The Definitive Guide to BluesClues' Novels

BluesClues · 2020-09-25T16:42:36Z

a list of novels and their status 1. The Remarkable Retirement of Edna Fisher - out of print, going on sub at some point in the hopes she'll get picked up by a new press! 2. Hungry Girls - temporarily shelved (post-draft) 3. The Keeper of Lonely Spirits - PUBLISHED 2025 WITH MIRA BOOKS/HARPERCOLLINS. Add it on GoodReads. 4. The Secret of Celadon Park - temporarily shelved (in revisions) 5. FakeDeathgagement - temporarily shelved (in drafting) 6. The Lord of the Wood - PENDING PUBLICATION JULY 2026 WITH HANOVER SQUARE PRESS. Add it on Goodreads or TheStoryGraph 7. untitled Fiery WIP - temporarily (?) shelved (in revisions); casual piecemeal planning 8. The Evolution of Ernestine Tomlin - possibly scrapped (in drafting) 9. Country Boy - possibly scrapped (in drafting) 10. cathartic Persuasion-y WIP - scrapped after several attempts at drafting 11. various secondary-world fantasies - scrapped (at various stages) Secondary World Fantasies: The Moor Ponies - low fantasy in a vaguely Scottish setting, completed a first draft and never revised. a story about a prince in an extremely obvious Narnia that I otherwise remember almost no details about, mostly (?) completed a first draft and never revised The Two - don't remember much about this one? except that two people were in love BUT LITTLE DID THEY KNOW that it was sort of an R&J situation. I think this was the same story that was inspired by some Egyptian pharaonic names I read in some copy of National Geographic (?) once, where the main characters were like Meryre and Meryn or something, but I'm not entirely sure this was the same story, I remember so little of it - definitely did not complete any significant portion of a first draft the Meryre/Meryn story, assuming it was a different story, in which a queen was murdered and the prince, one of two newborn twins, ended up being raised by some farmers somewhere - I don't think I finished a first draft, but I think I restarted the story a couple times The remaining fantasies all take place in the same world, while the above stories take place in different worlds or worlds that were not explicitly (and therefore probably not at all) the same. Queenstar, a story about a princess who prematurely takes the throne when her father is poisoned, but it was mostly a romance - several drafts completed, each longer than the last because the first was SEVERELY underwritten. The Song of Greatheart, a story about a half-elf destined for greatness or something - several partial drafts completed, but I'm not sure I ever finished one in full? Llwyn story, where I had read The Dark Is Rising series and was 1000% in love with Welsh for a hot minute, a probable spinoff of tSoGH involving a totally different character in a different part of the world - a partial draft completed but I think that's it?

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Sun Oct 01, 2023 11:04 pm

BluesClues says... · Sun Oct 01, 2023 11:04 pm

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Clem from The Remarkable Retirement of Edna Fisher, by me!

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Sun Oct 01, 2023 11:06 pm

BluesClues says... · Sun Oct 01, 2023 11:06 pm

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Kiernan from The Remarkable Retirement of Edna Fisher, by me!

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Sun Oct 01, 2023 11:07 pm

BluesClues says... · Sun Oct 01, 2023 11:07 pm

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Red from The Remarkable Retirement of Edna Fisher, by me in that I drew and painted him, but I did use @Sonder's original design!

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Sun Oct 01, 2023 11:38 pm

BluesClues says... · Sun Oct 01, 2023 11:38 pm

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David from The Keeper of Lonely Spirits, by me!

Also probably I should've said this upthread, but all this art was done with watercolors and watercolor markers.

I did all the Remarkable Retirement characters for character stickers, and David just for fun <3 Next I hope to do Peter!

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Tue Aug 27, 2024 5:34 pm

BluesClues says... · Tue Aug 27, 2024 5:34 pm

The Lord of the Wood

Genre: Adult cozy horror
Word count: ~~too long, I fear~~
Pitch: A hopeless romantic afraid of living his life falls for the lord of an enchanted forest—but the forest is dying, so is its lord, and now the MC's sister might die trying to find him.

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[this'll be updated later once I have an accurate blurb since the direction of the story got flipped since I first wrote one here lol]

Status: climbing walls as I await my next edit letter and a final cover BUT AT LEAST I HAVE LINKS NOW. add it on Goodreads or TheStoryGraph

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Wed Aug 28, 2024 10:19 am

IcyFlame says... · Wed Aug 28, 2024 10:19 am

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stoooooooooop I'm so excited

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Thu Aug 29, 2024 12:46 am

BluesClues says... · Thu Aug 29, 2024 12:46 am

IcyFlame wrote:
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stoooooooooop I'm so excited

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Your excitement may single-handedly fuel my unhinged second draft lol

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Thu Aug 29, 2024 9:06 am

IcyFlame says... · Thu Aug 29, 2024 9:06 am

BluesClues wrote:
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Your excitement may single-handedly fuel my unhinged second draft lol

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This feels like a noble cause for me

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Sat Jun 07, 2025 2:37 am

BluesClues says... · Sat Jun 07, 2025 2:37 am

IcyFlame wrote:
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Your excitement may single-handedly fuel my unhinged second draft lol

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This feels like a noble cause for me

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July 2026, fam

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Sat Jun 07, 2025 2:38 am

BluesClues says... · Sat Jun 07, 2025 2:38 am

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although I admit the story has kinda gotten flipped around from when I started it lol

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Sat Jun 07, 2025 4:23 pm

EllieMae says... · Sat Jun 07, 2025 4:23 pm

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I CANNOT WAIT FOR THIS.

Who's to say that my light is better than your darkness? Who's to say death is better than your darkness? Who am I to say?

Was AilahEvelynMae
and is now EllieMae :)

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Sun Jun 08, 2025 12:34 am

BluesClues says... · Sun Jun 08, 2025 12:34 am