>Indigo Saskatoon Signing

>Whew! Did a Hunchback Assignments signing at the local Indigo Books here today. Was pleased to see signage announcing the signing! ? Hey, wait a second! Diane Gabaldon has a bigger sign than me (I think it's large enough to officially be called a banner)? ? Is there some sort of pecking order in the writing universe that I didn't get a memo about? Next people will be telling me that Stephen King has a bigger house.

Ah, but here I am inside Indigo cuddling my books. ? Signed lots of them. Sold some, too. Read a book on my iPod during the lulls.

Next...Calgary Wordfest...
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>Using the Audiobook to edit Series

>new InsightBookReader('audiopreview', '9780739380208', 'The Hunchback Assignments', 'Arthur Slade', '0', '', 'http://www.randomhouse.com/cgi-bin/buy_landing.php?isbn=9780739380208');

I'm thoroughly enjoying the audiobook of The Hunchback Assignments (downloaded it off iTunes! Geek heaven). Jayne Entwistle does a lovely job of narrating the story. But as I listen again to the novel, I'm also madly at work on the second book in the series, The Dark Deeps. I am finding that the audio book is reminding me of little quirks I'd forgotten about my characters and is helping me to recapture the "style" I used in the first book. I never really dreamed that an audiobook would be an editing tool, but it has become quite helpful. In fact, I think I might listen to is some more right now!

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>Launch Addendum

>Forgot to mention that 15 minutes before showtime I realized I'd left my reader's copy of my book at home. It has all my edits and notes! Ooops. Quick trip there and back, nearly had an accident, but made it.

Oooh and also had a twitter book birthday party on Tuesday! Which was sooo much virtual fun. Join here to find out about book releases and bookbday parties...

Web: http://twitterbookparties.com
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>Launch of The Hunchback Assignments

>It's officially launched! The book is on it's way to the moon. Or maybe to Mars. It all happened on Tuesday, Sept. 22nd, 2009 at Mcnally Robinson Booksellers in Saskatoon, SK, Canada. One hundred and ten or so people showed up. And not all of them were my relatives!
?I'm doing my fancy Keynote presentation, complete with sfx. And no glitches!
?I'm standing there with my "what should I say next?" look.

You can watch a short video about it:
[blip.tv http://blip.tv/play/AYGitAIA]
The voices that I used on the Keynote presentation were from the radio plays on the Hunchback website.
?Signing books!
?A pile of my books for sale.
?Smiling away as I try to remember people's names.
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On The bestseller list already!

All in all it was a great night. And there were free cookies, too.

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