Chris Kridler asked Jasper Fforde:

Like many of your questioners, I'm a total fangirl of your work, especially the Thursday Next series, and I dream of an afterlife that's much like the Bookworld, where I can visit my own stories even if no one has read them. :) Have you imagined lives for your own unpublished work (if you have any such phenomena in your desk drawer)? Do you have a manuscript you love that has yet to find publication?

Jasper Fforde Hello Chris. I think the interesting thing about unpublished works or even unwritten works is that right now, they don't exist anywhere at all - yet in two years they will be a book, printed, all to read. Where is that book right now? Is it still in its individual building blocks of story, a narrative quantum state of semi existence, or do we just create something from nothing, defying all laws of physics. As for manuscripts, yes, I've got a few sitting on my hard drive, but they're a bit lame, and will require six months or so to bring up to scratch - and in that time I could write something new..

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