Here I am once again avoiding housework. If I actually kept up with it (and my boys helped), it'd never get this bad. I have a self-imposed deadline of midnight Labour Day, made more pressing because we just bought a new computer, and space needs to be made for the old one, and the new one needs to be installed, and files transferred and all that. How sad is it that setting up computers and playing with the files is my reward for cleaning?
Stuff that's been going on (as I avoid cleaning):
Rob's 2 launches were rousing successes. Victoria was HUGE, and Vancouver slightly less so, but attended by family and many good book folks
Rob has, in the past week or so, done media at:
- A Channel News (in studio)
- Chek 6 News (in studio and live at his Victoria launch)
- CBC 1 - All Points West, all of BC except Lower Mainland
- CFAX radio - am show with Joe Easingwood
- CFAX radio - afternoon edition with Eric...
- recorded with Bravo TV at his Vancouver launch
- article and review in Times Colonist
- article and review in Vancouver Sun
- amazing review in Globe and Mail
- article and review in Monday Magazine (2 separate editions)
- article and review in Victoria Newsgroup papers (2 separate editions)
- review in Georgia Straight newspaper
- review in North Shore News
- review in Hamilton paper
- review in Halifax Gazette
That's it, I think, though he has another interview with CBC, and who knows what else
He is currently #5 on the Maclean's Bestseller list!!!!
He's been regularly under 100 in the amazon.ca rankings, often in the top 25 books
Life is very good for Mr Robert J Wiersema. And for his family therefore, as well.
His first official event is at Galiano Books, on Galiano Island Sept. 9, 2:30. Hosted by the lovely Lee Trentedue (sp?). We're super pumped. The next week he's off to places west of here for a week and a half, then home again before he hits the road on a madcap tour...
For anyone new to this stuff, or simply not 'in the know'....
This is NOT NORMAL for a first time author. Not the media, not the sales and certainly not the very quick rise to the bestseller list. This is much cause for celebration, because many first time Canadian authors would be happy for the sales he's already had - over their entire publication time of said first novel. Its remarkable and fabulous - a credit to his creativity and amazing writing skills, but also to his reputation in the book world and in the media world...the massive marketing machine is not to be sneezed at, for it gains him the chance to bring his book to a much larger audience than would happen if it were simply out and sitting on shelves.
Anyways...enough about Rob, since this is my blog and I deserve some attention too...especially since I'm the one behind the scenes cleaning and setting up new computer equipment for him to create on.
Not that I have much else to say. Fall is rapidly approaching and I am sad about this. I am a summer girl, always have been and I suspect I always shall be. That being said, fall is the new year for me and I have plans - weight loss and getting fit being a #1 priority. Clean house and keeping it that way another. Possibly moving into a less leaky and falling apart home high on the list too - and boy will I complain long and hard then! Not about the new home (I hope) but about the process of moving.
Not much else at the top of my brain right now. I guess I must get to it. Its not even so much cleaning right now (though that's part of it). Its shuffling all the stuff we own around (again) and trying to make it all fit into the same small space we had 8 years ago, despite the fact that we accumulate so much stuff every year, every month, that it becomes impossible to accommodate it all.
Here goes...
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