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  • Good morning, John.

  • I'm in metal bit Australia.

  • That's the convention center where Vidcon is currently happening as of the release of this video, but not quite yet.

  • As of the recording of it mark on the city.

  • My Australian publisher, Shet has asked me to answer some questions about my book.

  • And since it's coming out in less than 30 days, I'm gonna do that.

  • I'm doing it with the help of some Australian voices because I love this accent.

  • What's your writing routine like Trying to be so So what?

  • You're writing routine law.

  • I open my laptop unless it's already open.

  • And then I take Why did you name your protagonist, April?

  • Is it some kind of metaphor here?

  • Oh, wow, there's a lot of water on the land, Pretty on the page kind of writer like there's not a lot of subtext.

  • Honestly, I'd like to be pretty explicit, but that being said, I mean, there's reasons they're not really metaphorical, but you don't know that.

  • How does writing a book change the way you experience other books?

  • I can tell you what definitely does change it.

  • I wouldn't say it's better or worse.

  • First of all, it's harder to not compare myself to good writers and be like, Oh, I'm bad at this second like, yeah, you see more of the process.

  • You see more of how it works.

  • I think that that's a deeper understanding, but it's less immersive.

  • May be different, Not better or worse.

  • To be clear, I find that with most media, find it with video blog's music, like the things that I've tried my hand at that I spent time doing It affects the way that you imagine and perceived them.

  • It affects the way that you enjoy them.

  • Feel like any 5.1 done load would be pretty gross.

  • Any songs you listen to that inspired the plot or characters in your novel?

  • I don't listen to music while I'm writing.

  • I can't do anything.

  • All I'm writing like White noise.

  • Maybe, But yes, it will become clear on reading it.

  • Their number of songs that were inspirational in the book What have you found to be the hottest part of Ronnie book?

  • Stopping writing is really hard once you've done it for so long, like you so hard to get it out of your mind that you can't change anything anymore.

  • It's terrible.

  • I thought of something really great last night that I would make the book better if it was in there, but it's not gonna be.

  • I did put one thing in the book after it went to press, though.

  • So it'll be in the second edition and also maybe in the digital additions.

  • If someone office to make an absolutely remarkable thing into a movie, would you say yes?

  • I don't know.

  • I haven't said yes yet to that, So we'll just have to see.

  • I guess that would be pretty cool.

  • But it's also a lot of work.

  • I've seen it.

  • It's a lot of work.

  • Loved your book.

  • Is there a sickle in the works?

  • Thank you for reading my book book store in D s.

  • Where did you spend most of your time writing your book?

  • I mean in chairs most.

  • I'm not very picky.

  • I'll do it wherever I'm just long.

  • Hi, I'm in my hood.

  • It's raining outside.

  • Will you give us the robot's Lashkar chasing that John will never right?

  • I mean, I am looking for ideas like inspiration can come from anywhere.

  • So maybe which find you go.

  • All right, that's it.

  • This idea is going to become a book about when I'm finished.

  • Why did you write a slash this book and make a lot of stuff?

  • And there are lots of things that I wanted to talk about, that I haven't found good ways to do that.

  • And I found that this was a good way to talk about stuff that I wanted to talk about.

  • It's also a good way to tell a really good story that I was really excited about.

  • What was the seed for the story that became the book kind of embarrassing but a literal dream.

  • I had a dream.

  • Now that's interesting.

  • When does the book come out?

  • It comes out September 25th.

  • It's available for preorder now.

  • This is a beautiful city, if damp.

  • John, I'll see you on Tuesday.

  • You'll be able to get my book at places like diamonds.

  • Thing must be a very dangerous ladder.

  • They've got it confined.

Good morning, John.

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