JWhiting.com » The Virus Makers http://jwhiting.com Digital navel-gazing from the writer/performer Jason Whiting. Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:16:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 en My Book Has A Body! http://jwhiting.com/2008/04/19/my-book-now-with-a-body/ http://jwhiting.com/2008/04/19/my-book-now-with-a-body/#comments Sat, 19 Apr 2008 17:14:41 +0000 JWhiting http://jwhiting.com/?p=171 I haven’t really spoken about it here, but I spent much of last year and the beginning of this year writing my first novel. So far the book-writing process has been both highly satisfying and deeply maddening. Luckily the highs have outnumbered the lows. And one of those highs came on Friday via the mail.

For all of its life so far the book that I’ve been writing has only existed in my head and on the computer screen. No one else (including my best buddy life-partner) has seen or read a word of it… Until now. [Cue the dramatic music.]

Late last night after piloting our new electric scooter through the mean streets of Montreal, Jeanne and I laid eyes on the first-ever printed pages of The Virus Makers.

I finished the first draft of this Young Adult novel at the end of March and my soccer-loving, boy-fathering, cousin-in-law Peter Coles kindly offered to print it up for me. Pete’s the VP of Sales and Marketing at Arcprint (and imaging) and it seemed appropriate that the book be birthed back in Vancouver where I first started writing it in the spring of 2006.

I’ll speak more about the book in, I’m sure, way too many subsequent posts, but for now I just want to fête the newly corporeal block of text that is the first draft of The Virus Makers!

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