Naturally... but I'm really welcoming to my desk, brain, life and dreams: Alexander, Jemima, Fee and...
LB and Summer.
Yep - the next project will be to finish writing the second book to feature LB and Summer. It's already about half-written. I started it ages ago (2013!) and then realised that I didn't like the ending and instead of keeping my backside in the chair and figuring out what the ending should be, I got distracted by other, new, shiny things (um... an urban fantasy trilogy for the most part, plus Poisonous Minds and launching The Wrong Kind of Clouds). So, I never got back to fixing the ending and now lots of people want to hear more about LB and Summer. Which I accept is a nice 'problem' to have!
I currently have a more significant issue to sort out than the ending though (which I think I've fixed. Or at least have lots of ideas about how to fix). No, my major problem at the moment, is that I nicked the main character from this book, lock, stock and barrel, and put him in Poisonous Minds. Oops. But, creating a new main character is huge fun and I have a lot of ideas about him. He's already beginning to walk out of my brain and talk to me - both a good sign and a slightly crazy one.
So, it's time to re-open that notebook, fill up my favourite fountain pens, get that play-list back on a repeating loop and finish what I started all those years ago.
Tinkerty tonk, old fruits (and down with the Nazis).*
[*If you don't listen to Wittertainment (The Kermode and Mayo Film Programme on BBC 5 Live), those two phrases will make no sense at all. All I can say is that you really should listen to it because it's brilliant.]
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