{"id":895,"date":"2013-01-20T10:50:42","date_gmt":"2013-01-20T10:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/?p=895"},"modified":"2013-01-20T10:50:42","modified_gmt":"2013-01-20T10:50:42","slug":"nick-wood-janfeb-2013-the-next-big-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/?p=895","title":{"rendered":"Nick Wood &#8211; Jan\/Feb 2013 &#8211; The Next Big Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A post concerning my book <em><strong>Azanian Bridges<\/strong><\/em> as (I hope!) &#8216;<em>The Next Big Thing&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <strong><em>Gary Budgen<\/em><\/strong> linking to me on this topic from: <a href=\"http:\/\/garybudgen.wordpress.com\/next-big-thing-interview\/\">http:\/\/garybudgen.wordpress.com\/next-big-thing-interview\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Next Big Thing<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 What is the title of your next book?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>Azanian Bridges<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>2) Where did the idea come from for the book?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>Memories of working in a legally designated &#8216;black&#8217; psychiatric hospital in Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa, during the State of Emergency in the mid to late 1980&#8217;s&#8230; and wondering what might things look like now, if apartheid had survived.<\/em><\/strong><em><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>3) What genre does your book fall under?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>Alternative History &amp; (Post) Colonial Science Fiction<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>4) What actors would you choose to play the part of your characters in a movie rendition?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Sharlto Copley<\/strong> <strong><em>as Martin van Deventer and <\/em><\/strong><strong>Anelisa Phewa<em> as Sibusiso Mchunu (although primarily isiXhosa speaking I believe, I anticipate <\/em>Anelisa<em> is more than flexible enough to play an umZulu character as well.)<\/em><\/strong><strong><em><\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>5) What is the one-sentence synopsis of your book?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>A struggle emerges to control a crucial mind reading device in a current, revolutionary but still apartheid South Africa.<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>6) When will the book be published?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>If\/when picked up by a suitable publisher<\/em><\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>7) How long did it take you to write the first draft of the manuscript?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>3 months in essence for the first draft, as demanded on the &#8216;Long Form&#8217; module of the MA in Creative Writing I have just successfully completed.<\/em><\/strong><em><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>8) What other books would you compare this story to within your genre?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>PK Dick&#8217;s &#8216;The Man in the High Castle&#8217; (I wish!)<\/em><\/strong><em><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>9) Who or what inspired you to write this book?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>Abner\u2026and the current state of South Africa.<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>10) What else about the book might pique the reader\u2019s interest?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>It&#8217;s written from the alternating (and contrasting) perspectives of white therapist and black patient; I had an umZulu reader try and help ensure this was a respectful cultural portrayal.<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>To move on to other possible \u2018The Next Big Thing(s)\u2019, try the SF critic\/editor\/writer Paul Graham Raven: <\/em><\/strong><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.velcro-city.co.uk\/\">http:\/\/www.velcro-city.co.uk\/<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Or a writer who already has a promising book out there; Adrian Faulkner and his <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u2018The Four Realms\u2019<\/span>: <a href=\"http:\/\/adrianfaulkner.com\/novels\/\">http:\/\/adrianfaulkner.com\/novels\/<\/a> \u00a0<\/em><\/strong><strong><em><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A post concerning my book Azanian Bridges as (I hope!) &#8216;The Next Big Thing&#8217; Thanks to Gary Budgen linking to me on this topic from: http:\/\/garybudgen.wordpress.com\/next-big-thing-interview\/ The Next Big Thing: 1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 What is the title of your next book? Azanian Bridges 2) Where did the idea come from for the book? Memories of working in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,14,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2013blogs","category-blog","category-pub"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}