So last week I got tagged by the most excellent David
Barnett, sci-fi author and journalist and possibly the hardest-working
man in Bradford, as part of the Next Big
Thing meme. He explains it best: “There’s a thing going round the internet
and it’s called the Next Big Thing, in which writers answer a series of set
questions and then tag five other writers to do the same.” It’s not about those
writers being the next big thing (though OF COURSE we all are – it’s about the
next big thing we’re working on. Usually a novel.
It seems so far to have been restricted to sci-fi/fantasy
writers, but David kindly busted out of genre and tagged me. (I also got a
request a few days ago from YA author Julie Mayhew, whose debut Red Ink is coming
out in 2013). It seems that now it’s leaping from genre to genre like wildfire,
so like a literary Typhoid Mary, I’ll do my bit to spread it around my fellow
authors in as many fields as I can.
Here goes!
