Fdj
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Scott Hawkins:
Bravo. Wonderful book. Thank you. Rather than a sequel, I would love to see a prequel with one or more of the 9 attempts with the two key characters' roles reversed. (Intentionally cryptic to avoid spoilers). Have you considered telling that story?
Scott Hawkins
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(view spoiler)[Hey Fdj
Spoilery spoilers for a book that may never be written.
You should be a writer. That's pretty much exactly what I was thinking about doing. Oh screw it, I'll just spell it out. My thinking for a second book is that our Carolyn would fight one of the dead Carolyns who was brought up studying David's catalog.
Partly this is because Carolyn is so overpowered now. She's basically Superman. In general, it's going to be really hard for me as a writer to find someone worthy for her to fight. But I'm also a sucker for evil twin stories. (Did you ever see those Buffy episodes with Evil Willow? Best++)
Anyway, I sort of laid the groundwork for this plotline in the first book. (Seriously, this isn't a retconn). It turns out that the reason Father kept killing Margaret over and over and over again is so that Margaret would get familiar with the path between the forgotten lands and the living world. In all the alternate realities, Margaret was always the catalog of death.
The upshot is that she (Margaret) has died and been resurrected more than anyone, ever. So she can find her way back from death...or guide other people back from death. Evil Carolyn knows this and...something something something.
Anyway, that's about as far as I got. I'm working on something else right now.
I'd like to do somehting along these lines, a short story at least, but I can't make any promises. I'm on year three of trying to finish this unrelated followup novel. I'll take a look at it if/when that's done. (hide spoiler)]
Spoilery spoilers for a book that may never be written.
You should be a writer. That's pretty much exactly what I was thinking about doing. Oh screw it, I'll just spell it out. My thinking for a second book is that our Carolyn would fight one of the dead Carolyns who was brought up studying David's catalog.
Partly this is because Carolyn is so overpowered now. She's basically Superman. In general, it's going to be really hard for me as a writer to find someone worthy for her to fight. But I'm also a sucker for evil twin stories. (Did you ever see those Buffy episodes with Evil Willow? Best++)
Anyway, I sort of laid the groundwork for this plotline in the first book. (Seriously, this isn't a retconn). It turns out that the reason Father kept killing Margaret over and over and over again is so that Margaret would get familiar with the path between the forgotten lands and the living world. In all the alternate realities, Margaret was always the catalog of death.
The upshot is that she (Margaret) has died and been resurrected more than anyone, ever. So she can find her way back from death...or guide other people back from death. Evil Carolyn knows this and...something something something.
Anyway, that's about as far as I got. I'm working on something else right now.
I'd like to do somehting along these lines, a short story at least, but I can't make any promises. I'm on year three of trying to finish this unrelated followup novel. I'll take a look at it if/when that's done. (hide spoiler)]
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Scott Hawkins:
Let me start off by saying, I have to give you praise for this book. As a librarian, I read a lot of books and this one moved to the top of my list of books to recommend to patrons. I loved it so much I bought numerous copies to give out as gifts, and one to donate to my library - since they don't have a copy of it. What was your biggest inspiration for writing this book? Also, Karl Urban as David would be amazing.
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Scott Hawkins:
Please tell me the next book will be horror/fantasy!? I loved the dark comedy feel to Mount Char and found it so unique. I would also be interested in something techy, I see that you have written some coding language books. Will something along those lines be in future works?
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Mar 18, 2019 08:07PM · flag
Oh my God, dude, ...more
Sep 12, 2019 07:21PM · flag