Now that he's not spending all his time being grilled by aggressive British barristers in a baseless lawsuit, Dan Brown is finally getting back to work on the sequel to The Da Vinci Code.
The mega-selling author’s newest novel is now scheduled to come out sometime in 2007, more than a year later than originally expected, The Book Standard, an online industry publication, reported Friday.
"My books are time-consuming to research and complicated to construct," Brown said in an e-mail sent to The Book Standard by publisher Doubleday. "I am taking the time necessary to ensure that this new book is every bit as entertaining as 'The Da Vinci Code."'
The forthcoming book is said to revolve around Robert Langdon, Brown’s hero in The Da Vinci Code, and the Masons, a secretive fraternal organization. Brown has said its tentative title is The Solomon Key.
The Da Vinci Code, with 6 million paperback copies in print, has already sold more than 40 million copies worldwide in hardcover and continues to sell well three years after publication.
We hope that the writing is going well. We've already read three books about the Knights Templar and the Temple of Solomon. We even read a historical romance that had something to do with secrets of the Knights Templar. But we haven't read one book yet about the Masons, which is reportedly what The Solomon Key focuses on. But you just know that the Templars will be in there somewhere. Not that there's anything wrong with that. We do love a good Knights Templar/ancient secrets book.
