Lots more in mind when I have a chance to write them.
I am done with some of shadows great stories like "mistaken idendity, crying wolf and game night" and agree with you, I realy like cheating stories (not that my wife or me are doing it
Maybe you can write a Story about a cheating wife who realy leaves her husband? Like
So that factors into whether I feel like writing it or not.
Always a pleasure to speak to a fan.
Good question. The short answer is that the Sophie Series is not finished yet. There is one more 'part' to the original series, and about seven bonus chapters that I have not written yet. I have them all planned out and know what happens, but I haven't written them.
As for when they will be written though, that may be a long time away. I only write a story that I am interested in at the time, and I wrote (and planned all of) the Sophie Series in 2004 or 2003, so it is both played out to me and represents the old way I used to write I guess. It was the first set of stories I wrote and you can see how my style improved/progressed as that went on. So the basic answer - is there more to be written? Yes, absolutely. Will I ever write them? Likely, yes. When? Not sure, and probably not for a long time (i.e. until I really feel the burning need to write about her next adventure). I like exploring all the new ideas I have for now.
One final thing though. A lot of people ask about Sophie, but I am not sure whether everyone will like where the story was originally planned to go and so really want the next 'part' of the series as it is actually meant to be. The series was written to explore the idea of a girlfriend who cheats in ever-increasing risky circumstances with different people, and it is meant to progress from more cheating scenarios to others. So to put it clearly - Sophie cheated with her guy's best friend, then his ugly boss, (then his best friend again), then had several guys in one night (including interracial, a threesome, and blackmail sex), then cheated with her guy's brother on the night she was proposed to, then his father the night before the wedding, and then... - So you see, it was meant to progress. So what happens in the next chapter, I am not sure people who love Sophie for her being the cheating slut will necessarily enjoy
Simply put, it's not off the cards but it won't be for the foreseeable future.
That’s for me though. I don’t want a ‘wham-bam’ sort of story, but the way you set yours up, well sex going on for four hundred pages (if it were a printed book) for one night of sex, usually foreplay, oral sex and penetrative sex between two adults is waaay too long. But that’s my only gripe. Seeing a story, that’s one chapter long and around 25,000 words is just off putting in the extreme. A chapter should ideally be no more than 5,000 words, around 2 pages. Heck, even having several chapters and structuring a story that way would make it more approachable to a reader like me, but you don’t write for me, you write for your fans.
My one caveat I’ll get out straight away – your stories are way, way too long.
I don’t want to knock you as I think you’re a great writer with a heck of a lot of patience. You must have to write what you do, to keep that momentum going.
My point for your comment about the ‘Sophie series’ is that you must be true to yourself. As Stephen King says, “The book is the boss”. If the story is going on a logical, organic direction (heck even being thrown a curveball is part of life – I mean who knew on January 1st 2020 that this year would end up where it is? Millions of unnecessary deaths due to Covid-19 and people not getting treatment for other illnesses that could be survivable. What I’m saying Sir, is that if the story goes in ‘X’ direction not ‘Y’ direction, don’t worry about it offending people. That’s natural. You should be true to yourself. Obviously knowing what your audience wants and catering to that is fine, but you should sacrifice your vision for that. Myself if you said “I’ve written a story that went a certain way, and I know a lot of folks won’t like this direction,” I’d love that story even more. As it shows the author is being artistically honest. That’s a rare thing I feel these days. Too many authors just copy what they’ve done and it’s ‘rinse-repeat’ heck, even in certain genres it’s all the same. As great as Lee Childs is, his books do have a sense of deju-vu at times, and in that genre it’s easy to find a dozen or more writers just doing there own ‘knock off’ Jack Reacher type of hero/story.
If someone wrote something that was new, original and had a new take on things, I’d be thrilled to read that.
But beware – you don’t want to write some ‘subversive’ tat like The Last Jedi. Now that was a story that ‘defied expectations’ as the writer/director wanted. It was critically mauled, the fans hated it, and it brought down a successful film franchise. However I don’t think you’re someone as untalented as Rian Johnson who wrote and directed that Star Wars film.
Whatever direction you take the saga – if you do so at all, will be an interesting read I am sure.
