Jennifer asked Scott Hawkins:

I am almost done on reading your book and I love it. Are you in the process of writing another fiction book?

Scott Hawkins Hey Jennifer,

First, thanks for asking. As it happens, YES. A couple weeks ago I finished the first draft of a new book. It's still a good long ways from being ready to start showing to people, but it has a beginning, middle and end. That, for me, is a bigger milestone than it is for a lot of people. A lot of writers know how their story will end before they start, but I tend to just wing it. That's great in terms of creative freedom, but more than once I've ended up stuck in a dead end.

The new story is a standalone, unrelated to Mount Char. If you can imagine Looney Tunes doing a hard-boiled / noir detective version of Scooby Doo investigating the Exorcist, that's kind of the ballpark I'm aiming for. (For comparison, I pitched Mount Char as "Monty Python presents the Godfather starring the X-Men.)

Thanks for asking!

Best,

Scott

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