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Yesterday, it happened. My book was officially released.

It was an interesting, surreal kind of day, especially because I woke up early in order to catch a flight to San Francisco and, just my luck, I couldn't get my internet to work before I left which meant I was unable to obsessively google myself (and the book) until I got to my hotel room many hours later. And even then, I was too busy for much googling and googling is part of what convinces me this is real-that and seeing the book in the store, which I didn't get the chance to do yesterday.

So I kind of floated through the day, wondering if I looked different, if people could "tell" and swinging from intense happiness and the desire to blurt it out to everyone, to gut-gripping terror about what's going to happen-whether people will like it, what they will say and so on. (Go ahead and make the comparison to losing one's virginity-it's there for the taking and entirely apt.)