As Release Day Approaches…
SALT comes out in less than 20 days and I’m thrilled. (Mostly. Sometimes I’m scared. Many times, I am scared.)
There are a lot of reasons why writers write the books we do. For a friend, for a deadline, for a character, for publication, for fun, for ourselves. SALT was completely for myself; I honestly never thought it’d ever be published.
I wrote SALT after finishing a major revision on FOLLOW ME THROUGH DARKNESS. I’d spent two years with FMTD and that book is my heartbeat but the MC is lost, the subject heavy and the world intense. I was so tired when I finished that revision and then I heard Penelope’s voice.
She made me laugh. Her story made me smile, left me feeling joyful and light. It rejuvenated me, and I wrote it. It was fun to write and read, even while drafting and rewriting and building. As other people read her story, they fell in love with Penelope and her voice. That’s how Entangled ended up with it. And even when I was doing page proofs a few weeks ago, it made me laugh. It always makes me laugh.
With the release day approaching, this is the thing I think is the scariest to me: I want people to enjoy it. (Every writer wants that! It’s why we write!) I want it to be a story that makes people smile. That brings a moment happiness or laughter. That was why I wrote SALT. It was never meant to be this beautiful piece of literary genius that would change lives. It was relief and escape and happiness and kissing. It’s scary because I don’t get to put a post-it not on the book (like we do at the bookstore where I work) and say “Warning this is meant only to be fun!” I have no control over expectations. (I mean the cover is purple and sparkly, so I hope that’s pretty self-explanatory for the tone of the book.) I have no control of reactions.
I have no control anymore, but I do hope that all of you who are reading or will read SALT find a moment of escape. And maybe even laugh at least once.
Find it: Goodreads, Amazon, Barnes & Noble
There are a lot of reasons why writers write the books we do. For a friend, for a deadline, for a character, for publication, for fun, for ourselves. SALT was completely for myself; I honestly never thought it’d ever be published.
I wrote SALT after finishing a major revision on FOLLOW ME THROUGH DARKNESS. I’d spent two years with FMTD and that book is my heartbeat but the MC is lost, the subject heavy and the world intense. I was so tired when I finished that revision and then I heard Penelope’s voice.
She made me laugh. Her story made me smile, left me feeling joyful and light. It rejuvenated me, and I wrote it. It was fun to write and read, even while drafting and rewriting and building. As other people read her story, they fell in love with Penelope and her voice. That’s how Entangled ended up with it. And even when I was doing page proofs a few weeks ago, it made me laugh. It always makes me laugh.
With the release day approaching, this is the thing I think is the scariest to me: I want people to enjoy it. (Every writer wants that! It’s why we write!) I want it to be a story that makes people smile. That brings a moment happiness or laughter. That was why I wrote SALT. It was never meant to be this beautiful piece of literary genius that would change lives. It was relief and escape and happiness and kissing. It’s scary because I don’t get to put a post-it not on the book (like we do at the bookstore where I work) and say “Warning this is meant only to be fun!” I have no control over expectations. (I mean the cover is purple and sparkly, so I hope that’s pretty self-explanatory for the tone of the book.) I have no control of reactions.
I have no control anymore, but I do hope that all of you who are reading or will read SALT find a moment of escape. And maybe even laugh at least once.
Find it: Goodreads, Amazon, Barnes & Noble
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