How to pronounce “grahame” in English

Seth Grahame-Smith: that's what that would be.

Seth Grahame-Smith: And low and behold I fell in love with the actual life story of Abraham Lincoln which I didn't at that point

Seth Grahame-Smith: And in the meantime so before, I knew, before my head had stopped spinning literally like the last time I was

Seth Grahame-Smith: And I was pulling into the parking lot on this and just this question just popped into my mind fully formed what

Seth Grahame-Smith: And reading essentially passages from The New Testament.

Seth Grahame-Smith: And so I got really excited by the where'd they get the gold, frankincense, and myrrh?

Seth Grahame-Smith: And coming face to face with some Lincoln scholars that were like, "Yo, I don't even understand this, what are

Seth Grahame-Smith: and then when I'm five she marries an Episcopalian Smith and then rather than saddling me with the unfortunately alliterative Seth Smith she's like, "Maybe we should hyphenate."

Seth Grahame-Smith: And so I've always see myself as kind of straddling these two worlds and this was a very interesting exercise for

Seth Grahame-Smith: Because books are different it's not a movie where I'm not checking my watch to see where the grosses come in tonight

Seth Grahame-Smith: Already has his own awesome plane from what I hear.

Seth Grahame-Smith: So hopefully Sergey's watching, yeah available anytime you know how to reach me.

Seth Grahame-Smith: Yes woman 1: Hi Big fan of PPZ and looking forward to reading this book.

Seth Grahame-Smith: And my picture is in the book.

Seth Grahame-Smith: I'm not and I'll tell you why.

Seth Grahame-Smith: Sure >>woman 1: I worry about the people who don't read the book who know basically that the cliff notes the summary of what it's about

Seth Grahame-Smith: No, No look I think that first of all it would be flattering if people cared enough about the book to get that worked up about it in a way because it's

Seth Grahame-Smith: That's a great question.

Seth Grahame-Smith: But other than that I was coconscious also of not writing the book of the movie.

Seth Grahame-Smith: Yes >>woman 2: About your research on the Unholy Night.

Seth Grahame-Smith: Oh yeah >>woman 2: And was there more in there or did you just kind of invent most of it?

Seth Grahame-Smith: No, Matthew and Luke is really were it all comes from and then there's also a lot of later text that the Apocrypha they're called that are just sort

Seth Grahame-Smith: Yeah it's interesting I didn't consult with I would say people of deep faith let's say during the writing of the book but after I had written the manuscript

woman 1: Yeah Seth Grahame-Smith: Yes, and I'm doing this I'm being recorded right now.

I'm very excited to introduce Seth Grahame-Smith here today.

So that's how I became Seth Grahame-Smith when I was five and it's also how I started

me try out before I leave Seth Grahame-Smith: happen here.

They can get pretty scary >>Seth Grahame-Smith: sure woman 1: And I just kinda wanted to make sure that you're fully aware of what you've

done woman 1: Cuz >>Seth Grahame-Smith: Do you know what you've done?

be honest- >>woman 1: Absolutely Seth Grahame-Smith: with you.

Seth Grahame-Smith: So I wrote the screen play for, and then, Tim was the producer on that and then after I wrote the screen play

Seth Grahame-Smith: Now in all fairness most of the people that are the biggest fans of PPZ are Jane Austen's fans like life-long fans.

woman 1: There's some crazy people out there >>Seth Grahame-Smith: Yeah woman 1: and they can be violent.

other books by those what kind of >>Seth Grahame-Smith: Sure man 2: you know >>Seth Grahame-Smith: Sure what are my sign post books the books that I hold up and.

such a thing as book stores I don't know if you guys remember- Seth Grahame-Smith: You use to actually physically go and buy books at brick and mortar stores.

Willows things like that and legally changed my name when i was three to Grahame.

Seth: Oh man, listen Seth Grahame-Smith: Sergey Brin the Batman I mean you think about it he's first of all he's one of the few guys in the world that

Seth Grahame-Smith: Yeah, I think that there's very really little I can do about that to

And honestly the person this was another encouraging thing about my impending assassination but Seth Grahame-Smith: Was that one of the

Because it's a little different when you're dealing with the birth of Jesus- Seth Grahame-Smith: than dealing with a Regency era romance novel.

Julie Wiskirken: Greetings everybody I'm Julia Wiskirken from the authors at Google team in Los Angeles and today we're very excited to welcome Seth Grahame-Smith.

And so I had made this cynical observation, "boy if you could combine those two things you know, Seth Grahame-Smith: that would be a license to print money right there

That never happens to me, my men in the basement are probably all dead or lazy or something but Seth Grahame-Smith: I really have to whip them into shape to like no let's work on this

Then when I was three my parents split up and my sort of wonderfully crazy mother who was an English major loved the author the English author Kenneth Grahame, Wind of the

King is still king in my I'm an unabashed, not disciple that's wrong word especially in this context but Seth Grahame-Smith: but King lover.