanks to some wonderful early encouragement and feedback from Claire Eddy at Tor Books, I never stopped believing that *someone* in publishing would want to hear Knife’s story if I could just figure out how to tell it right. . As those of you who’ve read the whole #noordinaryfairytale aka #faeryrebels series know, Knife goes through a lot of dramatic experiences and equally dramatic changes over the course of the books. But she’s still one of my favorite characters to write, at any age and in any setting. She makes a couple of cameo appearances in the #flightandflametrilogy, and I’m working on a short story that involves her right now — though at a different time of her life and through very different eyes than we’ve ever seen her before… . . . . #rjandersonwriter #enclaveescape #enclavepublishing #noordinaryfairytale #speculativefiction #christianfantasy #fairybooks #fairybook #fairiesofinstagram #booksaremagic #bibliophile #igreads #instaread #lovetoread #booksarelife #bookaddicts #whattoreadnext #readallday #bookworms #booksofinstagram #bookaholic #booknerd #yareads #yafantasy #fantasybooks #fantasybookseries https://www.instagram.com/p/B_-7FyegdK8/?igshid=19ygg1kszx1jl
