My next big thing
Many thanks to the lovely Vanessa Wu for suggesting I continue the chain of this interview. I managed to book an appointment with myself and give myself a good grilling:
1) What is the working title of your current/next book?
The working title’s GII but that’s just private code, really. (It’s actually short for Genesis II – which, I know, has already been used, so it won’t stay as that.)
2) Where did you get the idea for that book?
I first had the idea at university and have been mulling it over ever since.
3) What’s the genre of the book?
I guess the genre would be apocalyptic or post-apocalytpic fiction.
4) If you could pick actors to play the lead characters in your story, who would you pick?
Justine Waddell and Matthew Macfadyen.
5) How would you describe your book in one sentence (10 words or less)?
It’s a love story set at the end of the world.
6) (a) How will your book be published, submitted through the traditional route to a traditional publisher or will you be handling it yourself through Indie Publishing methods?
I’ll try the tradition route, then go all-out indie if there’s nothing doing.
(b) If you’re an Indie Author, will you be publishing through your own Indie Publishing company or in a collective with other Indie Authors?
If I take the indie route, I’ll publish it myself.
7) How long did it take you to write the first draft of this book?
A couple of months at most. It’s the rewrites that run into years.
8) What other books within your genre are similar to yours?
Not my genre exactly but I Am Legend.
9) Who or what inspired you to write this book?
A niggling idea in the middle of the night that still hasn’t left me all these years later.
10) What about your book will pique the reader’s interest?
As well as being an end-of-the-world love story, the book’s also a literary mystery because what is going on appears to be part of a larger plan. The question is, whose?
11) Do you know any other fab authors who might like to tell the world about their next big thing?
Yes. Very glad to pass the interview baton on to Graeme Cooper.
