Emma Fox

HEART OF STONE has reached the final stretch of edits: the proofreading round! One step closer to release day on August 4!

Out of all the editing rounds, I find proofreading to be the most relaxing. I’m very detail-oriented and enjoy recognizing patterns and outliers. It’s also something I can easily dip into and out of whenever I have brief pockets of time—unlike drafting or developmental edits, where I need longer blocks of time to dive deep into my characters and world!

Writers: what part of the drafting and editing process do you find the easiest and which the most difficult?

I love this time of year, when everything is bursting into bloom and each week brings new flowers to greet. Right now it’s bearded irises, baptisia, and amsonia. Don’t let the names scare you—they’re just lovely pastel beauties, glad to greet the sun.
Happy 🪻!

This past weekend, I met with an awesome Girl Scout troop who had read THE CARVER AND THE QUEEN together and wanted to meet the author! It was a joy to share more with them about my writing journey as a child and an adult, to go through the excellent questions in my publisher’s book discussion guide, and to lead them through a fun creative writing exercise. The girls had fantastic questions and great insights! Talking books with tweens and teens is, hands down, one of my top favorite part of being an author 😊