Results tagged “holidays” from Trudi Canavan

Zooming Along

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Is what time is doing. And us. We're currently exploring Atlantic Canada with friends, in a hire car. Worldcon was great. We didn't manage to extract a non-broken internet cable from the hotel until the con was half over, but there was so little spare time to spend using it that I only managed to check my emails and bank account each day before being swept up in the fun again.

After the con we left Montreal for Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. It is very pretty, but unfortunately not a great time of year to be travelling here as it's very hazy, which doesn't make for good photography. It's also unpleasantly hot. Not as hot as it gets in Melbourne in summer, but much more humid. Still, it's lovely from the airconditioned comfort of the car!

We've seen deer, porcupines, squirrels, bear cubs, and lots of seals. I'd love to come back another time - and see other parts of Canada as well. Perhaps do a train journey. Hmmm.

Internet access has been available here and there, but with four people using it I'm still mostly checking email and my bank account, so I've given up on regular blog posting. Mobile coverage has been almost non-existant. I'm mentioning this because someone has been trying to call me, and for various reasons I can't call them back, so maybe they'll read this and realise why I haven't returned their call - and that they should email me.

Well, looks like we're packing up ready for the next leg of our journey. Gotta go!

Jetsetting

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Oh boy. The last few weeks have been a blur. We've been to seven airports (some multiple times), taken seven flights and explored three cities. We've strolled on tropical beaches, seen what happens when hot liquid magma and sea water meet, got stranded in Dallas airport when a man with a fake bomb caused our ongoing flight to be cancelled, walked on streets that felt like movie sets in New York, brainstormed with publishers, met famous authors and been to countless parties. All in only two weeks.

Internet access hasn't been as attainable as I'd hoped, and neither has time for blogging. I'm squeezing this post in before bed. I wanted to share some photos we took at the US Orbit office. Here I'm being prepped for a video interview:

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I've never been interviewed on video before, so I was both excited and a little nervous. But the recording team were very encouraging and helpful. It's not something you get to practise for, so I was surprised then they did just one take. But I know they'll cut and arrange things cleverly for the final clip, which for now will be used for internal (non public) publicity but may end up on the Orbit web site. (I'll post a link if it does.) Here's the team:

 

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Penelope, Jack, me, Oscar, Sam and Brad. (apologies if I got any of those names wrong!)

Jack was the interviewer and escorted me to the studio and introduced us to the Orbit publishing team. Some exciting ideas were discussed for this website, so you might see some changes in the future. Here's me and Jack, with Tim - who I first met in the UK in 2005 and is now head honcho of the US office.

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It's always great to meet the people who turn your stories into books, package them up so beautifully and deliver them to the world.

 

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