Archive for November, 2007

Frustration sets in…

Monday, November 26th, 2007

I’m barely an hour into the discography-type research to make sure I have all the releases in the book, all the release dates correct, and so forth … and now this:
Aaron, whom I trust implicitly, says October was released on October 20, 1981.
U2.com says it was released in September, 1981 (see red text at top), [...]

Researching | 4 comments

Progress!

Monday, November 26th, 2007

Whew! After what seems like forever, I’m finally done putting all of the concert dates into the book. What a colossal project that was….
Next up: adding/confirming all the various dates of releases of albums, singles, and so forth. Another mammoth project, I’m assuming.
182,000+ words in the manuscript at the moment, in case you’re keeping [...]

Writing | No comments

Book Sample: U2 at Live Aid

Thursday, November 15th, 2007

Anyone up for a sample diary entry from the book?
I thought I’d post the diary entry for July 13, 1985 — U2 at Live Aid. This is one of the longer diary entries, I think. (The album entries are all pretty long, too.)
In addition to the text I’m writing, I hope to have [...]

Book Samples | 12 comments

Answers For You

Saturday, November 10th, 2007

Thanks for all the great questions and comments on that last post a few days ago. Let me try to answer these as best I can. And if anyone has additional questions, feel free to use the comments on this post.
Raul asked: “Do you already have the cover done? How is it going to be? [...]

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Any Questions for Me?

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

Blogging has been a bit quiet the past week or so, for one simple reason: I’m doing monotonous work on the book right now that doesn’t lend itself to many discussions or calls for help.
What am I doing, you ask? Adding every tour date U2 has played into the manuscript. It’s terribly boring work, [...]

Writing | 11 comments

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