Ask the Author: Andrew Wallace
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Andrew Wallace
That would be the writing, which is a terrific high because it engages me almost completely: that daunting flight into the unknown with only my wits and madness for company, plus biscuits for the dark times.
Andrew Wallace
Never lose the love and always keep writing. There’s probably other stuff, like ‘story is character’ and ‘if you want to sell the book then do so before you write it’ but keeping on is what all my mentors advised me to do and it’s the only thing that has ever really stuck.
Andrew Wallace
The second Diamond Roads novel, which is called The Outer Spheres. While the main question in Sons of the Crystal Mind is answered, many others remain. Charity and her world are so rich and complex it will take many books to explore them fully. This abundance is great from a material point of view but it’s a burden psychologically because after nearly eighteen years I still haven’t got the blasted thing out of my poor bothered head.
Andrew Wallace
It’s not really a decision; I just have to do it. To add focus, the highlight of my working day is the two hours I get in the café every morning that are pure writing time. The guy who delivers City AM thinks I own the place because I stand at the coffee bar just back from the window with a laptop looking all intense because of the caffeine.
Andrew Wallace
It started as a niggling worry that if the human population keeps growing and building there will eventually be just one great house covering the entire planet. I wondered how such a feat could be achieved, which led to the inventions which became the system underlying my eerie future society.
Eventually the setting evolved into a city instead of an Earth-smothering construction, although it is a city no one can leave. A beautiful, terrifying place, it is so technologically advanced that any kind of government is impossible.
Into this lethal, beguiling environment steps bright but naïve Charity Freestone, who somehow survives everything the city hurls at her. How she does so and what exactly the problem is with everything are questions that determine the rest of the story.
My blog on Goodreads goes into more detail. I’d love to know what you think.
Eventually the setting evolved into a city instead of an Earth-smothering construction, although it is a city no one can leave. A beautiful, terrifying place, it is so technologically advanced that any kind of government is impossible.
Into this lethal, beguiling environment steps bright but naïve Charity Freestone, who somehow survives everything the city hurls at her. How she does so and what exactly the problem is with everything are questions that determine the rest of the story.
My blog on Goodreads goes into more detail. I’d love to know what you think.
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