(Note: now that I’m an acquiring editor who also loves fanfic, I have the pleasure of doing this too.) She actually signed me on proposal, which, looking back, was pretty outrageously lucky for a first-time novelist. The editor actually came to me, which was an unparalleled delight-she’d read and loved my fanfiction and wanted to sign me for original work. Though Counterpoint came out in 2010 and Crescendo in 2011, this month marks the very first time they have both been under the same roof-complete with gorgeous new cover art!-and I couldn’t be happier to have them there.īut when I first sold Counterpoint, it was to a teeny little startup epub called Guiltless Pleasure Publishing. The path of the Song of the Fallen novels was both particularly easy and particularly fraught- Counterpoint is now at its third publisher (if you count a brief interlude of self-pub), and Crescendo, the second book in the duology, is also at its third publisher without any self-pub interludes.

One of the questions I-and probably most published authors-get asked the most often is how I got published. Hello all, and thank you so much for joining me to chat about the queer high fantasy duology Song of the Fallen! This series holds a particularly special place in my heart, not just because I absolutely adore high fantasy and sloooooooooooooow-burn enemies-to-lovers romance and there isn’t nearly enough of any of that to go round in queer fiction, but also because Counterpoint, the first book in the duology, was the first novel I ever sold.

Counterpoint by Rachel Haimowitz