Last week, I posted a survey asking readers for feedback on a new story I’ll be writing for a special boxed set. The results are in, as you can see with the pretty pie chart to the right.
The as yet untitled Sea & Sky themed boxed set which will be published by Rebecca Hamilton, is scheduled to come out in January 2018 and will be loaded with mermaid and dragon fantasy stories written by 20 super talented authors, many of whom are USA Today and NYT Bestselling authors! I’m thrilled to find myself in this company and I’m super excited to be penning another siren story. I actually have many more siren stories bouncing around between the thick walls of my skull, so don’t think that Sybellen will be the last of them. Far from it. Muha ha ha ha aaaa.
Sybellen is an interesting choice because…
Spoiler Alert! Read no further if you’ve not read Born of Water yet!
…based on what you know about her from Born of Water and The Wreck of Sybellen, her life has had a lot of tragedy. However, there is always more than one side to a story. And The Wreck of Sybellen is one person’s experience having known the mermaid that inspired the masthead of the lost ship, but not having known what she was.
Given that my sirens can live to be many hundreds of years old, and The Wreck of Sybellen takes place in the years leading up to 1860, odds are very good that she is still alive in our modern day. Which leads me to ruminate on whether her next story should be set before the wreck, after the wreck, or in our current day and age.
*sit back in chair*
*takes sip of wine*
*ponders… tasting fine vintage*
*chokes as wine goes down wrong tube*
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