Dirty Laundry

Home Sweet Home

So much to write about and such a foggy head. Took home a nice souvenir from London, England. A great big United Kingdom Cold! This isn’t your ordinary sneezing and feeling rotten for a couple of days cold, either. It’s the cough-until-you-want-to-puke-feeling-dizzy-exhausted-use-up-boxes-and-boxes-of-tissues-going-on-ten-days-now kind of cold. And I don’t even have the worst of it. My wife has it three times as bad as me and I feel very sorry for her.

And so, I’m not going to go on at length today but just give you the highlights of the past couple of weeks followed by some caption-less (if I can help myself) photos.

So, here we go:

* London was tons of fun. We saw shows. We saw palaces. We saw crown jewels. We ate some amazing food (and some not so amazing food). I worked on the copy edits for BEAT THE BAND. I wrote a blog for Teenreads. And I took pictures (see below).

* Back home I have been answering questions as a virtual guest author at the University of British Columbia. It’s been a lot of fun. Most of the students of the Young Adult Materials course laughed out loud at Swim the Fly and loved it but one of them absolutely hated it. That seems to be the way with this book. Most people really enjoy it and then there are the ones who just plain don’t.

* Taxes, taxes, taxes. Yes, it’s that time of year again. Had to tally up all of my fading book and movie receipts so that I can hopefully save myself a few pennies in taxes.

* Came up with an idea for a third book in the trilogy and now I need to write some sample chapters and an outline to show Candlewick Press. I’ve been turning it over in my dizzy head but haven’t had the energy to commit anything to paper yet. Looking forward to getting to work on it though.

* Preparing for next week’s mini-library tour of British Columbia. Always nice to go out and read for a live audience. Just hope this darn cold lifts completely by then.

* Did a podcast with some friends and fellow authors (James McCann and Lee Edward Fodi) who have started a site called “Authors Like Us.” It’s a cool idea where they chat with various authors and post that chat online. Here’s a link to the podcast. Take a listen if you have some time: Authors Like Us

And now for a photographic interlude:

There. I managed to get through all of those pics without writing anything like: King Henry’s chubby or Bratz: The Xtreme Torture Playset. Better that you interpret each photo for yourself.

And so, I will leave you. But don’t forget to pick up your supercool paperback edition of Swim the Fly that goes on sale April 13th. It’s the same great story with a brand new eye-popping cover that you will not want to be without.

Posted by Don Calame on 4.5.10 at 11:18 am in Prattlings. (1) Comments