Kristin Cashore (Author of Gracling, Fire and soon to be Bitterblue) did a radio interview where she informed fans that her book Bitterblue first set to release in 2011 was going to be pushed back. This also includes a general outline for the story...
A new release date has not yet been announced.
Here is the relevant part of the interview
Kristin Cashore: I’m writing a third book. The third book is called Bitterblue. Readers of Graceling will know that Bitterblue is a character in Graceling. In Graceling, she’s ten years old. In Bitterblue she’s 16 years old. And she is the protagonist of the book and Katsa and Poe and other characters from Graceling are also in that story.
Matthew Peterson: Oh, okay. That is exciting. I went to your website and I took a look and I noticed a lot of people saying, “Well, Bitterblue is cancelled”, but you had a change of publishers, didn’t you?
Kristin Cashore: Yes I did.
Matthew Peterson: Was that between book one and two?
Kristin Cashore: That was between book one and two. My editor moved from Harcourt Children’s Books to Dial Books for Young Readers and I had to decide whether to go with her. And really there was no decision, I love Harcourt to pieces, but I have to go where my editor goes.
Matthew Peterson: Is there any special thing you could tell us about Bitterblue?
Kristin Cashore: The thing about Bitterblue is both Katsa and Fire are young women with extraordinary, special powers that no one else has. Bitterblue is just a regular girl. She doesn’t have a grace, but she’s surrounded by extraordinary people and it’s her coming-of-age story, as they all are, they’re coming-of-age stories. But it’s her coming-of-age as a just a regular person who’s trying to sort out a very complicated and traumatic past and a very confusing present and just kind of become comfortable with herself as a person, even though she’s not extraordinary in the grace sense.
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