The easiest part
So I meant to write something here monthly. But life has been happening. Also, another thing I should have wrote here was that my book was free for two days. It was a fantastic experience watching the sales go through the roof. I think about 250 people have gotten their hands on my book, give or take a few. That's about 200 more than I thought would ever, ever read it. So that's pretty exciting. I've had old friends tell me it was "alright". That's enough. It really is.
So this book is set, mostly, in Alabama. In fact one of the key locations of the book is my parents house. Literally. If you followed the directions in the book, you would end up there. I wanted it, despite its utter ridiculousness, to be grounded in some way. To grab a chunk of reality. The place where the book ends, which I won't say here, is also a place out of my life. It's a place I traveled to for work in 2013 and stopped and hung out. The weird thing was, I had already written the ending. And I didn't know at the time that I'd be going to the place for work. It just kind of happened. And it made it all feel right. It made me realize that despite all my hangups and thoughts of being inadequate, at some point I had to hit that publish button.
My one regret so far is that I didn't hire someone to copy edit the book before sending it in the world. The two reviews I've gotten keep mentioning that, and I want to fix them, but I really, really don't want to look at it again. At least not yet. But before I close the book (yuk, yuk) on INAF, I am going to get it right.
I've had a few people speculate as to how I'd continue the story in my first book. I've thought about it too. But it seems like too big a job right now. I intentionally didn't mention anything outside of the narrow focus because first of all the entire premise is razor thin, and secondly at some point it could be an interesting thing to revisit.
So the new thing. I wrote 15 pages about how to hitchhike on an automated truck. It's more difficult than you would think.
That's all I got right now. Just like the first book, I'm not really sure where it's going, but it does involve another place I went for work. I am lucky enough to go to weird, inspiring places.
Now I just need to write.
So this book is set, mostly, in Alabama. In fact one of the key locations of the book is my parents house. Literally. If you followed the directions in the book, you would end up there. I wanted it, despite its utter ridiculousness, to be grounded in some way. To grab a chunk of reality. The place where the book ends, which I won't say here, is also a place out of my life. It's a place I traveled to for work in 2013 and stopped and hung out. The weird thing was, I had already written the ending. And I didn't know at the time that I'd be going to the place for work. It just kind of happened. And it made it all feel right. It made me realize that despite all my hangups and thoughts of being inadequate, at some point I had to hit that publish button.
My one regret so far is that I didn't hire someone to copy edit the book before sending it in the world. The two reviews I've gotten keep mentioning that, and I want to fix them, but I really, really don't want to look at it again. At least not yet. But before I close the book (yuk, yuk) on INAF, I am going to get it right.
I've had a few people speculate as to how I'd continue the story in my first book. I've thought about it too. But it seems like too big a job right now. I intentionally didn't mention anything outside of the narrow focus because first of all the entire premise is razor thin, and secondly at some point it could be an interesting thing to revisit.
So the new thing. I wrote 15 pages about how to hitchhike on an automated truck. It's more difficult than you would think.
That's all I got right now. Just like the first book, I'm not really sure where it's going, but it does involve another place I went for work. I am lucky enough to go to weird, inspiring places.
Now I just need to write.
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