Wednesday, July 22, 2009

More Merling

Or, perhaps, Moreling? Perhaps not.

Either way, it seems I sufficiently impressed the powers that be at Random House Children's Books to land myself more work in this series of novelisations for the BBC's Merlin.

We writers have to earn our bread somehow, and if this keeps up I may even be able to stretch to a French loaf. Of course, I'm not at liberty to say anything more about future books at this stage, but in the meantime, the first book in the series, The Dragon's Call, due for release this September, is available for pre-order on Amazon. As is my other contribution so far, The Poisoned Chalice, due for release in November.

Obviously, the thing to do is to buy them and impress upon the publishing world that folks will buy books just because Simon Forward had a hand in writing them. :-)

10 comments:

IZP said...

This is good. I've only ever caught a few minutes of the series, mind, but I'm sure you're filleting and tweaking it well.
One day these may well be looked back on like some of those 70s Targets, adaptations that outshine the source.

SAF said...

Cheers, Ian! That's me, a filleter and a tweaker. :-)

IZP said...

You know full well you're also a buffer and invisible mender.
I just didn't want to swell your head with talk of prose style and plotting.

Anonymous said...

surely it would stretch to a bowl of gruel and a french loaf?

SAF said...

Good thinking, Ian. You know it was my head blocking out the sun across Asia yesterday, right? :-)

Phillipa said...

that was I, Phillipa, musing on gruel. I keep getting confused as to which thingy to click. I made space in my mind for HTML by throeing out blog commenting protocol

SAF said...

:-) I thought you had all this internet stuff mastered, Phillipa.

Phillipa said...

well I fooled you! Ha! I'm hanging off the learning curve with a rope and harness, my ice axe lodge somewhere above me

Elaine Warner said...

Congratulations!!! You impressed them because you're an impessive writer.

SAF said...

Very kind of you to say so, Elaine. Although I do know you're biased ;-)