The Paradox Club series continues!
The adventure that began in THE VALENTINE TRAP and continued in THE GHOST IN THE MIRROR enters its next chapter with THE DIAMOND OF TOMORROW.
Writing the third Paradox Club novel was a whole new challenge compared to the first two. Where Book One introduced the reader to all the main characters and Book Two followed some of those plot threads, with Book Three for the most part we only follow two characters’ stories.That wasn’t the plan when I started but that’s how the writing of it played out.
The first thing Book Three had to do was resolve the cliffhanger ending of Book Two. Without getting spoiler-y, the solution to the resolution of the cliffhanger meant either re-introducing a character the reader had already met or introduce a new character altogether. Having considered the available options I concluded that I had to introduce a new character, which I did. He’s fun to write and one I hadn’t planned on introducing into the story arc this early but that’s what happened.
The entire Paradox Club series is intended to be an epic adventure across multiple books. I know how it ends and so all the books take the reader one step further down the narrative road towards the final story destination. The intention is that each successive novel will take us a little bit further on that journey to The End. Just how many books it will take to get there I really don’t know at this stage.
What I do know is that the first four books – THE VALENTINE TRAP, THE GHOST IN THE MIRROR, THE DIAMOND OF TOMORROW and BOOK FOUR will together form what I like to think of as the Paradox Club equivalent of Phase One of the MCU. That’s the plan, at this stage. That may change…
It’s true what they say. Your story really does take on a life of its own and can end up going in directions that you never anticipated when you sat down to write it. One of the things I’ve learned is that writing isn’t really a choice between Plotting and Improvising, it’s more like a combination of the two.
Each of the books is plotted out before I start work on it, but in the actual proces of writing I find I come up with things spontaneously, in the moment, that I hadn’t planned for. Things that can take the story in an unexpected direction. For instance, Penny & Tuppence from Book One. They weren’t planned, they just appeared.
Mayfair Strange, on the other hand, was planned for and he and Victoria Winter will go on to be partners. As for Sixie and Perry, who first appear in this book, some readers will know exactly where the inspiration for them came from…
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