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\n<\/a>In a utopian society, women are the sacred ruling class and men live as numbered workers, nameless unless chosen to join households and\u00a0become slaves. When a girl recently appointed the new Poetess (a spokesperson for the government) takes her first slave, a beautiful but damaged mute with mysterious origins, the forbidden romance that grows between them\u00a0shakes her belief in their\u00a0way of life. But all is not as peaceful as it seems in the world of women. A rebellious movement harboring proof of a secret history that could end\u00a0the slave system is growing in influence and bringing hope for the future, but its methods for change can be deadly. As both Mistress and slave are caught in a\u00a0web of politics and\u00a0loyalty,\u00a0sides are taken and secrets unfold that threaten\u00a0the fragile trust between them. They’ll have to learn to love as equals if they want to stop a brewing civil war,\u00a0before it destroys them all.<\/p>\n

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<\/iframe><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Nameless Timeline<\/h1>\nI get so many lovely reader emails, comments, and sometimes even FB messages, from folks who read Nameless back when it was Woman’s World on FictionPress, or who read the sample chapters and fell in love with the story. Everyone has been so supportive (and patient!), but they also always ask when Nameless will be published. I wanted to provide a comprehensive timeline about Nameless’s history and progress so you know where it stands. I’ll update this timeline as the story develops:<\/p>\n2004<\/strong><\/p>\nPrior to September 2004 I had written novel-length Animorph fan fiction, but never really worked on my own stuff. In September (the 15th, I believe) I was seized with an idea: What would the world be like if women ran it instead of men? I started writing from the perspective of a young woman selecting her first slave, and the Poetess appeared. Within the same chapter, Number 23\/Shae showed up in the line of Nameless she was choosing from. When I signed off, I had to title the document something<\/em>, and as all I basically had was ‘a world run by women’ I called it Woman’s World. The title was never meant to stick, but I never came up with anything better.<\/p>\nI was 15. The story actually stalled out for a bit, but I rediscovered it that winter.<\/p>\n2005<\/strong><\/p>\nIn February I posted the first few chapters to FictionPress, which I had seen advertised through FanFiction.net. The story grew in popularity.<\/p>\nIn May I finished the ‘first book’ with a sort of cliffhanger ending. I began working on the second book and started posting chapters in June.<\/p>\n2006<\/strong><\/p>\nI finished the second book and started writing and posting the third book. I remember finishing the second book at 2AM and putting a note on my door for my mother not to wake me in the morning, because completing a novel entitled me to sleep past 10AM, which was the absolute latest she usually allowed me to sleep in during the summer. My mother also graciously allowed me to call out of school on some days so I could stay home to write. Best mother ever <3<\/p>\n2008<\/strong><\/p>\nAfter meeting Chris, the love of my life, we decided we needed to get our adult lives started and pursue our dreams. I queried the first book over the summer, and signed with my agent in December. We began rewrites. We also changed the name to Antebellum.<\/p>\n2009<\/strong><\/p>\nAntebellum went out on submissions. The title was a flop — people thought it was related to the Civil War. Editors also didn’t know how to market the book. We pulled it back in for revisions.<\/p>\n2010<\/strong><\/p>\nMy agent suggested combining all three books into a single book, and making it YA. We also worked on changing the name, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.savannahjfoley.com\/?p=158\">settled on Nameless<\/a>, which I think is absolutely perfect. A lot of personal disasters happened this year, and I stalled out on writing for a long time. Basically 2010 was the worst year ever.<\/p>\n2011<\/strong><\/p>\nI <a href=\"http:\/\/www.savannahjfoley.com\/?p=132\">turned in a single book<\/a> (boy was it a whopper, over 100k) intended to be YA, but the voice wasn’t right. It couldn’t quite eke its way into YA.<\/p>\nWhile I’d been waiting for feedback, I’d started work on a new story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.savannahjfoley.com\/?page_id=26\">A Curse of Rose and Snow<\/a>. I completed it in June 2011 and sent it to my agent.<\/p>\nBoth my agent and I were now perplexed by Nameless, and unsure of how to fix it, so we decided to make ACORAS our primary focus.<\/p>\n2012<\/strong><\/p>\nIn February I posted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.savannahjfoley.com\/?p=835\">this really sad post<\/a> about all my negative feelings concerning Nameless. I just didn’t know what to do with it, and honestly was so exhausted with working on it and not knowing I was on the right path. I decided to shelve it indefinitely.<\/p>\nIn July I was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.savannahjfoley.com\/?p=930\">struck with an idea<\/a>\u00a0for how to improve the plot, but quickly stalled out when facing the overwhelming plot restructuring that would have to take place. Nameless waited around for a while, while I rewrote ACORAS again.<\/p>\n2013<\/strong><\/p>\nIn January I received a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.savannahjfoley.com\/?p=1157\">flash of inspiration<\/a> about the Nameless prequel, which led to an idea for Nameless: Multiple POVs. However, I quickly encountered a pretty severe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.savannahjfoley.com\/?p=1157\">characterization issue<\/a> that I slowly worked through over a few months.<\/p>\nBy May I had agreed with myself to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.savannahjfoley.com\/?p=1222\">let go of the traditional canon<\/a> and just let the characters tell me their story. I wrote about 20k before stalling again, and started to focus more on a new story, The Cobworld, but soon ideas started flowing for Nameless again, so I returned to that story.<\/p>\nIn October I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.savannahjfoley.com\/?p=1486\">added 25k<\/a> more through <a href=\"http:\/\/nanowarmup.blogspot.com\/\">Project NaNoWarmUp<\/a>.<\/p>\nMy intention was to finish the rewrite by the end of 2013 but I was unable to, being somewhat at a loss for how to properly finish it. Instead I turned my efforts to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.savannahjfoley.com\/?page_id=1415\">The Cobworld<\/a>, which was finished in March 2014.<\/p>\nWith the gracious brainstorming help of my BFF,\u00a0I created a working synopsis.<\/p>\n2014<\/strong><\/p>\nI spent most of the year working on The Cobworld, editing ACORAS, then editing The Cobworld again.\u00a0In November I made <a href=\"http:\/\/www.savannahjfoley.com\/?p=1986\">another update<\/a> about Nameless, discussing the current state of the manuscript and my fears. 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