My little book

Posted by Simon on 27th, July 2009 at 14:42:35

...isn't black, in the traditional manner, but silver.

And if you're wondering what I'm talking about - and my friends do say that's a familiar feeling - I've been asked how many more books I think I can write about the adventures of Dan and Adam.

The answer is quite a few.  Just about everywhere I go I carry my little silver pocket notebook, for handy jottings down when an idea bites - and they can do so at the oddest of times.  These thoughts can be tiny, like a little mannerism for a new character, or an observation on a piece of architecture or scenery, or they can be far grander, like a potential new plot.

So, in answer to the question, I've been having a quick look through the notes, and I think there are outline ideas for at least another half dozen books there, and possibly even more.  The reason I can't be precise is that sometimes I find I have an idea, get myself all excited about it, then start to work it up as a plot and find it doesn't have quite enough to it to make a book.  So about, kind of approximately, roughly half a dozen is the best I can manage in terms of the answer.

It is remarkable how one single idea can carry a book if it's strong enough - I'd say that was the case with Death Pictures, the whole novel revolving around that strand of the riddle, what the answer was, and what it all meant.  Sometimes the characters themselves can carry a book, as with Evil Valley and how it's dominated by the person we're hunting - I won't name them in case you haven't read it - don't want to spoil it for you!

As for The Judgement Book, all I'm saying is that what carries it is probably a mix of some of the new characters you're about to meet (along with those you already know, of course) and the plot too, but in this case it's a little different, as it's the first time I've made a character of something inanimate - the Judgement Book itself.

6 weeks to go until it's released - and I have to confess, I'm getting a little excited about it...

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