A Day Closer … & Blog Interviews
Publication Day, minus 3 … Although as Jan commented this morning, it’s the 28th in the USA that is “on sale day”, and as US Eastern Standard Time is currently (with NZ’s shift to daylight saving) 17 hours behind NZ, I should perhaps technically still be saying Publication Day, minus 4.
But as seven hours of our 28th will overlap with the 28th in the USA, I think I shall stick with the original countdown schedule. Official release date for Australia/New Zealand is still the 1st, so I get to party all over again on Thursday, too.
Today’s blog was going to be on what matters to me when writing a book like The Heir of Night, but as I have been working on two blog interviews, one for FantasyLit.com in the USA and one for RisingShadow in Finland (both of which have recently reviewed Heir; just click on the links if you want to see the reviews) I thought I’d talk about that first.
Mostly to say that blog interviews are both interesting and fun—mainly because every interviewer will ask some unique questions, which reflect their experience of the book. Those questions can often make you, as the writer, reflect more deeply on an aspect or nuance of the book that you may not have considered in that light before—which is seriously cool.
Most interviews, blog or otherwise, usually contain some overlapping questions as well. The reason I find this interesting in the blog interview context is because the overlaps point to universality of experience and interest, even when interviewers come from very different parts of the globe.
One of the main reasons I enjoy blog interviews though, is because they give me the time to really think about my answers, and so the opportunity to provide more in-depth information for interview readers than is possible in a television soundbyte or even a quick radio Q&A. (Although of course we always do in-depth interviews on Women on Air!)
I also have another blog interview coming up this week with the Christchurch Library, as part of their programme to interview some of the writers who were to have appeared at the cancelled (owing to earthquake) Christchurch Writers’ Festival. Definitely another one to watch for—although I have to say that all three sites, FantasyLit.com, RisingShadow.net and Christchurch City Libraries blog are well worth a visit at any time.
That’s probably about all I can say for now, but I will be sure to post links here when the interviews are online so you can check them out for yourself.