WINTERGIRLS comes out in 5 days….
So, what does an author do in the days before book tour?
This author has been very busy with interviews. I had a great one yesterday with a reporter from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and have a bunch more lined up for next week. Today I hope to finish the Keynote presentation I’ll be taking on the road with me, and start packing. Am also busy emailing back and forth with the Web God as he puts the finishing touches on the WINTERGIRLS website.
While I’ve been crossing off things on my to-do list, work continues on the Cottage.
Our tree guy chopped down the dead 200-year-old maple and cleared out the smaller trees from the spot where we want to build.
The dark spots are rot. We could also see shadows where spiles had been inserted to tap the sap.
BH and a buddy of his have been busy on the magic window. They had to sand out every frame, patch and strengthen weak spots in the wood and start preparing thingies (have no idea what they are called) that will hold the glass. They found a mixture of wire nails and cut nails. The presence of cut nails confirms their suspicions that the window was buit in the late 1800s.
By Friday, the window was strong enough to be stood up. That’s his buddy on the left, BH and me in the center, and Queen Louise to the right. The glass guy came to take a look at it and will soon give us the estimate for the cost of the glass. Fingers crossed about that. The plan is for the magic window to take up most of the south wall of the cottage.
I’ll end with a couple of links for those of you who can only catch up with this blog on weekends.
Can you come and see me on book tour?
Have you entered the WINTERGIRLS contest yet?
Did you see the WINTERGIRLS book trailer?
How about the short video where I explain why I wrote the book?
WINTERGIRLS comes out in 5 days….