The title says it all. I’ll go in reverse chronological order…
What are you writing now?
I am about to start edits on TRAITOR’S GAME 2, a book which I think is the perfect follow-up for the first and really pushes the story, and Simon and Kestra, into really exciting places. We should have a final manuscript late this spring.
I am writing the first draft of my third historical, not yet announced, which I will start edits on over the summer and which is scheduled to be released in the fall of 2019. Its initials are TBS and I am in love with this story.
I am also beginning to outline a duology that is strange and totally different from anything I’ve done 
before, and which I literally cannot wait to write! Its initials are BI.
WRATH OF THE STORM paperback, Jan 30, 2018
If you’ve missed any of the Mark of the Thief series, the paperback of the final book is coming out next week. This is my favorite ending I’ve ever done for a book or series so if you’re wondering what to read next, I hope you’ll check this out.
A WARP IN TIME By Jude Watson, Jan 30, 2018
This is the third book of the HORIZON series begun by Scott Westerfeld. I did book 2, DEADZONE, and now the adventure continues, beginning with a most unexpected surprise – there are other survivors!
THE TRAITOR’S GAME Feb 27 2018
I am so excited about this book! It has been included on “Most Anticipated YA Books of 2018 by Hypable, Barnes & Noble, and other sites. A book trailer is coming soon for the book, but you can read excerpts from it HERE. Also, if you want to find me on tour for the book, I’ll be HERE.
A NIGHT DIVIDED paperback, April 24, 2018
This book is finally going to have a paperback, but it’s a special edition, 
containing extra facts about the Berlin Wall, some additional information from me, and…ta da! – an excerpt from RESISTANCE (see below)!
Additionally, movie rights have been optioned for A NIGHT DIVIDED and I know the screenwriters are already hard at work on a script. There’s no telling where things will go from there, but it’s still very cool!
RESISTANCE, August 28, 2018
This historical, based the Jewish teen couriers of World War 2 era Poland, is complete. The publisher is working toward a final cover design and I hope I get to show it to you all soon, because it is so freaking awesome!
THE ASCENDANCE TRILOGY
Many of you are still wondering about the status of a possible movie. All I can say (because it’s all that I know) is that a production company is still attached to this series, but a lot of work is now involved to detach the project from Paramount and look for other interested parties, so it will be some time before there’s any concrete news to report. But as always, this blog is the first place I will make any big announcements.
So…any questions? I’ll answer them if I can!
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Just finished reading an ARC of The Traitor’s Game. It was so good! Can’t wait to read more. Sounds like you’ve got some exciting new projects too.
Thank you very much, Natalie. I always love to hear your opinion.
If they do end up making movies for A Night Divided or the Ascendance trilogy, would they contact you about auditions?? I’m really into theater and it would be awesome to act out your stories😁
I expect that I will know when it’s time for auditions! When I hear anything, I’ll put it on the blog first.
We need a movie of The False Prince.
I agree – now someone needs to tell Hollywood that!
If a movie for the False Prince is made, I would really like to audition!! I have loved these books for so long and I am also trying to become an actress so I believe this would be an amazing opportunity!
I hope you will get that chance!
Hi! I just finished rereading the Ascendance series for like the millionth time, and I am wondering whether there have been any new updates on the movie. I love this series so much, and I think a movie would be great!
Sorry, no movie news!
Agreed
I LOVED ALL OF YOUR BOOKS! I’ve been waiting for movies to come out for so long!
Thanks very much!
All of this is so exciting! Also I do have A Night Divided paperback, without any extra stuff, I got it from my cousin’s middle school book sale. And I’m adding it too my list of movie adaptions I’m waiting for.
Copies bought at the school fair were paperbacks, but this will be the first time paperbacks can be bought outside the schools! And thank you!
Love hearing your updates! Always fun to hear what you’re working on next. You’re one busy lady and we love you for it! Cannot wait for Traitor’s Game. Yay!!
Thank you!
Yay! I have been so excited for BI ever since I went to your book signing and you talked about it! SO EXCITED CAN’T WAIT TO READ IT
❤️ Thank you!
I’m am soooooo excited for all of this news! That is so cool about A Night Divided and the movie rights. I can’t wait for the new books to come out!!!!!!!! I noticed that they had a paperback of Wrath of the Storm, and before I told myself that I would buy The Mark of the Thief and The Wrath of the Storm together when The Wrath of the Storm came out in paperback. Those two are the only two books I don’t have of yours. So I’ll have to get those two in paperback… THIS IS SO EXCITING< AND IT's MAKING ME SO HAPPY!!!!!!!!!! 🙂
Thank you very much, Jamie!
I submitted a request through Scholastic to have you visit my middle school Spring of 2019. I was already in love with your books we own and now with news of your upcoming projects, I hope more than anything my 1,000 students get to hear you speak live. Excited for the A Night Divided movie adaptation too.
Hi Wamecca – Thank you very much for thinking of me for a visit. If you don’t hear back in a timely manner, please feel free to email me at jen@jennielsen.com and we can talk directly.
When these go on to become movies might I suggest a few of my favorite actors….Ed Faulkner, Ruta Lee, James Spader, Cathy Garver, Roberta Shore (a Utah favorite), Clint Walker and Barry Corbin. Also…I could provide the food. I would do that.
Love your many successes! My Most Favorite is Night Divided. I could not put it down. I honestly read it in one sitting….
Ah, thank you Mimi – wouldn’t that be awesome? ❤️❤️❤️
Omg, so many new books I don’t know where to start. Unfortunately, I’ll have to wait about a month to read The Traitor’s Game but I am so excited! I really loved A Night Divided and I can’t wait for all your other historical fictions.
Thank you, Scully.
I would love to use the teacher’s guide for the underworld chronicles. My kids are really enjoying it! Is it still available? I can’t find it on the website.
I just emailed it to you, Susan. Thanks very much for the request!
I would love the teacher’s guide as well! This is the second year I have read it with my classes! They love it!!!
Great – I just sent you an email!
I haven’t commented for a while, but The False Prince movie adaption mentions always makes me hopeful. I read it years ago, but it’s still one of the few books I really wish would make to the big screen.
Me too – fingers crossed, Rashida!
I saw that too and I keep thinking about what the movie would be like
I love all your backs that I have read so far which was the Ascendance Trilogy and now I am on Mark of the Thief
Thank you very much, Jacob!
It would be cool if they got cole sprouse to be jaron and dylan to be roden if they made a movie
Interesting idea – perhaps they will!
The last book of the ascendence trilogy literally made me cry I was so sad that I finished the books 🙁
Stay tuned…
I reallllllllly hope there is a movie for the ascendance trilogy no joke a cried when my friend wanted to know what happend in the book it was the last one that made me cry I was sooooo sad I finished the books and really hope for more from the ascendance trilogy
Thank you, Turtle!
I loved the books for the ascendance trilogy and the last book even made me cry i was so sad that I finished and I hope there is a movie soon!
That would be awesome, right?
I’m not kidding- I finished the False Prince one day and started the next book that evening. I couldn’t put it down and kept reading until past midnight. I finished it before noon the next day and started the third book just as soon as I finished the second. Today, the day after I started it, I finished the series! I may be a fast reader, but I’ve never finished this long a book in that short of time. I never was able to take the phrase “I couldn’t put that book down!” until now. I loved the book!
Wow, thank you, Meg!
I just finished the mark of a thief series btw super good! I really want to read the trailers game though it looks awesome. I keep looking for it, but I might just end up buying it at barns and novel
Thank you, Hazel!
Will there be a third book of the traitor’s game series?
The Deceiver’s Heart was so good!
Thank you, Sean, and yes, there will be a third book!
What is your first book you would make a movie if you were going to? I am reading the false prince and it’s Amazing!
I’m so glad you’re enjoying it, Sophia. There does seem to be some ongoing interest in The False Prince for a movie – keep your fingers crossed!
I am also reading resistance! It is so good! I would go see your movie if you made one on any of your books! They are so good!
Fingers crossed for that! And thank you for choosing RESISTANCE as one of your reads.
Hey Ms. Jennifer I loved the ascendance trilogy and i am doing a project and i needed a author interview.
Can you relate to any characters in the false prince?
Did it take a lot of your imagine to come up with the false prince?
How old were you when you wrote the false prince?
Have you ever considered making a movie after this book? I feel everyone wants to see it happen
Hi Cameron – it’d be best to email me these questions (Jen@jennielsen.com). See you there –
Do you think there will ever be a movie series for the false prince and if so how long do you think it will take?
Fingers crossed, Jerilyn! If a movie happens, it will probably be a while. Things are moving, but very slowly.
I would love see the false Prince trilogy come to life on the big screen. I’ve read the trilogy more then four times and I fall in love with the story even more everytime I read it.
I’d love that too, Carol! Hopefully one day that will happen!
First I am a huge fan no joke the false prince series got me through the lot times in middle school
But is there any update on a movie?
Wow, thank you, Joshua. No real updates right now, but stay tuned for some big ones!
Are you planning to make other books similar to the False Prince?
Yes.
Can you make it connected to Jaron’s life before Conner took him? Your books are so good and I really want to read more!
🤔
I own the false prince trilogy and LOVE them to death. I have read them more times then i can count I got them in 8th grade and am now a senior in high school. The way you write is so good that every time I read them I reveal another hint to the ending or other foreshadowing pops out at me. It is soo crazy I love it and the characters, how they change and grow in each book. I also hope a movie comes out honestly if I could I’d love to be in it!!! But who wouldn’t want to be part of such an amazing adventure.Thank you for such an amazing trilogy!!!
Thank you very much, Erin!
Did you make the Ascendance Trilogy by your own past experience or did it just pop into your head? After reading your books, I am kind of considering to be an author after reading your books! I’m really amazed by how much you cheer up people by your books!
Thank you, Roxanne – that’s an incredible compliment. The False Prince drew on my imagination and just who I am as a person, which is fed by past experiences. If you think you might have story in you, just start writing – everyone begins somewhere! Just write.
please make a movie im dying to see one
I’m in – we just need Hollywood to agree!
yeah lets just cross our fingers
Yeah. I really hope there is going to make a movie soon.
I pretty sure they will make one. You have a lot of fans and it’s spreading around somehow, and with some patience, we’ll be watching it! I found the Ascendance Trilogy by searching around my school library!
It the Ascendance Trilogy in the medieval era or is it a different era?
Yes, it’d be medieval.
So i just finished The False Prince and saw there was a possible movie? Is there or is it still on hold because when i looked it up this is what cme up.
Yes, the movie is in a sort of no-man’s land right now. There is always a little conversation about it, but nothing much right now to report. Fingers crossed though, as always!
hi jennifer i was wondering about the false prince movie
Hi James – Nothing is really happening right now, but I am hopeful of better news in the future!
I know it has been I while but is there any chance of the trilogy becoming a movie series
I think it will happen one day – fingers crossed!
My 10 year old daughter and I take a lot of road trips and love audio books to pass the time. I stumbled across “the false prince” and we just LOVED it so! What a fantastic adventure!!
We just started the runaway king and can’t wait to see what’s in store! Thanks so much for your creativity, please don’t ever stop writing. Your imagination is magical!
I started looking up movies and I ended up here. I sure do hope they put some out and when they do I hope they do them justice. There’s such a wonderful foundation for quite a few new box office hits! Sometimes I feel as if Hollywood’s always trying to remake or rush together crap instead of investing time in great concepts..I sure do hope your books get the recognition and screen time they deserve, until they do we’ll enjoy what you have to offer us. Books are almost always better anyways.
Thanks very much, Rachel Ann – I’ll definitely keep writing!
Hi! I borrowed the False Prince from the library a few years ago. I was immediately hooked! I absolutely loved reading it. A year or so later, my mom saw someone was selling a book trilogy online and asked if I would be interested in buying them. I looked at them and was startled to realize I recognized the first book. It was the False Prince, which I had so enjoyed! I then bought the whole series online and quickly read through them.
Since then, I have read them many times and thoroughly enjoyed them every time. I introduced my siblings to them and they have all loved them, too! You did a wonderful job writing the series. Jaron is my favorite character in all of the existence of everything! You did amazing and I just wanted to tell you that. I hope you keep writing!
P.S. I seriously hope someone makes a movie out of it. It would be so fun to see the characters come to life!
P.P.S. The first sentence of the Runaway King is still the greatest opening sentence to any book, in my opinion.
Thank you – and I’m very proud of the first sentence of THE RUNAWAY KING too. I think it makes a reader have to read the next.
Will there be a movie anytime soon? I know it’s really late but I haven’t heard an update.
Sorry, I’d give an update if there were one to give, but there are no movie plans at this time. I hope that will change one day.
Will there be a movie? I really love the books!
There are no current movie plans, but I hope that will change one day! Thank you.
Is there any plans for the Ascendance movies yet? I know movies take a long time to develop but I really want to be a part of the movies!
There are no current plans for it, but I hope that will change one day!
Hello Mrs. Nielsen,
Thank you for all that you do. Your stories helped me last winter when I got 3 concussions and wasn’t allowed to do much. They have since then become my favorite books. I cried when I found out you were making a 4 and 5 book of the ascendance series. They also inspired me to(once I was healed) write my own trilogy.
Again, thank you so much.
Thank you!
i can’t even imagine a world of not knowing the ascendance trilogy, i like how you aren’t afraid to hurt Jaron, but at the same time you make him strong enough to beat it all. i also love how he is smart and goofy and doesn’t lie (much)
this is my fav series (ever) and i hope you continue writing books, because u are AMAZING, and i thank you for having the spirit to write. because i know its hard, i try a lot and i fail (A LOT)
do you have any tips? (for writing)
sorry i wrote a lot, i had a lot to say. anyway bye.
Thank you. And for writing tips, learn to love the rewrite. Rewrites are the difference between average writing and art.
Okay Jennifer I am a HUGE fan my favorite books are the Ascendance Series! I have just finished the Captive Kingdom in one day!!
*SPOILER ALERT FOR ANYONE WHO HAS NOT READ CAPTIVE KINDOM*
Okay at the beginning Jaron kinda sounds like a jerk, but with all going on I would probably be a jerk too. And the part he Imogen says she thought it was their life now. It literally made me cry. And I normally never cry in books. I was just so ready to slap Jaron across the face for saying that. As a girl I said (out loud oops) “What the heck Jaron” My mom literally came in saying is everything all right? Anyway, huge fan of your books, by any chance, is a bool five coming out for the ascendance series?
Hi Abby – Jaron was supremely stupid for saying that, and he eventually figured that out, but the instinct in him not to be controlled is so strong, that if he feels backed into a corner, even by someone he loves, he will push back. So you’re right, he would have deserved a slap then, but he has said it himself before, that it is a simple thing for him to understand his enemies. He struggles every day with understanding love and friendship.
is there still going to be a fith book of the ascendance series there amazing
Yes, book 5, THE SHATTERED CASTLE, will be released this fall!
Hello, I am a huge fan of your writing! Earlier this year I read A Night Divided and greatly enjoyed it. On the cover it said, New York Times bestselling author of The False Prince. I then decided to get The False Prince. The book was phenomenal so I got The Runaway King, The Shadow Throne, and The Captive Kingdom. Altogether, I must admit, they are some of my favorite books ever! I say that about a lot of books, but when I say it, I mean it. These books bring me so much joy and I am highly anticipating The Shattered Castle! I like Jaron because he reminds me so much of the clever side of myself that I don’t let people see a lot. I’ve always loved books with relatable, funny, and sometimes quirky characters!
Thank you!
Hello I am a huge fan and I’m just wondering if the Traitors Game series is in the same world as the false price series. My only evidence is how the eranbole sea was referenced in both and I am wondering if Antora is on the opposite side of the sea as Carthya
Very clever observation and um…that might just be a bit of an Easter egg you discovered! 😉
Your books are amazing. Currently reading The Shattered Castle, it’s practically glued to my hands. You’re and inspiration, keep it up!
I will be you actor