Flames

So I’m now well into Heaven in Flames, the third book in the Metropolitan sequence. I’m confronting the normal problems of writing a sequel: how much of the backstory to reveal at any given moment, working out how the characters may have changed, and— after a gap of 25 years— how well I remember what I was trying to accomplish in the first place.

But I’m also adrift in a sea of words, ideas, and characters that never seem to sit still enough for me to get ahold of them. The book is moving ...