DigiYumi: Chat with Working Daze Author John Zakour

08.06.2009

One day I saw that the Sci-Fi Channel Web site was looking for content, so I e-mailed them and asked, "hey, how about if I write an original Web serial for you?" They surprisingly said, "Sure." So I wrote The Plutonium Blonde one week at a time usually just hours before deadline. The Plutonium Blonde ran it's course and I thought that would be that. But then my cousin Larry Ganem (who works for DC comics) told me about an e-book publisher called Peanut Press that was starting up. I e-mailed them and asked if they'd like TPB as an e-book. Turns out they had read it online and really liked it. They bought it; it was a top-selling e-book in 2000 until some guy named Steven King wrote Riding the Bullet. So I thought then, that was it, I have had my run. Then out of the blue I get an e-mail from some lady named Betsy Wohlheim at Daw books saying she read the e-book and really liked it. Would I be interested in turning it into a paper novel? I said, "Sure." Then I got my cousin Larry to help me, as he was a communications major at SU and knew about things like verbs and semicolons. The rest is history.

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