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🚨 EXCITING NEWS! 🚨 Ever since I announced the publication of TORCH, the long-awaited final book in the trilogy that began with SWIFT and NOMAD, readers have been asking me if TORCH would ever be available as an audiobook. Today I can finally announce that the answer is ✨YES ✨! Thanks to my hard-working publisher @EnclavePublishing and their partnership with @Oasis_Audio, I’m delighted to say that not only will TORCH be coming in audio format, but ALL my previous books with Enclave (KNIFE, REBEL, ARROW, SWIFT and NOMAD) — plus many more great fantasy and SF titles too. I’m thrilled that Oasis Audio has picked up the #NoOrdinaryFairyTale and #FlightandFlameTrilogy books, and I look forward to hearing the finished products. Stay tuned for release dates and buy links — I don’t have that info yet, but I’ll share more details as soon as I can! . . . #swift #swiftbook #nomad #nomadbook #torch #torchbook #speculativefiction #audiobookstagram #audiobook #rjandersonwriter #rjanderson #faerie #fae #fairybooks #faeriebooks #fantasybooks #piskey #cornishpiskies #cornishpisky #cornishfolklore #spriggan #yafantasy #fantasybooklover #fantasyforlife #christianfantasy #IreadYA https://www.instagram.com/p/CULUEY5rT-Z/?utm_medium=tumblr

Do you enjoy reading non-fiction books? Or would you rather just lose yourself in a story? . Some people think fantasy authors don’t have to do research because they can just make everything up, but those people usually don’t know much about writing or fantasy. All the best authors I know do lots of research to make their worlds feel rich and well-grounded, and bring in those little concrete details (what Tim Clare calls “crunchy specificity” - isn’t that a delightful phrase?) that can make all the difference between a setting that pulls the reader in and one that seems shallow and evanescent. . So even though the Flight and Flame trilogy is set in present-day Cornwall rather than some imaginary fantasy kingdom, and even though I wanted to put some original twists on the local folklore rather than simply retelling it, I read a lot of folk tales, books and articles about Cornwall during the writing process to make sure my flights of fancy had a solid foundation. Here are three of the most important ones I used for reference — the one on the right is a very specific walking guide to a pretty small area, which just goes to show there’s a book about practically everything if you know where to look for it! . All that being said, I admit to not really loving research. I do it because I feel it’s the right and responsible thing as an author, but I’d much rather read a historical novel than an actual book of history any day! What about you? . . . #writersofinstagram #writingfantasy #research #researching #swift #swiftbook #nomad #nomadbook #torch #torchbook #flightandflametrilogy #enclavepublishing #speculativefiction #fairies #fairy #faery #fae #fairybook #fairybooks #faeriebooks #faeriebook #piskey #pisky #pixie #piskie #cornishpiskies #cornishpisky #cornishfolklore #cornishmining #spriggan https://www.instagram.com/p/CDKZG8BgvG9/?igshid=xijgacvgyap0

Here’s my calendar for February 2020, showing the last few weeks of revisions on Flight & Flame Book 3. 🔥 ✨ 💎 Every sticker represents a day where I revised/rewrote at least 1000 words: the bigger stickers are for 1500, the biggest for 2000 or more. Word counts in bottom right corner. Last few days are LE = Line Edits on the last read-through before I sent the ms to my editor. 🔥 ✨ 💎 Never underestimate the motivational power of pretty stickers. Especially if you’re a slow and compulsively self-editing writer like me. #writing #writingtips #revising #revision #authorlife #flightandflametrilogy #enclavepublishing #torch #torchbook https://www.instagram.com/p/B9LUHOAJAVu/?igshid=1wgk9m8hpkvnk