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“It was a giant puzzle, and making the pieces fit was delightful.” Q&A with Bethany Jacobs, author of These Burning Stars

Q&A with Bethany Jacobs. Editing, revisions and the journey to publication.

Hello and welcome to this very special blog post: a conversation with Bethany Jacobs, author of the newly released queer space opera These Burning Stars. We’ll be talking all about the editing process that These Burning Stars went through, from first draft to finished publication.

Bethany and I worked together during the 2020 session of Pitch Wars, after which Bethany went on to sign with an agent and land a three-book deal with the publisher Orbit. These Burning Stars, the gripping first instalment of the Kindom trilogy, comes out this week (17 October in the US; 19 October in the UK) and I’m so excited for everyone to read it!

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Jake’s 2020 Pitch Wars wishlist

Pitch Wars 2020 wishlist | Jake Nicholls

There is a text-only version of this page available here. If there's anything I can do to make my wishlist and website more accessible to you, please don't hesitate to get in touch with me directly at jake@futureworldsediting.co.uk. I am a 2020 Adult Mentor for Pitch Wars.

Hello, everyone! A big welcome to my wishlist for this year’s Pitch Wars. For those of you who don’t know, Pitch Wars is a mentoring programme where people with industry experience team up with a writer and spend three months helping them revise their manuscript and get it ready for an agent showcase. For more info, visit pitchwars.org.

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