Philip Pullman to Pen The Book of Dust, a Sequel Title to the His Dark Materials Trilogy
November 14, 2012
Penguin Group (USA)'s Viking imprint recently released Philip Pullman's latest adult book, Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version. In an interview, Pullman revealed that the Fairy Tales project has influenced him to be more economical in his writing. Currently he is working on The Book of Dust, a sequel title to the His Dark Materials trilogy.
"[The Grimm fairy tales] move very quickly. There's not an ounce of narrative fat in them. They go very, very swiftly from event to event. And another thing is you see very few adverbs in them, so I'm trying to cut down on my adverbs. You choose the right verb, and you don't need an adverb to qualify it."