{"id":750,"date":"2012-11-09T09:47:25","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T09:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottkandrews.com\/?p=750"},"modified":"2012-11-09T10:04:27","modified_gmt":"2012-11-09T10:04:27","slug":"my-next-big-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottkandrews.com\/index.php\/2012\/11\/my-next-big-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"My next big thing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Damn it, that Guerrier chap tagged me in a writers Q&A meme<\/a> and I’m bound to follow suit or my entrails will be forfeit to Lord Beelzebub and his horde of demonic kittenbats. (Also, it will help prevent me writing a 10,000 word screed on the\u00a0unbelievable\u00a0corporate fuckwittery that is the Hellblazer cancellation<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Since Guerrier, and Joseph Lidster<\/a> before him, have gone off-piste I am going to do the same. I DO have a new novel in the works but I\u2019m not willing to talk about it yet, so I\u2019m going to talk about a new book I\u2019m contributing a short story to.<\/p>\n

What is the title of your new book?<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>
\nMy story \u2018Grit\u2019 is appearing in A Town Called Pandemonium<\/em><\/a>, which comes out at the end of the month.<\/p>\n

Where did the idea come from for the book?
\n<\/strong>A commission. Anne Perry and Jared Shurin asked me if I wanted to come play in their shared universe along with nine other authors, and I said yes please.<\/p>\n

Oddly, they\u2019d asked me to contribute a Dickens\/London themed tale to a previous anthology<\/a>, and as a Dickens fan and a London resident, I leapt at the chance and then… came up with nothing. Eventually I recused myself.<\/p>\n

They then said, how about a western? And I had a story within ten minutes, as if delivered by the ideas fairy. Odd how it happens sometimes. The germ of the idea was a man waking up naked in the main street of a frontier town. How did he get there and what will he do next?<\/p>\n

What genre does your book fall under?<\/strong>
\nThe book as a whole is Weird Wild West; my tale is more strictly Western Noir \u2013 I think of it as the kind of story Hard Case Crime<\/a> would publish if they did westerns. With monsters in.<\/p>\n

What actors would you choose to play the part of your characters in a movie rendition?<\/strong>
\nMy nameless hero would be Nathan Fillion; Waterloo Jones would be Helen Mirren; John Longpoke would be Joseph Gilgun; Katie would be Jodie Whittaker.<\/p>\n

What is the one sentence synopsis of your book?<\/strong>
\nA lawman, a fugitive, a dame with a gun, and a silver bullet.<\/p>\n

Will your book be self-published or represented by an agency?<\/strong>
\nIt\u2019ll be published by Pandemonium Fiction<\/a>.<\/p>\n

How long did it take you to write the first draft of the manuscript?<\/strong>
\nAbout a month. I had the opening and the ending, but the middle took a while to come into focus.<\/p>\n

What other books would you compare this story to within your genre?\u00a0<\/strong>
\nThere was a great anthology a year or so back called Gutshot<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>that falls within the same ballpark.<\/p>\n

Who or what inspired you to write this book?<\/strong>
\nI was asked by nice people, and I realised I could have some fun with it.<\/p>\n

What else about your book might pique the reader\u2019s interest?<\/strong>
\nThis awesome picture, one of six done specially for the book by Adam Hill.<\/p>\n

\"Grit<\/p>\n

Which other writers would you like to tag to tell us about their Next Big Thing?
\n<\/strong>Sophia McDougal<\/a>, Will Hill<\/a>, Gary McMahon<\/a>,\u00a0Tom Pollock<\/a>, Jonathan Morris<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Damn it, that Guerrier chap tagged me in a writers Q&A meme and I’m bound to follow suit or my entrails will be forfeit to Lord Beelzebub and his horde of demonic kittenbats. (Also, it will help prevent me writing a 10,000 word screed on the\u00a0unbelievable\u00a0corporate fuckwittery that is the Hellblazer cancellation.) Since Guerrier, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-fiction","tag-pandemonium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottkandrews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottkandrews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottkandrews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottkandrews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottkandrews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=750"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/scottkandrews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":757,"href":"https:\/\/scottkandrews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions\/757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottkandrews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottkandrews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottkandrews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}