February 2016 Newsletter
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Hello!
So, I guess the obvious thing to start this newsletter off with is this: we have a release date for Fragmented (Untamed #2)! I’m super excited to announce that Fragmented will release on 7th September 2016 from Prizm Books.
About Fragmented:
After the terrible battle against the Enhanced Ones, Seven and Corin find themselves on the run. With the Enhanced closing in, Seven knows they can’t survive on their own. So, when the opportunity arises to seek refuge with the Zharat, one of the last surviving Untamed tribes, it seems like the perfect solution. After all, these people can offer them safety, medicine and food.
But the Zharat lifestyle is a far cry from what Seven’s used to. With their customs dictating that she must marry into their tribe, and her relationship with Corin breaking down, Seven knows she’s got to do something before it’s too late. But that’s easier said than done in a tribe where you’re the outsider, and going against their rules automatically results in death.
Yet, with the Enhanced still out there, nowhere is truly safe for the Untamed–least of all for the most powerful Seer in the world. And Seven soon discovers the true extent that people will go to in order to ensure that she’s on their side in the War of Humanity.
Battling against the emerging web of lies, manipulation and danger, Seven must remember who she was meant to be. Her life has never been more at stake. Nor has humanity itself.
Add Fragmented on Goodreads.
And Fragmented has its first review already!
This review was written by one of my beta-readers/critique partners–as they’re the only people (other than those at my publisher) who have read this book yet.
A sneaky preview:
“The settings in Fragmented are grounded even though it is a fantasy and dystopian novel. You’ve been to these places, seen these things, only you haven’t. She spins them just enough to be foreign and engaging. […] As she paints the locations into views, she has you breathe them in. The dust gets caught in your tired and overworked lungs, the water chills your dirty, sticky skin, the rock scrapes against you, ripping your clothes. No moment is wasted though every moment isn’t spent telling you how to feel. Sometimes, you are just lead to the water, others your head is forced so hard into the lake you can’t breathe. […] That brings me to the best part of her book: tension. My God Madeline Dyer can write some tense scenes: have-your-muscles-in-knots-for-days tense. The best things about the piano wires that lie within her book, just waiting to be plucked, is you never know which you’ll get: Hitchcock or Saw. Better yet, you don’t care. Some authors are better at one, you crave only the implied or need the gore because the implication just isn’t enough. Dyer is much better than all of that. She writes in paragraphs, she writes in lines, staccato overwhelms your brain, fluidity stretches your nerves. It’s all different, and yet, all so stressful. The book isn’t full of tension though if that isn’t your thing. She has something for everyone. […] Madeline has characters that will break your heart, enrage you and have you laughing out loud.”
The full (non-spoilery) review can be read here.
So, yes, I’m so excited about Fragmented’s upcoming release!
So, what else has been happening?
Well, a journalist from the Arts&Lit section of Exeposé recently interviewed me and my interview was printed in the latest issue (Monday 1st Feb). I’m hugely excited by this as it is my first print interview!
And I also recently interviewed authors Shira Glassman, Maddie Paige, and JL Douglas. So please take a look at those interviews!
On the writing front itself, I haven’t done as much lately as I’d have liked, given that I’m currently finishing my last semester of university! (i.e Dissertation Madness). But very soon (well, I keep telling myself that it’s very soon) this will be completed and I’ll have more time to write again!
So, that’s all for now–thanks for reading!
Madeline
Madeline Dyer
