Roadrunner Records has posted a new interview with Kevin J. Anderson, author of
Clockwork Angels: The Novel. Kevin tells of how the collaboration with Neil Peart came about:
We were having lunch together in a café in Santa Monica, and he was
telling my wife and I all these plans that he had and he mentioned the
novel and my wife [author Rebecca Moesta] immediately
said, “Well, who’s going to write the novel?” and Neil stopped and
looked at us and said, “Well, Kevin, of course.” I was kind of hoping he
would think of that as he was putting the story together, but he was
just developing the framework of it. So from that point on, I was
actively involved in working with him about how the pieces of the story
would come together, that the character had to go through this and then
the next thing and things had to get worse before they could get better
and how the story would resolve. So we were plotting this from the very
beginning.
Kevin also talks a great deal about the ins and outs of the book, including the editing process:
...And then we edited it together when it was done, and he would say things
like “I really feel we need to emphasize this part more,” or “We need
to come up with something else.” For example, it was rather late in the
game when Neil decided he wanted Owen to spend more time in Poseidon
City, trying to survive in the streets. So he came up with the character
of Guerrero, the Artful Dodger-type kid he falls in with, who’s
stealing things…
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