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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mouseferatu" data-source="post: 5241965" data-attributes="member: 1288">Ask me again when I've actually had time for my fiction to either build a fan base or fail miserably, and I'll let you know. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Actually, Household Gods is the YA book in question. I actually hadn't set out to write a YA book; it's just that my agent took one look at the book and said, "This is basically already a YA novel. Why not do a few tiny rewrites and make it such officially?" And since it was too short for most publishers to print as a "standard" fantasy, it seemed the way to go. (I do believe, despite being targeted as YA, that my adult readers should enjoy it just as much.)It's a fantasy novel, set in an urban Renaissance setting rather than the more traditional medieval one. And it has a main character who, although she's a thief, is more or less an actual good guy--which will come as an enormous shock to people who have read all my other novels that will have been published by then, and will understandably assume that I'm only capable of writing about bastards. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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