Rachel Hartman's Blog, page 28

I’m trying not to waste time

But that doesn’t mean I can’t waste your time, right? You’re dying to procrastinate, I can tell. Well, I’m here to help, because I’m thoughtful like that!

At my son’s guitar lesson last week, his teacher showed him something called a “step sequencer”. Here’s a websitewith one you can use. Click on the squares and listen to the interesting results.

This keeps my boy busy for… well, for as long as I’m willing to let him play with it. Which is sometimes, I confess, probably longer than I should. B...

A fine day in Seattle

I went down to Seattle for a day to have an interview with Nancy Pearl, the famous librarian host of Book Lust. I think it went well. I had an excellent time, anyway, as evinced by my talking her ear off. That should air in September. I’ll link to it when it becomes available online.

I also had lunch with Amazon folks and dinner with booksellers and librarians (I can recommend a couple excellent restaurants in Seattle!). Fearless rep Deanna took me around to sign stock, and I got to have coffe...

Back, and dithering on as usual

The spam sure does accumulate when you’re not at home, doesn’t it? I knew I should have had someone picking up my mail and watering the plants.

(Pause a moment while I try to work out which part of the blog corresponds toplants. Some metaphors just don’t work.)

We visited my in-laws in the midwest. They threw a lovely party where extended family and old friends (including several of my husband’s high-school teachers) brought books for me to sign. I just heard that Seraphina is back on the NYT b...

Seraphina wiki

Hello, friends! I am still visiting family, but I just had to pop in for a moment and tell you that my husband discovered that someone has started a Seraphina wiki site. It contains many, many spoilers, so don’t peek unless you’ve already read the book. They’ve got an impressive number of pages already – a real labour of love! – but Goredd is massive and this is the tip of the iceberg. I believe anyone who’s interested can join and contribute, and I bet the creators would welcome the help.

And...

I know I said I was busy

But I’m always saying that! And there’s always time enough to let you know that the fabulous ladies (plus Archer, who ain’t no lady) at Cuddlebuggery Book Blog have posted an interview with me, in their trademarked Cuddlebuggery style. Which seems to involve dressing up like Vikings, something the rest of us just don’t do often enough in our daily lives.

Another interview

Hop on over to BrodartVibe’s Blog forA Conversation with Rachel Hartman. These questions were fun to answer, and the one about my favourite “library moment” really made me think (which I always enjoy!)

I am travelling soon to visit family, so posting will probably be light until the middle of next week. Just so you’re warned. Forewarned is forearmed, as they say.

And four-armed is half an octopus. Words to consider, friends. Weird, weird words to consider.

Thinking about listening

I have a guest post up at Suvudu.com — The Top 10 Songs I Listened to While Writing Seraphina. It details my odd tendency to put songs on endless repeat and suck all the goodness out of them, like some sort of musical vampire.

I’m not sure how it’s possible, but I still love all those songs, even after the repetitions. You’d think they’d get old. Maybe they DO get old, and that’s what I like, treading those well-worn paths again and again. The familiarity. I have no idea. There is music I used...

Two-for-one!

In honour of the end of the UK blog tour, we have a special double guest-posting today! First, The Inspiration Behind the Book at Words on the Shelf (thanks, Mazz!).

Second, The Making of the Dragon Mindover at writer Katy Moran’s blog. Thanks Katy! And thanks again to Random House UK and all the participating bloggers for arranging such a super fun tour!

My MTV interview

Bah, I can’t seem to embed this video, possibly due to my being in Canada, but if anyone would like to see the live clip I did from SDCC a couple weeks ago, here it is. Considering how little sleep I got the night before, I managed to be reasonably articulate!

Thanks to my hosts at MTV, and to my publicist, Paul, for setting this up.

The grand tour continues

Today’s guest post is hosted by YA Book Reads, and is called The Story Behind the Story. Natasha has also reviewed Seraphina. Thanks so much, Natasha, and YA Book Reads for hosting!