I recently finished the first draft of ‘Richmond’s Podcast Crisis’ (I was going to call it ‘Richmond’s Pandemic Podcast Crisis’ but it was just too long winded and I would’ve struggled to fit that on the cover), and now, while I leave it to brew for a bit, I’m working on a children’s novel which I started a long time ago called ‘The Badger Helper Watcher’. Once I’ve finally finished it, it’ll be part of a trilogy. Each book will star Sam and Sally, two friends who meet in the first book in Valleyvale. The first book is a kind of a 1984 meets Charlie and The Chocolate Factory conspircy thriller. The second one is going to be based around an alien invasion with a twist, and the third one will be centred around one of my favourite sci-fi subgenres: Time Travel. Part of the reason why it’s taken me so long to write the first book is that I kept coming up with new ideas which could only work in different stories, so I got distracted. Now that I know what I’m doing (at least, I think I do) I’m confident that I can finally finish ‘The Misadventures of Sam and Sally Or The Badger Helper Watcher’ as the first book is now known.
Writing Update
Published by John Payne
I write novels and short stories and draw and write cartoons. The main cartoon I'm working on at the moment is Still Life. It's about a man who sits at home on his sofa all day and yet bizarre things still happen to him. At the moment him and his sofa are stuck on a desert island. Check out Still Life Series Five: Beyond the Sofa on this site. My debut novel is out now. It's called 'A Fifth Visitor', and it's a very unofficial sequel to 'A Christmas Carol'. The story picks up five years after the events of Dickens' classic, and we see how Scrooge is getting on with his promise to always keep Christmas. A new spirit pays him a visit and convinces Scrooge that he's not doing enough to redeem himself, so they both travel to the future to save a young nurse called Grace, but there's something big that this new spirit is keeping to himself. I'm developing a website dedicated to my writing, so watch this space. One of my short stories is available on amazon kindle. If you want to check it out, it's called 'Richmond's Rarity'. It's about a late night hospital radio DJ. I've written it under my author name of John D Payne. View all posts by John Payne
JOHN D. PAYNE IS WRITING 