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Post by rkcharron on Oct 6, 2009 7:47:08 GMT -5
Hi Stacey Do you find it hard to be a published author and be in Northern Ontario? Was there much re-writing of Thunder & Blood after November Novel writing? Love & Best Wishes RKCharron
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Post by staceyj on Oct 6, 2009 8:00:13 GMT -5
It's a pretty strange feeling to know that a lot of strangers have read something that I've written. It's even weirder to know that most of them really like it! I didn't get married during Nanowrimo. I was married that July here in Thunder Bay and we waited until we were back in Germany to go on our honeymoon. So that's one less thing that I did that November! I did do some writing during my honeymoon, however. I sat on the balcony and worked on the laptop. I think I wrote about 10,000 words during those two weeks. Having done about 15,000 before we left, that left me with another 25,000 words that I had to write the last week of November. I'm not sure how I did it. I got up in the morning, wrote, and then went off to teach English. When I got home, I wrote until about midnight. That last week I was really churning out the story. Stacey how does it feel to know people are loving your book & how did you find the time to write it during Nanowrimo w/wedding & honeymoon in same month? Did you even get any sleep that month??
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Post by staceyj on Oct 6, 2009 8:03:32 GMT -5
Well, I think the only difficult thing about being in Northern (Northwestern actually) Ontario is that I'm not in close proximity to a lot of the big cities and big bookstores. That's one of the main reasons that I've focused my efforts online. I'd like to do an in-person tour at some point and we've been discussing going west next summer possibly. I didn't actually do any rewriting for almost a year after I wrote the novel. In fact, I didn't pick it up again at all until last October. From then until April, however, there was a lot of editing and rewriting, although the story stayed essentially the same. Hi Stacey Do you find it hard to be a published author and be in Northern Ontario? Was there much re-writing of Thunder & Blood after November Novel writing? Love & Best Wishes RKCharron
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Post by rkcharron on Oct 6, 2009 8:06:22 GMT -5
Is your family supportive of your writing? Do you like travelling?
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Post by staceyj on Oct 6, 2009 8:13:05 GMT -5
I think my husband was surprised when I wrote Thunder and Blood. He knew that I used to write a lot, but I hadn't done a lot of non-university writing since I'd met him. He's been incredibly supportive. He's a physics/computer programmer type, so he doesn't understand the science of marketing, but he's just been sitting back and watching thus far. I love travelling, although I'm happy to be living back in Thunder Bay and not have to take that extremely long trip back and forth to Germany so often. We'll still go back to visit friends and family every few years, but we came back here four times in three years. It was pretty exhausting. While living in Europe we did a little bit of travelling (although with four trips to North America our budget was a little stretched). Our first trip was to Paris, where we took my daughter to Euro Disney. We also went to Berlin and drove through several other countries. Is your family supportive of your writing? Do you like travelling?
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Post by josef13 on Oct 6, 2009 8:14:23 GMT -5
Please count me in for the giveaway, I would love to read~!
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Post by ardethblood on Oct 6, 2009 8:16:40 GMT -5
Why fog? Why that element?
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Post by staceyj on Oct 6, 2009 8:18:18 GMT -5
The fog is where I got the idea for the book in the first place. It was the inspiration and the root of the story. Why fog? Why that element?
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Post by sassyele on Oct 6, 2009 8:19:12 GMT -5
please, please, pretty please enter me for this one - i'd give my right arm to own this book, and especially a super duper signed copy! thanks :-) xx
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Post by weldo on Oct 6, 2009 8:21:41 GMT -5
would love to read this book , everyone have a nice week:)
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Post by ardethblood on Oct 6, 2009 8:52:55 GMT -5
Why did you feel the need to establish that it was a parallel world and not just pull a Josh Whedon, by landing the characters straight in our world.
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Post by staceyj on Oct 6, 2009 9:30:30 GMT -5
The parallel world is another key aspect of the novel. It couldn't be set in our world because their history is different from ours. It was the same (or so I believe) up until a point in time, then it diverged completely. Why did you feel the need to establish that it was a parallel world and not just pull a Josh Whedon, by landing the characters straight in our world.
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Post by staceyj on Oct 6, 2009 9:32:55 GMT -5
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Post by k on Oct 6, 2009 10:26:51 GMT -5
Hi Stacy, As you know I loved the book. Can't wait for the second one. Kathi
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Post by k on Oct 6, 2009 10:33:16 GMT -5
Stacey, I know that you are super busy with promoting this book, just a quick question: do you have any idea when the next one comes out?
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