It’s always an honour and a privilege to be a part of Who. How does it feel that your novel will be some of the first Bill adventures fans can experience, before the rest of series even comes out?
These new Twelfth Doctor novels came out five days after the first episode of the season. It took all my will power not to squeak: ‘Yes Doctor!’ The moment he turned to me and Titan comic artist Rachael Stott and said: ‘Would you like to see the TARDIS?’ was magical. That single scene informed a lot of my thinking about their relationship.
It was only one scene but it gave me a good idea of their dynamic which I instantly fell in love with. I also had a wonderful opportunity to go on set to watch an episode being filmed long before I was commissioned to write the novel, and so saw Peter and Pearl in action. All three books were written in quite a short space of time, so the three of us acted like a self-support group, geeing each other on. And then, of course, the story and eventual manuscript went through the usual approval process to make sure that we hadn’t gone off piste!īut yeah, there were emails firing back and forth to make sure we were running along the same lines. We were provided with scripts up to episode 10 of the new series, and spirited away to sunny Cardiff to watch a rough cut of the first episode to get an idea of Pearl’s performance.
Was there a lot of discussion between yourself, Mike Tucker, and Jonathan Morris to cross reference how they were writing the character?Ĭavan: I wouldn’t say left to our own devices.
But bar that, you seem to be left to your own devices. When it comes to writing for characters that haven’t appeared on television yet, I’ve heard writers are given script excerpts and some clips to get a feel for the character. With his very first Doctor Who novel, The Shining Man, out now, I had the pleasure of chatting with frequent Doctor Who expanded universe writer Cavan Scott, about his new Twelfth Doctor novel, ominous clowns, the Mann/Scott Masterplan, and more!ĭWC: The Shining Man is one of three upcoming novels to feature new companion, Bill Potts.
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