Post-release author life, and a new short to distract myself

(Cross-posted from today's blog over on my website.)

The first day or two after a release is just…weird. 

It’s weird. 

After hyper-focusing on one project above all else, you hit publish, get the buy link, send the newsletter, post the blog, add links to various book pages in various places, and….

Nothing.

You’re done. It’s over. Back to the bottom of the rollercoaster, ready to start clanking your way up to the top with another book. 

Which is exciting, yes. But it’s also weird.

So I'm distracting myself by writing another Kevin and Charlie* short! 😆

Here's an (unedited) snippet:

*** *** ***

“Kevin,” I said, and immediately second-guessed myself.

He was dozing in the sun, and for a moment I thought that maybe I’d got away with it and he hadn’t heard me.

We were on the lawn, sprawled out in the waning afternoon light of a Sunday in early September. I’d had the vague intention of seducing him right there on the plaid wool blanket, but it hadn’t come to much. 

One: I’d been at work until three, and the moment I got horizontal, my tired body had other priorities. And two: the moment I got horizontal, and Kevin got horizontal, Phil had bustled over to get horizontal with us.

Phil and I had a brief shoving match, Phil won and clambered on top of Kevin, and I had to content myself with lying next to him, my head resting on his shoulder.

"Hmm?" Kevin said, eyes still closed.

*** *** ***

A picnic blanket on the lawn sounds like a pretty good plan for the rest of my afternoon, actually. Once I've finished work, anyway. The sun will be behind the yew tree by then, and I’ve got a post-release celebration cake that needs eating. 

Have a great weekend!

Isabel 😁


(*A little context for those who don’t know who these people are: Kevin and Charlie (and Phil the dog) are the MCs from Not That Ridiculous.)