Two and a half years ago, Keith DeCandido sent me an e-mail — “How would you like to write a Doctor Who<\/i> story for me? I’m putting together a Short Trips<\/i> anthology, and you’re on my list of writers.”<\/p>\n
No, that’s not the actual<\/i> text of Keith’s e-mail, but it’s a pretty good flavor.<\/p>\n
Short Trips<\/i>!<\/p>\n
Big Finish Productions<\/a>, a multimedia outfit based in the UK, had been putting out full-cast Doctor Who<\/i> audio drama CDs for a few years, and after the turn of the millennium they started doing a series of Doctor Who<\/i> anthologies called Short Trips<\/i>, all based around themes, starring the first eight Doctors, from William Hartnell to Paul McGann.<\/p>\n Keith was putting together one called The Quality of Leadership<\/i>, the theme being the Doctor’s encounters with leaders throughout time and space.<\/p>\n I put my thinking cap on, and were it not for my cat, I doubt I would have come up with the madcap idea I pitched — the Doctor and Plato of Athens on a road trip.<\/p>\n Thus was “The Spindle of Necessity<\/a>” born.<\/p>\n It was my first non-Star Trek<\/i> sale. In a Short Trips<\/i> book, alongside writers like Peter David and Diane Duane and Terri Osborne.<\/p>\n Between you and me, I felt like the odd one out in the book. All these heavyweights! And me. I didn’t think my A-game was going to be good enough. I couldn’t hang with the heavyweights!<\/p>\n The book turned out really well. I didn’t let down the side. Terri Osborne’s story is pretty brilliant, in my opinion; she’s justly received some award notice for her story.<\/p>\n I was pretty pleased to have sold a Doctor Who<\/i> story. Especially in that book.<\/p>\n Sadly, all things come to an end, and Big Finish has announced that with a final volume, Re:Collections<\/i>, the Short Trips<\/i> line will come to a close<\/a>. Re:Collections<\/i> will be a best-of compilation, presumably drawn from the previous twenty-eight Short Trips<\/i> volumes.<\/p>\n The book is due out in May.<\/p>\n A fond farewell, Short Trips<\/i>. :cheers:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Two and a half years ago, Keith DeCandido sent me an e-mail — “How would you like to write a Doctor Who story for me? I’m putting together a Short Trips anthology, and you’re on my list of writers.” No, that’s not the actual text of Keith’s e-mail, but it’s a pretty good flavor. ShortContinue reading “On the End of Short Trips”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[687,4082,688,689,292,594],"class_list":["post-2284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doctor-who","tag-big-finish","tag-doctor-who","tag-plato","tag-short-trips","tag-sixth-doctor","tag-spindle-of-necessity","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}