Fools and Irishmen
I'm astonished at how, well, commercial my novel So Dark the Night is.
It practically screams for a movie adaptation.
A sure-fire audience pleaser, featuring the two most likeable and fully-imagineered characters I've ever created.
And none of it was deliberate.
For one thing, I never intended to write a really big book. I thought it would come in at around the same length as my previous attempt at a novel (250 pages). But So Dark the Night wouldn't be reined in like that. The story unfolds over six weeks (six weeks!) and that meant more scenes, more characters. Everything about the book was an epiphany; I had an outline but that was more for confidence purposes. At times I truly despaired of ever finishing, pulling the many threads together--but then, like the Pete Tiownshend song goes, "Somebody saved me". There were points during the writing of So Dark the Night when I wasn't in control. The pen moving across the page of its own volition. Magic time.
I've never written anything finer, never been so plugged in. I spent over three years living at close quarters with my characters and I got to know them very well indeed. They live and breathe for me. I've brought them to life. Click on the blog, have a look.
So Dark the Night delivers the goods. It's funny and piss-scary in the next breath. The shortest 460 page book you'll ever read. If I'm lying, you can tell me so. I'm easy to spot: the guy who can't stop grinning. A proud father, still white-faced, hardly believing the ordeal is over (never suspecting it's only begun)...
- Login Or register To Post Comments
- Send To A Friend
RSS- Bookmark With:
