Wednesday 10 November 2010

The end is nigh...or is it? Nah! For Joe Hunter it's all steam ahead.

Something just struck me hard!

No it wasn't a phantom missile launched from a nuclear submarine off the Californian coast (anyone been following the news?) but the realisation that it's the second week of November already. Not only that but it's the second week of November 2010. We are only a few weeks away from the cusp of 2011. Can anyone believe it? It seems like no time since we were all anticipating the New Millenium, and all the doomsday stories were doing the rounds. Remember the Millenium Bug that was supposed to crash all of our computers, revert us back to the end of the nineteenth century or even the dark ages, or cause a chain reaction that would annihilate the entire world in a thermo-nuclear holocaust?

Now that the Noughties are about to end, and we enter the Teenies it brings to my mind the new doomsday prophesies (OK, they're not new if you ask a Mayan) and that the world will end in just over two years time in December 2012. Blooming typical, isn't it? I wait all these years to achieve my dream as a published author and then the world is going to come to a cataclysmical ending!

Not that I buy into the stories, mind you.

But just in case there is any truth in it, I'd better get a move on with my writing because (here's the real reason for this post), I can now announce that Joe Hunter will continue and I have agreed  to deliver books 8 and 9 in the series to my UK publisher, Hodder and Stoughton.

I am over the moon at the prospect, and I hope that you, my readers, are too.

So, between now and doomsday you can watch out for the upcoming Blood and Ashes (JH 5), Dead Men's Harvest (JH 6) and No Going Back (JH 7 - working title), and - hoping those Mayans were just blowing hot air - books eight and nine shortly afterwards.

Oh, and there's also good news for my followers over in the USA: my publisher there - the esteemed William Morrow and Company - have picked up Cut and Run and will be following the current three book run as well.

So, you can count on Joe for many more adventures to come, and nothing short of a direct nuclear strike will stop me from bringing his tales to the page.

Now...where did that mysterious missile go? Uh...

7 comments:

Unknown said...

Fantastic news, Matt! Big Congrats - looking forward to reading all nine and, if we're still alive, book ten. :)
Ps. So I've got two years to get mine on the shelves...? Damn Mayans.

SueH said...

Excellent news, Matt!

Stuff the Mayans, I say! - I might as well not bother knocking meself out to try and get something published, then!

However, I'll need something to occupy me when I take early retirement...!
(soon!!!!) :-)

Paul D Brazill said...

Good stuff. Prolific lad!

David said...

Congratulations Matt...I look forward to many years of high-octane thrills.

Paul Grzegorzek said...

Congrats Matt, i look forward to having more quality reading in the future! And if the world does end in 2 years, you can guarantee i'll have one of your books tucked into my suitcase to carry into the apocalypse... :)

DeAndre Robinson said...

This is truly great news Matt! I'm glad that Joe is getting more books. Since your publisher is digging your Joe Hunter series so much is there any chance they'll publish The Thin Gray Man?

Dean Crawford said...

Great news Matt, really glad that the series gets further titles - bet you're chuffed!!