I think I’m hungover from publishing…
You ever finish a book so good or mind-blowing you can’t bring yourself to start a new one? Book hangover. Plan a vacation and when you get home instead of feeling refreshed you feel kind of hopeless? Vacation hangover. Train for a marathon and then feel like you never want to run again? Race hangover.
So now, I present to you, publishing hangover.
My latest novel came out last month. I’d been working on it off and on for…. Years? It’d been a while. The last several months all my spare time was spent finalizing and organizing and panicking. Mentally, I was thinking about it constantly.
Even as I worked towards that publication date, I continued to write my next books. It was nearly compulsive.
And then pub date hit. And now I Didn’t Think You Meant It was out there in the world for the masses to read, enjoy, hate, critique, whatever they chose to do.
And me? Well, I’ve hardly written anything since. Usually my brain runs off on it’s own and works through plots and dialogue. But even that has been mostly shutdown. I think about wanting to write and deep in my soul I am shriveling up without getting any writing done. Of course holiday things didn’t help either.
But after all the excitement and lead up, I’m pretty sure I’m just hungover.
I Didn’t Think You Meant It is now available on Amazon, including Kindle Unlimited.