Editing seems to be a never-ending
task, but it has to end sometime, or I'll never write anything new. When The Queen’s Blade was selected as ‘Book of the Week’ by Apple iBookstore at the end of March,
I decided to go through it again and try to improve it further, since its
popularity has grown so much. Of course, I found plenty to fix, and tried to
make it more concise, editing out some overly flowery prose that bugged me, and
some repetition, too. My trusty editor also went through the books, and found
plenty of typos and mistakes. So, those are all re-edited and uploaded again,
and then I had to do the other series. I’m currently working on Demon Lord, and
still have the last two books of The Broken World to do. Then I’m finished at
last, and this is definitely the final edit, which is why it’s also the most
thorough and, I hope, will eliminate 99% of the errors.
After this, I’m going to write some
new books. I almost continued Slave Empire, but then I edited Demon Lord and
got sucked into that, so I’ll probably continue that one next instead. I find
that whichever series I read gains me a ‘hook’ into that particular channel. To
all those readers who ask whether or not I’ll be continuing a series, the
answer is a resounding yes, most definitely; all of them. It’s so encouraging that
readers want more of all the series, and the emails I receive are amazing!
Thank you to everyone who’s written to me, and keep them coming! I always
reply.
Many people have expressed a wish
for The Queen’s Blade to be made into a series of films or a TV series, and I
echo it. If there are any producers or directors out there who are looking for
a fantasy series to make into a series of films, I hope they contact me. I
would love to see the story brought to life, and solve the riddle of who would play
the role of Blade, which will be hard to do well; a challenge for any actor.
