Here's a photo of me taken last week, with the two young film-makers who are hoping to adapt The Demonata into a TV show. That's Ijaz on the left (my right) and Max on the right (my left).

Ive spent the last few days skim-reading Lord Loss, returning to it for the first time in 19 years or thereabouts. In an attempt to pin down the perfect structure for the adaptation, I'm reading through books 1, 2 and 4 (Lord, Loss, Demon Thief, Bec) and jotting down a brief summary of what happens in each chapter. Once I've finished that, I'm going to look at different ways we might put those various pieces together for TV, and Max and Ijaz will be doing the same thing at their end. Then we're going to have a good old chinwag to discuss our ideas and hopefully formulate a master plan that we can take to the big production companies -- who will, of course, be so blown away by our pitch, that they'll shower us with all the many millions of pounds/dollars we will need to take things forward from there and make the universe of The Demonata a TV reality!!! It should be a cinch, right?!? :-)

This has been a real nostalgia trip for me. I'd forgotten so much about Lord Loss, all the little details I'd woven into it, such as naming lots of the characters after family members and friends. It's an incredibly fast-paced book, isn't it?!? As I'm sure I've said before, The Demonata owes its style to Killers Of The Dawn, book 9 of my Cirque Du Freak series. That was set within the space of 24 hours, and was thus much more swiftly paced than the other books in the series. I really enjoyed the speed at which it moved, and decided to apply that speed to The Demonata -- I wanted the books to be fast and deadly, and boy, they are!! I've moved away from that style in recent years, with my Archibald Lox books, but flicking through Lord Loss again has got me itching to get back into that high-speed vein of writing. All I need now is to find the right story to tempt me back into a universe of high-octane thrills and spills...