I Was So Excited About My Book That I Almost Forgot to Check PostSecret

I guess elated would be as good a word as any, to describe the way I'm feeling. Maybe a bit shocky. Nearly a year and a half ago, I started writing Aigaion Girl ...a story of the end of days for the 2009 NaNoWriMo contest. I knew I wasn't going to win the contest, and I didn't care, I just wanted to write something. I picked Aigaion Girl because I didn't think the plot was very strong and I wanted to write something that if I trashed it by writing too fast, I wouldn't be that worried about. When I started posting chapters on FictionPress, I wasn't expecting much of a response, and at first, I didn't get one. Then, slowly but surely, I started to get comments. Those comments kept me writing and eventually, I fell in love with my characters and their story. Before I knew it, I couldn't stop writing.

And now, now my book is for sale. Actually for sale. People who are not me, people who don't even know me can find my book, buy it and read it. It's out there now.

It'll probably be a couple of weeks before it's available on Amazon; right now, it's only available here, on a little out-of-the-way corner of Createspace, but this is still an amazing feeling. I want to run through the streets shouting and I want to break down and cry. I can't even... Oh Lord, there aren't even words.

One of the things I look forward to most about the weekend is on Sunday, when the new secrets go up on PostSecret. I just love reading through them and composing my own, even if I know I may never send any of them. One of the secrets for today, I thought, was just so fitting with respect to my book and my excitement, that it would have been a real shame to have missed it (because of my book and my excitement). I love that secret, because I think it is the exact way to look at the end of the world and I love that it was posted this weekend, just a day before Aigaion Girl went on sale, because it makes me think that there might be some kind of higher meaning to the universe, which is something of a comforting thought.