“Reverie : a state of being pleasantly lost in one’s thoughts a daydream.” I love this title! How did you decide on that title? I really hope he finds a home in the hearts of readers who know what it’s like to keep entire worlds in your head. Like him, I got outed super young, and I know the peculiar loneliness that a life apart enforces even when you are surrounded by people who love you. You see, Kane discovers an innate ability to not only perceive the magic that weaves reality together, but to also unravel and reform it to his desires. Which is why he’s an interesting character to give reality-bending magic to. Now he lives in fantasies of the way the world could be, but he lacks the drive to make real the things he dreams for himself. He was outed at an early age, and it put an automatic distance between him and his peers that he never figured out how to bridge. Kane is a gay teen growing up all alone in a Connecticut suburb. Kane! My gloomy, gay hero! REVERIE is Kane’s story. What can you tell us about Reverie and Kane Montgomery? Lessons you can learn from me: your book isn’t bad, but your query might be twitter contests work being funny on twitter works. And just in time! She helped me figure out an actual submission strategy, and REVERIE sold to Annie Berger at Sourcebooks Fire in a two book deal.
And still I lacked an agent.įinally, my awesome agent Veronica Park and I found each other (also through DVPit, my third try I think?). I was discussing potential acquisitions and revisions notes. Suddenly, I was in contact with multiple editors about REVERIE. In fact, it wasn’t until I participated in DVPit, a twitter contest designed to spotlight marginalized voices, that things changed. Finally, a draft I was happy with! I queried that, and everyone hated it. I queried it, failed, queried again, failed, and so on until I finally found time to re-write it significantly a few years later. The longer answer is: I finished writing the first real draft of REVERIE right after I graduated college, in 2014. REVERIE is my first book, and the only book I’ve ever written, and so it has suffered every lesson, trial, tribulation, misstep, and failure. When it comes to steps I’ve taken to get REVERIE published, the answer is: every step, usually twice. What steps did you take to get your first book published? It’s about what happens when your dreams chase you back, and yes it has a drag queen sorceress as the villain. His first book, REVERIE, is a YA fantasy due for publication with Sourcebooks FIRE in January 2020.
Ryan La Sala is a fantasy writer rooted in the northeast United States.
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