What’s next?
Solar War is now out – great news! – and so I immediately started thinking: What to do now?
Well, I’ve started work on a few more projects. I need a sense of momentum behind one before I know which will be the next to reach production stage, but it’s likely to be one of:
- A gamebook focussed squarely at 7-11 year olds
- Another in the style and world of Escape From Portsrood Forest, but this time based in a city
- An ambitious piece of collaborative fiction in a new fantasy setting in which the reader shapes the world around them as much as their own story
While the creative part of my brain has been working on these, the logical part has been kept active through a complete overhaul of the Kindle versions of the Entram Epic. If you’ve bought the Kindle versions of these, download the update to find some corrected text and a much more satisfying user experience.
I wonder how much market there is for gamebooks targeted at youngsters. Most gamebook fans seem to be us old folks who liked them in the 80s. It will be an interesting experiment to see if there is an untapped market for these.
The Portsrood follow-up sounds great! I’m already excited about it.
The big project is a little vaguely described. Is it even in the form of a gamebook, or something more elaborate?
A lot of us old folks have children – I suppose there’s only one way to really find out!
Thanks for the comment on the Portsrood follow-up – really good to know someone else would be excited by that.
The big project is planned in the form of those CYOAs with multiple endings – none is explicitly the best, and all end with a slightly different world, each of which would lead to a different next book in the series…it’ll be a while before this one gets published, it’s taking a lot of concentration to keep on top of it!
Every ending leads to a different BOOK? Ambitious was an understatement…