Have a lovely day!

But only if you put something magic in.

Maybe zombies?

Sadly, publishers mostly don’t think that way. If you have an audience and you write a novel they don’t think that audience will read then you are essentially starting over. Usually you’ll get paid less and you may not even get published.

Dawn: You’ll get no vampires from me. They’ve been done to death. That’s part of why werewolves appeal so much. Fresher terrain.

Penni: Mmmm, structure . . .

Doselle: Ms. Justine. Wonderful. Lyrical. Literary. Larbalestier.

Don’t make me blush!

Chris S.: Your passion for the sport could convince an entire generation of unenlightened North Americans to learn all about cricket. That’s a serious responsibility; you can’t leave us in the dark!

But I haven’t! See?

Jenny: but if you do the cricket one, please put magic in it also! sort of alt-19th century on the Caroline Stevermer-Libba Bray sort of model, you know?

Sorry no can do. Cricket is magic enough.

As far as hi-tech sports clothing goes you’re going to have to sort our your answer. I know nothing on this subject!

It just sounds right.

D

Charles Dodgson rocks the world.

Have a lovely day!

But my picks would be the Mysterious lodger, the cricket one, and the NT epic…

I think all three of those sound like books I’d be really interested in…

The NT epic sounds cool because it’s possibly the last thing in the world I expected to be on your list… so I’m kind of intrigued to see where it would go…

Maybe you should write a short story while you decide?:)

but i like the liar one too. i love unreliable narrators.

have you read ‘the liar’ by stephen fry? it’s not an unreliable narrator, but it is about someone who lies a lot. it’s almost autobiographical, which you realise if you have read ‘moab is my washpot’, possibly my favourite autobiography in the world.

The lodger idea only looks like the one I’m most into because it’s the most recent. It’s still shiny shiny new! But once the next idea comes along . . . Yeah, yeah, I’m fickle.

E. Lockhart: You have so many ideas. My brain is like a desert compared to yours.

It’s cause I’m so lazy. I’d much rather sit around day dreaming novels than, you know, actually writing ‘em.

Jenny: would be most excited to read would be a hybrid of vintage magic clothes with werewolf snowboarding.

I may well wind up writing something that’s a mash up of all these ideas.

Marrije: so is the elvis book really complete now??? yay!

Pretty much.

Ellen: The cricket one is the book of my heart. Bless you for picking it! Only the research thing and the fact that it’s prolly not YA stops me from writing it next.

Celia: the mysterious lodger book, because your pitch, what there is of it, reminds me of a YA book called “Out of the Ordinary”

Well that’s the end of that then. Can’t write a book that’s like some other book, can I?

Chris: I’ve always liked the unreliable narrator, and I’m fascinated with the positive side of lying as well—the notion of mythologies as lies that a society tells itself to understand the world, and of personal myths, the lies you tell yourself to help figure out who you are and how you interact with the world.

Me too! That’s exactly what I’m trying to do with that book. You’re the ideal reader for it. Bless!

Rebecca: you’re finished with the fairy story already?

Given that I started it almost two years ago it doesn’t feel very “already”. Stupid Daughters of Earth and Magic’s Child got in the way.

would these all be YA stories?

No, some of them are decidely not YA feeling which will be part of how I make my decision. There’s a market for YA books by me, but not for adult ones.

Letitia: but have you crossed her [Satrapi's] path yet?

I have indeed. Have read ‘em all. Fabulous!

Lili: once again i shall buck the trend and say cricket, cricket, cricket.

That’s two of you picking the book of me heart.

I have read no Fry though I do mean to.

Good luck! So many nice choices, although not wanting to write is a bear. I spent about three weeks on avoiding writing while on a great quest to acquire & read all of Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novels. Technically not manga, but have you crossed her path yet?

my vote goes to snowboarding werewolves!! i also like the compulsive liar, magic vintage clothes, and the mysterious lodger. (my friend had a very mysterious lodger last year. mysterious smell too, but that’s beside the point. ) would these all be YA stories? the short story also sounds intriguing. i’m probably not being much help, as i’d read them all.

I’ve always liked the unreliable narrator, and I’m fascinated with the positive side of lying as well–the notion of mythologies as lies that a society tells itself to understand the world, and of “personal myths”, the lies you tell yourself to help figure out who you are and how you interact with the world.