This new, improved Bookworld makes it so much easier to navigate.
It's one of those ideas that I should have had way back in 2002 with Lost in a Good Book and the creation of the Bookworld. Why, and how, have things changed in Thursday's world? The Book World, here, has been 'remade', and it's a startling process we witness at the beginning of the novel. Rubs off on the page and from there, one hopes, to the reader. It also makes the writing process enjoyable, and I think authors write better books when they are having fun. It makes one utilise a certain ingenuity to circumvent narrative problems, too, which can add another unthought of dimension to the story. It's a form of narrative gymnastics that is great fun, and opens the door to all sorts of interesting plot devices, switches and turns. In the past I have attempted to show how a teenager can save the world by doing nothing (First Among Sequels) What would happen if Society were obsessed by visual colour (Shades of Grey) or even how the Three Bear's porridge could be at radically different temperatures when it was poured at the same time (The Fourth Bear).
The way I approach most of my stories is by setting myself a challenge and then see what happens. No, I think I could carry on for a while, as she and her world are a fairly broad canvas. The whole Nextian world is so broad and expansive that it would be possible to take just a small part of it and expand it into a book, so it is entirely possible and even likely I could write Thursday books that have no Thursday in them - which I've sort of done here. So here we are again - another Thursday book. Hello Jasper, and thanks for agreeing to talk to me for the 2011 'Special Features' section for One of Our Thursdays is Missing, and answer questions that you get to write yourself. Of course, if you watch the features first on a DVD, this might well be for you. You may want to read the book first to avoid any potential spoilers, like you do on a DVD.
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