The Woman Who Was Normal (Those Strange Women #4) is next (those who have been asking for it: yep heard you, on it). But before that I’m going to release a book that isn’t like my other books… isn’t something I enjoyed writing or want to read. This book isn’t even fiction and honestly I don’t even feel like talking about it.
But release it I must, because it‘ll do more out in the world than in my head (I think, and hope). Also because I’ve been working on it since 2018 and I really just want to be done with it.
Tell you more about it next week…
I’m legitimately frightened right now but as hard as I imagine it might be to read, it was no doubt harder to write (and even harder to possibly live through, in the event it’s autobiographical). I’m just going to think to myself that the person who wrote this upcoming book has a successful life, a partner she plays Bananas in Pajamas with and has begun an amazing writing career. Even someone like that needs to clean the mental house once in a while and take all the old crap to Goodwill. Or Amazon as it were.
Haha, well my partner actually told me not to do this book because the possible market was miniscule. And I agreed with her. Then disagreed. Then agreed. And went bobbing around those waves for a couple of months until one evening I decided to just get it done. Because it is after all a documentation of a somewhat rare human experience. And if it resonates with 3 people in the entire world, then that’s 3 happier people. So here we are today. For better or worse. Good thing Amazon comes with a delete button.
The moment those three people read your book and discover that they aren’t alone, that someone else has been through what they have and has an experience they can relate to their own situation, that moment is priceless. It’s like a hundred zillion times more important and meaningful than the moment when Katherine defied 300 years of novelistic convention and ran away from Eirwen because she couldn’t accept the choices she was making and I thought, holy crap, who is this author?
I strongly urge you to publish your manuscript and keep clear of that delete button. Trust yourself and trust your voice! You never know who’s listening. Or reading. That’s kind of a wonderful thing. 🙂
Holy crap, what in the world have authors of the past 300 years if they can’t even write a character that runs away from another character whose choices they cannot accept? 😉 Thanks for the encouragement. This scary weird book comes out tomorrow. Not pressing the delete button just yet.
Everyone from the Brothers Grimm to Jackie Collins would have Katherine think Eirwen’s plan of killing Ferdinand was a great idea. There’d be some elaborate Rube Goldberg shenanigans, one or both of them would maybe think they couldn’t go through with it, but then Ferdinand would try to turn the tables, Katherine or Eirwen would stop him and rescue the other while he’d accidentally tumble off the roof in the middle of a dramatic lightning storm, conveniently providing both women with a morally acceptable conclusion. They’d embrace and reflect on how lucky they were to be alive and together. Cut to six months later and a sunny epilogue, maybe one of them’s pregnant, there’s a declaration of love, kiss, fade to black.
Anyway just in case you got too tempted by the delete button I went ahead and bought Notes from your web store. 🙂