"No new posts" I was asked.
"Are you away?" I was emailed.
No was the answer. It was just that last week was a very busy week ... and also I wanted to leave PaperTigers and their new project at the front of the blog for just a tad longer.
Much of last week was spent involved in the BUSINESS of writing and tied up in meetings, with:-
* Linsay, my wonderful publisher, sorting out new writing projects for me to sink my teeth into;
* a colleague from Goulburn with whom I am working on an animation project; Me writing an animation you ponder ... well I never throught that I would write a libretto either ... but i have!
* my web designer - yes, the website for Pa' Christmas Star is underway. That will be live later in March and people will be able to download the complete package for the musical and then come Christmas 2010 (oh yes we are already planning for that) we hope that somewhere in the world the musical will be staged.
* finalising a few SCBWI projects (annual reports, inaugural voting awards, organising our 3rd international SCBWI Australia and New Zealand conference) too ...
* and finishing off creating the book trailer for the marketing collective of SCBWI folks ... just in time for the USA summer holidays! Need a Good Book to Read These Holidays?
Yes ... it was a busy business week.
More will be posted on these over the next few days.
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This all came about early in 2008 when I received an email that contained the following words and a whole lot more:
I am trying to find a collaborator to work on the book, and you came to mind right away. I'd love to work with you on this project if you're interested.
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By: CHRISTOPHER CHENG,
on 2/9/2010
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By: CHRISTOPHER CHENG,
on 1/14/2010
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There's a lot to the world of being this children's author - it's not all kids books! I have also written the libretto to a children's Christmas musical - called, as you might have guessed, Pa's Christmas Star.
This all came about early in 2008 when I received an email that contained the following words and a whole lot more:
I am trying to find a collaborator to work on the book, and you came to mind right away. I'd love to work with you on this project if you're interested.
Of course I was interested and so began the exchanging of numberous emails and then a frantic few months of transforming my unpublished picture book manuscript into a 45 minute musical - and that included creating the words to ten songs, a whole lot of spoken parts and the stage directions.
And this past week here in Sydney we had the joy of getting together with Beth. We of course did the tourist thing (this is us standing at the Three Sisters in the Blue Mountains), chatted just a smidge about the musical and we ate heaps!
Beth is on teh music faculty at Northwest Vista College in Texas, (the daughter of Professor Jill May from Purdue University which is where I used to work) and of course a composer. And Beth's website is here.
I'll have more news about the musical very soon and hopefully this coming Christmas there will be on stage somehwere in the world Pa's Christmas Star.
and this is more of Beth doing the tourist thing ...
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