{"id":897,"date":"2013-07-18T14:17:20","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T20:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coryedwards.com\/?p=897"},"modified":"2013-07-18T14:41:15","modified_gmt":"2013-07-18T20:41:15","slug":"a-new-book-and-a-new-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/coryedwards.com\/?p=897","title":{"rendered":"A New Book and a New Adventure"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"goggles\"<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>The massive, slow gears of film development take forever to turn. So sometimes it’s best to find other creative outlets. In between screenwriting gigs, I’ve been stealing a little time here and there to work in another medium and write a book. And now, after six years of tinkering on and off, I’ve finished it. Very exciting to have something new to talk about.<\/p>\n

And by “talk about” I mean “tell you what I can.” \u00a0I love sharing stuff here, but there’s an advantage to launching many creative endeavors using the element of surprise. If I don’t share everything right now, it’s because I’m using mystery to leverage some buzz and create the most successful situation for the material. What I can tell you is that this is a Young Adult adventure novel, it’s seventeen chapters, and it was loads of fun to write. For years this book was my “recreational writing,” but slowly the story evolved into something I’m very proud of and am very eager to share with the world. If you are a 10-14 year old kid (or you think like one), I think you’ll love this book. It’s an old-fashioned, swashbuckling pulp adventure story with lots of gadgets, humor and ridiculous cliffhangers.<\/p>\n

As Dignan from “Bottle Rocket” might say, here are just some of the ingredients: A zeppelin, a frozen Russian sub, volcano sacrifice, a yak-powered riverboat, magnetic gloves, parachutes that go up, smell-vision goggles, a flying pocket watch & a lot of Mongolian mercenaries. The central character is an eccentric, brilliant and very unpredictable man named Dr. Henry Harrison Clockwise<\/strong>. He’s British, fussy, silly and addicted to mischief. I like to say he’s a combo of Doctor Who, Willy Wonka and Mary Poppins. This story is the first in what I hope will be a series of books with this character. In each book, he takes a variety of companions on globe-trotting treasure hunts around the globe and each book is narrated from the point of view of one of the companions. In this story, our narrator is a 13 year-old girl.<\/p>\n

The extras and spinoffs for this book are exciting to think about, from an almanac of gadgets to an electronic version of the book that accesses new backstory content through your tablet. But it all depends on how the market receives the book. It’s in that “just hatched” stage right now where I am going out to publishers and studios to see if anyone bites. But the great thing about a book in this day and age is that I KNOW I will eventually be able to offer it to readers in some form, somehow.<\/p>\n

Stay tuned and keep your telescopes trained. Dr. Clockwise is anything but predictable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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