Probability's Edge

This is my very first novel. OK I've published another five since I started writing this one, but this is my first novel, the first one that I got to the end and said finished.

But it wasn't as easy as that - there were problems! The main one being that I swapped 'lead character' horses halfway through the novel. Which might be a brilliant new approach to novel writing, but it wasn't. Simply put - I lost the plot.

When that dawned on me, I started the mammoth task of fixing the problem. All that lovely internalisation from the Johnny-come-lately 'lead character' at the end had to be dumped, and the new perspective imposed on virtually every scene in the second half of the novel, or the other way to go was to change the beginning? It was a tough decision.

At that point there was the lure of a new work, The Box of Tricks and after that the first in my Sunset of Magic fantasy series, The Last Trollid. But every now and again I came back to Probability's Edge (though it wasn't called that yet). A seemingly relentless and uphill struggle - dumping 'perfectly good' scenes, dialogue and internalisation wasn't easy. But eventually I did it.

Was I finished? Of course not. Now I needed to edit the book to the 'new standard' of writing I'd achieved through completing another three novels: Books 2 & 3 in the Sunset of Magic series, The Counsel of Wizards & Bort's People and a new SF book Perax Frontier.

So, coming soon(ish) 'Probability's Edge' -

"After crash landing on a technologically backward planet, the crew of the Eagle face a tough decision, save themselves, or save the planet."

And there's still the cover to sort...

But who said writing novels was easy?