Up in the north of Fever Crumb's world, beyond the Fuel Country, where the nomad empires roam with their herds of mammoth and reindeer and their ramshackle rolling castles, the last month of summer is known as the Scrivener's Moon. That's the season Wavey Godshawk chooses to undertake an expedition to a mysterious old-tech site which is supposed to be connected with the Scriven race, and it's also the title of my next book, which will hopefully be published in spring 2011.
In some ways Scrivener's Moon is going to be a return to the scale and scope of the first four Mortal Engines books; there's an an epic journey, a large cast of characters, and several interweaving storylines. There is a bit about the Scriven, a bit about the Sixty Minute War, and a lot about the nomad empires and the construction of the new London. There's also an awful lot of tidying and rewriting to do before it's ready for publication, so I'd better stop writing this and get back to work...
