Over at Chuck Wendig's #terribleminds recently, I shared Questionable Answers' tips on How to Build a Monster.

Kicking it Tumblrwards in time for Halloween...

http://terribleminds.com/ramble/2017/09/26/fran-wilde-how-to-build-a-monster/. @torbooks @tordotcom

Life in the sky means always looking upwards, always being ready to take flight; the greatest danger is falling, the greatest fear being weighted down.  But as Nat and Kirit discover, always moving up can also mean leaving things behind.  Life in the City is ruled by tradition, with everyone following the Laws for the betterment of the City.  But now the Spire is cracked, the Singers cast down, and the lore that they carefully guarded for generations is at risk of being forgotten in the name of progress.

In Cloudbound, Wilde builds upon the culture and history she only hinted at in Updraft.  Before, Kirit and Nat were revolutionaries, bent on revealing a horrible secret.  Now they must try to put the City back together after cracking open the Spire to reveal all the horrors it has held to itself, in the name of law and order.  But they are finding that heroes can be forgotten, when those seeking power come up with another truth that fits, or when the truths those heroes had to tell become inconvenient.

Cloudbound takes all the wonder of new and strange worlds expressed in Golden Age science fiction and breathes new life into it with a story of love, friendship, and community.  Living bone towers climb through sky meadows, stretch their way through the clouds themselves, illuminated in the foggy darkness by bioluminescent creatures.  But instead of Earth explorers coming to a new planet, the people of the City have their own story of exploration, revolution, and discovery.