But the people who like NEVERNIGHT don’t just like it. That weird little bookthing paid for a shitload of bourbon. I’ve never got reactions on any other series like the reactions I get to NEVERNIGHT. And this is the real thing, the most important thing in all this – truth is, I didn’t want to rush this book. I wrote my editors and told them DD wouldn’t be ready til May. And I had a three week OBSIDIO tour in March (thanks to everyone who came out to see us, you were amazing!). So at the end of Feb when I got back from Italy, I still had around 70-80k words to write. Thing is, DD is gonna be a 180-190k book. I’ll owe the people and city Venice a debt forever.

Wandering those streets and walking alongside those canals and breathing that air, I discovered the book DARKDAWN would become. Those of you who follow me on instagram know I went to Venice for a month in February and smashed about 90,000 words. So, my plan was to deliver the first draft of DARKDAWN to my publishers in April 2018.

The tricky part of this kind of schedule is that after a book is written, there’s still a whole bunch of work that gets done behind the scenes before it’s published – editing, proofing, designing, marketing, shipping and so on. This has been cool, in the sense that some reactions from readers have influenced certain parts of the story, and made the book and Mia better. DARKDAWN was only about 17,000 words long when GODSGRAVE hit shelves (the final book will be about 180k). But I was still writing GODSGRAVE when NEVERNIGHT came out. We handed in GEMINA well before ILLUMINAE was published, same with OBSIDIO and GEMINA. I usually do my homework wayyyyy ahead of time – I handed in the second LIFEL1K3 book months ago, for example. Writing the Nevernight Chronicles has been a slightly different experience to writing my other series, in the sense that I’ve been writing the next book after the previous book has hit shelves.

And I know a lot of you were really fucking looking forward to getting it this year and yes, this sucks. So, the bad news: The release date for DARKDAWN has been pushed to September 2019. Now that my post-apocalyptic baby is out in the world, I can turn attentions back to my more murderous child. And apologies I haven’t made an announcement sooner, but I was tied up on the LIFEL1K3 release schedule and tour. Some of you have noticed some confusion about the release date for DARKDAWN in the last couple of weeks – Amazon says one thing, Goodreads says another, and so on.įolks have asked me about this on twitter.

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