Things are going really well with the first draft of the fifth Pulse Hospital Radio Chronicle: ‘Richmond’s Roadshow Revelation’. I’m on the cusp of the final act now, and I’ve even come up with a minor subplot for James which will lead nicely into the full length novel I’ve got planned for the gang.
This morning I had a barrage of ideas hit me for my children’s adventure book series about a boy who stumbles upon a new dimension with a superpowered version of himself in. The possibilities are endless and I’m looking forward to delving deeper into it. The only problem I can see is names. If he comes across loads of different versions of himself, things could get seriously confusing (even more so than when I lived at home with my parents and my mum would shout upstairs to my dad “Don!” and both of us would respond. The hero of the story is currently called Malcolm, so that can be shortened to Mal, and that’s about it. Maybe I could come up with a name with more variations. That’s further down the line though. I’ve got The Badger Helper Watcher to finish first, and the Future Delusion Saga. Better crack on…
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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.
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