Doctor Who: The Way Through the Woods

[altariel]

Yes indeedy, I have a new Doctor Who novel, The Way Through the Woods, due for publication on 28th April 2011. More about it here, including the cover. You can see a bigger version of that here.

Comments

[wormwood-7.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! It sounds really exciting too. I love stories about ancient woods.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I thought you might like woods!

[katlinel.livejournal.com]

Eeeeee! Hurrah!

It makes me think of 'Watch the wall my darling while the gentlemen go by', which is a completely different thing, but I grew up on where the Andreswald used to be, and the old wild woods and the smugglers are inextricably linked in my brain because there are so many reasons to be watching the wall instead.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

It's an old wall! It waits!

[mylefteye.livejournal.com]

How awesome is that?!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I am officially chuffed!

[kerravonsen]

Cool!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

:-D

[carl-allery.livejournal.com]

Woohoo, congratulations! :)

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Yay! :-D

[ooxc.livejournal.com]

Oooh! Will he meet Kipling and/or the Markyate witches?

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Wait and see....!

[chrisbutler.livejournal.com]

I like the sound of it! (And I am a little bit envious!)

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you like the blurb! (And I am a lucky, lucky woman.)

[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

This looks like all kinds of awesome!!! Congratulations!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :-D

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[ideealisme.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! That's wonderful news

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :-D

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I really hope you enjoy all three of them when they arrive!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Thank you! (Love that icon.)

[executrix.livejournal.com]

I congratulate them! They have done well for themselves!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Aw, thank you, e'trix!

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

As others write: Awesome! I haven't watched any 11th doctor so far (is he good?), but ancient woods sounds most intriguing.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I think Eleven is brilliant, but I suppose I'm a tiny bit biased.

[lonemagpie.livejournal.com]

Sounds very folklorish and Elvish (though you probably won't have to worry about pseudonymous TV Zone reviewers posting what happens in the climax all over the internet before the book comes out) - actually the makes me think of that Torchwood episode about the faerie... Small Worlds, I think it was called.

Which is a good sign, I liked that one (design of the CG creatures excepted)

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I liked "Small Worlds" too; good old PJ Hammond.

[toft-froggy.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

:-D :-D

[kendokamel.livejournal.com]

Woohoo!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Yay! :-D

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[steve-mollmann.livejournal.com]

Sounds rad. Congratulations, and I look forward to reading it. (Of course, I'm still looking forward to reading The King's Dragon, too.)

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Hope you manage to lay hands on copies of both.

[sugoll.livejournal.com]

Yay!

*watches letterbox intently*

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Hee, I'm doing much the same!

[alicambs.livejournal.com]

The blurb makes me so want to read it...
Congrats by the way. :-)

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :-D

[paranoidangel]

Ooh, that sounds exciting. And it has Rory in it!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

It does indeed, bless him!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Go you! (love the new underwater headquarters, by the way)

I've meant to ask you for a while by now but always forgot: have you ever written any stories for the 9th Doctor? I'd love to see your take on him.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Thank you! (And you're the first to comment on my journal's redesign!)

No, I've never written for the 9th Doctor. I did a short 10th Doctor and Donna piece, a crossover with Bujold's books.

[azalaisdep.livejournal.com]

Hurrah! Is the cover as spoilery as it looks?

So many of us in England never realise how old that wood, that copse, that little stand of trees up the hill behind us might be - or that the footpath through the middle of it might be a trackway that goes back to the Iron Age or further. (Remember the Green Lane in The Dark is Rising?)

Brrr. Had the alien world with dragon spaceships, now something ancient-English and woody and pagan. Fab.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Is the cover as spoilery as it looks?

I can guarantee that it has the Eleventh Doctor in it! ;-D

[the-wild-iris.livejournal.com]

Oh, congratulations! I didn't like to pry into what you were working on, but I hoped it might be another novel.

And it looks great - Wargs in World War One! Will definitely be my birthday present to myself.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Yes, I was being cagey about it until the official announcement, as ever. Thanks for not asking! ;-D

I'm particularly excited about this one.