Lee Binding's sexy cover
It’s always a busy time for me these days, but this past month has been especially packed as a number of projects all drew to a close with lots of polishing, amendments and the other fiddly bits that you think won’t take much time and then do. But now’s when it all starts to pay off, and the most exciting thing last week was the big reveal of the Nuclear Time cover (right); Lee Binding has done an incredible job and I couldn’t be happier. This next month and a bit is going to be painful as I wait for it to come out, and it’ll be interesting to see the reaction as I think both the blurb and the cover reveal very little about the main thrust of the plot. I’m very proud of this book and I do believe that had I been given free reign to write a novel about anything, Who or non-Who, at this stage in my life and career, this would still be the best thing I could’ve written. Not that I’ll ever be able to read it myself, I seem incapable of looking at anything of mine once it’s been published (and therefore unchangeable) as I just seem to cringe at every page. It’s much nicer to remember these things as they were when you were writing them rather than after the millionth proof-read. Maybe when the audiobook version is released I’ll dare to revisit it.
In other related news, two factual books I have written for BBC Children’s have both been announced; Doctor Who: TARDIS Traveller and Doctor Who: Secrets of the TARDIS are up on the Penguin website and you can click the links for more details.
