Hi Everyone!
Just wanted to pop on as it's been a while - plus something major happened since my last update! After taking longer than I'd expected to on my edits, Early Adopters: Rogue Elements is now finally out in the world, in both ebook and paperback. As 'opening weekend' draws to a close, I'm writing this and enjoying a little celebratory beer. In a bit, I'll go watch the last episode of Loki. Reflecting then, why did I want to write the stories that make up my new book? Everything else I've written has been a lot more serious, if still sci-fi. Thought provoking (hopefully) and intimate. Maybe that's it? Maybe I just wanted to have something a little more fun to dip into every now and then. My own personal sandbox with a full set of my own hero and villain toys to play around with. I also feel as though these kind of Superhero stories have been with me for as long as I remember. Growing up, I loved Marvel an DC comics and got into the darker versions of these, the ones that asked more questions, as I got older. I've mentioned a few times that I feel a lot of my love for sci-fi books developed out of me reading the British sci-fi comic 2000ad as a kid. What that great institution also provided me with though, through vehicles like Judge Dredd and Rogue Trooper, was my first exposure to key political and ideological questions that I'd pick up the threads of in Orwell, Heller and Kafka much later on. There was an anarchic edge to the prog back then - a demand that you question everything and everyone. I also feel like there's something primal in these hero stories for us. Something intrinsic to us as humans. Something we're trying to tell ourselves about each other through the medium. Back even before the Greek myths, to our earliest forefathers daubing berries on cave walls - there have always been these tales of heroes. A virtue to aspire to, and always fall short of - there's a story there in itself. I think these are stories and concepts that I will continue to return to, on and off, for as long as I am writing. So then, which are my favourite characters in the Early Adopters universe so far? Hard to say. This first batch are like my literary children! I love Harlan Larcher/Gargoyle - a more fallible, less cold version of your typical night stalking vigilante. I love to write Romeo and Juliet, together or separately. Leon is also anarchically crazy to write and a lot of fun. I also really enjoy writing some of the MiliTech antagonists. Director Pitts is great to write, though I would say less fun to be around. The evolving moral dilemma that Miles is facing, a reasonably good man, surrounded on all sides by evil, is also really interesting. I think he will have a bigger role to play as the stories develop. Favourite story of the bunch? This one is easier for me. I think Luck is Loaned, Not Owned is my fav - a payoff to everything that goes before it. Hopefully it delivers. I also love We Are Gargoyle and Open Mic Night. In terms of sales this weekend, things went pretty well (by my standards anyway!) with seven copies sold. At one point, that took the book up to 49 in science fiction anthologies on Amazon, which I was pretty pleased with. Hopefully this will lead to some good reviews soon and more importantly, some happy readers. Primarily, these stories are intended to entertain, to be fun for the reader. An escape. We definitely need a little of that right now. Looking forward, I'm particularly interested to find out what the comic book community thinks of this book and how this 'Parthenon' I've come up with stacks up against the old classics. There's more to come. Hopefully people will want it! Speaking of wanting it - if anyone wants to check Early Adopters: Rogue Elements out - here are the links! UK www.amazon.co.uk/Early-Adopters-Elements-D-T-Wilby-ebook/dp/B099P8BSD9/ US www.amazon.com/Early-Adopters-Elements-D-T-Wilby-ebook/dp/B099P8BSD9/ If any of you end up picking it up, I hope you have as much fun reading it as I did writing it! Until next time, look after yourselves D.T.
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