the false prince by jennifer nielsen summary

She dropped right back into this world without missing a beat-everything rang true.” King Jaron’s voice was as playfully snarky as ever, and the action once again kept me turning the pages. When the manuscript arrived, the editor was pleased and impressed to discover that “Jennifer had picked up exactly where she left off. “When Jennifer told me that she was considering writing a fourth book and asked me what I thought, I immediately replied, ‘Yes, please.’ And when I asked for reactions to the idea at an acquisition meeting, everyone there repeated my very words!”

That was exceedingly good news to Lisa Sandell, editorial director of Scholastic Press, who has edited all the Ascendance novels. I sensed that they were either going to love Sage and root for him or dislike him and think he needed a good whipping! So, I was very happy when readers fell in love with him so enthusiastically.” “Sage is not like most protagonists, and I felt he was a big risk in terms of how readers would respond to him. “I knew this was a very bold book and felt that it would either do very well or be a total mess,” she said. Nielsen was thoroughly captivated by her mischievous protagonist-but a bit nervous about setting him out into world with the release of The False Prince. I don’t want to raise him, but I want to write about him.’ And he became the inspiration for Sage.”

I said to myself, ‘I really like this kid. Some people doubted he could succeed in the program, but he ended up coming in first in every single marker of success, and did so well that he was the first one on his team who earned the right to send a letter home to his parents. “There was one tough boy who was being sent to the program because he had broken every rule he possibly could. “My job was to compile the testing results for every kid who was to be enrolled in the program,” she explained. At the time, Nielsen was working part-time for a wilderness program for troubled youth.

“But I knew that such a weighty plot needed a main character strong enough to pull it off, and I couldn’t find him.” “I’ve always been fascinated with the notion of somebody being forced to impersonate royalty,” she recalled.

The underlying premise for The False Prince had long been brewing in Nielsen’s imagination.

The false prince by jennifer nielsen summary