And from time to time, the Black Carriage arrives in Glipwood to carry young Skreeans toward an unknown fate across the Dark Sea.īut once a year the Sea Dragons sing just off the coast of Glipwood.
Any Skreean who needs to use a hoe has to borrow one from the Fangs (and fill out the requisite paperwork). Skree is ruled by foreign oppressors, snake men called the Fangs of Dang, servants of a shadowy emperor named Gnag the Nameless. Manhood is on the horizon, but Janner finds it hard to feel much hope for the future. Janner Igiby lives in Glipwood, a nothing little village in the land of Skree, on the edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness. Here’s that release day review from March 2008. And here’s to you, Rabbit Roomers, for your role in making this re-release possible. And thanks in large part to the community that has grown up around here, the readership of the Wingfeather Saga has grown so that it does make sense for Waterbrook/Random House to re-release all four books of the Wingfeather Saga in hardback with new covers by Nicholas Kole and forty new interior illustrations by Joe Sutphin.
The seedling that was the Rabbit Room has become something more like a tree birds can nest in its branches. The people who loved the books kept loving them, and they kept telling their friends, and the slow burn kept burning. But the people who loved the books kept loving them, and they kept telling their friends, and the slow burn kept burning. Through a series of events that I won’t detail, Waterbrook wasn’t able to continue the Wingfeather Saga beyond Book 2, and Books 3 and 4 ended up being released by Rabbit Room Press. The people who knew it loved it, but there are only so many seats in the blockbuster-making machine, and a lot of books that deserve to be blockbusters don’t get blockbustered. The Wingfeather Saga wasn’t what you’d call a blockbuster. The Wingfeather Saga was another of those seedlings. In March of 2008, the Rabbit Room was just a little seedling of a dream that Andrew Peterson had planted in the world for mere love of things that are good, true, and beautiful. There was just the blog, with a small but very loyal readership. There was no Hutchmoot, no Rabbit Room Press, no Local Show, no Chinwag, no North Wind Manor. At the time, the Rabbit Room was barely six months old. I counted it a privilege to be allowed to write the Rabbit Room’s release day review of the book. Twelve years ago this month, Waterbrook Press released On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness, Book 1 of Andrew Peterson’s Wingfeather Saga.
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