blogHeyday’s day is nearly here
Heyday will be in bookstores, Random House says, on Tuesday, March 6th. Yikes.
As I told a friend today, waiting for one’s own book to be published reminds me not so much of waiting for actual children to be born, but rather of skydiving just before you go: plane door open, parachute packed, wind and engines howling, the ground two miles down, an adrenalized mixture of terror and excitement and hope and obsession with self, shuffling forward as others hurl themselves into space ahead of you….
“Yes,” said the friend, a novelist and publisher, “it’s just like skydiving, except you’re in the plane for years and years.”
Right: I conceived the book in the 90s, began researching in earnest in 2001, and started writing in 2002. Geronimo! (Geronimo himself, by the way, was 18 as the story in Heyday begins. When he was 21, Mexican soldiers massacred his wife and three children, the event that turned him into…Geronimo.)