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The Next Big Thing
The Next Big Thing: Ten Questions Meme:
Tor Roxburgh, whom I recently met at Conflux convention in Canberra, tagged me for this. I tag![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
satyapriya, stephen_dedman, Satima Flavell and sue_bursztynski. I'm not sure who else of my writerly friends has already been asked, so if anybody else would like to be tagged, feel free to message me.
You post your own entry a week after this post appears, though due to a strange timetravelling anomaly and also because he got asked three times, Stephen has already posted his NBT!
1) What is the title of your next book?
I'm still considering, but at the moment, probably No Friends Day.
2) Where did the idea come from for the book?
A bunch of short stories I wrote with the theme of extreme climate change, set 30-40 years in the future, getting closer all the time. People read them and asked was there a novel and I said confidently that of course there would be.
3) What genre does your book fall under?
Science fiction/apocalypse; one of my favourite things. I have not yet found a way to include zombies in my personal vision, but my zombie plan is fully realised.
4) What actors would you choose to play the part of your characters in a movie rendition?
No one known. I'd like them to be unknowns. Also I would like a walk-on role myself, maybe as one of the Drainers.
5) What is the one-sentence synopsis of your book?
The federal government decides to abandon Perth, leaving behind a confused bunch of folk who decline to be "rescued" and begin a new society.
6) When will the book be published?
Some time after I finish writing it, I hope.
7) How long did it take you to write the first draft of the manuscript?
I'm still here. It's been going around in my head and keeping me awake at 3am (thanks book, thanks characters) for several months, but I am a slow writer and we're only at the 22,000-odd word mark. Slow writer, I said.
8) What other books would you compare this story to within your genre?
I don't know. I don't think anyone has abandoned an established city yet (could be wrong and I'm sure folk will tell me if I am), but I have several times encountered references to Perth being on the viability edge in nonfiction. There was a story in the West Australian newspaper today suggesting that the tides are getting higher in Perth because the city is sinking.
9) Who or what inspired you to write this book?
I wanted to write a "beginning again" book but not the sort that is written over and over, where a war or a plague destroys civilisation. Something where a few people have a chance to remake something which the powers that be threw away. Maybe people who never had much of a chance to form the society which existed before. This wasn't nearly so coherent as it sounds looking back. I began with Ash, who is transgender FTM and finds himself in what is effectively a medieval community. Ash was my viewpoint into the Nightside world and I identify with him a lot. Make of that what you will. There's a professor who guides the society but is afraid to step outside. A schoolteacher who never got a chance to do anything important before she was left behind in an empty city. Now I'm waffling, so I will stop.
10) What else about the book might pique the reader’s interest?
You tell me. What would people like to know?
Tor Roxburgh, whom I recently met at Conflux convention in Canberra, tagged me for this. I tag
satyapriya, stephen_dedman, Satima Flavell and sue_bursztynski. I'm not sure who else of my writerly friends has already been asked, so if anybody else would like to be tagged, feel free to message me.You post your own entry a week after this post appears, though due to a strange timetravelling anomaly and also because he got asked three times, Stephen has already posted his NBT!
1) What is the title of your next book?
I'm still considering, but at the moment, probably No Friends Day.
2) Where did the idea come from for the book?
A bunch of short stories I wrote with the theme of extreme climate change, set 30-40 years in the future, getting closer all the time. People read them and asked was there a novel and I said confidently that of course there would be.
3) What genre does your book fall under?
Science fiction/apocalypse; one of my favourite things. I have not yet found a way to include zombies in my personal vision, but my zombie plan is fully realised.
4) What actors would you choose to play the part of your characters in a movie rendition?
No one known. I'd like them to be unknowns. Also I would like a walk-on role myself, maybe as one of the Drainers.
5) What is the one-sentence synopsis of your book?
The federal government decides to abandon Perth, leaving behind a confused bunch of folk who decline to be "rescued" and begin a new society.
6) When will the book be published?
Some time after I finish writing it, I hope.
7) How long did it take you to write the first draft of the manuscript?
I'm still here. It's been going around in my head and keeping me awake at 3am (thanks book, thanks characters) for several months, but I am a slow writer and we're only at the 22,000-odd word mark. Slow writer, I said.
8) What other books would you compare this story to within your genre?
I don't know. I don't think anyone has abandoned an established city yet (could be wrong and I'm sure folk will tell me if I am), but I have several times encountered references to Perth being on the viability edge in nonfiction. There was a story in the West Australian newspaper today suggesting that the tides are getting higher in Perth because the city is sinking.
9) Who or what inspired you to write this book?
I wanted to write a "beginning again" book but not the sort that is written over and over, where a war or a plague destroys civilisation. Something where a few people have a chance to remake something which the powers that be threw away. Maybe people who never had much of a chance to form the society which existed before. This wasn't nearly so coherent as it sounds looking back. I began with Ash, who is transgender FTM and finds himself in what is effectively a medieval community. Ash was my viewpoint into the Nightside world and I identify with him a lot. Make of that what you will. There's a professor who guides the society but is afraid to step outside. A schoolteacher who never got a chance to do anything important before she was left behind in an empty city. Now I'm waffling, so I will stop.
10) What else about the book might pique the reader’s interest?
You tell me. What would people like to know?
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