Figgy
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M.R. Carey:
This is a pretty stock standard question, but... I absolutely ADORED The Girl With All The Gifts, and am pretty much going to be snapping up anything that you write immediately(have plans to get the graphic novels, too). So... Are there any other books in the works? Not within the series necessarily, but in general?
M.R. Carey
Hi Figgy. Yeah, there are several. I've had a few years of being wildly prolific, so there are a lot of other books out there and more coming. I don't know if you've checked out the Felix Castor novels. There are five of those, starting with The Devil You Know. They're more firmly rooted in genre than GIRL, and they have a first person narrator. Think Chandler-style noir, but with an exorcist rather than a detective.
I wrote two mainstream thrillers as Adam Blake. To be honest, they're in a mold that's very reminiscent of Dan Brown, and they have the worst titles in the history of literature, but the second one in particular (The Demon Code) has a father-daughter relationship that I think came out very well and said what I wanted to say.
But the closest things I've written to GIRL are the two books where I was co-writing with my wife, Linda, and our daughter Louise - The City of Silk and Steel and The House of War and Witness. The first is a sort of Arabian Nights pastiche where the women of a harem forge themselves into an army after a violent coup in the city where they live reduces them to outcasts and renegades. The second is a ghost story set against the backdrop of a turbulent period in European history. It just came out a week or so ago.
And I'm almost done with the next M.R.Carey novel, which is tentatively entitled Who By Fire. Expect a 2015 release on that one...
I wrote two mainstream thrillers as Adam Blake. To be honest, they're in a mold that's very reminiscent of Dan Brown, and they have the worst titles in the history of literature, but the second one in particular (The Demon Code) has a father-daughter relationship that I think came out very well and said what I wanted to say.
But the closest things I've written to GIRL are the two books where I was co-writing with my wife, Linda, and our daughter Louise - The City of Silk and Steel and The House of War and Witness. The first is a sort of Arabian Nights pastiche where the women of a harem forge themselves into an army after a violent coup in the city where they live reduces them to outcasts and renegades. The second is a ghost story set against the backdrop of a turbulent period in European history. It just came out a week or so ago.
And I'm almost done with the next M.R.Carey novel, which is tentatively entitled Who By Fire. Expect a 2015 release on that one...
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Susie
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M.R. Carey:
Hi, probably someone asked you this already, but I was just curious: why do you write your initials instead of Mike? I understand why a woman would need to do this, but why would a man? Is it because this book is different from your previous works and the publishers thought that would work against you?
Audi Walbridge
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M.R. Carey:
When you looked at all the zombie stuff that can be thrown into the mega text, what were some of the things you wanted to avoid in your book? Were there certain things you wanted to hit on by adding your own twist? Why do you think that it's been necessary to divide zombies into two stages? Just some questions my professor and two of my classmates talked about today and thought we'd throw your way! Audi Bowman
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