So, I’m currently writing the second book in the Post-Apocalyptic Gothic series, so I thought it was a good time to talk about the future of the series and where I see myself going with it.
The first book in Post-Apocalyptic Gothic was Prometheus’ Daughter (2014), the second one will be The Man From Porton Down (tentative title, predicted release in 2017).
The stories in this series, at least at first, are only going to be very tangentially related. The Man From Porton Down is not a sequel to Prometheus’ Daughter, it simply takes place in the same setting. I already have a very basic plot outline for the third book, which is unnamed at the moment, and it as well only enjoys tenuous links to the stories that come before it. All three are all also inspired by existing period gothic horror novels — Prometheus’ Daughter is known to be a re-imagining of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, but I won’t spoil what the others will be.
Once I’ve published these three books, I want to put out an omnibus edition that compiles all three in a single volume, with author’s notes about each story and two new short stories in the setting.
There is a rich enough body of work when it comes to gothic horror that I could do quite a few more books in the same style, but I don’t know whether I’ll continue past there. If I do feel like I want to go back to it, I have two things I want to do:
1) Do a capstone story that ties together all three of the previous works. This is likely to be a bit longer than any of the preceding novellas, maybe twice as long.
2) Do another trio of novellas, continuing to re-imagine gothic horror stories in the setting.
If I’m still super keen on the setting and want to keep writing it in — this is far, far in the future at this stage — then I have toyed with the idea of doing a sub-series called Shakespeare at the End of the World. I’m sure you can guess what that would entail.
Of course, I’ve got a lot of other projects I want to work on as well… who knows when I’ll get time?
