6/22/2023 0 Comments Gina chen books![]() ![]() ![]() It’s been an age! A whole era, creatively and otherwise. Read moreįoreshadow: Stories to Celebrate the Magic of Reading and Writing YA comes out October 20, nearly three years after I first wrote the short story “Fools” inside this anthology. The thing I’d been working forever toward-it’s here. The thing that I could have never prepared for is, after the deal settled in, I felt the next years of my life hurtle at me. ![]() ![]() It was truly to my utter relief that she adored my manuscript, too, and we were both so excited to finally yell at each other (“You were watching me? I was watching you?”). Hannah and I have been not-subtly circling each other ever since she read my short story “Fools” in Foreshadow. This book couldn’t be in better hands from my agent to my now-editor Hannah and the team at Delacorte. There were more fun details in the call and subsequent calls and emails that flew around, and this all happened very fast. I leapt out of bed! Crashed into the bathroom to brush my teeth! Fumbled for my phone! Then a week later I get an email from Elana mentioning “fun news”-two hours after she sent it because I am a west coast timezone straggler. My agent Elana sent emails out to editors and I descended into literal hell by playing Hades (I’ve since gotten the true epilogue, by the way). I went into sub(mission hell) with a glorious mix of high hopes and low expectations, which was the only practical way I could process things: want for everything, expect nothing. ![]()
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