![]() ![]() “And it’s about what love does to you, and it’s about the fruit of love – a baby. “It’s about love,” says Funke, from her Beverly Hills home. The opening chapter describes a dark faerie watching a princess give birth. Could you please put that somewhere else?’” That’s a little drastic for our audience. “It said, ‘We love the book, Cornelia, but could you please change the first chapter? It’s a birth scene. ![]() After returning from a book tour in Germany where her publisher had released The Golden Yarn this February, Funke says she was “stunned” by the email she received from her editor at Little, Brown in the U.S., who she says was also speaking on behalf of the author’s U.K. ![]() According to Publisher’s Weekly, Funke was so upset by her publisher’s suggested changes to the book that she formed her own company to release it.Īt issue was a request by Funke’s publisher Little, Brown, to move the first chapter… to a different place in the book. It didn’t arrive without some bumps on the way, however. Her latest to arrive on American shores is the third book in the popular MirrorWorldtrilogy, which began with Reckless (2010) and Fearless (2013). Cornelia Funke is the international bestselling author of the Inkhearttrilogy and more than a dozen other novels. ![]()
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