Hello there. This morning I received an email from Harper Collins the Publishers, with the final cover art and wording for The Enchanted Quest.
I’ve added the wording on the cover to the page now - to give you a glimpse of what is to come. I’ll also be posting sneak-peek chapters in a while - one in October, I think - and one in December, to lead up to publication in February 2010.
And before anyone asks - no, I’m not going to tell you if everything works out fine for Tania and Edric, nor am I going to tell you whether Rathina gets together with Connor, or whether Aldritch chokes to death on a sardine sandwich, as I’m sure several of you would like!
Oh, and by the way - I’ve added a few more pictures to the Gallery in Marisa’s Fan Club site - and I’ll be adding more later.
And in case any of you think I’m slacking, I can tell you I’m over half way through The Faerie Path book 6 - and I’m quite pleased with it so far!
what r you going to call the 6th book?
Mr. Jones, so far which book is your favorite that you’ve written from the Faerie Path Series (Including the 5th and 6th one)? Mine is the 4th one because to me there is a lot of drama.
I LOVE DRAMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
wat r u going to call the sixth book?
i just cheaked out the pics they r so cool your cat is soooo cute i love cats!
AFJ. The Publishers really like “The Charmed Return” - so I’ll probably go with that.
My favourite book? That’s tricky. Book four has some stuff in it that I really like - and so does book five…oh…and so does book six!
Uhh…can I just day I like books four five and six best at the moment…?
I can’t wait for them to get published so I can find out what you guys think of them.
I’ve told my cat she’s an international star now. She’s being very laid back about it but I can tell she’s pleased.
thats cool i have three cats i want a forth but my mom said no! can you at lest tell us what the 5th and 6th book are about but with out giving any thing away i need to know!
You mean your cat, Oberon?
Awww… Kitty love! Haha. You’re mean. Teasing us with wonderful images of Aldriech choking on stinky fish.
AFJ. I meant Siouxsie - now her picture is on the Internet.
AFJ. Book five concerns the quest that Tania, Rathina and Connor go on to find the Divine Harper. Book six is all about what happens afterwards. I can’t tell you any more about book six right now, because it all comes from something very specific that happens at the end of book five - and if I tell you what happens afterwards, it’ll kind of give the game away about the end of book five. And I want it to be a surprise.
ug i hate suprises! im a very impatient peson!:) evry night i go to sleep i drem about what is going to happen! its different every night last night it was really weird i dreamed that tania and conner get together because edric is exciled by Aldriech because he tried to run away to tania. but Aldrich had told her that he was exciled because he commited murder! it was strange and i woke up screaming! my mom thought someone was attacking me!:)
Awww….. cute kitty. yeah I loved the mental pic of lord aldritch choking on a sandwich!
who wouldnt!
exactly
Mr. Jones, with the whole “I’m very happy with the sixth book” thing
Are you trying to KILL me????
AFJ. No, I really don’t want to kill my fans - shall I keep quiet about how book 6 is going?
NO i need to keep hearing that your still making it other wise i will die! its already killing me that i have 2 things to look forard to in oct. my b day and an excert from the new book! its the best b day present i could get!
Is there going to be a map in the Enchanted Quest book like there was in the Sorcerer King? Just wondering
Mr. Jones I just have one question that i don’t think would give anything away, do Tania and Connor grow closer while Tania and Edric grow farther apart? would that give away anything
AFJ. Okay, two questions. Question 1. No, Shannon, I’m afraid there’s no map for The Enchanted Quest - I just didn’t have time to draw one - but maybe I will have time later this year, and I’ll post it online - what do you think? Oh - you guys did know I drew the map, didn’t you?
Question 2 - what can I tell you without giving stuff away? Okay try this riddle: - it seems that person 1 clearly has it bad for person 2 - but person 2 doesn’t know if they should respond to person 1 - or even if they want to respond - but person 3 really doesn’t like person 1 - and person 1 really doesn’t like person 3 - person 2 doesn’t know whether to trust person 3 - especially when person 3 does something really bad to person 2 - although not for bad reasons. Person 4? Well, I’m going to keep you guessing about what happens with person 4, especially their relationship with person 1. Although, I will also tell you that person 5 really wants person 3 so much that person 2 has some real problems!
And before anyone asks - I’ll only tell you the answer to this riddle AFTER book 5 has come out, so there’s no point it asking for more clues. Sorry - mouth zipped closed and padlocked till February.
ok im stumped on who person 5 is but i think i know who every one else is do you care if i state my suspitions?
I’m not even gonna try to figure that out, my brain probably won’t work til it has to, and by then I’ll have so much work from, ninth grade getting all A’s is my goal, which means studying… A LOT, and Colorguard, which the funniest thing happened to me.
and my sister
so we had Preview Night for the Parents and guess what, so I am a Freshman and My Sisters a Senior, so my sister is a Section Leader for Colorguard.
Mr. Denmead our Band Director, he was calling the section leaders names out and well… Mr. Denmead said my name not my sisters. So the “Assistant” (Air quotes around Assistant because she was my middle school director, Miss England) She said to my mom “Wow she must be really good for being a freshman and being the “SENIOR” Section Leader” then Mr. Denmead told my mom he sent the paper in that says the section leaders and he said it had “MY” name on it not my sisters
Mr. Denmead said he was going to bring my sister a Starbucks Coffee, (My sister LOVES Starbucks) and then i told my sister and friend “At least he didn’t say my brothers name” my brother did indoor for a year but didn’t like it. I Find it Hilarious, and so does everybody else. (Everyone BUT my sister)
i dont get it sorry im really stupid when im not in school you will see a diff once i start
ok i think I get the riddle but just one question… is person 5 a totally new person who hasn’t been in the previous books? You don’t have to answer if it’ll give away too much.
AFJ. Person 5 is new. Person five is female.
I get it! weirdly…. but i get it!
so thats why i could not fugure out who person 5 is!
question- what does person 3 think of person 5?
AFJ. Aha! Carolina with the sneaky question! Now then…how do I answer that…? Hmmmm… Okay - try this: Person 3 has really mixed feelings about person 5…good feelings…and bad feelings…and totally confused feelings. Person 2 on the other hand has VERY SPECIFIC feelings about person 5. And what happened to my zipped and padlocked mouth?
your too weak for your fans mr.jones!
Yeah definatly!!! so do we ever find out whats going on at the Vergald Palace with Oberon and Titania in the enchanted quest? or can you not answer that question
AFJ. Rats! Curse my weakness! I must get a silence-glamour from Eden. Then I won’t have to tell you that, yes, we do find out what’s going on with Titania and Oberon in Veraglad Palace.
Yeah everybody we really should stop with the questions. ‘Cause then by February we’d already know everything and there would be no surprises!
you really should!!! lol it strange how we can convence you!sooooo will you be willing to tell us if edric and taina get back togeather…..pleasssssssssss pleassssssss pleasssssss!im dieing!!!!!
YES!!! I like your weaknesses
AFJ. Liz - I am so not going to tell you that!
But really - I’m fine with the questions - I can control myself enough not to give the really big stuff away - I mean, no way am I going to tell you about The Green Lady! …oops.
Can you put another Riddle up?
or everytime you answer it should be in a riddle.
AFJ. Oh, you are so not letting me write book six in peace!
Okay - try this on - person 4 doesn’t know it, but person 6 is really keen.
Who is person 6? Person 6 and person 7 have a strong bond with each other and with person 8. Person 8 has a bond with person 9. Person 9 has a bond with person 2.
Oh - by the way - this time I am definitely DEFINITELY not going to give you any more clues, nor am I going to confirm whether you have the riddle worked out correctly - so no point asking. Not that that’s going to stop you - but I’m not kidding this time - no more clues on this, no questions answered about the riddle, no confirmation of you getting it right or wrong. You just have to debate it among yourselves and see what you all think.
ok this is kinda random, but guess what I just noticed! Connor’s initials are C.E. and Edric’s are E.C. they really are opposites!
do relize how painfull this is for us!!!!!!! i dont think you do! you know how it ends so you dont have to wait! and what is the green lady?!?!?!?! did you put the statue of liberty in the book or somethin????????:)
AFJ. Shannon - wow! well spotted with the initials thing. Nothing is random, of course - but that was done subconsciously, I guess. Of course, Anita is also an anagram of Tania.
Liz - no the Green Lady isn’t the Statue of Liberty - she’s someone they meet in book 5.
I know you’d love to know what happens “in the end” - but its much more fun finding out when you read the book. I was about ten chapters into Lord of the Rings when someone came up and told me - oh, by the way - Gollum grabs the ring and falls into the crack of Doom! Yes! Thank you, pal! All I can tell you about the Faerie Path is that Gollum doesn’t grab the ring and fall into the cracks of doom at the end. But you have to watch out for the Salamander!
Wait he does what?
what salamander!?!?!?!?!? ok now i think your just doing it to bug me!!!! if i ever write a book and you read it and want to know the end i wont tell you!!!!
are people 6, 7, 8, 9 new or old characters?