In which I hit the publish button and freak out a little...

It's done. I hit the publish button over at Amazon, and also at Barnes and Noble. It's real. The book I started working on last May(ish) is now A Thing. The book that I waited years to write because it has creatures that drink blood and I thought the market was flooded. The book that made me laugh and sigh and fall in love with a boy named Peter who isn't human. The book that helped me work through my feelings about mortality and what it means. I have no words for what this feels like. It's a consummation of years of work and struggling and worrying and wanting and hoping and praying and dreaming. I'll probably cry when I sell my first copy. Yeah, I know I will.
I'm planning on doing a post next week on how I did it. Especially formatting. That was like being dropped in France without a word of French. I found a few good resources, and without them I wouldn't have been able to do it. But I checked the file and everything looked good, so I must have done something right. I'll post what I did because I believe in sharing what you know. For now I'm going to bask in the high that I'm on. Also, I'm going to the Maine State Cheerleading Competition in an hour, so I'm going to be all hopped up from that. And then I'm going out to see a live band tonight with friends. So this day freaking rocks.


This is my life right now. Lots of leaping.