Looking past the Looking Glass Club…
Happy belated Easter to everyone. I’m only just recovering from a nasty bronchial flu-type infection which floored me over Easter, hence the radio silence. Quick thanks to everyone who’s emailed/tweeted/facebook messaged me. It’s always lovely to hear from people, especially when the feedback is so wonderfully positive.
Only a couple of people seemed to have disliked The Looking Glass Club, so far, enough to write negative reviews on Amazon anyway, and even those reviews have tried to be constructive and the points made seem largely to be a matter of personal taste. I don’t think one could hope for more as a writer, frankly. It’s even more encouraging given that people are ten times more likely to write a review of something they didn’t like than something they did. (By quoting this statistic, I am, of course, thinly disguising a call to action to write a nice review for LGC on Amazon if you haven’t already!)
Some questions from readers seem to crop up regularly, the most common of which is, what am I working on next, and is there a sequel to LGC.
Yes, there IS a sequel (of course!). It’s called Wonderland, but I can’t give you a release date yet because, well, I haven’t written it yet; it’s still mostly in my head and in notes in every conceivable format, paper and electronic.
Wonderland, probably won’t, however, be my next published novel. LGC was pretty intense to write, and I needed a break from that world, so some time ago I started on an unrelated novel called Supernova - also an SF Thriller. I plan to finish Supernova before embarking on Wonderland. The good news is, it’s going very well, and I’m very excited about the project. It certainly won’t take as long to write as LGC did and I hope to have a first draft ready later this year.
I’m not going to say much about what it’s about, except that I’m exploring more big ideas in physics and philosophy that I find fascinating. I hope you will too. It’s a much more straight-forward story and style this time though, and the ideas are simpler to convey, so hopefully it will be accessible to a wider readership.
What else? Oh, there’s a little LGC-themed game coming out shortly on the LGC website. It’s silly, funny and bears only the vaguest relationship to the book (we thought it was more important to make it fun than thematically accurate). There will be a news release about that when it’s out. If you’re a gamer, and fancy beta testing it, do let us know via the contact form.
That’s it for now!
Gruff
