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Works in Progress
Some of you may remember the page that was here before, in which I was writing a journal about my progress with my third book. Well, that journal was partly the reason that this website ended up being so horribly out of date, because when things went a bit Pete Tong with the book, I couldn't face writing about it. Frankly, I couldn't face thinking about it! Which meant I ended up avoiding this website.
So, in order that such a thing can never happen again, I have locked the writer's journal away in a golden ring, which will be taken on a perilous and near impossible journey to the crack of doom and...er...no, sorry, wrong story. What I meant to say is that I'm not going to attempt to write a journal here anymore.
Especially since I've now placed the book I was working on (the one with the giant killer clockwork death robots) on hiatus, and am working on something else. Sorry if you were one of the lovely people who expressed so much enthusiasm over this book while I was working on it. I'm not abandoning that project - I intend to make it book#4, but I need to be away from it for a while to work out the problems that plagued me from the beginning.
In the meantime I'm working on something completely different. Having learned my lesson, I'm not going to give too many details. This new book is based on another fairytale, but turns the fairytale upside down and looks at all the events from a completely different perspective. It's set in my fantasy version of Feudal Japan. And that's all you get for now!
Future Books
I've already mentioned, I plan to make the book featuring the Giant Killer Clockwork Praying Mantis Death Robots my fourth, which means I'll go back to work on it as soon as I've finished my Japanese-style book. My plans for this one will probably include removing a lot of the early portions of the book that were causing my trouble: basically all the chapters showing the female protagonist's childhood. I think I'll be taking the plunge by having almost all the story narrated directly from the male protagonist's point of view (because I loved writing about him, and she drove me mad).
After that, I've got plans for several other books. Some of them will come to nothing, and others may end up on your bookshelf.
The story I'm most interested in telling next will be an indirect sequel to Daughter of the Flames, which will take place several years after after Sorin and Zira come to power, and will be set in the mountains where Zira grew up. Fans of Daughter of the Flames will probably like it a lot (although Zira and Sorin will only make guest appearances) because the story is going to be stuffed with battles, fights and other such mayhem. My dad can't wait to read this one.
After that, I have an idea for a book which will be partially set in Modern Britain (gasp) and partially in a parallel or 'faery' world, which a family stumbles into. This one will revisit a favourite theme of mine: shape-shifting. What would it feel like to fall into another world and suddenly find that you're a squirrel? My characters might well get to find out.
And after that...who knows?
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