The launch day for Trouble Takes a Holiday is finally here!! 🥳🥳 Unfortunately, we’re having some issues getting Amazon to approve our print versions, but we’re working on it. Paperbacks are already available through our secondary distributor, and hardcovers should follow soon.
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Odds and Ends
Why are we having trouble with the print editions? Because we actually wrote two books, not one, and the second book is printed upside down, so you can flip the book over and read part 2. Amazon is being a pain about it, but trust me, it’s really cool.
Anyway, think of this book as sort of a giant-sized issue or double-album, featuring two stories: Danger in Old Bavaria, and Trouble in Paradise. It’s a lot of fun and we hope you like it. It was a huge pain to lay everything for book two out upside down in Adobe Indesign, but so, so worth it.
Now that the book is out, I feel a great sense of relief washing over me in an awesome wave. I don’t mind telling you, dear reader, that over the past several months I’d become convinced of the absurd notion that I would die in some sort of freak accident before this book was released. Did Jenny incept me with her panic attacks? Or does she have her author to blame for her anxiety? Who can say? But I made it.
A few random details that may interest only me…
This book was written in at least a dozen different Starbucks, Seattle International Airport, and one brewery in Downtown Sacramento, among other locations. All on an M1 MacBook Air. I find it hard to write at home because I also work from home in my day job. The final sprint to finish the last draft was done at a Sbux with tables that were too high, and i gave myself a repetitive stress injury from writing for hours with poor ergonomics :( Albums listened to when writing Trouble Takes a Holiday included: Evermore — Taylor Swift, Screen Violence — Chvrches, Red (Taylor’s Version) — Taylor Swift (but only from The Moment I Knew onward), Formentara — Metric, Emotion‚ Carly Rae Jepsen, and various 80s and 90s alt-rock hits, but especially Common People by Pulp and Don’t You Want Me by the Human League. After sampling German beer for research, I am never touching the American stuff again. Marco and I brainstormed for this book in sessions at the park in the middle of the night in the bitter cold during the winter of 2021, staying far apart, afraid of catching Covid-19. Needless to say, the pandemic does not exist in Jenny’s timeline, though Blondie still released Folklore.
Here is a crude drawing of the castle. Sorry, I’m not an artist.
Schloss Schwarzwald