Peter James was born and bought up in Brighton, and therefore has a connection with the area. He now lives in a cottage near Ditchling, which is just outside of Brighton.
"In 1994, in addition to conventional print publishing, Penguin published my novel, Host, on two floppy discs, billing it as "the world's first electronic novel." It caused huge controversy, I was pilloried on the Radio 4 Today Programme for attempting to destroy the novel, and I was front page news on many papers around the globe, all equally furious! In the immediate following years I became a media spokesperson for the electronic publishing age, and in 1996 found myself as a keynote speaker at a conference at UCLA on the future of reading, alongside (gulp) Steve Jobs and the CEO of Time Warner!" (http://www.peterjames.com/about)
He also does a lot of charity work for all different charities, such as 'The Backup Trust for spinal injuries, the Martlets Hospice, The Chichester Life Centre, the Book Trade Benevolent Society, Starehe Boys' Centre in Kenya and Action Medical Research.' (http://www.peterjames.com/about)
He also gives people a chance to be a part of his next books, either with a name or a place, by having people donate money to one of his charities.
Using this I can maybe incorporate this into my app, so that after the person has bought the book they can have a link that will allow them to donate money and become a part of his next book.
He has written 19 books and 7 of them are part of a series, which involves a Detective Superintendant called Roy Grace.
- Dead Simple
- Looking Good Dead
- Not Dead Enough
- Dead Man's Footsteps
- Dead Tomorrow
- Dead like you
- Dead Man's grip
As you can see each of the titles had the word 'Dead' in them, this is a great indictator to which books are part of this series, mainly because with his other 12 books there is only either one or two words as the title, for example:
- Possession
- Deamer
- Sweet Heart
- Twilight
- Prophecy
- Host
- Alchemist
- The Truth
- Denial
- Faith
- The Perfect Murder
- Perfect People
This allows for his audience to tell between the series and his other books.
But just for this project I am only focussing on the Roy Grace Series. This is so, if this app were to be made then there would be a chance for people to keep buying all of the relevant books so they can follow the story all of the way through.
http://www.peterjames.com/ This is where I got all of my information about Peter James.
