Ask the Author: James Aylott
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James Aylott
Hi There! My next book is set in St. Louis! Missouri has the same craziness as Florida only with less beaches and a heavier armed populace. First draft is done and I am working on revisions now. From there I am going to give it a shot querying literary agents. Earliest it will be out is early 2024! It is good so worth the wait.
James Aylott
Certainly I will! I have not read a book in a year as I have been working on my follow up to Tales from The Beach House. I have the one 30 pages more to write. Once I have that finished and revised Bristlecone Magic will be top of my long reading list.
James Aylott
Thank you for the question and the gem of a review you penned on my behalf! I am slowly working on my follow up but somehow need to make a large window of time and currently, it is a mystery how that will happen! Certainly at the very least there will be a cameo or two from the wretched hive of scum and villainy that frequented The Beach House. I do also have an all new rogues gallery of dreamers, hustlers and crazies and random sad sacks for the next book.
James Aylott
Thanks Doria for the compliment! This book was years in the making as will be the next. I will keep you posted and glad you enjoyed it!
James Aylott
Pacing is like the Wings song “Band on the Run”! Up until Apartment #5 it is a little dark and funky! Once you get to Apartment #6 it is jazzy all the way through! Hope you find a useful takeaway and at the very least learn something new! If nothing else you might rush to youtube to listen to Band on the Run by Wings!
James Aylott
Glad we made our way into Michigan's finest library!
James Aylott
Wow! They do have some crazy rules and certainly and iron grip on the world of book publishing!
James Aylott
Dennis thanks for the compliments. Check out on youtube a British television show from the 1970s called “Trumpton”! I would love to make “Tales from The Beach House “in a similar stop motion method with puppets and models. 16 episodes of about 15 minutes each. Would be really cool.
James Aylott
Thanks for the question Lisa! I am not planning on a series in the Mango Bob/Key West Capers formula! For a start I couldn’t write books quick enough (time commitments) and not really sure I would be happy with the end product if I did. I have a fascination with the dark underbelly of life in seedy American apartment buildings. I am slowly making notes and plotting out a similarly stylized set of interwoven stories set in St. Louis. It is going to be a long project but I have 90% of my main characters in place! It will be quite a ride! Think Carl Hiaasen meets Gillian Flynn. Tales from The Beach House has been optioned by a Hollywood Production company. If they manage to get it made there is certainly some scope in spinning off a few of these screwball characters into their own adventures. If we have luck in Hollywood it will certainly allow me to divert some time to my next book!
James Aylott
My next book is a work in progress. I have a title, story arc and excellent band of villainy, scum, hopelessness and heroes for my set of characters. I just need to set aside a substantial amount of time to write it. In the meantime please get the word out there about Tales from The Beach House! An avalanche of book sales would certainly speed up the creative process,
James Aylott
Will check it out now as you cannot get enough Florida fiction.
James Aylott
One of my favorite quotes and I think maybe at one time we even had that printed on the office wall. Enjoy the book.
James Aylott
You are lucky to be living in such a wonderful town! Enjoy the book!
James Aylott
They say everyone has a novel in them but most never get written. I did not want to be that person who never finished their novel. Although they also say throw away your first novel and immediately start on your second. Tales from The Beach House would make a great television series so for one thing I now have my pitch out there and all ready for pickup!
James Aylott
I worked at Star, then based in Boca Raton for a year and being a transplant from Los Angeles via London it became instantly apparent that Florida had a unique culture. The phrase we use in the tabloid news trade to describe the daily news cycle in Florida is a “Man-Bites-Dog” kind of world. I then moved back to California but not quite being able to quit the Sunshine State I kept a vacation home in Delray Beach (Setting for Tales from The Beach House). Ten years of calling Florida a second home was enough to inspire at least one novel.
James Aylott
I am plotting out my second book that is provisionally entitled: Tales of Whiskey Tango from Misery Towers. This novel will be set in a creaking old apartment building overlooking the Mississippi river in St. Louis. The State of Missouri (Where I am currently embedded) shares a lot of similarities with Florida. We also have strange people that find extraordinary ways to make themselves newsworthy. This book is going to be a cross between Gillian Flynn and Carl Hiaasen and will be a love letter to the Heartland.
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Aug 11, 2023 07:57AM · flag