I’ve not done any updates for a while, but I have been working on stuff. I’ve mainly been typing up ‘The Badger Helper Watcher’. I know it’s a weird title, but I’ve been using it for so long now, I don’t think I could stand to change it. It does have a subtitle now: The Misadventures of Sam and Sally. I will finish that episodic story ‘Good Neighbour’ very soon, but so much has been going on in my real world, that the made-up ones have had to take second place for the moment.
Tag: children’s books
Current and Future Works
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…
JOHN D. PAYNE IS WRITING 