{"id":496,"date":"2019-09-06T14:29:58","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T18:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/?p=496"},"modified":"2019-09-06T14:30:57","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T18:30:57","slug":"the-next-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/?p=496","title":{"rendered":"The Next Book"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Even though the latest Joshua Jones book is now complete, I&#8217;ve already started researching and plotting the next book in the series. As a writer, this is often one of the most exciting parts of writing. The story ahead is a blank page. Anything can happen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This series has always been imagined as a six book character arc for the hero, Joshua Jones. I know where the overall story is going, or at least I think that I know. Often times there are curves in the road to the last book, but overall, I know where it&#8217;s going. As they often say about road trips, arriving at your destination is not always as interesting as the trip itself. So the challenge for me as a writer is to make sure each book is a exciting adventure along the road to the series finale. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The next book is called <em>Return False<\/em>, and it continues the use of computer and programming terms as book titles. It&#8217;s really hard to imagine a better title than <em>Kill Dash Nine<\/em>, but I think you&#8217;ll understand the reason for calling this next book, <em>Return False<\/em> when you read it. For now, you can assume that exiting a function without something is one of the two meanings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There will be new characters and familiar old characters in the story, so nothing out of the ordinary there. I have a spreadsheet in which I&#8217;m tracking the cast of each novel. Complete with whether or not each person dies &#8211; because Mystery novel. One of the new characters will help shed some light on Joshua&#8217;s mysterious past. That&#8217;s about all I can divulge at this point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before I go, I&#8217;ll let you know that cars will be featured somewhat prominately in <em>Return False.<\/em> The cover image for this post is the new Dodge Charger 5.71 AWD. Detective Plait&#8217;s gonna need this monster car to catch the bad guy who&#8217;s driving a flat black, WRX STI with extreme engine mods. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/353692_800600.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/353692_800600.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/353692_800600-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/353692_800600-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though the latest Joshua Jones book is now complete, I&#8217;ve already started researching and plotting the next book in the series. As a writer, this is often one of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-return-false","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=496"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":501,"href":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions\/501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}