Having already had a synopsis for Dusk Watchman that Orion have seen (and maybe liked, but probably only cared that I had a plan for the final book) my brain has been refusing to even think about it for months. Just the nagging feeling that I should be planning this book as soon as I ended book 4 has made me stressed and exhausted, as I knew it would frankly. As a result I’ve been carefully ignoring it until my contract states I need to start working on the book (rather arbitrary but it happened to fit what I wanted) and it’s a relief that last night I actually got a coherent thought on the subject – a long way from getting the book finalised but gods I’m glad something’s started to move on the subject and I’ve got revisions of the synopsis planned. First step’s always the hardest the say, though frankly it’s the several hundred thousand that follow I’m more worried about!
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Yeah, first step is always tough one. I’ve had always one question in my mind. How come that one thinks: “Ok, I have some ideas, let’s write four books.” The whole saga thing is pretty popular these days and I can’t simply understand why. Is that because you’ve come with a complex world (magic, nations, races etc.) and want to have more than one book from this world (BTW: Thank you for harlequins – amazing idea which deserve to be remade into something pen & paper) or you just want readers to read more of your books simply by not ending the story? Maybe it’s a storyline, which in your opinion deserves much more space than one book can offer. So, tell me, what is the thought behind the decision to make a saga? :)
P.S.: I am a bit upset about that because you write good. I live in Czech Republic and so far we have only two books here, which means I will have to wait few months (year) for another one.
Tomáš Tomášek
Yeah, don’t think Fantom have got around to buy the next two yet, but I think that’s an admin thing rather than sales since they’ve just sent me posters etc!
On the saga front, it’s simply that I wanted a long complex story and that’s hard to tell properly in one book. When you’re working on a world-sized scale and still looking at individuals for the story, you can’t say enough in just one book!
Yeah, first step is always tough one. I’ve had always one question in my mind. How come that one thinks: “Ok, I have some ideas, let’s write four books.” The whole saga thing is pretty popular these days and I can’t simply understand why. Is that because you’ve come with a complex world (magic, nations, races etc.) and want to have more than one book from this world (BTW: Thank you for harlequins – amazing idea which deserve to be remade into something pen & paper) or you just want readers to read more of your books simply by not ending the story? Maybe it’s a storyline, which in your opinion deserves much more space than one book can offer. So, tell me, what is the thought behind the decision to make a saga? :)
P.S.: I am a bit upset about that because you write good. I live in Czech Republic and so far we have only two books here, which means I will have to wait few months (year) for another one.
Tomáš Tomášek
Yeah, don’t think Fantom have got around to buy the next two yet, but I think that’s an admin thing rather than sales since they’ve just sent me posters etc!
On the saga front, it’s simply that I wanted a long complex story and that’s hard to tell properly in one book. When you’re working on a world-sized scale and still looking at individuals for the story, you can’t say enough in just one book!