Since November 2009Book News: Ralph's Party Sequel by Lisa Jewell
June 13th, 2009 by LeahLisa Jewell has posted on her blog that she has finished the first draft of the Ralph’s Party sequel. She says she will be spending all of this month editing it and whipping it into shape:
I’m a bit previous this month as it’s actually still May but given that I will be spending all of June whipping my ginormous, oversized, 500 page Ralph’s Party sequel into shape, I thought I should get going on this while things are still relatively calm. I finally delivered the monster book on May 15th. Delivery is a weird thing, half joyous relief, half cold, slow dread, with a soupcon of anti-climax, so it’s always a good idea to fill the days immediately afterwards with lots of nice things to take your mind off it – and possibly lots of alcohol too. Towards the end of the book I was writing into the night, up to six thousand words a day. It’s a crazy, slightly surreal time and thank God it only happens once a year! Anyway, my editor has now got back to me and suggested that I give it a thoroughly good trimming (which I knew she would, it is stupidly long) and that I needed to do a lot of work on making one of the characters more sympathetic (which I hadn’t expected, but I can totally see her point) so a lot of work to do, but for today the sun is shining and I am in denial, catching up with myself and dreaming about an afternoon in the garden with my girls!
No date for release but I would assume it might be out in 2010. It will also be interesting to hear what the title will be… I enjoyed Ralph’s Party so will have to give it another read!
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