I really did! I finished the book trailer for Enza! I know it’s kind of lame compared to those that are professionally done, but I’d have had to hire a whole lot of actors to do one like that. Even so, I’m really happy with the way it turned out.
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If you were following my blog early last year, you probably heard me say that if books were children, Enza would be my favorite, much-loved, and very spoiled baby. It’s been said that every author has that one story in them. That special, once-in-a-lifetime story that will change their life forever.
Enza is that once-in-a-lifetime story for me. No matter how much I might want to, and no matter how hard I might try, I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to write another novel like this one.
Every time I hear of another deadly virus, one with the potential to reach worldwide pandemic proportions, I remember all I learned while researching the Spanish Influenza pandemic of 1918. That conservative estimates say it killed forty million, while others say it might have been as many as one-hundred million. It just boggles my mind to think what could happen today.
A 2006 article in Medical News Today says:
The world population in 1918 was about 1.8 billion (US Census Bureau). Today it is about 6.5 billion. In 1918 3.6% of the world’s population died from Spanish flu. 3.6% of today’s global population is 234 million.
Scary thought, isn’t it?
Congrats, Kristy! I love the music—really fitting and suspenseful. I’ll have to share this with my grandmother, who is a proud owner of your “baby.” 🙂
Thanks, August. 🙂 I will probably wind up playing with the timing on the music a little more, but I loved it the first time I heard it. And tell your grandmother I said hi. Gotta love someone who loves my baby. 😉