Check out this cool drawing of Penryn Young called Wrath of God by leabhariann on Deviantart. This is when they’re first trying to make their escape from their apartment and she sees a feather floating down from the sky.

Penryn and Raffe have officially crossed the Atlantic! According to The Bookseller, British publisher Hodder & Stoughton purchased the publication rights to the entire Penryn trilogy.

Editorial director Kate Howard bought British Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, for Angelfall and two further books in the Penryn and the End of Days series from Amazon Publishing through the Teri Tobias Agency.

The book became available as an ebook yesterday on Amazon.co.uk. A paperback version is due May 23.

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To all the new readers here from Mockingjay.net or Susan Ee’s blog, welcome! I’ve set up the forums with some boards for people to post in so, be sure to head over and register! If you have friends who are also fans of Angelfall, please share this page with them.

Last September, shortly after the release of Angelfall through Amazon Children’s Publishing, Entertainment Weekly talked to author Susan Ee about the creation of Penryn, Raffe, and Penryn’s mom. This interview was published before Good Universe acquired the film rights to Angelfall.

So, what went into creating Penryn? Was she inspired by you at all? Or someone you know?
Angelfall’s a fantastical story, but I wanted both Penryn and her world to be real before the attack happened. So, it’s set in Silicon Valley, California, and it’s in the here and almost-now. Penryn herself is not modeled off anyone, but she is the kind of girl who many of us might know. She sits in the back of the classroom; she’s likeable, but no one really knows her that well. She is the girl who has a lot on her mind and doesn’t have time for typical teenage issues. She has real world family problems that don’t go away just because the world ended.

What about Raffe?
[Laughs] I wish Raffe was modeled off someone I knew. He’s just pure yummy fantasy. He’s a combination of real-world traits that I’ve seen in guys and wishful thinking. Although Angelfallis told in the first person from Penryn’s point of view, I wrote a lot of pages of the story from Raffe’s perspective to get to know him.

Would you ever consider releasing those pages?
I’ve had requests to release scenes from Raffe’s point of view and it’s an interesting possibility that catches my attention, but right now what people really want are the future books. [Laughs] One thing at a time. I think my readers would get mad at me if I spent more time on this other stuff than the next book. But there are a lot of pages written from Raffe’s voice, so that was an interesting experience.

Is that ever frustrating — to sit down and write so many pages you know won’t ever end up being a part of the finished product?
It’s really amazing how many pages go into it. I probably wrote three solid books for the first book. At least two of those volumes were not released. I feel like that adds to the texture of the book that is released. That’s one of the reasons why the readers love it. They get very involved with what happens because it feels more real. The reason it feels more real is because each one of these characters has their own stories going on. Penryn has hers, but so does Raffe and so does everyone else who’s in there. The parts that we get to see are the parts that get weaved into what Penryn sees. So, it sometimes can be painful that it never sees the light of day, but at the same time I feel I need that for Penryn’s story as well.

Speaking of the two protagonists, I love how you wove the romance into the story. It never overcame the basic plot and it just felt really natural to me. So, how important was Penryn and Raffe’s relationship to you? When you set out to write Angelfall, was it as a romance? Or did that come later?
When I started I thought I was writing a romance, but every time I was going there, anarchy and violence exploded onto the page. [Laughs] So I just went where the story wanted to go and let the characters do what felt true to them given the circumstances. I suspected that there would be a romance thread from the beginning, but the story never quite goes where I think it might go. I suspect that what the readers are feeling is the fact that the characters did what they wanted to do and what felt natural to them instead of me planning it out ahead of time.

The interview goes on to talk with Ee about her passionate fans and how much she loves them, which is such a touching thing to read. Like EW’s Tara Fowler, I’m ashamed to have taken so long to find this book too, but the upside is that I have less time to wait for the next book.

To read the full interview, head over to EW.com.

Here’s a really cool piece of fan art by esktasy on Deviantart of Raffe sleeping on the couch in the office building after Penryn drags him off the streets. His angel wing cuts bleed through bandages.

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When Entertainment Weekly got wind of the deal between author Susan Ee, Sam Raimi, Rob Tapert, and Good Universe, they reached out to Susan for comment and were given an exclusive photo of them together having dinner. From left to right: Rob Tapert (The Possession), Nathan Kahane (Hope Springs), Joe Drake (Hunger Games), Sam Raimi, Susan Ee.

Ee revealed that she couldn’t have picked a better team to adapt Angelfall, gushing in particular about the Spider-Man director. “I’m tremendously excited to be working with a creative powerhouse like Sam Raimi,” she told EW in an email. “Having Angelfall be received so enthusiastically by the readers and then having a world-class director/producer like Sam Raimi want to make a movie of it is simply the definition of joy for me.”

As for the film itself, Ee is hoping for “a great multi-layered experience — a thrilling plot, a fabulous audio-visual experience, and an emotional connection. This story has a lot going on internally that the reader/viewer can infer, so I’m hoping for wonderful actors who can convey that in a way that resonates well with the audience and a superb director who can bring it all together.” While a writer hasn’t been chosen just yet, Ee would “like someone who writes great characters and is a natural fan of the book.” Makes sense to us!

Source: EW.com

Susan Ee, author of the young adult fantasy series Penryn & The End of Days announced that the next book in the series will be released in Fall 2013. The title of the book has not yet been announced.

Source: SusanEe.com

The first book in the series, Angelfall, was just re-released by Amazon Children’s Publishing in August 2012 after Ee self-published the ebook.

Sam Raimi (director of the Spider-Man trilogy and Oz, The Great and Powerful) and Rob Tapert will produce while Joe Drake and Nathan Kahane will executive produce.

“Susan is a brilliant writer”, Raimi said. “She has created a fantastic world with instantly engaging and real characters. I immediately connected with the material and knew that she had conceived the perfect combination for a great fantasy film.”

Source: THR

Welcome to Daughters of Men, a brand new community for fans of the Angelfall series by Susan Eee.

After purchasing the first book in Penryn & the End of Days, I left it sitting on my Kindle for over a month. Then on a whim, I opened it up and got started. Once I got past the first chapter, I finished the book Angelfall within 24 hours. Being a fansite admin for quite a few sites, I’m always on the lookout for a series that really grabs me. After reading through several lukewarm series, I’m finally confident that Angelfall has the potential to become “the next Twilight”.

This site is brand spanking new, so naturally some things won’t have much content. My fellow fans will have to help me to build this community up and make it what it deserves to be. Plans for the site include:

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