Taste of Kiwi

Firstly, my news before I reach the meat of my post. I’ve sold a new manuscript to Ellora’s Cave. It’s called House of the Cat, and I posted an outtake for this story a couple of weeks ago for Snippet Saturday. House of the Cat is a paranormal sci-fi with a feline shifter hero. I don’t have a release date as yet. Watch this space!

Our local airline, Air New Zealand has a brilliant new ad campaign at present. They’ve used their own staff to star in a commerical, and all they’re wearing is body paint. The ad has a catchy tune, and it’s awesome. I stop to watch every time it comes on the telly. And I have to agree with the ladies in the ad – I love a man in uniform.

They’ve taken this a step further and made a safety video as well – one that will guarantee every passenger watches to check out the staff in body paint.

And just to finish off – here’s the making of the ad. The guy with the gray hair in the yellow workman’s uniform is the company CEO Rob Fyfe. I’ve always admired him for the way he involves himself in the everyday running of the company. He actually spends time doing all the jobs in the company such as cleaning, moving luggage etc to understand each job and look for ways to improve.

Do you love a man in uniform?

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Ideas – they come in the strangest places at the funniest times. A writer’s life is never dull that’s for sure!

Mr. Munro and I were catching an Air New Zealand flight from San Francisco to Auckland. We hadn’t been on the plane long and I was settled back with my inflight magazine. It’s always the first thing I read when I get on any plane since they have interesting travel articles. Air New Zealand have this new products section and one of the items shown was a vibrating condom.

“Oh,” I said to hubby in a loud voice. “Look!” (and I have to point out hubby is always growling at me for muttering. I don’t but that’s another story. Anyhow, I spoke rather loudly.)

“What?” he asked.

“It’s a vibrating condom. Hmmm, I wonder how they test them?”

“Shush!” he said glancing at our neighbors who WERE looking at us.

“But it’s a vibrating condom!” I said. “Let’s buy one. How do you think they test them? Do you think people test them?” I asked, full of questions. The muse was at a full gallop, considering all the possibilities.

“Shush,” hubby said again. “I’m trying to read.”

“Oh, but don’t you think it would make a great story?”

“I don’t want to talk about it.”

“All right,” I said, a trifle grumpy now. “I’ll think to myself about how they test the vibrating condom.”

“Good idea,” hubby said.

So, I did. All the way back to New Zealand I thought about condoms and how they’d be tested. I thought about the possibilities of a girl inheriting a condom company and the rest, as they say, is history. I wrote Fancy Free, a story about a girl who inherits a condom company and is heavily involved in testing…

If you’d like to learn how my twisted mind works Fancy Free releases from Ellora’s Cave on 7 March 2008 – next Friday!! And meantime, if you’d like to read the blurb and excerpt go here.

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