Makoto and I are madly packing up boxes and boxes of books to fill the orders we have already! The books look wonderful and it is all very exciting. My friend came over and bought ten copies then and there! And the Amazon orders are flooding in!

It was my 14th anniversary in Japan last Saturday (28th). I always plan to do something special on that day every year, and I treat it a bit like a birthday really! But this year I have so much coming up to celebrate in the next month or so that I only planned a quiet [...]

Yesterday I had a meeting with the Ask Caroline translator Satomi, my distribution manager Tim, and Tim’s wife Kazuyo. The big Roppongi Hills Tsutaya at the bottom of Telebi Asahi Dori have asked me to come and do a “Talk Show” at their store on September 18th, to promote Ask Caroline. It’s very exciting! Satomi [...]

Yesterday I received some samples of the audio CD that goes inside the Ask Caroline books. I’ve never made a CD before so this is quite exciting! The company I worked with is called Perfect Disc, based in Hong Kong. Working with them has been a good process so far—they are usually very quick to [...]