Missing You in Two Days

Feast your eyes on this picture.

My hideous mustache…

Okay, so my March ‘stache is pretty magnificent, but that’s not what I’m trying to show you here. That’s an advertisement in my hand for Missing You by Harlan Coben, which is coming out in two days.

As part of the USO’s Operation THRILLER, Mr. Coben toured multiple sites in Germany, Kuwait, and the USA to visit military members. I was fortunate enough to meet him when they stopped by Ramstein Air Base in October 2013. (Pictured above, as well, are thriller authors F. Paul Wilson and Kathleen Antrim.)

One of the most memorable moments of my conversation with him was when he shared that, even after selling 25 million books, he still wakes up some days thinking that what he’d written the day before was, well … dung.

And that’s okay. It’s normal.

I’m paraphrasing, of course, but it was inspiring to hear one of the world’s best-selling authors say something like that. Gives hope to the small guys like me, pushing 40, trying to eek out a few minutes a day to throw some words on paper. Let’s me know that I am not the only one with doubts every now and then.

And a BTW … I’ve read several of Harlan’s books–all dynamite. He’s got nothing to worry about.