« Day 3: Story Begins to Take Shape | Main | Day 5: Author Boy Rocks »
August 11, 2005
Day 4: A Spanner in the Ointment--Gasp!
In today's exciting episode, our spy hero guy, minding his own business, riding a space elevator that will take him up to the HMS Eclipse (and the start of his official mission), suddenly falls deathly ill. As of where I left off, he was learning that he'd been poisoned! Poisoned! Eek! How could it be? (Then again, he was just eating the space elevator train version of airline food...) What's going on? Indeed, is there more going on than meets the eye? Have I been reading too much Philip K. Dick? Only time will tell. But so far, so good. 6001 words all up, after doing 1500 this afternoon. I'm planning on calling it a night, too. The headache is back, and I don't want to push my luck.
* * *
ECLIPSE Update:
Today Publisher Brian sent me a proof of what the back of the book will look like, with blurb and other goodies. The whole thing looks very spiffy indeed, I must say. He tells me there will be finished copies in the warehouse very very soon. (Actually, he did give me a date, about which I'm very excited, but he hasn't told me I can tell you yet.)
* * *
Meanwhile, about ORBITAL BURN:
I just spoke with the manager of my local Dymocks, at the Morley Galleria. She wants me to bring in more copies of OB to sell at the shop. Even better, she wants copies of ECLIPSE, too, when it appears.
W00t!
* * *
And at the pool:
This morning we hit the local pool again. I managed 60 laps churning up and down, up and down--and felt pretty wiped afterwards. This is odd because in the last three weeks, on Sunday afternoons, I've been able to bang out 80 laps (2km!) in just under an hour. I clearly need to work on my conditioning, and probably do more stretching exercises before starting. Michelle is also doing excellent work, improving on her own performance. At this rate, we might actually get, if not hugely fit, then at least a bit toned up, and maybe lose a bit of poundage.
Posted by adrian at August 11, 2005 07:32 PM
Comments
Yum, I love space cookies!
River -- so long as I have a title, publisher and ISBN, my local bookstore will take an order and fill it as soon as the book is available. Kinda like pre-ordering at Amazon, but much more fun 'coz you get to talk with actual people and gush on and on about what a great book it is and how the writer is a pal and ... at about this point, I usually notice them giving me the "I'd rather be cleaning up after a JK Rowling reading than talking to this git" look. *grin*
Posted by: Charlie ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.kabedford.com/nav-commenters.gif)
at August 13, 2005 02:53 AM
i thought it wasn't orderable yet?
Posted by: river selkie at August 13, 2005 12:06 AM
Charlie--Being the first to order a copy of ECLIPSE, and similar top-egg behaviour on your part is why you get to be Sir Charles, dude. :) You can have a shiny space cookie as well.
Posted by: Adrian at August 12, 2005 08:33 PM
w00t indeed, on all updates!
I went to the local independent bookstore yesterday and ordered Eclipse, same place that procured OB for me. (support your local bookseller!)
Do I get a cookie for being the first to place an order? :)
Posted by: Charlie at August 12, 2005 12:00 AM
Post a comment
Thanks for signing in, . Now you can comment. (sign out)
(If you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear. Until then, it won't appear on the entry. Thanks for waiting.)