So this is the second weird thing that happened to me while I was editing Book 6, Gappy and the Witch's Curse: Don't read this if you don't want to learn what happens at the end of book 6. There's an episode where a skeleton starts growing innards, like organs and muscles and blood vessels. I'd been working on this section for a while, so my head was full of images of what that would look like. Needing a break, I came into the living room and flipped on the TV to see what was on. The channel that came on was playing the movie "Hollow Man" starring Kevin Bacon. It was just beginning a scene where a huge invisible monkey - a baboon or gorilla - was being injected with a formula which would make the monkey become visible again. As the formula snaked through the veins and arteries of the animal, they became visible like a web curling around the body and weaving in and out. Slowly organs and bones began to plump into visibility, then skin and muscles. I couldn't believe my eyes because what I was watching was the exact same scene (except that my skeleton was human) of what I had just been editing in my book!
Worked on a press release for announcing the fourth book, Gappy and the Thieves, is out on Kindle. Took pretty much a whole weekend to write and refine it, add pictures, etc. The thing that took the most time was going through the media lists I have and compiling a spread sheet on who likes to be contacted by mail, fax, e-mail, etc. Luckily, hubby looked up how to coordinate things to make the e-mailing faster. Some people were faxed and a lot were mailed. I can't believe how many media people prefer receiving things in the mail, as opposed to e-mail. Get to do it all over again soon with announcement of the sixth book, Gappy and the Witch's Curse.
This is the first weird thing that happened to me while I was writing Book 6, Gappy and the Witch's Curse. It was April of this year (2011), and I'd recently returned from Salem, Massachusetts where I'd been doing research for the book. I was writing the last few chapters and filling in blanks, and was totally immersed in the history of the Salem witch trials when, on a Saturday afternoon, I visited a second-hand book store to look for an old book on chemistry or electrical engineering for a science professor friend of mine whose birthday was coming up. The shop owner showed me a bookcase near the back wall where old, cloth-bound chemistry textbooks were shelved. As I browsed the shelves, reading the titles of the books, I suddenly caught sight of a hardcover novel whose modern white jacket stood out in contrast to the muted reds and browns of the old textbooks, some of which dated back to the 1940's. As I looked up at the book to read the title printed on its spine, a cold shiver crept down my own spine. The title of the white book was In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692, by Mary Beth Norton, published in 2002. Amid the shelves of mouldy old texbooks, all devoted to organic and inorganic chemistry and the odd biology text, In the Devil's Snare had obviously been misfiled at some point, but what a huge coincidence, and what a spooky one, too! Needless to say, I bought the book, and it proved very useful as a reference guide for checking facts and figures and adding the finishing touches to Gappy and the Witch's Curse.
Hi. I've just spent 48 hours solid, creating this new website, so forgive me if I don't blog something straight away. If I have to type one more word in my currently sleep-deprived state, I think I'll scream. Some pretty weird things happened to me while I was writing Book Six: Gappy and the Witch's Curse, so stay tuned. Meanwhile, Hubby, a cup of tea might be nice, hint, hint!
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AuthorStar Donovan, author of the exciting Young Vampire Adventures, a series of books about a normal boy named Gappy, who gets the shock of his life when he learns that he is turning into a vampire and then proceeds to hurtle from one dangerous adventure to another. Gappy makes it to TV!!
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