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Michael Logan
Hello! Well, I have outlines for another two books, and there is a story arc that would take perhaps a further two to three to complete. However, as is the way in the publishing industry, it all depends on sales of the first book.
If you want to go out and buy roughly 50,000 copies, that would help the chances of the next books being commissioned. :-)
If you want to go out and buy roughly 50,000 copies, that would help the chances of the next books being commissioned. :-)
Michael Logan
Perhaps this is more a short story than a book, but it's something I still can't answer. Not long after I met my now-wife, we went to sleep in my rented room in a shared apartment. There was nobody else home apart from us. When we woke up in the morning, we saw, above the bed, something scrawled on the wall that had not been there the night before. It was unreadable, but clearly an attempt at writing. We thought that maybe one of us had written it in our sleep, but we couldn't find any kind of writing implement in the room that matched the ink. It could have been worse - it wasn't REDRUM or anything like that - but we were freaked out. It didn't happen again, and I moved out shortly afterwards. Ghost? Prankster home invader? My wife trying to freak me out? To this day, I don't know.
Michael Logan
Hi, Roberto. Thanks for getting in touch. I have no plans for a third cow book, I am afraid. I wanted to leave an opening ending so people could decide for themselves what happens to Geldof and chums. I've moved on to other novels. Hell's Detective: Lost Angeles is the next one.
Michael Logan
Cheers, Mick. It's on my radar. Right now I don't have the time to write, but hoping to get back into it in a few months. Hope all's well with you.
Michael Logan
Hi Rachael. Thanks for taking the time to ask a question. It's not quite the first, so somebody has already stomped this virgin snow, but it's pretty close.
I recall writing a short story when I was eight, called My Push Button World. It involved a young lad who, oddly enough, could push buttons to make anything happen: flip up a football pitch with 21 robots to play with and so on. I suspect I was quite a lonely child.
I don't remember if it was any good. Probably not, although my mum assures me she liked it. I didn't really get serious about producing until I was about 30, though. I started off with a lot of literary short stories, then veered into what I do now.
I guess it comes in fits and starts. I went on a spree for five years, but haven't written a word in six months - largely due to having a crazy busy day job and three kids. I can feel my engines revving up again, though.
I recall writing a short story when I was eight, called My Push Button World. It involved a young lad who, oddly enough, could push buttons to make anything happen: flip up a football pitch with 21 robots to play with and so on. I suspect I was quite a lonely child.
I don't remember if it was any good. Probably not, although my mum assures me she liked it. I didn't really get serious about producing until I was about 30, though. I started off with a lot of literary short stories, then veered into what I do now.
I guess it comes in fits and starts. I went on a spree for five years, but haven't written a word in six months - largely due to having a crazy busy day job and three kids. I can feel my engines revving up again, though.
Michael Logan
Hello Jessica. Glad you enjoyed both. Kind of a long answer to your question. Back in 2006, I was writing serious literary fiction, in short form, and getting rather bored with it all. I wanted to write something fun. I'd always loved zombies, and so decided there was potential in there. One night, in discussion with friends over wine in Budapest, I realized there were no zombie animals. Which, of course, made no sense given the nature of viruses. The cow angle came because I needed a big, bad, dangerous animal of sufficient quantities in the developed world. That is the cow (which kills more people each year than sharks). Everything flowed from the original title - Forget the Cud, They Want Blood, which became the tagline. I do find it funny that lots of people find the idea ridiculous, when it is no more ridiculous than human zombies. Possibly even less so, given our penchant for experimenting on animals. Anyway, there you go!
Michael Logan
I was posted here as a journo seven years ago. Only ever intended to stay for a few years, but here I still am. What do your friends do?
Michael Logan
Hi Constance. When I tried to edit, I got this message:
"Sorry, this author is on Goodreads and is responsible for editing their own data. If you see a typo or other error, then you may want to report it in the Goodreads Librarians Group."
You should be able to change your author name from your dashboard. Do that first, and if you then find you can't edit your books I will see if I can do it.
Regards,
Michael.
"Sorry, this author is on Goodreads and is responsible for editing their own data. If you see a typo or other error, then you may want to report it in the Goodreads Librarians Group."
You should be able to change your author name from your dashboard. Do that first, and if you then find you can't edit your books I will see if I can do it.
Regards,
Michael.
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