Spent the morning (trying) to catch up on all my emails. Then in the afternoon it was a meeting with my publisher about the adults series I’m ( supposed ) to be working on!! It just seems this week I’ve been wearing so many hats, with Monday and Tuesday speaking to publishers who want me to distribute their materials, whereas today I’m working with a publisher because I want them to distribute something I’m writing!

Anyway, it was good to make sure we’re on the right page, and it looks like things will start moving for the end of the year. We also had a good chat about other ideas, which if I get the time would be really cool to put in to practise. Then we went off to the bookstore to check out their books and other stuff that’s available. I tell you it’s just crazy the amount of English learning books out at the moment! And I don’t know why GE materials get put in the “foreign books” section, because I’m sure we’d quadruple the amount we sell if they were in the normal “eikaiwa” section.

Then it was the shinkansen down to Nagoya. Where, due to the World Expo, every single hotel room in the city is booked!!! So I’m staying in a capsule hotel. But it’s not too bad, as the location is pretty cool. And as it’s Nagoya I popped into my favourite restaurant here, the Outback Steakhouse. That was really cool and the staff are so friendly. There were also some people from NASA in ( everyone seems to be from Texas this week!). After a while chatting to the waitress she was asking about what I do so I started talking about the book ideas I’d been throwing around today. So suddenly the waitress’s friend pops over and starts chatting, which is fine, whatever. Then she says “So are you rich?” and I’m like, “Not yet”, and she disappears!!! I’ve never had that happen before! So a very interesting night to say the least!.