The last few months have been decidedly nonfiction for me: I got swamped by the arrival of swine flu, which hugely increased traffic on my site H5N1, and hugely reduced my free time. I was also finishing a new book, Write Your Nonfiction Online (the bad link is now fixed) and just this afternoon sent in the revised manuscript. And I've been writing and editing for The Tyee, which is enormous fun.
But I've also thrown some old irons back in the fire. My agent in Toronto is exploring TV/film possibilities for three of my books—the new edition of Go Do Some Great Thing: The Black Pioneers of British Columbia, plus my novels Icequake and Lifter.
This isn't exactly a hot new development. Various people have inquired about film rights to the pioneers book over the years, and Lifter has been looked at a couple of times by the Disney people. When Icequake came out in 1979, a lot of people thought it would make a great but unproducible movie: The special effects would be too expensive.
That, of course, was long before computer graphics came along. Now, Icequake could be pretty effective even in a made-for-TV movie.
Having grown up among movie people, I'm not holding my breath—and I'm not spending my percentage before I get it, either.
In the meantime, I've got a lot of new ideas for Henderson's Tenants, and while we were on holiday I got a single major idea for resurrecting a novel I did back in the late 90s—a project that never found a publisher.
So now that the latest project is off my desk, I'm looking forward to doing some more fiction this summer.
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