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Veronica Roth to Pen FOUR New Short Stories from Four’s POV #MoreFour

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Initiates! This is not a drill! Veronica Roth and Harper Teen have announced the first of FOUR (ha!) short stories that will be written in Four’s POV! The first titled The Transfer is set to debut on September 24, 2013! There hasn’t been any official announcement yet, just this page on Harper Teen’s website.

 

 

Are you excited for even MORE Four?!

UPDATE:

Thanks to our friends over at Divergent Fans, we even more news about the new short stories. All four titles were found on Amazon France. Here they are:

  1. The Transfer- September 24, 2013
  2. The Initiate- December 17, 2013
  3. The Son- January 21, 2014
  4. The Traitor- February 11, 2014

The release dates and American titles have not been confirmed, but we’ll let you know if any of this changes as soon as we hear about it! For now all we have to say is this… AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

 

UPDATE #2: Veronica Roth talked about the short stories on her blog. Here’s what she had to say:

I HAVE BEEN WAITING TO TELL YOU GUYS THIS FOR MONTHS.

 

Short version: there are going to be Divergent e-shorts!

 

Four of them!

 

And they will be about…drumroll, please…

 

Four!

 

(See what I did there?)

 

And the first one will be out on September 24th!

 

Long version: when my publisher approached me hoping that I would be able to write some extra Divergent content from them, I considered a few options for what I might write about, or whose perspective I might choose. Over time it became clear to me that the character I was most interested in exploring further was Four. Two reasons: first, I know his perspective is the one a lot of you are interested in reading (I get asked if I’m going to write anything else from his perspective all the time!), and hey, you’re my readers and I like to write things you want to read; second, I was excited by the idea of expanding my own understanding of him, the way I did when I rewrote the knife-throwing scene from his perspective for the Free Four e-short.

For me, Four has never just been Tris’s love interest or a way for sexual tension to enter the story. He has always been a whole person with a history that affects him (and Tris) in significant ways, and a co-mover of the plot along with Tris. These stories are helping me to delve into his character in a way I never have before, and to build up parts of the world that Tris never experienced due to her limited perspective. Interestingly enough, they also affected the content of Allegiant, giving me more to draw from—awesome, right?

 

These stories will be longer than Free Four (Four’s retelling of the knife-throwing scene, which was only thirteen pages), and the first one will be out on September 24th. You can learn more official info here, too. And of course, I’ll keep you informed of the other stories as information becomes available, too.

 


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