After discussing these issues with her agents, Andrew Nurnberg and Oliver Latsch, Funke made the decision to part ways with her publishers and launch her own publishing house for markets in the U.S.

The golden yarn is the yarn that binds us to people with love.” Her publishers also objected to the “open ending” of the book and asked Funke to turn it into an epilogue instead. “And it’s about what love does to you, and it’s about the fruit of love – a baby. “It’s about love,” says Funke, from her Beverly Hills home. The opening chapter describes a dark faerie watching a princess give birth. Could you please put that somewhere else?’ ” That’s a little drastic for our audience. “It said, ‘We love the book, Cornelia, but could you please change the first chapter? It’s a birth scene. After returning from a book tour in Germany where her publisher had released The Golden Yarn this February, Funke says she was “stunned” by the email she received from her editor at Little, Brown in the U.S., who she says was also speaking on behalf of the author’s U.K. Funke’s partner in this endeavor is Mathew Cullen of Mirada Studios in Los Angeles.Īt issue was a request by Funke’s publisher Little, Brown, to move the first chapter of The Golden Yarn – the third title in her Mirrorworld series – to a different place in the book. publisher, and a growing wish to be free of restrictions on her artistic output, as the motivating factors in her decision to start her own press, called Breathing Books. In an unusual move, bestselling children’s author and illustrator Cornelia Funke, whose fantasy series Inkheart and Mirrorworld have been globally popular, cites creative differences with her U.S.