The Opposite of a Whirlwind: Release Week Ramblings

This coming Friday, September 29, 2017, my novel Collapsible finally releases. 
To say that the whole experience has been a whirlwind would be the opposite of how it's felt so far.

Things So Far
I wrote the first draft in 2014, started sending queries in 2015, signed a three-book contract and completed the trilogy during 2016, wrote and rewrote the story about eighty gazillion times throughout, and now here we are, finally on the cusp publication in the fall of 2017.
So the word whirlwind do...