What Have I Been Doing?

I am, at present, quite hilariously floppy and feeble.

So much so that I still can't do much of anything, or go much of anywhere*. The one thing I have been able to do, though, is write.

A bit.

Not the next Vicar Man book, or even a book book, in the traditional sense.

What I've been working on is an adventure game book.

You know: "Turn to page twelve to fight the hideous, oozing monster; turn to page six hundred and seven to offer it a hanky." That sort of thing.

It's something I'd been working on, in fits and starts, in the intervals of life before things took a dramatic downturn, and as it turns out something that can be written in fits and starts is the perfect project for a writer who can't write much. Give me a week or so** and a dearth of other material, and I might even show you how I did it.

The book itself is what more significant authors might call A Departure From My Recent Work. Which is to say that it's still very silly, but in a different way to my previous batches of silliness.

It's meant for a somewhat younger audience, meaning that it contains significantly less sex***, and significantly more gory deaths than anything I have written so far.

But in a light-hearted way.

Hopefully it will appeal to adults too. I will tell you more when the book is ready for sale**** but for now all I can say is that the title is You Are Dead, and it is almost certainly***** the first adventure game book in which everything will be fine just as long as you keep on dying.

*Since I’m supposed to be at Preston Comic Con in couple of weeks, this could be interesting.

And by “Interesting” I mean “A disaster of sit-com proportions.” You should drop by and see what happens. **Except that in a week or so it will be Preston Comic Con, so if I write about anything, it’ll probably be about that.

Did I mention that you should come by?

***An impressive feat, given that none of my books to date have featured any actual sex happening anywhere on any page whatsoever.

My friend Clare's might.

I'll be sharing a table with her at Preston Comic Con

****If I’m lucky, this will be at Preston Comic Con.

(I am never lucky.)

*****I’d say “it is the only book” without qualifiers, but then someone would be bound to tell me about the little-known adventure book “Altar Of Perpetual Tuesday” in which the hero experiences all the deaths in the known world, or some other unhelpful thing.

Probably at Preston Comic Con.