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I'm kind of ambivalent: I think it's nice for new artists to have a go, but then Gillette was so good last time I can't complain too much.
Yes, I believe so.
If it was a truly new book, they would have teased it, in advance, by at least a week. I think IFP wants to finish Kim Sherwood's Double-00 trilogy, honestly.
Maybe, I'd be ok with Kim Sherwood staying on. She's a fan, she knows her Bond knowledge, and has improved her writing. She keeps speaking about Bond, which is awesome.
If not her, I nominate Charles Cumming and Charlotte Philby. Sorry to repeat myself.
Do yourself a favor and pass.
Which novels of your two nominees should I read to get their "Bond" sense? I read "A Spy By Nature" and it didn't move me much and "The Spanish Game" remains DNF'd relatively early.
A James Bond novel written by a Philby? Could be interesting!
I would love to have more Bond books from Sherwood though, but at the same time I'm happy for her to do whatever she wants next, I think after the Double O trilogy she deserves a well-earned break.
Oh so she's related to Kim Philby then? I didn't realise that! I'm sure Ann Fleming wouldn't have approved as she thought that Kingsley Amis would turn her late husband's character into a Philby Bond who would sell out his country!
I honestly haven’t read any of their books, lol🤓. However, they have experience with spy novels and they have talked about Bond before. I’d like to them get a chance.
He's a successful writer, done some Bond-related blogs due to his father Kingsley's novel. Not sure his interest or abilities.
Umm...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Amis
There's one small problem there. He's dead.
That aside, he was on record as saying to Charlie Higson in a BBC Radio 4 programme back in 2007 that he'd only think of writing a Bond novel if he had suffered a brain aneurysm. He also said the same to Sebastian Faulks back in 2011 about writing a children's book. So I'd take that as a "no".
I think it's fair to say both are quite limited :)
Must admit I haven't read all that many of his books, but I enjoyed the ones I did. Not sure if he was suited for Bond. I've met one person who knew him a bit from his tenure as head of Creative Writing (or whatever it was) at Manchester Uni. Apparently he wasn't great at that role, but I really don't know.
Better question was he ever interested, or in his style could he possibly have taken on such a thing? Maybe not, it's good he did the podcasts recognizing his father's contributions.
I think he thought that writing about James Bond would've been below him and not something corresponding to his literary station. His father Kingsley was that rare person who was both literary and a big fan and defender of genre fiction too. He even wrote his fair share of it.
What is wrong with patterson
Patterson's mostly a brand now, isn't he, with the heavy lifting coming from his co-authors?
Plus, I think he'd (or his coauthors) want more creative control than IFP would allow. My two suggestions (Cumming and Philby) I think would. After meeting him last earlier this month, I also want to suggest John Jackson Miller as an author. He has written many Star Wars and Star Trek books, Iron Man comics, a comic book adaptation of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and coming in October, Batman: Resurrection, set between Batman and Batman Returns. He does a lot of world building, namely in action. He would be an interesting choice.
Yes, that's true. There was more political intrigue in Colonel Sun than Fleming would've ever been interested in. Ariadne also extols the virtues of communism and debates it with Bond and Litsas. Although he was by this stage moving to the right politically Amis was a communist himself in his younger days.