


The golden yarn is the yarn that binds us to people with love.” Her publishers also objected to the “open ending” of the book and asked Funke to turn it into an epilogue instead. “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).

Urn:oclc:853280453 Republisher_date 20170810180822 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 798 Scandate 20170810054945 Scanner Scanningcenter hongkong Shipping_container SZ0025 Tts_version v1.Cornelia Funke is the international bestselling author of the Inkhearttrilogy and more than a dozen other novels. OL15371140W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 96.32 Pages 410 Ppi 300 Related-external-id urn:isbn:1906427755 Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 15:49:30.083315 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA1155323 Boxid_2 CH130020 City New York DonorĪllen_county Edition 1st ed.
