Julia Golding

Shea wrote on 22 February 2012:

Dear julia how many pages are in the full book "The Water Thief?"

204

Meriel wrote on 16 February 2012:

Hello! I have just bought the Water Thief, and am looking forward to reading it. I was just wondering whether this will be a new series or a sequel by itself? In any case, loved the original series and i'm sure I will love this one too!

Hi I'm not sure - it will depend how many I sell! It is a complete story but with possibilities for a sequel. Julia

bochrab wrote on 14 February 2012:

hi!! im back!! i havnt been on your website in AGES!!! i miss all your updates and other thing so i though i would check in to see what is new!!! i was thinking that maybe you could do another sample chapter? the first one was AWESOME but i cant help thinking that maybe we could know abit more? i really hope you agree, but if you dont then i guess i understand that you want to keep SOME of it secret!! :) an ADORING fan, Bochra Boudarka

Hi No more chapters just for the moment. Thanks for calling by the site.

amina wrote on 08 February 2012:

please please do another competition winning water thief or anything else and i know your probaly really busy but can you send any updates to my email? please reply.

Hi Updates are here. Will do a competition soon.

bookworm wrote on 07 February 2012:

is your book out in the libraries? and since its the only one of yours i havent read, can you recomend some more? and please do another competition!!

The newest print-on-demand ones probably aren't but they can be got through the links.

goldingfan wrote on 04 February 2012:

hi now you've started up the series again (new series)? i was wondering are you going to start up the companions club again? I really really hope you do. Love your books!

No plans to do so as it isn't supported by the publisher (who ran it last time).

sienna wrote on 21 January 2012:

I looooved the companions quartet!!!! I was sad to see it end. I just found water thief and finished in a couple days. Will there be a sequel to it? I hope there will be more!

If enough people buy it ;)

Brian Stevenson wrote on 09 January 2012:

I love the Companions quartet, I always wished you would do another, and now you have. Can't wait to read it!!

sephy wrote on 09 January 2012:

An impossible book to access as i can't buy it online. Love the Companions Quartet and all your books regardless and i've read every one from when Diamond was first published and Joss Stirling and Eve Edwards- you would think im obsessed. Keep writing. Thanks Sephy

Impossible? Available to anywhere in the world. If you don't do online yourself, you could ask you bookshop to order it in for you if you take them the details.

Dasha wrote on 09 January 2012:

Hello,I from Russia.When the book Water Thief will be in Russia? Excuse for errors if they are.

I've not been approached by any Russian publishers so I don't know. You can read the English version now if you can manage the language.

Vanessa Taal wrote on 05 January 2012:

Please email me on anything on this amazing series!!!

Thanks - the website is the one I update most but I'll bear you in mind.

Suzy wrote on 04 January 2012:

Really excited about being able to read Water Thief :)I've been a huge fan of your books ever since I picked up The Diamond of Drury Lane back in 2006 :)

Marie B wrote on 27 December 2011:

I Love Love Love your Companions series! The Glass Swallow and Dragonfly are other faves of your books (Can't say for Cat Royal - not really my style, sorry) In the Companions series, at the end, Connie gained shapshifting abilities, Do others find out? How do they take it? Or will i find out in Water Thief? Which I just brought on my new Kindle! How on earth do you do it though?! AMAZING! Such a wide imagination and pen(wo)manship. Got any tips for an aspiring fellow author? My biggest problem is with names for the minor characters in my stories, with the major ones they simply click into place. How do you get your names? What about for those characters that, even though only appear for a page or so, but still need to have a name? I also get writers block; Do you get it, and if so, how do you overcome it? Personally I think I obsess I bit too much on the little details, but I still think them to be just as important to make it more real and believabe to the readers. BUT I do wonder if I should chill out and be vague with certain details, and not say specifically that it took two hours to go from A to B... Btw: Did the idea for the face paint and the strict rituals in dragonfly come from China/Japan? Bye for now...

Dear Marie Hmm, let's see if I can answer your questions. I think the answer is as you suggest: don't worry about the names, put a 'holding' name in place until you know the character better. Keep on writing through until end of first draft without worrying about getting it absolutely right - you can always go back once you've got the whole story down. The world of Tashi's culture has a strong mixture of the far East in there.

Timmy1214 wrote on 23 December 2011:

I have already read it! And LOVED it!! Can't wait for the next one!!

Thanks! Merry Christmas.

Racheal wrote on 23 December 2011:

Dear Julia, Let me just start off by saying I loved the companions quartet, cat royal, and dragonfly. you rank as one of my top authors in those books. I am very compelled to read the next series.I also liked that instead of continuing with Connie, you skipped ahead to George! Good idea! Sincerely, Racheal

luvyall wrote on 21 December 2011:

aaaaahhhhh few days till the holidays!!!!! you should do seasonal specials or sumthing. just anything to keep these masterpieces comin!!!! happy holidays yaaaallllll :)

claude wrote on 18 December 2011:

you should make good mermaids and evil mermaids in the next book iv wished for a good mermaid book for ages and your my best hope and one of my fav writers

agreemyster wrote on 14 December 2011:

THANKS SO MUCH! I love how you reply so quickly, thats partly why i love this site! and the books n stuff of course :P

agreemyster wrote on 13 December 2011:

i would also like to know if lulu uses paypal? thanks so much for these books, i have read loads, i spent about five years not knowing about others in the series, i thought scrt of the srns was just a brilliant un finshed cliff hanger and then not onlly do i find out about the sonn-to-be-extended companions quartet but also abotu the whole heap of others that are out there waiting to be read!!!!!!!!!!!

I don't know - I think so as it is a big professional site, but you'd have to go through to checkout to find out for sure.

wise-hoof wrote on 11 December 2011:

are there any well trusted websites (like amazon/ebay) that sell your book as a paper back? and that use paypal? thanks, keep writing!

It should filter through the system to be listed eventually. Lulu is well known and used by these sites too as well as the Barnes and Nobel site etc.