Lexical Gap: Special Announcement

Introducing Guardians of Dawn

introducing...guardians of dawn! (AKA secret project)

Guys, I'm so, so, so thrilled to finally be able to announce my next series! As it often happens with publishing, you get a piece of good news and then have to sit on it for a bit while everyone gets all their ducks in a row. I've actually been sitting on this for a few months; I actually floated the idea by my editor in the spring then gave the proposal to her earlier this summer. I'll admit that I was a little nervous about what she would think: it's not quite the romantic gothic fantasy of Wintersong or Shadowsong, but it was definitely an idea that is kind of near and dear to my heart.

If I wrote my first two books for the moody goth kid I had been, then Guardians of Dawn was written for the same teenage girl who also fell in love with anime and K-dramas. A lot of my ideas come from a mood or an image, and I told my editor that I wanted to write something that made me feel the way I did when I watched Sailor Moon or The Vision o…