all fixed (touchwood)

[adelaidesean]

I mentioned a couple of weeks back that I have a new kids' series due from Omnibus/Scholastic next year. The dates are now confirmed: each of the four books will come out a month apart, starting in May and finishing in August. More importantly, the books now have titles.

The series is called THE FIXERS and the individual books will be:

1. Castle of the Zombies
2. Planet of the Cyborgs
3. Last of the Vampires
4. Invasion of the Weird

What do you think? Does that sound like something kids would want to read?

ETA Thanks, everyone, for your feedback. I am very pleased!

Comments

[angriest.livejournal.com]

I totally misread your heading that thought you were writing for Torchwood.

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

:-) I want to say "if only" but wouldn't really mean it if I did. Do you watch Torchwood? I keep trying but can't get into it.

[angriest.livejournal.com]

Seen most of Season 1 and one episode of Season 2. Generally I hate it: smug, adolescent, and tediously annoying when it thinks it's being funny. Also it's confused being childishly smutty for being adult.

IMHO.

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

You've summed it up perfectly. I much prefer the Sarah Jane Adventures.

[angriest.livejournal.com]

The Sarah Jane Adventures benefit from being in a very close narrative format to the original Doctor Who, 25 minutes, cliffhangers, etc.

It's rumoured Season 3's going to be the last season (same for Torchwood), thus giving Moffat a clean slate to work with when Doctor Who returns properly in 2010.

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

I'm keeping my fingers crossed we don't see a Doctor's Daughter spin-off in 2011.

[angriest.livejournal.com]

Apparently it was Moff who demanded she come back to life at the end of the episode. I suspect he did it to keep options open for a sequel episode though - a spin-off set in space with aliens every week would get very expensive, and the BBC's in cost-cutting mode right now.

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I heard that somewhere--maybe from you!

What if she's stranded on Earth and forced to work with UNIT as a scientific advisor...?

:-)

[angriest.livejournal.com]

A UNIT series is something I'd love to see, but only if they make it like 24 or Spooks - only with UNIT.

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

Such a show could grab the adult market that likes crime and mysteries and not traditionally SF. The X-Files or Ultraviolet market, say. Big bucks, relatively small expense.

It's such a great idea. Why haven't they done it?

[angriest.livejournal.com]

Not sure. I've got a similar kind of show sitting in a drawer that's based around Prestige/Constantine-style magicians, but no one in Australia will look at it because "Australia doesn't make genre television".

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

Gah! Madness. I'd watch it for sure.

[angriest.livejournal.com]

One day I'll get my foot in the door, and then Australia will be awash with all my genre pitches: the magicians series, the hostage negotiator hunted down by demons series, the UFO series...

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

Australia's answer to Bryan Fuller?

[angriest.livejournal.com]

Hell yeah, I'd take that job. Ideally I'd be Australia's Peter Jackson, and work my way up to a massive expensive film production of the Earthsea novels, but I'll take what I can get.

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

If I was a squillionaire, I'd pay you to film Earthsea properly. Long overdue.

Although I didn't mind the uneven Stuido Ghibli version. Gets the gong, at least, for best adaptation of five books into one movie (imho, and I know it's one not shared by everyone).

[angriest.livejournal.com]

I've got to catch up with the Ghibli Earthsea.

The TV miniseries was embarrassing.

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

I refuse to watch the miniseries.

You should definitely watch the Ghibli version and tell me what you think!

[murasaki-1966.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad to hear someone else say this. I was so annoyed when I saw what was done to one of my favourite books. I though Le Guin should have been able to sue them for Something.