The late author Kurt Vonnegut once offered this wisdom: "We have to be continually jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down."
I chuckled reading this today, because it's exactly how I spent the better part of 2023 and 2024 writing (and struggling to write) Every Thread of Light. With a heavy heart, with all these doubts, flickering and festering. Would the Whispers of Dust and Darkness series ever find its dark fantasy readers? Was I writing this villain-wants-the-girl fantasy romance bravely enough? Was it too dark for readers of Every Dark Shadow? And how many times could I rewrite the opening chapters of this sequel before it felt right?
About 6 months after jumping off cliffs, bruising my backside and picking up yoga again, I did find my wings. I found them in the long nights, the stolen hours, the chaotic margins, the hundreds of voice notes and Post-Its, the desperate Marco Polos to my writing group, the needed hugs from my husband and son, and in that eager, well-meaning question from friends and family that, okay, sometimes made me cringe: How is the next book coming?
I found...my wings.
ETOL will be the fifth book I've ever written, the third to be published. So far, it's my favorite thing. The world is established, but expands into new (and some mysterious) territories. And if book one was about discovering who you are, book 2 is about deciding who you'll become: someone who clings to the trees to avoid the cliffs? Or someone who takes the running leap?
I hope you'll trust where this series is going. I hope, like Ophelia, you'll take my hand and leap with me.
XO,
Sarah
P.S. Looking for ways to support the series?
Read Every Dark Shadow on Kindle Unlimited and preorder Every Thread of Light.
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