It is definitely going to take place in that space between Magyk and Flyte, the rest I shall put into the pot and see what works. It has been brilliant to get all that feedback.

On May 1 I emailed the revised FYRE off to Katherine, my editor, and now it has gone into copy edit and will come back to me in a few weeks with lots of different coloured comments all over it. This is where it gets put into US English. So we are nearly there. And the cover looks great too. You will see it here first, when it is all done.

Now, I am actually going to take this weekend off and spend monday wandering around our village street fair. Where’s the sun gone????

So … I do have a really good idea, but I would also be really interested to hear what you would like too. It will be 7 chapters long (of course) so it will be short but sweet. Or short but scary.

Post any ideas and requests here! Or Tweet me on @AngieSageAuthor. I think this is going to be fun!

Today … I’m checking through Chapter 40, which is looking fine, not much to change on this one. Hooray! 

Just finished answering all you really interesting posts – sorry it has taken forever. When I get towards the end of a book I just have to go away and think about nothing else at all… But now Fyre is nearly done. I shall be sending my revised manuscript to Katherine for May 1st and then it will go into copy edit. This is where all the little glitches get fixed – and where my British English gets translated to US English!

Shauki is gearing up for a new ask Angie page – AA 5! as AA 4 has got really long. Letters from Angie will be changing to AngiesBlog too. And we are now linked to the FaceBook page: http://www.facebook.com/septimusheapbooks

Yay!

Well, I am now halfway through the edit of FYRE – hooray! Which is why I have not been here for a while. Writing Septimus does that sometimes, I  just disappear into the world and find it hard to get out of it again.

But I am nearly through with all the really hard stuff, just a few little puzzles still to sort out and then all is done. Now it’s Mark’s turn to get going on the illustrations. That’s the best bit for me – seeing all the brilliant drawings coming in.

Okay – I’m off now to answer some questions – and apologies to all you who have been patiently waiting – or even impatiently…

Angie

I’ve spent days and days on editing FYRE—and I’ve been having a great time. It’s a fantastic finale to the Septimus Heap series! Here’s a hard copy of the manuscript with all of my post-its. I always work on a print-out of a manuscript, because that’s how I’ve done it for so many years. The post-its are places where I need to go back and see if my comment still makes sense, once I’ve read the entire manuscript, or to see if a thread was woven back into the story later on. Look for FYRE in Winter 2013.

NOTE: Winter 2013 means January of February 2013!

Back again, at last… Fyre took everything over for the last few months, but I sent it to my lovely editor, Katherine, two days ago and am waiting to hear what she thinks! Then I will have another look at it in a few weeks, when I have had a little bit of space to sort things out in my head.

So, I will be back answering questions next week – but before then I am off to the Lit Fest inCologne! I will be there this Sunday, 18th March at 3pm in the Commedia Theatre, talking about Darke. I will be reading in English and with David Fermer reading in German. www.litcologne.de

back soon!

Angie