BBBB #457: Amanda Bridgeman and writing Pandemic: Patient Zero
Channel: Stuff by Bez
Date: 23/10/2021

Daily positivity, and boardgame blethering.

Today: Amanda Bridgeman is the author of many books, including PANDEMIC: PATIENT ZERO, the first novel set in the Pandemic board game universe. 

We'll talk about how this novel came to be, some of the choices made for this project, and what a book based on a boardgame could be like.

What special considerations are there for a book based on an IP? Let's talk about the restrictions, but also the opportunities.

What research needed to be done? How much did Amanda try to incorporate elements of the game into the book?

Was it uncomfortable writing about COVID in the past tense?

What would Amanda like to do for the next book?

Respectful comments and questions are welcome.


There is always music and games in our hearts. 

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Amanda is a two-time Tin Duck Award winner, an Aurealis and Ditmar Awards finalist and author of several science fiction and thriller novels. Her works include the best-selling military SF/space opera AURORA series (previously published by Momentum Books/Pan Macmillan Australia), alien contact drama THE TIME OF THE STRIPES, and sci-fi mystery SALVATION series, consisting of THE SUBJUGATE and THE SENSATION (published by Angry Robot Books, UK).

Her new novel PANDEMIC: PATIENT ZERO will be the first novel set in the award-winning Pandemic tabletop board game universe, released worldwide this September 2021 through Aconyte Books (UK).

https://amandabridgeman.com.au/

https://twitter.com/Bridgeman_Books

https://www.facebook.com/AmandaBridgeman2

https://www.pinterest.co.uk/BridgemanBooks/

https://www.instagram.com/bridgeman_books/

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Aconyte Books is the novels division of Asmodee Entertainment, publishing books based on Asmodee boardgame IPs, as well as Marvel comics.

Books so far include Keyforge: Tales from the Crucible, Terraforming Mars: In the Shadow of Deimos, and Pandemic: Patient Zero.

https://aconytebooks.com/

https://linktr.ee/aconyte

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