The trip out to Anaheim was lovely and uneventful. They even gave us free crackers on the plane.
My ALA whirlwind doesn’t start until this evening, so I am sneaking in writing time while I can. Poolside. Coated in sunscreen, sitting in the shade, but, yeah, I’m lounging next to what I think is a bougainvillea plant, underneath a palm tree.
Some parts of this job do not totally suck, I must admit.
Another cool thing is the email I’ve been getting recently. I don’t know why, but suddenly teen boys are reading TWISTED (because it’s out in paperback?) and are emailing me; often at 4am. Several of them are demanding a sequel like this guy, who wrote:
Thank you for grasping what us, as teenagers go throu on an daily basis and putting it into words. Reading your books, gives me hope to get throu the weeks. Espicllly TWISTED, its my favorite so far, and I would like to know what ends up happening to Bethany and Tyler, Yoda and Tylers sister Hannah??(name has slipped my mind) and if Tyler continues on with his new ways and becomes the man he wants to be.
Many of the guys who are writing want to see more of the relationship between Tyler and Bethany. Must ponder this….
I will try to take lots of pictures this weekend and post them (and yes, I’ll try to make a video again), but the Internet connection at my hotel is really slow, so it might take until Monday before I can put up anything substantial.
Now I will lean back, close my eyes, and absorb this memory so I can pull it out during a blizzard next February.
Don’t you just love it when you get things right?
It’s great that your book seems to be ‘gaining’ readers at a time when most books (even in paperback) have been long forgotten for what other “new” YA book is the hot flavor of the week.
Do you think the 4am time has to do with the fact that the readers are overseas? (time diffence and all that)
I’m so glad to hear that, because the received wisdom is that guys don’t read, or they’ll only read adventure books where lots of things blow up, etc. I always suspected the received wisdom is selling them short.
one of my favorite librarians will be there with you. what a small world!