Being An Author - A Natural High

 

Yesterday my computer decided to die, taking a number of files I had not backed up with it. I really should be in tears.

 
Plus, I recently purchased a new set of eyeglasses. Now I hear that I probably need a cataract removed, which will probably change my prescription and lead to the need for different glasses, aka a need to spend more money.

And yet, I can’t get too upset about thosethings or anyhing else. I have an ear-to-ear smile is painted on my face. (Don't tell me that's a cliche'd saying, i happens to be 100% true today,)

Why? Because my ARCs have arrived!! I have copies of my new book, Unlawful Orders, in my hands. And they look wonderful!!

This is it, I feel it every time one of my books is published. It's an old fashioned, natural high.

 

Being an author means going through a gamut of emotions, at least it does for me.  Someone once said writing a book and getting it published was like running a marathon. I agee, as long as you include all the time spent training and preparing for those 26 plus miles.   There's getting the idea, and then spending time and energy getting to know the characters. There's writing the first word, and the next; a paragraph and then a chapter. I alternate between thinking I'm doing a good job, and then I hit "the wall." That point in the marathon where I wonder if I have lost my mind. 

Then I turn the manuscript in to my editor, who has to be the nicest person in publishing, because she tells me she loves it. She publishes it. And now she has sent me copies, and I can see  this thing that began as an idea in the back of my head, right in my hand.

Things might be aweful tomorrow. Reality does have a way of doing the unexpeced just to show me whose boss.  But for now, I'm flying, just like the characters in this biography!