This week saw the release of the first Joe Hawke action-adventure thriller, The Vault of Poseidon, and this was a very exciting time, even though I am now almost finished with the second Joe Hawke novel and beginning to iron out the plot of the third one.
Between all this writing and managing the "post-production" process, it's fair to say there isn't a lot of time left over for much else. In fact it's worth saying that anyone starting out on a similar journey shouldn't underestimate just how much time will be needed to manage your writing after you've typed "The End".
The reason I came to the blog today was because as I launched Poseidon and watched her sail out of the dock and into the digital ocean, I wondered if I should have put some kind of disclaimer in the front of it, just a short note telling people not to take the story too seriously.
My writing is not confined to the inimitable Joe Hawke (or as inimitable as a hero in an action-adventure genre can get anyway...) and I have several other characters and stories that I would like to write about. Some of these (horror of horrors) are more "serious" than others, but the Joe Hawke books are just my attempt at producing pure escapist fun. They are my way of saying "it's actually okay not to be really serious all the time" and you can just relax into some old-school Bond escapism here if you want to do that.
So in the end I decided I had made the right decision not to explain all that somewhere in the story, and instead I'll throw it into the blog and now get back to finishing Hawke 2.
