HB: Good news! My book deal with 4th Estate is for two books, and until just recently I didn't know what that second book would be. Well, I've now agreed an idea with Bill & Mitzi (my agent & editor respectively) and the book is provisionally entitled:-
The Storytelling Ape
(I think a new book deserves its own fancy font style, no?). The book will deal with why humans tell stories; what role narrative plays for us; and how these things ought to affect the way we go about reading fiction.
It was an idea I was excited about when I pitched it. Now - about 15 books or so into my research work - I'm very, very excited. There's just so much to write about. Fields like evolutionary linguistics, evolutionary psychology, & neuroscience are just fizzing with ideas on these topics, in a way they just weren't 15 years or so ago. What's more, although there are popular books written for the lay reader on individual topics in these areas, no one has ever joined the dots the way I'm hoping to.
Best of all, I feel like I'm writing again. No actual words on actual pages or anything radical like that, but very much underway nonetheless. And I absolutely love it. It's good to be back.
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Excellent topic. No doubt you'll let us have tasters as you go along?
Although perhaps The Naked Storyteller might be an almost equally pleasing title?
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This sounds great!
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