Publish and be damned

I did it. I published my novel. The First Ethereal exists in the world. It’s a thing. What lived only in my head for such a long time, is finally out there. It’s real.

The truth is, I never really believed that I would do it. In fact, for a very long time, I doubted that I could do it. Writing reports is one thing, but writing a whole bloody novel is ridiculously hard – or so it was for me anyway.

Inner critic

Even once I had a pretty robust manuscript in my hands and I’d faced down the couldqu...