Thank you!
by morgan on Feb.12, 2010, under F. Paul Wilson
Paul, thank you for joining us on Babel Clash. With your last post or two, please take this opportunity to tell us anything else that you’d like us to know about Jack Secret Circles, your next “adult” Repairman Jack novel or any other project that you have in the works.
If anyone else has other questions for Paul, this is your chance!
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February 13th, 2010 on 9:26 am
I’ve got Word booted up and the first page of the last Repairman Jack novel ready to start. I’m using THE DARK AT THE END as a working title. A couple of years ago I decided to tie up the main story arcs of the series with number fifteen (not counting the three Young Adult novels).
I’ve always seen he Jack novels as a closed-end series. We’ve all had a favorite series that carried on too long. The author had a good thing going but he or she ran it into the ground. As the number of books in a series rises, repetition invariably sets in. I swore I wouldn’t allow that to happen, that I’d end o a high note. I had a big story to tell and promised myself I’d lower the curtain after telling it.
After THE DARK AT THE END, Jack will make his final appearance in a heavily revised NIGHTWORLD. The Repairman Jack novels have always been a subset of the Adversary Cycle, and NIGHTWORLD serves as the climax of both series.
This makes more sense if you see my Secret History of the World. (http://repairmanjack.com/works.htm#secrethistory)
I will not, no how, no way write anything in the post-NIGHTWORLD world. The Secret History stops with NIGHTWORLD.
But that doesn’t prevent me from back filling. At some point I might revisit Jack during his early, pre-THE TOMB days in NYC when he’s learning the ropes about living under the radar, becoming an urban mercenary, and meeting Julio and Abe and so on. These will be straight crime/caper novels with no bearing on the main arcs.
I have other things I want to write, though. I’ve a weird thriller that’s been sitting in my head for years, begging to get out. I’d like to do a YA series unrelated to Jack. I’d also like to do a big, hard-edged fantasy series set back in the First Age.