Posts for category ‘live action sara’

I’m home! I did not get sick! Triumph. Many many thanks and hugs and kisses and high fives to everyone in Ohio and Tennessee who made my trip so much fun and did not infect me with a cold. I will always love you for that, and for other reasons.

I had the honor of doing another Book Notes piece over at Largehearted Boy, this time for Once Was Lost. Though I listen to tons of music while I write, it’s always hard to come up with the definitive playlist for a book, since I’m always discovering new music and rethinking old. But I tried. If you missed the Book Notes for Sweethearts, find it here.

And, yes, here is Episode 4 of the Video Tour Diary! Watch for a special appearance from the Joseph-Beth Books Cincinnati mascot, Bob.

A couple of quick links:

• A new interview about Once Was Lost at Every Girl Blog
• A little essay / guest post I did for Teenreads.com on being funny, but writing serious

Here’s Episode 3 of the video tour diary. In this edition, I don’t go anywhere! But, I did want to capture publication day, which was indeed special. You’ll have to imagine the moment that the King’s English staff brought out a birthday cake for me and fifty people sang. I was too surprised to get out the camera, and also maybe I cried. Just a little. And not only because I’m turning 39. Watch for special guest appearances by your favorite Utah authors!

(If you have buffering issues, did you know that if you hit pause and then come back to it in a few minutes it should work without hiccups?)

I’ve just wrapped up the last of my official duties as Author Sara Zarr for leg one of the Once Was Lost tour. Namely, the Reading the West Breakfast at the Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association conference. Reading the West is a program of MPIBA—booksellers pick books of note from authors in the region or subjects about the region. Four RtW authors spoke this morning: Jacqueline Kelly (The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate), Rick Collington (Madewell Brown), me, and Judy Shepard, author of The Meaning of Matthew: My Son’s Murder in Laramie, and a World Transformed. As you can imagine, Judy’s talk was emotional for her and for us. I know that her book will be a difficult but good read.

with my friend Steve at the Tattered Cover

I’m trying to keep a video diary of the tour, if I can overcome dead batteries, slow internets, and late-night tiredness. Already I’m an episode behind, thanks to all of the above, but for your viewing pleasure I give you: Denver. (Of all the thumbnails YouTube gave me to choose from this was, believe it or not, not the worst.)

Do you ever wonder how videos like this are made? Of course you do! Here is one possible answer…

In episode one, my director mentioned briefly that she was surprised to learn how similar the process of writing a book is to the process of recording the audio version. I sat down with her when we were done and asked a bunch of questions about how she sees the audio process, and nodded a lot. I also got a chance to talk to another reader, and a sound engineer. Enjoy!