The Secret Diary of a Princess sequel announcement (finally!)

Just in case you missed the announcement that I slipped into one of my posts last week: I have started work on a sequel to The Secret Diary of a Princess and am hoping that it will be available to buy later this year.

It was always my intention to write a sequel at some point but I wanted to go off and write about the French Revolution first before I returned to the world of Maria Antonia and her family.

I also wanted to see how well the first book did and have concluded, three years on, that after pretty good sales (about nine hundred a month – cor blimey, which isn’t bad for a self published effort by a pleb like me), great reviews and a general clamouring for a sequel, I probably should just get on with things and write it.

I don’t think it will be a trilogy though – sorry! I’m not even sure when this follow up book will end but am pretty sure it will be pretty far short of the events of 1789, which I have covered exhaustively in Blood Sisters and Before the Storm. I can confirm that it will start exactly where the first book left off though…

On the plus side, it means that I’m going to be heading back to Paris sometime in the next few months to mooch around Versailles and buy books and stuff. I also have to do some research for Minette while I am there, which will be fun!

It’s weird to be back in the world of Antonia again, dusting off that immense mountain of books and thanking my lucky stars that I can read French. It’s going to be fun too though – I had a lot of fun while writing the first book and it seems from reviews that this really comes across.

At the moment, the plan is to release Secret Diary II (which has a working title of Antoinette 4 Louis but won’t actually be called this!) later this year and then Minette early the following year. Both books will almost certainly be available exclusively for Kindle, at least at first. I will also be updating Secret Diary at some point soon to reflect my increased prowess when it comes to editing manuscripts and also I’m hoping that both books will have beautiful new matching covers as well. I’d better get on with sorting that out, actually!

The Secret Diary of a Princess is a Young Adult book but at this point I don’t know if the follow up will be as well – I am aiming for it to be suitable for pretty much all ages but will confirm all of that when it is released!

Phew! Hope that makes at least some of you happy!

Ps. People have started asking about sequels to my other books – I don’t have anything planned right now as I think they ran their course but, in the manner of Jane Austen, I DO know what happened afterwards so if you desperately want to know what happened to a favourite character just ask!