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Do you hear it?
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It’s the sound of a countdown.
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It’s the unmistakeable mark of a clock’s second hand making it’s way around the face.
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It’s the rev of the engines, the finger over the button, the whistle in the mouth, the green flag still wrapped around the pole, the jumpiness of the horses in the gate, the pitcher’s wind up, the puck on its way to the ice, the placement of the violin bow against the strings, the inhalation of the singer.
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All those things. That’s what next week is for me. It’s the culmination of practice, testing, trying, building, believing, hoping, wishing, crying, laughing and waiting.
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8 more days. Friday. Saturday. Sunday. Monday. Tuesday. Wednesday. Thursday.
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Friday.
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Launch day.
What’s that going to mean? Well, I think it’s going to be more like a birthday after I turned 21 … I looked forward to it, but the reality is it’s not any different a day than any other day of the year.
But it is MY day.
It’s the day I’ve been waiting for like a 16th birthday or an 18th or a 21st. Maybe like when I turned 10 and got to be in the 2 digits. It’s a day like no other, yet it’s a day like every other.
I will go to work. I will go probably do some writing. I will post in my blog. I will eat breakfast, lunch and dinner. I will search the Internet for places where my book is online. I will answer email. I will wonder if anyone is even remotely interested in it. I will worry that those who have bought it won’t like it. By the end of the day, my energy will drain.
But one thing will set me apart and will set that day apart from every other day in my life.
I.
Will.
Be.
A.
Published.
Novelist.
So bring it on, July 1, 2011. Give me your best. I’ve given you mine.
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Little White Lies by Aimee Laine
That is so exciting and I am so jealous! I’ve had that same feeling but mine is not launch day yet more a heading in the right direction, things falling into place type feeling. On the edge of…
I’ll buy a copy from Coles Books or my local independant book store. I’m old school and still feel that is more justification than E-copies.
Congrats!
Thanks, Dale! Definitely try the Indies first. I want and hope all Indies will be willing to order it for you as I highly doubt it will be shelved, but who knows? 🙂 🙂 I’m on an adrenaline high, I think. 🙂
Awesome! When excitement hits my life, I’m always surprised when the world around me keeps going as if nothing happened. It’s so odd. There should be a hiccup in time or something to commemorate the event.
Ha! I know! What’s up with that? Why hasn’t the world stopped for a sec to acknowledge ME? 🙂 🙂 hehehehehehe It’ll be good anyway. 🙂
So will I be able to order it from Amazon UK? How do us Brits get our hands on it?! 🙂
(It) (is) will be (on) (Amazon.co.uk) soon. 🙂 <– read between the lines. 🙂 Shhhhhhh. 🙂
You know what, lady? This post had me breathless, on the edge of my seat, and waiting to see what the each and every word would tell me next (even though I guessed what was coming). This post more than shows the world that you CAN WRITE!
Can’t wait.
BTW, I WANT a signed print copy–can we arrange something? 😉
hehehehehehe You just fly right on over here and I will GIVE YOU a copy of my book. 😉 Signed and everything! Ha!! 🙂 🙂
Awww, come ON! It would be THE MOST EXPENSIVE BOOK IN HISTORY!!!!!!!!!
But you KNOW you want to! 🙂
Yes! But I was taught from an early age that I can’t always have what I want.
Besides, you wouldn’t know what hit you guys if the Belfield clan descended in NC. Ha!
Awesome post! I can feel your excitement and can’t imagine how badly this last week will drag for you. Can’t wait to see LWL on the shelves!!!! SQUEEEEEEEE!!!!!!
Hehehehe. I am excited. 🙂