Whiplash



I was talking about Dreamland: Whiplash, the new series I'm doing with Dale Brown, and some people were wondering - why Whiplash, why not more 'straight' Dreamland?

Long story short - we were looking to refresh the series without totally walking away from it. Whiplash still stars many of the same characters, but now it's fifteen years later.

The first book came out in November and the reception has, thankfully, been pretty good. But inevitably we hear the question: Will you do more 'straight' Dreamlands?

I guess the answer is, it depends. We certainly have more plots. Whether we have time is another question.

One thing that the new series allowed us to do is move the time period where the story takes place up to the present/near future. That was always a problem with Dreamland, at least after the success of the first few books. Not realizing how successful it would become, we set it into a very small timeline - and most critically, in the past. The fact that it was taking place in the 1990s confused a lot of people.

Actually, most people just ignored it. Which is what you should do when authors make bad decisions . . .