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Running late as usual. It was one extra crazy week. There were a bazillion distractions with the release of the book trailer, plus we’re gearing up for a book release party at my local Borders. If you live in the east Bay Area, come and stop by! It’s Tuesday night, 7/29, starting at 7pm at the Pleasant Hill store

One of those distractions was an email from a producer of a radio station who’d seen the trailer and wanted a live interview on their morning show… on Kiwi FM in New Zealand. That was a first! Naturally I said yes, and I think it went well, except that I forgot until afterwards that it would have been polie to translate my measurements into metric. 10,000 feet is 3,024 meters, I believe.

The DJ had an outrageous accent, which was hilarious, and he’d watched the trailer, too. He thought it was obvious that the Plague books would make an excellent movie and an excellent video game, and I can’t argue with enthusiasm like that.

In the meantime, I did manage to have a solid if not spectacular week writing. That’s proving to be the biggest challenge for me – getting enough sleep, keeping my head straight, and minimizing distractions. It’s a lot of fun to hype your work and get hundreds of excited, exciting emails and exotic interview requests, but the main thing is to keep producing. I’m on a deadline! And I have a lot of other projects I’d like to get to next.

That’s sort of an interesting feeling. I’m very much enjoying Ruth and Cam’s next adventure (man, do those guys get into a lot of trouble!), and yet at the same time, there are other people and scenarios waiting to come to life in my brain.

I didn’t quite finish the chapter I was working on, which was frustrating. Those damn New Zealanders! Interrupting my Thursday! But (again) it turned out that this particular chapter is running over thirty-five pages, so I found a nice high point in the middle of it and lopped that baby into two. Shazam. So this week, suddenly, it turns out that I finished an entire chapter and nearly completed a second besides.

If I could just write four-page chapters, I would have written five of ‘em just this week! Ha ha.

Labels: book signing, Mind Plague, radio, the writing life