Launch day

Fires is my second novel, and I don't feel like I know any better about how to feel on launch day. All the hard work, sweat and tears is out there in the world now. All the ideas, the story lines, the characters and what they go through... they get to exist in other people's heads now, and that is still a weird feeling. It was all contained in mine for so long, letting it out feels like having a baby, except that it's a full-grown adult and it's already left the house to go hang out with its friends.

The closer I get to finishing a final draft of anything, the more anxious I get for it to come out, but once it does, all I can do is second-guess every single choice I made. I was confident in most of them yesterday, but today I don't think I'll be able to sleep because I'm questioning everything.

But now that Fires is out, it feels truly done. Though I have filled many pages of my Book III notebook and written 10,000-ish words for it, I can fully make the mental switch and get to work on it in earnest.

If you have been reading my books, thank you so much. If you only read this, though, thank you, too. I'm glad you found it and at least took the time to read what I had to say.