I've Surfaced!

[Mark Robson]

It's done! I've written the final sentence of Aurora. The series is complete ... well, there's still the editing phase to go, but I don't want to think about that right now. The important thing is that I can now take a break from my frenetic schedule and have a bit of me time. That should mean you'll see a bit more of me around the forums over the coming months ... or I might just dust off my golf clubs and slink off to my local course! Probably a bit of both, I imagine.

I am also looking forwards to catching up on a pile of reading that's been stacking up over the past year. I'm full of good intentions. We'll see what happens.

 

[littlemissattitude]

Good to see you here, Mark, and good to hear that you've accomplished a good deal of work.

Of course, I haven't been around much, either, recently. I, too, have very good intentions, but the real world just keeps kind of getting in the way.

 

[SpaceShip]

Congratulations Mark! I'm about an eighth of the way through my current novel so it'll be some time before I can add the final sentence - though I could add the final sentence now and them fill in the rest in between but that would be cheating and I'm sure I'd change the final sentence long before the end. But, hey ho. And, as for those books that I've not read yet! Well, there are too many to even contemplate but hope you enjoy yours and, when the weather is nicer, a round of golf or two. Catch up later.

 

[Patrick Mahon]

It's done! I've written the final sentence of Aurora.

So Mark, are you going to tell us what the final sentence is? Or would that give too much away?

Seriously, congratulations on finishing the series - that's a serious amount of words written in a remarkably short period of time. Hope you had a nice glass of red wine to celebrate?

 

[Mark Robson]

Sorry, but the final sentence delivers too much of a 'sting in the tail' twist for me to write it here. I'd hate to ruin that. However, at the rate the books are being published, you won't have too long to wait to find out what happens.

 

[M@.Price]

Good for you mark! I've been struggling to write the first sentence recently. I'm sure the tooth fairy has a cousin that takes ideas instead of teeth and doesn't even leave money!

 

[Joel007]

Looking forward to reading all of them Hope to see some Derrigan Darkweaver books sometime as well!

 

[M@.Price]

Here here! The whole "What happened next?" thing has been nagging at me for years!

 

[Mark Robson]

Just back into Aurora for the edits now ... and there's quite a few! I wrote this book incredibly quickly (it took about 8 weeks) so I got too involved and blind to all the little errors that had crept in. To be honest, I'm not quite sure what I'm going to do next, yet. I'll offer several options to S&S and we'll see what they go with. I imagine it will very much depend on what they see as topical/what is selling best.

 

[Michael01]

Very cool, Mark! Has Darkweaver started selling internationally yet?

 

[Mark Robson]

Not yet, Michael. But my understanding is that the German editions will all launch either simultaneously, or in very quick succession.

 

[M@.Price]

Make sure you suggest darkweaver or we may have to start a petition lol
Im sure whatever you come up with will be fantastic.

 

[Gary Compton]

Just back into Aurora for the edits now ... and there's quite a few! I wrote this book incredibly quickly (it took about 8 weeks) so I got too involved and blind to all the little errors that had crept in. To be honest, I'm not quite sure what I'm going to do next, yet. I'll offer several options to S&S and we'll see what they go with. I imagine it will very much depend on what they see as topical/what is selling best.

I just wondered what you are on Mark? 8 weeks to write a book, thats breathtaking.

I'm in my third year!!

What was your word per day average. It must be impressive

 

[Mark Robson]

I worked on 2000 words a day for 5 days/week and achieved that most days. When I didn't I tried to catch up any deficit at the weekends. The book came out at about 72 000 words. I'm going to have to rework some of the dialogue, as it's come out a little wooden in places, but overall I'm pleased with the story. That was about as fast as I could realistically hope to turn out a reasonable draft novel.

There will be a Darkweaver option, Matt. I can't promise anything though.

 

[Michael01]

Sorry, Mark. I assume you mean they're still only sold in the UK, right?

 

[M@.Price]

As long as the option is there, we can only blame the publisher!