5 November 2018
Signing with a publishing house is undoubtedly a very exciting experience, but it can also come with a side of confusion, especially for debut authors. It can be hard to let your work go, because you've worked on it so hard and up until now, you've been in control (perhaps with your agent too). I wanted to explain some of the decisions publishers might make for your book, and why.
'What happened after the end of that novel'
‘Before the actual placing of words on pages, The Testaments was written partly in the minds of the readers of its predecessor, The Handmaid's Tale, who kept asking what happened after the end of that novel. Thirty-five years is a long time to think about possible answers, and the answers have changed as society itself has changed and as possibilities have become actualities. Read more