MarcusMaximus
02-25-2008, 09:45 PM
Devil May Care Hype Begins
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23rd February 2008
With less than 100 days until its release, the hype machine has begun for the upcoming release of the new James Bond continuation novel \"Devil May Care\". On the book\'s MySpace page, two brief interviews have been published from author Sebastian Faulks and cover art model Tuuli Shipster.
Sebastian Faulks
\"It\'s a very traditional Bond story, it\'s got all the bits that you like about a Bond adventure and none of the boring bits. So it\'s got pace, adventure... It has - not one - but two beautiful women.
Ian Fleming loved trains, so there are trains. He loved cars, so there are cars. There is also something I\'ve discovered, a very exotic Cold War era vehicle - I can\'t really think how better to describe it. And of course the book has high-life and adventure.
I tried to isolate the essential and the most enjoyable aspects of the books. Then I took that pattern and added characters and a story of my own with as much speed and as many twists as I thought the reader could bear.
I developed a prose that is about 80 per cent Fleming. I didn\'t go the final distance for fear of straying into pastiche, but I strictly observed his rules of chapter and sentence construction.
My novel is meant to stand in the line of Fleming\'s own books, where the story is everything.\"
For the cover of Devil May Care, Tuuli Shipster stars as the silhouette of a naked woman forming a stem to a blood red flower. The cover photograph was taken by British photographer and commercials director, Kevin Summers.
http://www.mi6.co.uk/sections/articles/images/literary_devil_may_care_cover.jpg
23rd February 2008
With less than 100 days until its release, the hype machine has begun for the upcoming release of the new James Bond continuation novel \"Devil May Care\". On the book\'s MySpace page, two brief interviews have been published from author Sebastian Faulks and cover art model Tuuli Shipster.
Sebastian Faulks
\"It\'s a very traditional Bond story, it\'s got all the bits that you like about a Bond adventure and none of the boring bits. So it\'s got pace, adventure... It has - not one - but two beautiful women.
Ian Fleming loved trains, so there are trains. He loved cars, so there are cars. There is also something I\'ve discovered, a very exotic Cold War era vehicle - I can\'t really think how better to describe it. And of course the book has high-life and adventure.
I tried to isolate the essential and the most enjoyable aspects of the books. Then I took that pattern and added characters and a story of my own with as much speed and as many twists as I thought the reader could bear.
I developed a prose that is about 80 per cent Fleming. I didn\'t go the final distance for fear of straying into pastiche, but I strictly observed his rules of chapter and sentence construction.
My novel is meant to stand in the line of Fleming\'s own books, where the story is everything.\"
For the cover of Devil May Care, Tuuli Shipster stars as the silhouette of a naked woman forming a stem to a blood red flower. The cover photograph was taken by British photographer and commercials director, Kevin Summers.