It’s been long, it’s been hard, and my brain hurts, but my new book, The Aviator, the first in what my editor has persuaded me should be a series, is now accelerating down the runway and straining to take flight.
I got the idea from some old guy called Swift. You could say the story’s Gulliver-esque. Dylan Horrocks - a brilliant comics artist who graciously agreed to do me a cover - does:
Mike Mann (top climate scientist, of hockey stick fame) describes it thus:
And the charming and obviously eminently bribable Sonny Whitelaw, author of a swag of Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis novels doesn’t mince her words:
The book’s currently available from Amazon US and UK for Kindle, and from me (for epub readers), with more distribution to follow as I work out how to compile for Smashwords and brush up on my InDesign skills for the Createspace edition.
If any members of the Scrivener community would like a review copy (in exchange for glowing reviews in Amazon and elsewhere) send me a PM and I’ll be glad to supply a copy in the format of your choice. And if anyone knows how to get cover quotes from Charlie Stross, Peter F Hamilton, Alastair Reynolds or Terry Pratchett, the information would be most welcome!
It was of course written in Scrivener (with a side order of Tinderbox and Aeon Timeline). Without Scriv it would have taken longer, been much harder, and my brain would have hurt a lot more. Thanks Keith.
Not sure about Avatar, but the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - Moby Dick thing might have legs… 8)
To be honest, I have so many ideas for book two that I think I might have trouble fitting them all in. The airship is such a good vehicle for exploring things. There are lots of corners of The Burning World to poke around in, and ideas and people to prod.
PS: I should have mentioned in the original post: it’s (I hope) good value at US$4.99, £3.50, E4.50 and NZ$6.00.
It should be available in all Amazon’s European stores, but if that doesn’t work, you can buy a Kindle version at Smashwords here. Will soon be available at iBooks, B&N, Kobo etc.
Paper copies will be available soon - just got to get my creaking old copy of InDesign fired up to do the page layouts.
