Jasper Fforde
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Jasper Fforde (born in London on 11 January 1961) is a novelist and aviator living in Wales.
His early career was spent as a focus puller in the film industry. His published books are a series of novels starring Thursday Next: The Eyre Affair (2001), Lost in a Good Book (2002), The Well of Lost Plots (2003), and Something Rotten (2004).
The Big Over Easy (2005), which shares a setting with the Next novels, is a reworking of his first written novel, which initially failed to find a publisher. It had the working title of Nursery Crime, which is the title now used to refer to this series of books. The follow-up to The Big Over Easy is The Fourth Bear, due to be published in July 2006, which focuses on Goldilocks and the Three Bears.
A new novel in the Thursday Next series is due to be published in July 2007, entitled War of the Words. This title is printed in The Fourth Bear but is still subject to change.
Mr Fforde's books are noted for the number of literary allusions, wordplay and the tightly scripted plot, and also the impossibility of deciding which genre they fit into. The simple answer is that they don't, although they all have elements of metafiction, parody, and fantasy.
Mr Fforde should also be noted for his use of the internet to add a different level to the books at [ThursdayNext.com] and talks directly to his fans through comments on the [Fforum], which has attracted a small community producing parodies and nonsense roughly connected to the 'Nextian Universe'.
Another way to engage readers has been through the insertion of rogue postcards into copies of the books which now sell for not inconsiderable sums, as well as guerilla signings, which often confuse purchasers of his books.
External links
- [Jasper Fforde's Web site]
- [ThursdayNext.com]
- [Jasper Fforde Ffan Club]
- [Home of the new series of Nursery Crime books]
- [] at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- [Interview] conducted by Jay Tomio for [Fantasybookspot.com]
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