And some of these readers then move on to my own original novels. I enjoy working on tie-ins, they challenge me as a writer and they also end up being read by readers who wouldn’t otherwise have heard of me. The first one I wrote was an original Hellboy novel, from that came the 30 Days of Night novelisation (same editor), and then the others came in slowly but surely. Tie-in work is something you’re offered more of the more you do, if you can hit a deadline and deliver a good product. How did all that come about and how do you go about working on a novelisation? Speaking of films, aside from your original fiction, you’ve worked on several novelisations and franchises – like 30 Days of Night, Alien/s, Star Wars and most recently, Kong: Skull Island. The Silence is being adapted as a film isn’t it? How did that come about and are you involved in the production of it, the writing?īuy The Silence by Tim Lebbon from Amazon
For that I had to research causes of deafness, as well as sign language (fascinating reading), lip reading, and the idea that the family of a deaf person often develops their own version of sign language. I wanted her to have speech, so she’s a character who suffered deafness when she was (from memory) 8 or 9. How much research went into that aspect of her character? She’s a very believable deaf teenager too. And my son was her brother’s age, so some of the family dynamic was quite familiar to me. I was helped with the teenaged girl POV because my daughter was that age while I was writing the book.
Actually someone at my publisher who worked on the book was deaf for the first few years of her life, and she says it worked well. Writing from the point of view of a deaf character is one of the hardest things I’ve ever done writing-wise, and I hope I pulled it off OK. It came from the novel concept, and a desire to challenge myself. Did you decide to use a deaf character because of the basic concept of the novel, or did the novel come from you wanting to use a deaf character. Your main character in the Silence is a deaf teenage girl.
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