The Puzzle and the Clues

Here are some of the questions about the 13th and 21st centuries that Janyka B will need to answer if she is to understand how the world becomes what it is in 3001AD.

1.   What is the mugger husk?

2.   Where is the location of the Octangular or its useful remnants?

3.   Can she trust the amnesiac umbilica-driver of the marauder known as Audrey?

4.   How can she evade the soundlicks with a younger brother who turns out to be a time-jammer?

5.   What are the other questions?

Characters in Waiting

As I said - more to write.  There are characters waiting: Janyka B has more to discover.  Will the driver of Audrey the Marauder stay alive long enough to turn in Janyka and her kid brother.  Is Gonzalo de Zanj likely to turn up at all?  I certainly hope so!  Naturally, I'm concerned about what form Phar Lazar will emerge as, because he's got several deaths to experience before they get the better of him.  And, most importantly,  Vinny's role will be crucial, but how will it be played out?

The Reptile Wars

For a long time now I've been harbouring ideas about what happens in the timeline between Vinny's crash into the 13th Century and his 21st C beginnings.  Also the book hints at people from the future researching his life for some important political and social reason.  I know who they are and why they are doing it.  I know who is out to thwart their haphazard efforts and where the unlikely source of help is going to come from.

What I don't know is, given the number of fiction- and lyric-writing projects I'm involved in currently, how the hell am I going to find the time to extend the scope of The Reptile Wars?