I chatted with Helen Sedgwick in June 2022 (click here to view) and loved her book, What doesn't break us. I was keen to find out what had happened since our chat:
'The last time we spoke was shortly before my folk horror
crime novel, What Doesn’t Break Us, was released – which seems like so
long ago now! That book was the final instalment of my trilogy, The
Burrowhead Mysteries, and after having spent several years writing crime
and folk horror it was a joy to move on to write something completely
different: I’ve spent the last two years working on a science fiction series!
I’m now in the final stages of redrafting and editing my
sci-fi series, which is currently three books and might be extended to four.
Because I’m a multi-genre author I get to change genre and tone and, in this
case, my entire approach and thematic heart from book to book!
I have written the whole science fiction series
simultaneously because the books are inter-connected using ideas from quantum
entanglement, so in a sense they
form a whole entangled ecosystem. Set on four strikingly different and distant
planets, they explore the strength of our
connection to the natural world and to one another, by reimagining how we live
and the possible societies we might create after environmental collapse. You
can expect quantum technology, entirely natural woodland communities,
gender-fluid society, love stories, political rage, social anarchy,
regenerating mycelium, an extension of what family means, and a blurring of the
lines between utopia and dystopia; between science fiction and our present-day reality.'
Oh wow! I can't wait to read them! What does she have planned going forward – is there anything readers should watch out for?'Because I’ve
been writing all the novels in my sci-fi series at once, it has been a long
term project for me. I’m hoping to have them all finished and sent to my agent
by the end of this year.
After that, hopefully, they will be published – but at
the moment I don’t know if they’ll be published all at once, or sequentially,
or in a box set or with some other experimental form of publishing schedule.
Not only are the books interconnected but they can be read in any order, and
each book deepens the reader’s understanding of the others, so there’s a lot to
play with when it comes to how they are published. We’ll just have to wait and
see what happens!'
It will be interesting to see what happens! If you'd like to find out more about this talented author, please click on her links below:
Website: https://www.helensedgwick.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/helensedgwick
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HelenSedgwickAuthor
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/helensedgwickauthor/
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