Q&A: debut novelist Jane Flett

But when I found Marina de Pass at The Soho Agency, everything changed. Her joy for Freakslaw from the very beginning convinced me that people would see this book the way I wanted it to be seen. And working with Doubleday has been better than I could have ever imagined. I'd always hoped to find an agent and editor who had my back, but I hadn't thought about all the other people involved.

To take this thing that existed only in my mind for so long, and suddenly have a team of people who love it and are invested in putting it into the world, is utterly magical. Freakslaw has always been my weird baby but I trust Doubleday entirely with it, and I love that feeling.